{"id":308851,"date":"2025-11-26T01:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308851\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:03:10","slug":"ksw-to-implement-new-weigh-in-rule-deduct-a-point-of-overweight-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308851\/","title":{"rendered":"KSW to implement new weigh-in rule, deduct a point of overweight fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">KSW\u2019s final card of the year will mark the beginning of a new ruleset in the promotion to punish athletes that miss weight for their bouts, a point deduction on top of the traditional fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Poland-based MMA promotion announced Tuesday that the upcoming KSW 113 card, scheduled for Dec. 20 in Lodz, Poland, will be the first time athletes will lose a point in the first round of their bouts in case they are over the limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis penalty will apply to everyone who will not make the required weight limit in their given time,\u201d KSW announced. \u201cMeaning during the morning weigh-ins on Friday and in the additional hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">KSW 113 will be topped by two championship bouts, with Pawe\u0142 Pawlak defending the middleweight title against La\u00efd Zerhouni in the co-main event, right before welterweight champion Adrian Bartosinski closes the show versus Muslim Tulshaev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Similar action was made by Brazilian MMA promotion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/6\/6\/17423016\/what-if-overweight-fighters-lost-points-ufc-jungle-fight-five-years-what-happened\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jungle Fight back in 2013<\/a>, deducting a point if an athlete was 1 kilo (2.2 lbs) over the contracted weight. The athlete loses two points if they miss by 4.4 lbs, and three points if 6.6 lbs over the limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201dIf you start deducting points, you\u2019ll see that fighters will start to worry about it,\u201d Jungle Fight founder Wallid Ismail told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/6\/6\/17423016\/what-if-overweight-fighters-lost-points-ufc-jungle-fight-five-years-what-happened\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a> in 2018. \u201cIt\u2019s interesting. I think it\u2019s the end of the world when someone makes weight but his opponent doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cDeducting points is the minimum they can do. This should be the rules. This is real punishment. I see fighters that miss weight and win close decisions after a hard fight, and they would have lost it if they were deducted points. Tell me, would you have fought the same way if you had cut those final pounds?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KSW\u2019s final card of the year will mark the beginning of a new ruleset in the promotion to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-308851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}