A local promotion is taking a step forward in the effort to limit extreme weight cutting.
Quebec-based TKO announced Saturday a new weigh-in protocol that will see competing fighters weigh in a total of three times ahead of their bouts. TKO is also adding three new weight classes — 165, 175, and 195 pounds — and subsequently abolishing the 170-pound division.
Effective Nov. 1, fighters will first weigh in 48 hours prior to their bouts, then during the traditional weigh-in period, and then on the afternoon of fight day.
In the first and third “checkpoints,” fighters must be within nine pounds of their contracted weight class.