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The IV ban is dumb. Fuck it. I want an Openweight division. Conor McGregor vs Mark Hunt.
So if they're testing for IV use by looking for plastic residue in blood tests, as Birchak is saying, then what about people who go to a hospital and get UFC legal IV hydration? On the Rogan podcast the drug enforcement guy (Forget his name) said if a fighter was to need IV hydration he could legally within the new rules go to a hospital and get one there, and they would not even have to inform the UFC of this. Could a fighter not simple arrange IV's to be administered by doctors? I mean technically, if you cut 20lbs of water weight and walk into a hospital in that condition chances are they are going to give you an IV any way... A UFC legal IV.
I can just see every fight jumping into a car straight to the nearest hospital right after weigh ins.
If re-hydrating with an IV is supposedly not as effective as doing it orally, according to USADA, what does it matter? The fluids in an IV aren't banned substances or performance enhancing at all, so I don't understand how the fighters get an edge in a fight from it?
IV's aren't exactly banned, from what I understand they can still get them.
What is happening in sports is the collector comes for samples, and the athletes throw an IV in their arm and make the collector wait, and it can be used to mask the presence of certain substances iirc.
Honestly, how is it so hard for every single fighter to say "So we all move up a weightclass, right?"
For a few guys apparently they gotta move up too. I'm sure they'll survive.... or they won't. I don't care. Enough with the BS weight cuts.
It's pretty fucking hard, numb nuts. Because it's not like boxing where there's a bazillion weight classes six pounds apart. Everyone's natural weight is different, so if you're a guy who's 5'9", you probably want to fight at lightweight or lighter, yet you probably walk around at 180 pounds. The best solution to ensure you're fighting guys your size? Cut the weight and rehydrate using IV's to recover faster. Banning the process that helps these guys recover is going to make for sloppy gasfests.
If you wanna fight at a lighter weight maybe you should lose some weight???
We have a right to inject our opinions on how we feel the sport we support should be governed.
If we think that weight cutting is unhealthy/cowardly/whatever, we have every right to pressure the organisational bodies into moving away from it.
"people have been cutting weight forever," is also a stupid argument.
Oral re-hydration is a science, he probably just didn't know how to do it properly.