Affenschädel
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One of the big hypocrisies of MMA, and combat sports in general. There are no proven deaths as a direct result from anabolic steroid intake, which are made out to be the devil, yet people have died from weight cutting, and nobody is willing to talk about it.
Banning weight cutting would also be much more easy the banning PEDs. You have to do random tests for PEDs all year round, which are expensive, and invasive to the fighters' health and privacy (drawing blood, urinating in front of doctor) to ensure all fighters are clean. Yet to effectively ban weight cutting, all you'd have to do would be to allow fighters' weight within only let's say 10lbs of fighting weight 1, 2 weeks before the fight, and do random checkups within that timeframe.
Fucked up situation, and it proves the falseness, idiocy, and complacency of the leading people in the sport. We can only hope for a rapid change in regards to this situation.