Paige Vanzant moving to 125 after eating disorder & seeing Uriah Hall's kidney failure

[bambammccoy]

In a recent interview with BBC's Newsbeat, she said she developed an eating disorder on her various treks down to 115 pounds.
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Weight cutting—a practice in which athletes lose massive amounts of weight ahead of contests in order to compete in lighter divisions—is rife in MMA. While the majority of cuts are without incident, a number of fighters die each year because of complications.
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The UFC, to this point, has avoided seeing one of its athletes die from a weight cut, but there have been some troubling situations.
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"I was at a fight where a fellow UFC fighter, Uriah Hall, was cutting weight, and he pushed himself just to the brink of death," she told Newsbeat. "He had kidney failure and started seizing in the hallway right in front of me.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-myself-an-eating-disorder-to-make-the-weight

I hope this division doesn't end up like Cyborg's with like 2 fighters. It's interesting to see eating problems among different MMA athletes though. There's this on one end and then guys that can't even make weight 20 lbs above their natural weight class. It's like -- don't purge yourself of food and don't stuff yourself with food -- why can't people on either end of the spectrum just count calories responsibly and be done with it?

That's the gamut of eating problems though, I guess. It must be the same reason why most people can drink responsibly but some can not.

Didn't Daniel Cormier also suffer kidney failure in the Olympics or something?

IMO, it's only a matter of time until a UFC fighter dies unless the UFC preemptively reforms the weight classes and cutting.

DC had kidney failure cutting to like 225 or something like that. That hgh and other peds really made him pack on the size in the Olympics.

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

That's the only way to be safe. Some people who make the mistake of actually watching fighters fight end up being entertained by the experience.

Owned

 

[Chomsky Honk]

I’d like to see Paige do more than just an interview with BBC if you know what I mean

 

[Ice Cold]

I'll be waiting as well...

Me too............

 

[phantomlord]

Right. So the fight she was making weight for at 125 that same day wasn’t the reason? Wtf is she talking about. She decided to move down in 2017 way before those weigh ins even happened and the bout against Rose Clark was flyweight.

Also TS this was posted yesterday, do you even hardcore?

 

[BTard]

The Queen of Karate Class Switch Kicks has spoken. Let there be light.

 

[BTard]

Shave your head

 

[Summoning]

Just do porn.

Better paycheck and she will get fucked less.

 

[Skarsgard]

I never watched a single fight of her and don't plan to.

So, you're incapable of forming your own opinions and just like to go along with what a lot of other people say. Hey, I get it. Thinking's hard.

 

[number 9]

So, you're incapable of forming your own opinions and just like to go along with what a lot of other people say. Hey, I get it. Thinking's hard.

Maybe he just doesn't want to see women beat each other up severely?...

Why do you like to watch women beat each other up severely?

 

[SHOKASE]

Maybe he just doesn't want to see women beat each other up severely?...

Why do you like to watch women beat each other up severely?

No, I just don't like watching amateur fighters. In contrary, I watched almost all Joana fights and I also like watching nunez and shevchenko. I don't have any ill will towards female mma but I can separate who belongs and who doesn't.

 

[number 9]

No, I just don't like watching amateur fighters. In contrary, I watched almost all Joana fights and I also like watching nunez and shevchenko. I don't have any ill will towards female mma but I can separate who belongs and who doesn't.

Couple of them do have skills, but me personally don't want to watch women dyke it out

Save that shit for the civilian cat fights... where hair pulling, touch ups and eventually where they make out in the end

 

[DoopidyDawesome]

That fat fucking bitch!

Seriously though, maybe she'll have boobs at 125.

 

[HwoarangStyle]