What is the average "walk-around weight" for the various weight classes?

EGarrett said:
I know Anderson fought at 185 and walked around at about 210-212 pounds. GSP said he went into the cage at about 194 pounds. Conor could just barely make 145 and was 168 against Nate Diaz. And Rumble seemed to be most natural at 205 but was 230 against Arlovski.

So perhaps it's around 20-25 pounds over the weight class? Going down as the weight gets lower? Thus your natural weight to walk around weight would probably be something like this?

Light Heavyweight: 225-230
Middleweight: 210-215
Welterweight: 195-200
Lightweight: 170-175
Featherweight: 160-165?
Bantamweight/Lower: ???

What do you think? Too high, too low?
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Good thread but I just want to add that imo Anderson Silva was a really bad example to start out with as he's the type where weight just falls off him in training and gains weight fast when he's not in camp.That's just how his body is.Walk around weight for him in camp is totally different than out of camp.

For example,2 weeks out from,I think it was the 2nd Chael fight,Silva said (I think he actually took a picture on the scale) he was 192 and talked about how easily he sheds his extra weight just by training.Then there's some guys who are close in out of camp weight and in camp weight and those are easier to come up with realistic numbers especially when were talking about how much a guy is cutting when it's crunch time.In wrestling I could always shed and gain weight very easy despite having little fat.

Craziest I have heard of is Travis Wiuff talking about how he's been almost 250 in the cage after hitting 205.
 
For the smaller weight classes add around 25 lbs. For the bigger ones add around 35 lbs.

Remember you said walk around.
 
EGarrett said:
I know Anderson fought at 185 and walked around at about 210-212 pounds. GSP said he went into the cage at about 194 pounds. Conor could just barely make 145 and was 168 against Nate Diaz. And Rumble seemed to be most natural at 205 but was 230 against Arlovski.

So perhaps it's around 20-25 pounds over the weight class? Going down as the weight gets lower? Thus your natural weight to walk around weight would probably be something like this?

Light Heavyweight: 225-230
Middleweight: 210-215
Welterweight: 195-200
Lightweight: 170-175
Featherweight: 160-165?
Bantamweight/Lower: ???

What do you think? Too high, too low?
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Lmao, how do you jump 30 lbs from LW to WW? Way too low for LW/FW.
 
EGarrett said:
I know Anderson fought at 185 and walked around at about 210-212 pounds. GSP said he went into the cage at about 194 pounds. Conor could just barely make 145 and was 168 against Nate Diaz. And Rumble seemed to be most natural at 205 but was 230 against Arlovski.

So perhaps it's around 20-25 pounds over the weight class? Going down as the weight gets lower? Thus your natural weight to walk around weight would probably be something like this?

Light Heavyweight: 225-230
Middleweight: 210-215
Welterweight: 195-200
Lightweight: 170-175
Featherweight: 160-165?
Bantamweight/Lower: ???

What do you think? Too high, too low?
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Walk around weight is an imprecise term. Here's the average in-cage weight range for each class in the UFC, though:


FLW: 132-142
BW: 143-154
FW: 153-167
LW: 167-180
WW: 181-190
MW: 195-207
LHW: 212-225

Extreme outliers have been removed so the sample is more representative of the average range.

Average is roughly 9.5% above the contracted weight.

Based on (non-public, sorry) data gathered by CSAC.

The biggest cuts at each class are between around 15 and 20% of total body weight, depending on the class.
 
Im pretty sure all of them are 200 pounds until weigh ins lollololollol
 
Sansnom said:
Firas said 194 was his walkaround weight at the time, not necessarily his weight in the cage. He said as much as 192-193 but even that's kind of reach.

24 pounds of water in like 24 hours is huge.

That was probably at his biggest. GSP himself said he walked around 185-186 when he used to compete at 170.
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GSP's highest in cage weight was like 192lbs for shields and he went on record saying he didn't like the feeling of the extra weight.

His normal in cage weight is like 185.
 
a weight class above a least.

Its total bs. They just flush their body dry.
 
Decado Ice said:
Walk around weight is an imprecise term. Here's the average in-cage weight range for each class in the UFC, though:


FLW: 132-142
BW: 143-154
FW: 153-167
LW: 167-180
WW: 181-190
MW: 195-207
LHW: 212-225

Extreme outliers have been removed so the sample is more representative of the average range.

Average is roughly 9.5% above the contracted weight.

Based on (non-public, sorry) data gathered by CSAC.

The biggest cuts at each class are between around 15 and 20% of total body weight, depending on the class.
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Add 20 to those and you have avg walk around weights
 
LHW: 30lb above limit of weight class
MW & WW: 25lb
LW & FW: 20lb

That seems to be the average.
 
matt sera = 240 walk around 155 fight
 
Khabib, Ferguson, Lee, Alvarez, Diaz, just in the top 10 all have walk around weights of 190-195+. 180-185 is probably a good average LW wall around.
 
SeverianB said:
Strawweight: 135
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You seem like an obsessed pervert. I like you already.
 
lol at gsp not being 192. Just an excuse to claim that he was a small dude beating up bigger fighters. fuck off.
 
It depends. Some fighters cut virtually no weight, maybe 5 pounds, some fighters are cutting 30 pounds, but I would say the average is 20 to 25 pounds from walk around weight entering camp to the weigh ins. Frankie cuts 5 pounds, Cyborg cuts 30 to 35 pounds. Dustin moved up from 145 to 155 because he walks around at 180 and the cut was too much.

I know Chael was 205 fight week and cut 20 pounds in about 2 or 3 days per an embedded I saw. On another embedded, Rampage was 221 4 or 5 days out. The average fighter is probably cutting 10 to 20 pounds in camp and then another 10 to 20 pounds the week of the fight.
 
walk around is a idea

some of them put on loads of fat which they lose slowly over fight camp

some stay in shape year round
 
Who the fuck cares about walk around weight, what is important is the fight weight, what you weigh in the cage. Someome can walk around with more fat like khabib, then be in better shape while training and be 10-15lbs less there and then cut weight. Then in the cage they usually weigh the same as in the training camp. Others stay in shape and just cut weight and weigh in the fight the same as the oponent. I'm going to talk about the cage weight of men.
Flyw: 137-142lbs
Examples
Heaviest: DJ 142 confirmed and Figuereido around 145 last fight
Lightest: I dont know
Batamw: 147-153lbs
Examples
Heaviest: Marlon Moraes 155lbs confirmed
Lightest: Cody Garbrant 142lbs confirmed
FW: 158-165lbs
Examples
Heaviest: Volkanovski 166.5lbs confirmed, J Emmett 166.8lbs confirmed, Sodiq Yusuff 169lbs confirmed and Shane Burgos i guess around 167lbs
Lightest: F Edgar i guess 157lbs
LW: 167-176lbs
Examples
Heaviest: Kevin Lee around 178lbs, Davi Ramos 179lbs confirmed and Poirier 176lbs confirmed by him
Lightest: Al iaquinta around 166lbs
WW: 181-191lbs
Examples
Heaviest: K Usman around 192
Lightest: Nate Diaz 180lbs confirmed and Pettis 178lbs confirmed. Colby Covington around 181lbs
MW: 197-208lbs
Examples
Heaviest: Paulo Costa 214lbs confirmed
Lightest: Adesanya maybe weighs a bit less than 200lbs and Kevin Holland was 193lbs confirmed in ufc232 (brave)
LHW: 220-230lbs
Examples
Heaviest: Maybe Thiago Santos around 230lbs
Lightest: I only know Latifi and Gustafsson both at 219lbs confirmed
HW: above 230lbs
Examples
Heaviest: D Lewis around 280lbs
Lightest: Miocic around 235lbs
 
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