biggest (scary) weight cuts/gains

[ArmenianAssasin]

Christian Bale

 

[Bluntforce420]

Anderson Silva at MW. Dude walks around 215 lbs and cuts to 185lbs.

Anderson's size is overblown here, he used to fight at 170. Weighed in at 182 for one of his title fights, and looked out of shape on the scale vs Cormier

 

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[thebesteva21]

Aldo making 135 is bad. Irvin and Rumble 170 are two of the worst I’ve seen. DC should make 205 no problem, he just let his body go, totally different then shredded guys trying to make it.

 

[PicoPulse]

Not exactly a cut and gain but these are the scariest gains

 

[daniel san]

Anderson Silva at MW. Dude walks around 215 lbs and cuts to 185lbs.

Is this a throwback joke or something? I remember years ago some were saying he was a huge MW when we all know he wasn’t. If someone is walking around 100 pounds heavier than their fight weight, it doesn’t mean that that’s the weight they start cutting from. Silva walks around a bit flabby and for sure could cut further down than 185 as evidenced by the fact that he used to fight at an even lower weight class.

 

[Deleted member 567183]

What are considered the most extreme MMA weight cuts? In boxing, guys like Terrence Crawford walk around at 175 and cut to 135. That seems insane. What are crazy MMA examples?

Costa from 236 to 185 that is Insane he is killing himself to make the weight

 

[Kumason]

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Not exactly a cut and gain but these are the scariest gains

Stop posting photo shopped shit.


Biggest cut (I should say loss, depends on your definition of cut)/gain I can think of is Travis Wiuff down to 205 from 255-260 and according to him right back up to it.

 

[MyFavSport]

Diego at 145. Gained 26 pounds before the fight but Lamas still kicked his ass

 

[PicoPulse]

Stop posting photo shopped shit.


Biggest cut (I should say loss, depends on your definition of cut)/gain I can think of is Travis Wiuff down to 205 from 255-260 and according to him right back up to it.

 

[Iron Nick]

Drew Dober. 190s to 155.

50% of that weight is in his legs, or to be more specific: his calves.

 

[smiles mma]

Does Crawford really cut that much? That's crazy for a boxer.

no

 

[Sure Dawg]

Rumble... even though he did miss. The guy cut to /or tried 170... and should have been fighting at 205 the whole time. Also, the guy has been bigger then bodybuilders with in the past year.

he did actually make 170 several fights. dunno how his organs handled it

 

[Col Kurtz]

Worst photoshop ever. <45>

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Not exactly a cut and gain but these are the scariest gains

 

[Straatblaffer]

Does Crawford really cut that much? That's crazy for a boxer.

Yeah, he went from 177 to 135. Its crazy, but there are some vids online that show it.

 

[Straatblaffer]

no

Yes, why are you disputing this? Just google it and see for yourself

 

[Bluntforce420]

50% of that weight is in his legs, or to be more specific: his calves.

 

[Better Every Day]

I'm glad Jinh Yu Frey has moved up to fighting at strawweight (115 lbs).

On the left, she begins fight camp at 123 lbs, already quite slender. On the right, is what she looks like after cutting 11 lbs, to get down to 112 lbs. But she still needed to cut 7 lbs of water from that weight to get to 105 lbs for atomweight. It doesn't seem healthy.

 

[acannxr]

Drew Dober. 190s to 155.

Darren Till walking around at 215 and cutting to 170.

Cormier at LHW.

In recent years...

Conor hitting 145, and then probably getting back to like 168 or so, within a day.
Gleison Tibau going from 155 back to 183... This is the biggest I know of in recent years. He only did so with PED assistance too.
DC weighing in at 205 and then bouncing back to like 230...

Anderson Silva at MW. Dude walks around 215 lbs and cuts to 185lbs.

Aspen Ladd

kevin lee cut INSANE amount of weight, 20 lbs in a day.

Seems like Apen Ladd is the queen, lol.

136 pounds to make BM, then show up at 159 in actual fight.

17% of her body weight, and she's a lady too, way less muscles too drain water from.

https://sports.yahoo.com/aspen-ladd-ufc-weight-cut-bantamweight-002451951.html


But then again, it seems like smaller fighters actually have easier time cuting large % of water weight from whatever reason.

John Dodson was apparently 152 pounds in the cage, and it didn't stop him from running around like a march hare, whatsoever.

Costa... dude looks like hes 230 pure muscle and fights @ 185

Costa from 236 to 185 that is Insane he is killing himself to make the weight

50% of that weight is in his legs, or to be more specific: his calves.

Silva only weighed 198.5 lbs at UFC 200; 0% weight cut for Light Heavyweight.
Lee said that when he was optimal, that he would cut from 176-177 lbs at Lightweight; 11.9% weight cut.
Cormier cut from 236 lbs to 205 lbs; 13.1% weight cut.
Costa cuts from 213.8 lbs to 185 lbs; 13.5% weight cut.
Tibau cut from 181 lbs to 155 lbs; 14.4% weight cut.
Till cut from 200 lbs to 170 lbs; 15% weight cut.
Ladd cuts from 158 lbs to 135 lbs; 15.1% weight cut.
Dober cuts from 183 lbs to 155 lbs; 15.3% weight cut.
McGregor cut from 172 lbs to 145 lbs; 15.7% weight cut.
Dodson cut from 152.4 lbs to 125 lbs; 18% weight cut.

The biggest weight cut I have on record, was Holloway's first fight against Aldo; he cut from 178 lbs to 145 lbs; 18.5% weight cut.

Sources for these weights (and other cage weights) can be found in my signature.

 

[Iron Nick]

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Lol, that's not what teh Drew would say though!