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I'm super happy for Kayla for winning the belt but I don't like her at 135. It just doesn't seem like a sustainable weight class for her. I wish there were more bigger women that fought so she could just fight at 145 or higher.
 
Didn’t Macy Barber have a seizure while cutting.
She did have a seizure, but it wasn't while cutting. It was while warming up minutes before making the walk on fight night. Doesn't mean that it couldn't have been related to the cut though.
 
Honestly, they should just book the fight at 145, I know it doesn't exist anymore but both Nunes and Harrison are way too big for 135.
 
Dude ..


Gravity tests exist. Stop being a commie.

All jokes aside, there are legal issues you may be encroaching. There are all sorts of lawsuits out there regarding weight/sports etc. Simple hydration/gravity test lets fighters all weigh in at a similar weight
All jokes aside doesn't One FC use that gravity test? Yet they have fights where one guy looks like at least 1 maybe 2 weight classes larger? I think the best way to weigh the situation is literally to weigh the situation. Harder to cheat the system the way I have designed it.
 
Pretty good idea.
But I don't know about those random weight checks.

Your weight can easily fluctuate 5 pounds throughout the day on the heavier groups, how do you account for that? Are they going to test you in the morning after a dump, or after a hard run? Or after a birthday party at the BBQ?

That part could be really unfair.
10 lb range. Pick the class you can stay within. If you can't control your inner Johhny Hendricks at the BBW or kiddies B-day party during a 6 week training camp you probably miss weight anyway. Be a Professional is the solution.

The top levels have a larger than 10 lb range but I would hope you don't have 10 lb dumps on the regular. If you do maybe see a doctor or someone.
 
You serious? They have trouble now making weight classes competitive and interesting.
What is your point? All the fighters in whichever weight class would be in the same weight class just no dehydrating.
 
I honestly do not understand why they do not just re-open the 145 lb division, there are plenty of women 145's out there...its sad that a woman of her talent is basically being force to fight at 135 or fight for shit in other orgs.

Because most of the 145 lbs. women are either hacks with nothing resembling talent or some talents but too undisciplined to make a lighter weight class. There was a time (takes a while and I have not done it lately) where the top 10 at 135 had better records at 145 from moving up and taking the occasional fight against a larger opponent because they needed to get paid as the top ten at 145 did fighting each other.

145 is a post-apocalyptic wasteland of talent. Tapology lists 395 WFW whereas at the other end of the spectrum the next smallest (in terms of total fighters) is 105 which lists 559 fighters. The third ranked fighter (Blencowe) has a 16-10 record.
 
You'd think this kind of extreme cut would classify Kayla as a "weight-bully," but apparently not.

Nah, if there was still a 145 women's class and she was cutting down to 135 for sure. But there is just no WMMA class to reflect her size.

It'd be like considering Brock a weight bully because he had to cut to make 265.
 
The fact that we haven't solved weight cutting is just dumb.

It seems like such an obvious thing to get rid of. It wouldn't be easy to get rid of it, but so what?

Imagine, everything else about MMA stays the same - same matchups between fighters, but they don't have to drag their bodies to the doorsteps of hell a day before they fight. There's no way non-weight cutting fights wouldn't be better fights, with fighters bringing better chins and better cardio.

Fighters would likely suffer fewer pull-outs and would have longer, better careers too if they arent regularly depleting and exhausting themselves
 
Burn more calories than you consume, pretty simple.
No, not at all lol. Men have a higher percentage of muscle mass than women, which increases their resting metabolic rate, meaning more calories are burned even at rest. Women are hormonally wired to store more fat; men and women store fat differently; menstruation triggers stress eating; men lose more water weight than women; men have more muscle than women and other factors.

Not as simple as one would think.
 
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Oh man, E.T. was a great movie but this scene when he's sick and dying creeped me out as a kid :cool:
 
Said it before. But the Amanda fight better be at 145. If Kayla wins let her vacate the 135 belt and find her random opponents at 145. Too good of a talent to make end up in a hospital just to make the top weight class
 
ITT, people who have never cut weight in a Shaun before. Seriously, everyone looks miserable doing this

Thats nuts. I just don't undersatand why they can't just have her fight at 145. Nunes literally holds the 145 belt. I mean i hate WMMA, but i would'nt mind seeing them fight at this weight. Why drain them both? Let them fight where they both have power and strength.
That title was retired when Nunes retired. It’s a trash division. Always has been. It was merely a vanity title to get an ROI on Cyborg, and then it was used to promote Nunes.
 
What is your point? All the fighters in whichever weight class would be in the same weight class just no dehydrating.
Your adding weight classes that will dilute the talent in each. Too many belts. Fighters will always cut weight.
 
This is truly horrible. Will it take for someone to lose their life for them to ban this stupid shit? Smdh!
People have died from weight cutting already.
Nobody did anything.
 
Your adding weight classes that will dilute the talent in each. Too many belts. Fighters will always cut weight.
Your point has nothing to do with preventing weight cutting. Only added 3 but it doesn't have to be that way. Even with the same number of classes as they have now under this system fighters can't cut weight that's the point. You can't cut weight for 6 weeks straight and you can't fight for 40% of your pay.
 
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