I appreciate the effort you put into this post.
Can you recall Weidman talking about his weight after the Rockhold fight? The reason I cited the weight for that fight is because it was Post-USADA/IV Ban, it makes no sense to cite his weight cut for the Maia fight, for instance.
November 29th, 2015
"I'm more like a 170-pounder," Weidman said. "I weigh like 192, 193 (pounds) in the morning. I've got my weight down really low for this one. I really didn't get out of shape between fights, and it kept my weight down low. I've been just living a healthy lifestyle. I don't drink anymore, so I think that keeps the weight down, too."
https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/11...erview-chris-weidman-more-like-a-170-pounder-
Speaking of screenshots, here's one just for you:
The source for Jones' weight is literally a video of him stepping on a scale,
six days out from a fight, a point in time at which he'd be cutting zero weight. Furthermore, your source is Pre-USADA/IV-Ban; he may very well have been that heavy at that point in time, but his most up to date weight is from
my source.
P.S. - What happened to getting some "ZzzzZzzz"?
I did sleep after, I just made one final ramble post and went off.
I'm telling you that post IV ban isn't his normal weight.. it was extreme because of the first time ever with the IV missing and because of an injury that kept him from running.. he used that to keep the weight lower and he didn't have that luxury for that Luke fight so he went with heavy dieting.
Yea I'm well aware of that little jokey-ish referenced he made that he is closer to a WW then a MW in weight leading up to that fight he is right we have plenty of high 180's low 190's WW's out there.
Ok you seem to not fully understand whats up with this fighters hitting fight week.. weight related.
For example that Jones pic you posted you say 6 days from fight but that means like what 5 days maybe 4 and a half from the scale ? the first obstacle most of this fighters needs to get over.
All this weights are different from each other:
- vacation with no fight scheduled weight
- day to day normal walk around weight
- camp weight
- fight week weight
- fight night weight
They are all different numbers for each fighters.. even the most in shape of them out there will have differences in all those numbers.
Do not assume that a fighter entering fight week at a certain weight will be the same on fight night it doesn't work like that. When they enter fight week they are under heavy dieting (sometimes close to starvation just the minimal depends on how much they are trying to manipulate) most of them are trying their best to keep it low so they only have to do a smaller water cut something like 10-12-14 lbs of direct final efforts water cut.
So we have heavy dieting, flushing your system (heavy duty toilet time.. shitting everything inside you), final 24 hours most like you aren't even eating, then last part the water cut if you really are a big boy then you need multiple sessions of this to make it if you made it all the right weight then you will be like Jones with a small water cut ahead of you.
After you made that scale the race is starting you get what now 36~38 hours to get back to your normal self the guy you were before you entered fight week.. you drink and eat and load up on the selected food choices steady and careful not to over do it but enough to regain as much of it as possible back, your body will remember whats up.. the body was punished for this 6-7 days of your "go to make weight" heavy duty routine and it's time to fully recover from his overall trauma.
Now some fighters react poorly then others in this time frame, some of them don't consume much food in the last 12~15 hours before their fight because of nerves and stuff like that but others have no problem eating as close to 6-8 hours from their fight time.. Black Beast half jokingly said he was eating dinner like 3 hours before his fight lol.
Jones and Chris going in fight week low it doesn't mean that will be the same exact weight they will be on fight night.. that 215 could easily be 223 and Chris's 193 was turned at fight night to 199 lbs.
Overall things I noticed.. the usual point of weight differences and weight cuts on this scales is 20 lbs.. so if you fight say at LW it's expect to be around 175 when you fight now if you aren't good at weight cutting or you don't react well to it or you like it lower for your own reasons then differences can appear like 170 or 180 or the super extreme ones like prime Tibau or Kevin Lee that dude is an expect on cutting weight and he missed it.. imagine that thing it means he was doing some extreme shit like 30 lbs.
The biggest cutters I've seen are LW's and WW's then maybe MW's and FW's and surprisingly the guys in LHW most of them don't cut super much less % wise then what happens to the lower weight classes.
