Has any fighter ever actually gotten taller?

[superpunch]

I'm not talking about Anderson Silva going from 5'11 to 6'2. Someone like an 18 year old Vitor could have actually gotten taller over his career. Dennis Rodman grew like a foot around that age. Has anyone ever ACTUALLY gotten taller?

 

[Klaavical]

 

[TheSpider]

Shane Carwin

 

[Davey Crockett]

Reem left the octagon a couple inches taller

 

[Dilan Cummingsworth]

I think Joe Rogan actually gained some height in his late late 20's when he started doing work for the UFC

 

[spinup]

Nate has been higher for sure.

 

[AWilder]

No, theres nothing you can take to turn you from manlet to man.

 

[Portland8242]

Nate used to only cut down from 6'4" earlier in his career but he bulked up to 6'8" for his fight with Conor.

 

[TheBrownGosling]

Struve went from 6'11" to 7 feet tall.

 

[cunglaowins]

Erick Silva for sure

 

[RainyMonday]

Rory Macdonald, if anyone

Looks more like 6'1 than 5'11. Because he started so early, I think it's possible that he grew a few inches.

 

[Fedor>Cain]

I'm not talking about Anderson Silva going from 5'11 to 6'2. Someone like an 18 year old Vitor could have actually gotten taller over his career. Dennis Rodman grew like a foot around that age. Has anyone ever ACTUALLY gotten taller?

All of them got taller ya dumb fuck

Unless you think every one is born at their adult height

 

[Cylence]

It's boxing, but I'm just going to assume Wilfred Benitez. He started his professional career when he just turned 15, and became world champion at 17.

 

[original doom]

bad posture can effect height so perhaps dudes are straightening out their posture.

it certainly explains some of the cases where fighters heights have increased.

 

[cmw43]

I'm not talking about Anderson Silva going from 5'11 to 6'2. Someone like an 18 year old Vitor could have actually gotten taller over his career. Dennis Rodman grew like a foot around that age. Has anyone ever ACTUALLY gotten taller?

There's video's out there of Struve's very early MMA fights where he's about 6"6 and he ended up topping out around 7ft.

 

[superpunch]

There's video's out there of Struve's very early MMA fights where he's about 6"6 and he ended up topping out around 7ft.

That woudl explain how he used to make 205.

As a side conversation, weight cutting can't be good for your growth. I speculate that's why so many wrestlers are manlets. I wrestled in high school. Kids didn't know how to diet. So, instead of dieting responsibly, they simply starved themselves like an anorexic to make weight in addition to the dehyrdation before weigh ins. Only the starvation was all the time instead of just 1 day a month or so.

Kids would eat like 500 calories a day doing a brutally cardio intensive sport during their growth spurts. No way that didn't stunt a lot of kids' growth.

 

[Leonard Haid]

The headline of an mmamania.com article from July, 2018:

"Future middleweight Sage Northcutt hasn’t stopped growing, will soon be 6’5” and weigh 230 pounds"

Has anyone had a good look at Sage lately??

 

[Lawblaw]

Erick Silva for sure

give him some time and he'll get even taller

 

[Zebra Cheeks]

I'm not talking about Anderson Silva going from 5'11 to 6'2. Someone like an 18 year old Vitor could have actually gotten taller over his career. Dennis Rodman grew like a foot around that age. Has anyone ever ACTUALLY gotten taller?

When Anderson kicked vitor in the chin it caused his neck to realign making him 2 inches taller

 

[Deleted member 512089]

Sage northcutt