Fighters are not paid to be on weight untilt he weigh in, you want fighters to be a ecrtain weight outside of that, you better be ready to pay them to be. They are paid to be on weright at weigh ins and then to fight that is it. If they are getting anything else outside of that, they need incentive and higher pay, plus then they'd have to pay for the etsters, etc etc etc etc.
Will never happen because they don't see a need for it, why spend all that money to have fighters be on weight, when they are already expected to be on weight?
IMO, you're missing the point.
People live at or above normal weight. Almost no one lives at abnormally low weight.
It is entirely possible for fighters to live and fight at normal weight.
Instead, fighters live below normal weight and cut to extremely low abnormal weight immediately prior to each fight.
It has never made any sense to do it this way.
Fighters don't like to do it, but the unregulated rule structure allows fighters to cut weight and then fight smaller opponents.
This forces all fighters into the weight-cut paradigm: you either cut like everyone else, or you constantly fight bigger opponents.
If the UFC or any other larger fight promotion decided to lead the sport out of this unhealthy weight-cut paradigm, people would do it.
As a fighter, if you were given the option of cutting, or, fighting in a promotion that prohibits cutting, and if you were confident that other fighters would embrace the rules, and if you were confident that the rules would be strong enough to effectively prevent weight cheaters,
which would you pick?
It's a no-brainer really.
Set up a system to effectively eliminate cutting, publicize it, promote it, and enforce it rigidly.
People will get on board.
Fighters will discover that there is no benefit to living and working at abnormally low, or unfit high weight levels.
Examples:
Islam cannot function and succeed by living weak for years at a time.
Paddy cannot succeed by living fat and fighting fit opponents who weigh the same as fat Paddy.
Ultimately, the only disadvantage would be to fighters who don't stay fit, and fighters who attempt to live and succeed at abnormally low weight levels.
If you can't take the walk weighing more than your baseline weight range, there is zero benefit to living and fighting at abnormally low weight.
In a nod to the original topic, see my first reply on this thread:
if you want to, you
can weaken your immune system.
Also - every fighter knows to be careful what they eat before a fight. Food poisoning 4 days before a fight will allow recovery by fight day, but you won't have 100% strength or cardio for at least a week.
If the UFC PI really poisoned a fighter, then they need to clean up their act.
I've had food poisoning 3 times in 57 years: once at home (chicken enchiladas), once from Boston Market chicken, and once from an Italian restaurant.
We rarely eat out. In 35 years of active cooking, we created food poisoning once in our own home.
Food poisoning is not difficult to avoid.
