How often do you notice size differences

[FilipEmoFights]

So by weighing in one day before and allowing rehydration the fighters can meet at a specified weight that they both agree too.
That being said, many guys simply don’t want to cut the weight (and I don’t blame them) Yet we have had a lot of champions who are not even close to the largest guys in their weight classes.

What I’m really trying to ask is, when you see fights that are clearly involving a fighter who is smaller then his opponent do you believe that these matchups are made in order to give a favored fighter an “easy win”?
What comes to mind with that is like Israel vs Gastelum or GSP vs BJ and basically all the O’malley fights

 

[Lycandroid]

mma has had a history of fights with size differences since the beginning now it can only happen within one weight category

 

[don't ask]

I think weight cutting would be an unreliable way to favour a fighter and that the UFC has better ways to pull strings (like preventing Aljo from getting surgery and forcing him to fight O'Malley at the end of O'Malley's scheduled camp), but I could be wrong. I'd believe the UFC is as shitty as you propose.

 

[Bowel-forged Stool]

She notices more than I do, and it’s some small comfort (pun intended)

 

[GrantB13]

If there's a notoriously larger or smaller guy in a division I don't think they are ever matched up to get a desired outcome for the advantaged fighter. Simply, those guys have to fight someone and if you're active in a division sometimes you'll face a fighter with a size discrepancy.

 

[AfroBanana]

Watch ONE, you see some crazy size variance compared to other orgs with their so called back room safety measures and hydration tests.

Like someone said though this isn’t probably the best method. I think PRIDE had the best trick where they would notify non Japanese fighters on mega short notice they had to fight or just straight fix fights.

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

So by weighing in one day before and allowing rehydration the fighters can meet at a specified weight that they both agree too.
That being said, many guys simply don’t want to cut the weight (and I don’t blame them) Yet we have had a lot of champions who are not even close to the largest guys in their weight classes.

What I’m really trying to ask is, when you see fights that are clearly involving a fighter who is smaller then his opponent do you believe that these matchups are made in order to give a favored fighter an “easy win”?
What comes to mind with that is like Israel vs Gastelum or GSP vs BJ and basically all the O’malley fights

Two fights come to mind in the same weight class that's not a HW fight or a freak show like Takase vs Yarborough

Rumble vs Yoshida at 170

And the much more egregious one

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Every time Minowa fights.

 

[OmegaRugal]

Yet we have had a lot of champions who are not even close to the largest guys in their weight classes.

I think that's the exception not the rule.

Most champions are either close to the strongest physically or tallest/longest reach in the divisions they rule over.

There are much fewer Frankie Edgar's than they are Jones, Poatan, Islam, DDPs

 

[AmonTobin]

UFC has certainly made favourable matchups for their preferred fighters but in a stylistic and talent sense. I see noticeable size difference in fights all the time but that’s par for the course if they can both make weight.

 

[Domitian]

Anytime Jalin Turner fights a LW.

 

[jeff7b9]

She notices more than I do, and it’s some small comfort (pun intended)

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

 

[Thesnake101]

Depends on whether I use the pump or not.

 

[checktheknuckles]

I wish more of these short fat fighters got matched up with the tall lanky ones in their division. Make them rethink they diets.

 

[blaseblase]

O'Malley is a beanpole. He's not bigger than his opponents, just taller. Aljo walks around heavier than him.

 

[CedricBee]

Benson Henderson looked noticeably bigger than Frankie Edgar.

DC always “looked” smaller than his opponents at 205 imo.

Michael Johnson appeared noticeably smaller than Poirier, Khabib and Nate Diaz imo.

 

[Hassan Mouzine]

poatan at middle weight

 

[TriangleMonkey]

Gotta cut height, not weight


Carwin style

 

[PeterGriffin]

GSP was an odd but incredibly appropriate reference. When he first joined the UFC, he seemed like a big WW, and was pretty much jacked from day 1. Always stayed in meticulous shape to be fight ready. Over the course of his career, it genuinely looked like all his opponents were getting bigger than him. He seemed to go from a "big" WW to an "average-to-small sized" WW.

Rumble trying to fight at 170 is fucked. Not sure what he was thinking.

Josh Emmett always seemed a weight class bigger than his opponent come fight night.

I believe Shogun could have made MW with very little difficulty.

It's too bad that TJ chose to fight at WW joining the UFC. He found his calling at LW.

And that 6'4" idiot Corey Hill trying to fight at LW. That mother fucker needed to eat a few fucking sandwiches and fight at WW. At least. It would be like Stephan Struve trying to fight at 185. Same with Magomedsharipov. 6'1" fighting at 145lbs? Give me a fucking break.