"I dont cut much weight" - Fighters where this is actually true?

[El Fernas]

There is a lot of noise going around regarding Jiri´s fight night weight for UFC 311, some fighters like Colby love to claim they are not huge weight cutters, which are the fighters that on record are cutting very little that they could fight at a weight class below?

-Jiri Prochazka this past weekend fought at 208lbs while being a career LHW, with a fight or 2 at HW
-Kevin Holland has been jumping up and down between MW and WW, he was 190lbs, he should go back to WW for the remainder of his career.
-Billy Elekana, this guy has a very low profile but at fight night he was still under the 205 limit, for a career LHW he might fit better at MW.

-Ian Garry, he didnt fought this weekend, has fought at 180lbs, which is right in the middle of what Moicano and Makhachev fought this wekend, while officially being a weight class below.

Any prime examples of this you might recall? I think Cody Garbrandt was also very light at BW but his chin/style didnt held up too well when he tried FLW, but size wise he is on par with them, i think he was 142lbs when he fought TJ Dillashaw.

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Machida barely cut anything to fight at 205, IIRC

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

GSP was only 191 lbs when he fought a much larger Michael Bisping for the 185 lb belt... GOAT

 

[Sean Chowdhury]

Imavov doesn't look like he cuts much weight at all, neither does chimaev at middleweight, both of them don't look dehydrated or bad at weigh ins for 185

 

[Necrocrawler]

I was gonna say Billy shouldn't be used as example since he probably chose not to cut weight due to the fight being on short notice, but i checked and his last fights were at LHW. He also used to fight at MW.

Anyway, Dan Henderson comes to my mind regarding. Hendo used to fight at MW/LHW and basically didnt cut at LHW. I was checking and he had bizarre weights like:

199 lbs weigh-in against Daniel Cormier
202 lbs weigh-in against Shogun II
207 lbs weigh-in against Fedor (HW bout)

 

[Barteh]

Frankie Edgar, BJ Penn.

 

[rjmbrd]

I was gonna say Billy shouldn't be used as example since he probably chose not to cut weight due to the fight being on short notice, but i checked and his last fights were at LHW. He also used to fight at MW.

Anyway, Dan Henderson comes to my mind regarding. Hendo used to fight at MW/LHW and basically didnt cut at LHW. I was checking and he had bizarre weights like:

199 lbs weigh-in against Daniel Cormier
202 lbs weigh-in against Shogun II
207 lbs weigh-in against Fedor (HW bout)

Just want to note, the 199lbs against Cormier... that was Dan fully fed and hydrated.

He was on camera on the fight week blogs eating full meals. He also noted he made a point to get his water/food weight up.

That fight was a really dumb booking, even by UFC standards.

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

Ryan Hall can't cut much weight, relatively speaking. He weighs around 156/157 in the cage, which is still some cutting for a FW, but was also the case for his LW fights too

 

[rollthedice]

Khamzat gets to a point where he just can't be fucked cutting

 

[humdizzle]

 

[VinceArch]

I don't think Hendo cut any weight when he competed at LHW.

 

[TheNinja]

Sherk at WW maybe ? MM at BW?

 

[Morning Star]

Carwin only had to cut height.

 

[188912345]

It's more forgiving to be lighter than your opponent at higher weight classes. Jiri vs Hill for example, Hill around 222 with a belly, vs Jiri being a very ripped 208. I would assume there was no strength disparancy there, if anything Jiri was the more powerful guy. He also had the reach advantage.

If someone has the reach, strength and power to not have to cut a lot of weight, I can see it being an advantage, similar to how Fedor with his skillset beat many bigger guys at HW.

If someone on the other hand would give up 13-15 lbs in weight to Islam, Merab or Khabib, good luck.

 

[Pilo]

The Prochazka stat is pure insanity. At 205 especially...many of these guys are basically lean heavyweights. Jiri could certainly make 185, yet he goes in there with these bigger guys, gets into these superviolent fights in which he gets stung by most of them, and ends up finishing them at a record rate regardless.

Seriously, respect.

 

[Ibm]

If anything Id imagine George had to gain weight at WW. If he had to cut weight it would probably be for FW. Thats probbaly why he was so successful and manandled bigger guys. He was always at full energy.

 

[laleggenda27]

Machida, Hendo, and Frankie are the prime examples of this. They essentially fought at their walk-around weights for much of their careers.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Shara hardly cuts any weight

 

[Siver!]

That middleweight guy who had diabetes, I wanna say Williams, he was on DWCS a couple of years ago.

 

[El Fernas]

Sherk at WW maybe ? MM at BW?

At the time MM probably cut some weight and then adjusted his weight for FLW which didnt existed, his numbers are similar to other FLW´s