Julija Stoliarenko collapse off the scale

MartiniSIDe said:
Fight is probably going to be cut...there goes my smoke and meal break. :(

All kiding aside, I hope she's fine and reconsider cutting all this weight for her health sake.
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It always got cancelled.
It was the 135lb fight against Julia Avila. I was actually really looking forward to that one.
 
I'm with everyone saying she shouldn't have been given a second chance to weigh-in after fainting the first time. You shouldn't stand back up in one spot just a couple of minutes after fainting. Reminds me of when the Survivor TV show cheated for Boston Rob on his winning season. He made it to the end of a challenge and fainted. He would have fallen to the ground if the guys next to him didn't catch him. The host asked him if he wanted a medic and Rob said no because he would have been pulled from the game. You have someone basically collapsing to the ground, it's bad enough for the person in charge to mention a medic, and the person that fainted tells you he isn't medically fit to continue...but he stays in because the show wants to push him.

Kind of sick to not want to cut a fight and risk her collapsing again.
 
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fg1985bg said:
This is the first thing that came to mind watching the clip. How the hell does is she even allowed to stumble for that long without someone intervening ?
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The tall guy who ran in from left is Steve Reed, head of UFC security. He was one of the 3 people who rushed in. Those people are quite along way away, prob 7 or 8 meters off-stage and they ran in as fast as possible. Good thing the vinyl banner gave her a bit of support so she didn't bang her head on the floor.
 
aerius said:
No one's died on live TV yet. Even then, I'm not entirely convinced they'll do anything about weight cutting.
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they won't. people die all the time in boxing which has weight cutting and nothing is done about that. even with the public information out there that says you're more susceptible to brain damage when dehydrated it still goes on.

i'm not convinced that weight cutting even provides an advantage.
 
I feel really bad for her but now we will get the main event faster which I am thoroughly excited about.
 
She’s a natural featherweight. More girls at 135 are having trouble making weight, but the UFC seems like it is apparently 100% against any girls moving up to 145 for some reason, it’s insane. For example, I know Sarah Moras had wanted to move up to featherweight all the way back in 2018.
 
FIMN said:
Do you think you should be able to order chicken medium rare from restaurants on the basis that it's "personal choice"?
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Not an accurate analogy. In this case the ufc isn't involved in the weight cut at all, only permit the fighter to take charge of their own health and career.

I do believe it should be a personal choice to bring medium rare chicken to a picnic table at the park and eat it though.
 
HockeyBjj said:
More and more seems a matter of when not if a UFC fighter dies due to weight cutting

Also, I feel part of the reason UFC when to these non public weigh ins was to avoid someone doing this live on ESPN. That there is a bad look
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Or in the cage (after taking shots and not recovering between the weigh-ins and fight time).
 
fg1985bg said:
That is truly scary and horrifying. Hope she’s fine. Words won’t do justice in describing the amount of respect I have for these combat athletes.

I really wish they could just get away from all this weight cutting. Ironically enough, in a sport with knees and chokeholds, it’s the preparation and cutting that’s the most dangerous.
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Tbf it's kind of her fault for cutting too much weight.

They are professional athletes and they should know their body. Fighters have months to prepare for a fight. Usually this happens if you try to cut too much weight too fast. Either that or she's too big for the weight class and should move up.
 
actually pulling stunts like this is good publicity for new unknown fighters. marketing genius
 
She's got plenty of meat on her bones, she probably tried to drop too much weight too late in the game, and it cost her. And now the cherry on top is that she has every estrogen filled sherbro crying about weight cutting the day before the fights, and she's known more now than she ever would have been had she competed.
 
Wreckless said:
Tbf it's kind of her fault for cutting too much weight.

They are professional athletes and they should know their body. Fighters have months to prepare for a fight. Usually this happens if you try to cut too much weight too fast. Either that or she's too big for the weight class and should move up.
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I’m not saying the fighter doesn’t have any responsibility in terms of trying to make the cut safer but Weight cutting of any sort has some of level of danger to it. I wish the sport would find some way to get rid of it all together and just let fighters compete at their peak/natural weight somehow. I know that won’t ever happen though.
 
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