New UFC Weight Cutting Guidelines from UFC 200

[TheIrishPsycho]

Well - thats Rumble Johnsons LHW run over. Its either SHW or HW for him now.

 

[screaminleeman]

Coming from a Wrestling background, I am very well versed at making weight to compete. I fucking wrestled at 5 separate weight classes (spanning 26 pounds) in a single year. I spanned 3 (14 pounds) in a single week! I would have never had the opportunity to wrestle if these kinds of rules existed then.

What concerns me FAR MORE is the unfair height cutting going on in the UFC. That is the real issue here.

What is the problem with a fighter shedding some pounds to SUCCESSFULLY make a required weight for a division, when you have 6'5" UFC fighters cutting SO MUCH HEIGHT that they come up to their 6'3" opponents nose at the pose-off at the scale during weighins.

Now THAT THAR is the sheet the UFC needs to "rectify"!

 

[Senzo Tanaka]

Based on those stats, most fighters are fucked. Guys like Fabed and Cruz will need to move up a weight class or even two.

I'm fine with it. Weight cutting is right up there with PEDs to me and I want guys fighting at close to their training weight.

 

[Mau]

I'm good with it.

 

[SugarKrok]

Damn. This is pretty ground breaking as far as some top guys having to completely change the way they live, which will in turn change some of the obvious gains people get going in thanks to weight cutting. How is this not getting more coverage? Actually, it might be because the UFC does not want to highlight weight-cutting in the mass media. Then again, I know weight cutting is done in multiple sports and competitions. So, what the hell is going on here?

They gonna start regulating boxing too? What about high school wrestlgin?

 

[mjmj]

i know this is a game where we both are condescending to the other person about how the other person cant read - did you read? if they show signs of dehydration they will be pulled from the fight - so like conor mcgregor before his fights will be pulled every time at FW now, its big trouble for the UFC as he is a star and makes a lot of money, but if he shows signs of dehydration, they will def pull him - sht

Fair enough, you're right. They gave opposing statements in the same sentence.

 

[invalidor]

It's great and so says all of us here at the red lion. Cheers

 

[Dart Feld]

 

[LiLoMMA]

"if they show signs of being dehydrated, they will be pulled from the fight.”

Hallajullah!

Check out the 8% weight chart, your boy is a WW.

 

[AP_RESURRECTION]

Fair enough, you're right. They gave opposing statements in the same sentence.

yea they just keep discretion to do whatever they feel like

 

[Jin Akutsu]

Looks like Conor is done at 145 if this is the case.

 

[Timurd123]

"if they show signs of being dehydrated, they will be pulled from the fight."

its the week of the fight.... they will be cutting weight. how can usada expect fighters not to show any signs of being dehydrated in that period?

Also, does that seal the deal that we will never see conor defend 145???

They can fight at a weighclass that doesn't require cutting 30lbs or they can diet better

People dont cut that much weight in boxing and gassing at the high level is very rare, they dont expand as much energy of course, but the idea isnt bad at all

 

[Deleted member 502383]

Check out the 8% weight chart, your boy is a WW.

Conor McGregor would make 155 lbs by a good diet starting from the time he starts camp and avoiding sodium and other water retaining produce. Pretty easy.

 

[mjmj]

It does say that most fighters are coming in within the target level now, it may not be a big issue.

 

[theheater]

seems like the smart thing to do, but imo they fucked up on the amount of notice

it sounds like they wont be cancelling fights but just monitoring big weight cutters more closely, which is safe and smart

that said they should have announced this to be in place before any cards had been scheduled, its not fair to schedule fights at a certain weight class and then change the rules. i suspect this will eventually be better for the sport. i think a shuffling of the weight classes will ultimately be good. i think they need another weight class to shrink the gap also. thats why a lot of fighters have a massive cut. their options arent to be of average size, its to be small for a higher class or huge for the lower class with a massive cut

re shuffle the weight classes and close the gap along with cutting safety measures is the way to go imo

 

[Rovert]

if they actually did this there would be no more FLW because everyone would have to move up a weight class.

 

[GordaoPreguico]

Those really arent that unreasonable.

 

[Pacemaker Joe]

So much for Conor ever defending. Something like this has been needed for a long time though.

 

[theheater]

The outline for the new divisions would be: 115, 125, 135, 145, 155, 165, 175, 185, 195, 205, 225, 265 (heavyweight) and super heavyweight. The 170-pound division would be abolished.
[NOTE: The UFC does NOT have to institute all these weight classes and almost certainly won't have SHW, or men's 115 & 125]

i like the idea of more divisions and closing the gap we have between 155 and 205 but i think you have way too many for the foreseeable future

i just think you need to do something like the follow to drastically reduce the gaps without creating way too many divisions

167
180
195
210

the gaps are smaller at the lower classes and then get bigger at larger classes. we still see less than a 15lb jump at LW and WW. we also dont see a 20lb jump at MW. the smaller HW's also have another option and the bigger LHW's dont have such a massive cut

 

[MCS]

This is great, especially for the lower weights. I don't see much of a change for most MW's and LHW's though. Cutting from 230 is a no-no and shows you're out of shape on fight week. It doesn't happen often. The good thing is it will happen even less than before now.