Six Disturbing Near-Death Weigh-In Videos - When Weight Cutting goes wrong

[Ghost in the Dark]

Absolutely no sympathy for these guys and even less when they f*ck everyone over my missing weight or getting the fight cancelled. They do it to themselves and all they need to do is fight at their natural weight or at least within a ckass that they can get to safely. Who knows if there's a way forward from this. They banned IVs at least.

 

[Deleted member 498977]

This shit needs to be regulated.

We don;t need more weight cutting deaths!

 

[NoContest]

It's like PEDs. If everyone else is doing it, you have to do it to stay competitive. The difference is that it's almost impossible to stop fighters from using PEDs but it's very easy to get rid of weight cuts.

 

[Milgrim]

This shit needs to be regulated.

We don;t need more weight cutting deaths!

Agreed. It's a serious problem.

 

[TinkerMan]

Pussies who would rather nearly die than fight people their own size , let them carry on

 

[crxer]

damn hirota and that random Brazillian dude david lima, who can barely walk is just disgusting the rest is ok but if you come out to the weigh ins like that its just insane should not be allowed to fight the cutting weight videos is meh everyone does it.

 

[Chivas GDL]

What ever it takes to fight a smaller person on fight night. very brave.

 

[Rovert]

I've always found this strange , its like going on a 2 day bender before a fight . Even more so with older fighters .

 

[Hotora86]

There have already been weight-cutting related deaths in fight sports and I've even made 2 threads about them:

Scottish MT fighter Jordan Coe dies during weight cut
http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/scottish-mt-fighter-jordan-coe-dies-during-weight-cut.3500377/

Kickboxer Scott Marsden (14 y.o.) dies after Leeds title fight
http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/k...-14-y-o-dies-after-leeds-title-fight.3492707/

NEWS:

Death of MMA fighter Yang Jian Bing
https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...h-weight-cutting-yang-jian-bing-mma/77143446/

Tragedy as Perth teenager, 18, dies from severe dehydration
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-weight-Muay-Thai-fight.html#ixzz5B8y6lL2N


This shit has got to stop.

 

[Killhippies]

ONE has the right idea, specific urine gravity test and be done with it.

Safer for the fighters, no excuses and fights will be more exciting with fighters at their full hydrated potential.

Edit: Check it out on the ONE site. https://onefc.com/martial_arts/

Another thing is that such a system will encourage fighters to keep to their diet, no excuse for fat fuckers getting lazy as a professional athlete.

 

[TheLegionnary]

I fell nothing for them, it's not like there are not enough weighclass and they have to kill their body in order to be able to make the weight. Just fight at your regular bodyweight so you just have to get rid of 4-5 pounds several weeks before the fight, not killing yourself and then jumping on water and get back at your normal weight.

I remember Vitor Belfort chewing a towel with ice in it to keep his mouth wet... What mad men decided that it's healthy and allow fighters to do it ?

 

[Franc Mittelo]

Weigh-ins should be right before the fighter steps inside the Octagon. That would immediately eradicate weight cutting issues. If you can't even step on a scale using your own power, how the hell are you going to resist an opponent who is trying to kill you? LOL

However, I respect fighters for making the sacrifice for the opportunity to obtain glory. It is absolutely stupid, but it still requires a very strong will to achieve.

 

[Alxair]

While I do think weight cutting needs to be reworked or ideally eliminated from the sport, I think part of the blame has to go to the athletes that require drastic water weight cuts. They wouldn't need to cut as drastically if they fought in their proper weight class, simple as that. You want to be huge for your weight class? Pay the price.

As for Cyborg - there are other girls that have the same height that make 135(Nunes, Holm) and fight at a high level. Cyborg definitely could lose mass and ease the cut but she chooses not to and then complains - again no sympathy from me.

 

[OlderMan]

Absolutely no sympathy for these guys and even less when they f*ck everyone over my missing weight or getting the fight cancelled. They do it to themselves and all they need to do is fight at their natural weight or at least within a ckass that they can get to safely. Who knows if there's a way forward from this. They banned IVs at least.

Sad....... a Tragedy in the Making. What about Barao? HE has never been the same since his passing out and falling..... I used to be fine with the weight cut...

now.. IT SEEMS INSANELY DANGEROUS AND SHOULD BE STOPPED.

 

[Irishwhiskey119]

How about the million other times weight cutting goes right?

 

[JerichoMelenko]

Its going to take a major star to die from weight cutting weight before anyone steps in, unfortunately that seems like the way things go these days.

I didn’t like making this post.

 

[VVarhead]

UFC needs fucking hydration tests, just like ONE FC.

They basically eliminated weight cutting by doing this.

 

[Azure]

While I do think weight cutting needs to be reworked or ideally eliminated from the sport, I think part of the blame has to go to the athletes that require drastic water weight cuts. They wouldn't need to cut as drastically if they fought in their proper weight class, simple as that. .

This 100%.. It is all on the fighters

 

[vladimir]

Sanctioning bodies & promotions should assign every fighter to a weight class that's medically determined. No fights below assigned weight allowed.

 

[RemyR]

UFC needs fucking hydration tests, just like ONE FC.

They basically eliminated weight cutting by doing this.

Ben Askren talked about this with his interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast and he had some very great points on it. Would solve a lot of issues.