Signings/Scouting Super Heavyweight divisions

[Lionheart7167]

Obviously, the UFC doesn't have a super heavy division

Are there any other name or known organizations out there currently that do?

Some shitty local and farm leagues, I'm sure.

 

[STAY GOLD]

There isn’t a recognizable organization that has a SHW division that I’m aware of. It’s even odd to find a SHW fight on a card.

 

[cmw43]

It's only freaks at that weight.

Look at other combat sports like Kickboxing and Boxing even with no upper weight limit it's rare to get anyone ranked who weighs much more than 285lbs and anyone that weight in MMA can make 265lbs.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

RIZIN did Sapp vs Osunaarashi on NYE 2018, that is the last legit SHW fight I can remember, though KSW has one off freakshow fights from time to time, as well. Idk what Pudz weighed, but Eddie Hall for sure was over the limit for their fight

 

[Killer Kadoogan]

whenever they have SHW fights in japan, it's always two real fat japanese guys.

 

[Richard Fannin]

Baruto Kaito had 4 fights in RIZIN and was actually pretty competitive for a guy who weighed in a 400lbs.
He immediately switched to MMA after retiring from Sumo Wrestling, so he was still in his physical prime, which was a big change from the usual washed up Sumo dudes who fought in PRIDE since they were always inactive for a long time before PRIDE or K1 forked in the big bucks to get them in the ring against Minowaman.

Baruto did a fairly good job at repairing Sumo's reputation in MMA, can't deny him that, but you had to be there during his run I suppose; he had LOTS of fans of this here Sherdog.

Then you had the 2 Ssireum rivals giants, Hong Man Choi

and Kim Young-hyun

both over 7.2ft and weighing 370/380lbs during their Ssireum (Korean wrestling) rivalry when they were at their peak.
They both have 3 victories over the other, with their final match tying them at 3-3 after 6 matches, and they were big in Korea. They were also both nicknamed "Goliath", which was a tad confusing for casual onlookers.
HMC later added "Techno" to his "Goliath" to help us out (and to be fair, Kim was the original Goliath according to most Ssireum scholars)

Then they both switched to kickboxing since there wasn't much money to be made in Ssireum even at the highest level.
Kim retired after going 2-2 in K-1 in 2007/2008, but Choi the Techno Goliath would switch to MMA with... mixed results.
After his first loss (to Fedor, so no big shame there) he got a life-saving operation, and he was never able to put on weight like he used to and his iron chin was but a long gone memory.

... also, Aorigele was fun to watch at ROAD FC

 

[JIGGERS]

I'm a firm believer that UFC needs a super heavyweight division. UFC is seriously limiting their ceiling when it comes to fat bums with that 265lb limit. Light heavyweights don't really have the room to truly give up on all dieting, they still need some degree of self control. Superheavyweight would allow limitless weight gain so even a crestfallen heavyweight has somewhere to call home. We get a good deal of bad fights anyway, and UFC gave up on any image of legitimacy a long time ago, so the competitors might as well be fat as shit.

 

[Deaths Head]

I'm a firm believer that UFC needs a super heavyweight division. UFC is seriously limiting their ceiling when it comes to fat bums with that 265lb limit. Light heavyweights don't really have the room to truly give up on all dieting, they still need some degree of self control. Superheavyweight would allow limitless weight gain so even a crestfallen heavyweight has somewhere to call home. We get a good deal of bad fights anyway, and UFC gave up on any image of legitimacy a long time ago, so the competitors might as well be fat as shit.

They don’t need it they only need to get rid of the weight limit bc it’s just dumb and not warranted , even years ago guys like Lesnar had to cut weight even though he was 290 usually it’s just making it harder for some guys and the weight starting point should be 225 that gets rid of the majority size differences if they wanted .

HW after 205 doesn’t really make sense much like boxing at 200 .

 

[David R]

before starting MMA, Steven Asplund weighed over 500lbs. he will be the first to fight in the new Ozempic weight class

Just kidding dude is amazing losing all that weight.

 

[MrBean]

I think SHW division coincides more with minimal testing.

As a big natural guy, I am 120kg on the dot with only 13% bodyfat. Long frames fill out easily so if big guys ala Brock and others are juicy, then the excess muscle or water retention can make big guys bigger.
Boxing. Kickboxing. Wrestling. Rarely have upper limits for the HW (or "SHW") guys, so why does MMA?

 

[obublok]

Slightly off-topic, I guess. In Finland we have this thing called Ice Cage. Roger Karimus, former powerlifter & strongman (or atleast that´s what they say) worked security in previous events. Last event in Boxing day he had a boxing match against Matias Niemi, bodybuilder who´s trained boxing around one year (at least they say so). Match below:



Karimus told that he´d like to have an MMA match next. Weighed in at 150 kilos, 330ish pounds. Karimus was well hyped before the match in social media and his match has received much attention in social media and online newspapers. I´m pretty sure we´ll see SHW MMA in Ice Cage sooner or later.

Ice Cage seems to be doing well, they´ve managed to bring tiktok-generation to audience. Maybe that´s why I only attended only one event.

 

[Bluesbreaker]

Sean McCorkle fought a number of times at SHW - I recall him saying he was killing himself to make HW, but they were all regional organisations.

The highest profile organisation I can think of that uses Unified Rules and has an actual SHW division is King of the Cage.

 

[Trabaho]

before starting MMA, Steven Asplund weighed over 500lbs. he will be the first to fight in the new Ozempic weight class
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Just kidding dude is amazing losing all that weight.

Police officer with roles part 2 ? Like that Daukus guy who Khalil retired. The tattoo sounds like a police officer. He really really sucks. Like anyone at HW bar the best 20. They all suck majorly. The ranked guys are good. The high right guy are excelent.

Ozempic is cheating yourself.