UFC Fight Night Ottawa will feature early weigh in option

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Great news. Not sure if the UFC has adopted this policy of if the AC up there has adopted it. Gonna guess the latter.

http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/6/1...rly-weigh-in-procedure-for-ufc-fight-night-89

After a successful first attempt before UFC 199, fighters will once again be able to weigh-in early this weekend at UFC Fight Night: MacDonald vs. Thompson in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, UFC senior vice president of public relations Dave Sholelr confirmed with MMA Fighting on Monday. Ontario athletics commissioner Ken Hayashi did not return a phone call for comment.

Fighters will be able to weigh-in at the fighter hotel Friday morning between 9 a.m. and noon, rather than the typical 4 p.m. weigh-in time, Sholler said. There will still be a "weigh-in" show at 4 p.m. where the official weights gathered earlier in the day will be announced.
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I wonder if Rich Franklin is consulting behind scenes with UFC on the D/L
 
Cool, they should do this everywhere from now on.
 
I was hoping this would be the case everywhere, with the IV ban and all it should.
 
I agree this is great and really hope it has no problems getting done at every event going forward, I have no idea why it can't.
 
Nice, hope they keep it going, UFC 199 was all the better for it.
 
Looking forward to the early drinking option.
 
Yea 199 was one of the better cards top to bottom and I wonder if weighing in early had something to do with it.

If we see some barn burner fights expect this to happen at 200 too.
 
This is wonderful news. I hope other jurisdictions follow suit. It was only one event so it's hard to say anything that doesn't violate 'correlation does not imply causation', but in general cardio looked better at UFC 199.

California is paving the way, I like it.

Also, and sort of related - does anyone know what regulations NY will follow? Other than Unified Rules of MMA, that is. I could look it up but I figure I'd ask here just in case someone knows off the top of their head.
 
Great news, I hope this becomes the new norm.
 
The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, so we are having ongoing discussions with commissions across the world about this option moving forward," Sholler told MMA Fighting.
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I couldn't find anything on Ontario AC's website about early weigh ins for MMA, but I like that the UFC is gonna bring up this option to AC's even if they don't already use it. Some AC's might go "Hey, yeah, that is a good idea lets do it." That's probably what happened here.
 
It actually sounds like Zuffa asked for this ? Mentions the previous fight in CA. And the AC doesn't seem to have this rule already instituted.

So that would be kinda cool. If Zuffa was pushing for this.
 
This should be the standard. Having to go most of the day dehydrated to make weight must blow loads.
 
TrainInVain said:
In one of the 199 threads, @Pacemaker Joe 'splained to me that a lot of ACs have already adopted it. Big question is will Vegas for 200. I know its the debut of the 8% rule.
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Well a couple that I know of. Kansas and California. FN 89 is probably the UFC acting on it's own - I love Ontario but it's commission is completely incompetent. I agree that NSAC is what really matters, at least for fighters in the UFC.
 
Let's see if fighters become more durable and powerful just as on UFC 199.
 
Moral Victory said:
I was hoping this would be the case everywhere, with the IV ban and all it should.
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This is stupid and counterproductive.

You put an IV ban in place to prevent drastic weight cuts, then introduce early weigh ins to encourage drastic weight cuts.

Where is the sense?
 
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