Weight Cutting Championship

[Wefee]

How come the UFC can't get it straight with weight cutting? Isn't having 20+ pounds on your opponent a much bigger advantage than taking dick pills? Why don't they do something about it?
Don't come to me and tell me it would be too hard to manage... they literally take blood out of their athletes to search for specific substances... monitoring wieght is too difficult? pls

 

[Your Account]

They want to make more money

 

[thrillkilla77]

They should all fight at their walk around weight IMO

 

[Air Lats]

Too hard to manage

 

[BR701]

USADA has brutally raped the sport.

 

[BigMuffler]

There won't be a be a 20 lb weight difference 95% of time, the only exceptions are HW or if one fighter barely/doesn't cut weight.

 

[MikeyB]

How is weight cutting an unfair advantage? Everyone can do it. In fact almost everyone who's competed in weight class based sports has done it.

There's a point in dimishing returns too. Look at how much better Cowboy looks at 170. It's because he isn't sucking out 10 lbs of water the day before.

It's just an issue of perception. There's a reason Gleison Tibau was never champ.

 

[Jim Cozad Jr.]

What exactly are you proposing?

 

[eiyuu]

The UFC has fighters sign contracts to fight fights at certain weight classes. They are not responsible for HOW the fighters make that weight class. If they fought at that weight class previously, it isn't out of the question to expect them to make that weight again is it?

 

[Sparkie]

Rumble is the weight cutting champ hands down!

 

[Th3Sav4ge]

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Rumble is the weight cutting champ hands down!

 

[Sparkie]

They should all fight at their walk around weight IMO

they have to draw a line
It called rules of the sport

 

[blah_blah619]

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Rumble is the weight cutting champ hands down!

he's missed weight in 2 different divisions.

 

[Sparkie]

he's missed weight in 2 different divisions.

he can cut weight like no one else!
when he was attempting 170 he was well over 200

 

[Mr. Mackey]

The UFC should have recorded weights for their fighters. They should weigh their fighters 2-4 times a year, randomly. Whether the USADA does it, a UFC official, a gym leader, someone should. Take the average of the weights recorded throughout the year. Then there should be a recommendation for each fighter for weight classes they can compete in. 25 pounds should be the max cut. It's simply not safe/healthy to cut anymore weight than that. Has it been done and is it done sure. But if they want to clean the sport up and legitimize it further IMO that's a step they need to take.

 

[blah_blah619]

he can cut weight like no one else!
when he was attempting 170 he was well over 200

Doesn't Ferguson walk around close to 200 and makes 155?

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

How about everyone stops cutting water-weight and just moves up a division or two. We'd have largely the same available match-ups with much better performances and longer careers.

 

[NavySeal4Life]

Colon McTapper was 20 lbs heavier than Eddie in that fight...weigh them when they step into the Octagon. Even if only for information purposes on a big screen.