Why does the UFC have a weight limit for the Heavyweights ?

I would think health and stamina concerns. I could only imagine what guys like Jake Collier or Parker Porter would look like if they could let it all go and come in over 300 lbs.

They already have a 1 round gas tank coming off a full camp, imagine carrying another 30-40lbs
 
Geniusss said:
That's on them.
That's up to themselves
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I totally agree, Super HW fights can be great spectacles.

However UFC HW fighters are already pretty low level on the entertainment rating scale for me and i never miss a UFC.

Imagine how quick the casuals will tune out when these guys are sucking wind after sitting on the fence for the last 2 minutes of the first round.
 
Kayla's cutting crazy weight for the same reason. UFC cut a WMMA division.

The world does not provide enough in-shape fighters above a certain weight that are also entertaining enough to want to watch.

Having larger women or men fight their smaller counterparts not only has to pass scrutiny of regulators/commissions/etc -- but it also has to draw a paying audience for UFC.
 
Robbocop said:
It's quite strange when in boxing and kickboxing there is no upper weight limit for heavyweight as far as I am aware.
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Probably cause in striking only sports a fat fuck is unable to just fall on someone and lay there for the win.

I know that is a slippery slope, but even the potential threat of something absurd like that is enough to have me running to the hills if Superheavyweight gets mentioned. Look at the state of even the HW division talent wise? The add lard.

On the other hand, two Shags fighting would potentially be worth all the other "fights" :D
 
No one wants to see fat 300 pounders sucking wind and gassing out. You wouldn’t be able to book them at altitude, and their fights would be embarrassing slop fests. Hell, we still see this kind of bush league shit at HW, and that’s with a 265 lb limit.
 
Mittens said:
Probably cause in striking only sports a fat fuck is unable to just fall on someone and lay there for the win.

I know that is a slippery slope, but even the potential threat of something absurd like that is enough to have me running to the hills if Superheavyweight gets mentioned. Look at the state of even the HW division talent wise? The add lard.

On the other hand, two Shags fighting would potentially be worth all the other "fights" :D
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You've seen huge fat guys in MMA such as Teila Tuli (rest in peace) who was 415 pounds, Akebono (rest in peace) who was 500ish pounds, Zulu who was 405 pounds, Paul Varelans (rest in peace) who was 330 pounds. They all got handily destroyed by smaller opponents (Gerard Gordeau, Royce Gracie, Fedor, Igor Vovchanchyn).
 
Robbocop said:
You've seen huge fat guys in MMA such as Teila Tuli (rest in peace) who was 415 pounds, Akebono (rest in peace) who was 500ish pounds, Zulu who was 405 pounds, Paul Varelans (rest in peace) who was 330 pounds. They all got handily destroyed by smaller opponents (Gerard Gordeau, Royce Gracie, Fedor, Igor Vovchanchyn).
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Varelans would have been a beast if he trained a proper martial art.

He was doing some Krav Maga esque bullshido art from what I remember.
 
At least raise the weight limit to 285. Extremely few men in trim, fighting shape would be unable to make 285 with relative ease. Even guys over 7 feet tall. but if they raised it to 285 they would probably have to make a 225 division to please the sanctioning bodies. And most of the worlds high level larger athletes are already playing other sports to begin with.

Dane White is, mostly, not wrong in saying that no fighter has any business over 265. almost any guy in really trim (no excess muscle bulk or excess fat), lean fighting shape is not going to way more than that. including guys upwards of 6'8''.
 
This is going to seem like I'm taking both sides of the fence here (life be like that tho), but 1. The history of combat sports shows that humans 1. Don't do that well at that weight 2. Don't get that big naturally but also 2. There should be no limit, because maybe someone really will do well naturally

The keeping guys in shape argument is weird. That's on them. Not being in shape gets you cut because you lose.
 
Robbocop said:
They all got handily destroyed by smaller opponents (Gerard Gordeau, Royce Gracie, Fedor, Igor Vovchanchyn).
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That is a fine point (and I was mostly jesting to make the shag vs shag comment) but those were either singular freak show fights or tournament open weight (like Gordeau vs Tuli etc. early UFCs), just opening up HW to be from 206 upwards with no limit might lead to that. And work. Not that I would likely still be entertained by it anymore (the huge f'n guy freak shows had their time and place) so I'd like to say no anyway.

But in a true Superheavyweight division (236+), would there be the "smaller guys" (except probably the occasional heavyweight who wants to be active in two divisions) outside of the 1-2 "non cutting Brock Lessors" and 5 fatsos? Cannot see that kind of division being any sort of entertaining.

Maybe I am wrong and we could lure in enough huge BUT athletic chaps to make it work. But then Dana White would say something about "wanting more money out of me?" and they would go to other sports anyway.
 
So that nobody can call out Dana's fat ass. He'd just say he's too fat to make the weight limit.
 
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