Yet another wiegh in question ...

[Fluffernutter]

Found this...right here on the sherdog forum

Same-day weigh-ins got tossed by the wayside back in 1983, when Eddie Mustapha Muhammad came in overweight for a light-heavyweight unification match with Michael Spinks. Back in the day, this was a legit superfight with all the attendant hoopla.

Spinks refused to go through with the fight, even after Eddie proposed just making it a nontitle go. Spinks was pissed because, as he said, he sacrificed and trained hard to make the weight, and if Muhammad couldn

 

[JustinvR]

because it takes time, not many people care and it would confuse the unintelligent casual fans. And MMA has a lot of those.

 

[VulcanNervPinch]

They don't want people to know when fighters enter the ring at different weights
They don't want people to find out just how dangerously/severely the system lets fighters cut