The UFC/MMA/Etc. Thread

[Golfingdad]

  Abu3baid said:

Having experienced this myself it is not always an advantage to do this because of the fatigue factor that kicks in.

Now that you say that, I have heard the announcers talking about exactly that recently.

  Jeremie Boop said:

I believe there's sort of an art/skill in properly cutting weight. Sometimes you'll see a fighter who just seems flat or seems to run out of gas quickly. These are symptoms of improper weight cutting or inability to recover from cutting the weight. To be honest, I'm not sure why it is the way it is. I just know there's a lot of talk about cutting weight for the fight and what the fighter's weight is naturally. There have been fighters who actually went up a weight class because it was closer to their natural weight and they fought better at it because they didn't have to recover from cutting so much for the weigh in. I know that one of the things I heard about Connor McGregor was that his weight cut is pretty strenuous and after capturing the title at 145 he may actually go up to the next weight class and try to hold both titles.

The whole thing just seems so dangerous and unhealthy.

Of course, we're talking about people who are voluntarily locking themselves inside a cage with another person who wants to pummel the daylights out of them so ...

[TN94z]

  Golfingdad said:

Now that you say that, I have heard the announcers talking about exactly that recently.   The whole thing just seems so dangerous and unhealthy. Of course, we're talking about people who are voluntarily locking themselves inside a cage with another person who wants to pummel the daylights out of them so ... :-P

It is dangerous the way many of the guys are doing it now. It's not just the UFC though. Power lifters, bodybuilders, wrestlers, etc...all do it. Going so far as to have to use IVs to get fluids back. It's really ridiculous what they put themselves through. Unfortunately, that's the name of the game nowadays. The danger is not all the weight cut itself. If they have a poor weight cut and step into the ring less alert and fatigued, they are really at risk with the shots they take...