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Friend of mine is a MMA fighter, he trains with and cut weight with the chap in the article below. The lad I know cut 11lbs overnight to make weight (he actually missed weight by 0.5lb).

The BBC in U.K. did TV prog and news report on it . Quite interesting and shocking , clearly dangerous and must be common practice in boxing too. Enjoy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/a437 ... 14e3f37f2a

I lost 12 pounds in a day for wrestling in HS. I ate 3 almonds, an apple slice and swallowed a few sips of water. Pretty brutal.

Getting to the stage where fighters / trainers are making day before weigh ins as dangerous as same day weigh ins were all those years ago

Wales wrote:Getting to the stage where fighters / trainers are making day before weigh ins as dangerous as same day weigh ins were all those years ago

More dangerous now imo.

Wales wrote:Friend of mine is a MMA fighter, he trains with and cut weight with the chap in the article below. The lad I know cut 11lbs overnight to make weight (he actually missed weight by 0.5lb).

The BBC in U.K. did TV prog and news report on it . Quite interesting and shocking , clearly dangerous and must be common practice in boxing too. Enjoy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/a437 ... 14e3f37f2a

I watched that documentare a few days ago, I felt so uneasy watching it though, like how can it be allowed for a human to put themselves through that?

I'm glad that weight cutting and the issues that come with it are being spoken about more often. I just hope that it doesn't take another fatality for something to finally be done about it

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:I lost 12 pounds in a day for wrestling in HS. I ate 3 almonds, an apple slice and swallowed a few sips of water. Pretty brutal.

Luckily, you didn't have to worry about getting punched (or kicked) in the head while dehydrated.

Wales wrote:Getting to the stage where fighters / trainers are making day before weigh ins as dangerous as same day weigh ins were all those years ago

I wonder if day-before weigh-ins are even more dangerous.

Any coach would lose his job if he tells a fighter "Kid, you only have 14 pounds to go, you can do it." If the fight was the day of the weigh-ins.

With the 24+ hour allowance, the coach can easily talk his fighters into cutting that much weight. Either their body will shut down as they try to make weight or they will still walk into the cage/ring dehydrated and get effed up.

DannyMCR wrote:

Wales wrote:Friend of mine is a MMA fighter, he trains with and cut weight with the chap in the article below. The lad I know cut 11lbs overnight to make weight (he actually missed weight by 0.5lb).

The BBC in U.K. did TV prog and news report on it . Quite interesting and shocking , clearly dangerous and must be common practice in boxing too. Enjoy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/a437 ... 14e3f37f2a

I watched that documentare a few days ago, I felt so uneasy watching it though, like how can it be allowed for a human to put themselves through that?

I'm glad that weight cutting and the issues that come with it are being spoken about more often. I just hope that it doesn't take another fatality for something to finally be done about it

It will take several hundred more ...
Some people think its good and normal and fine.

I've said before, I prefere it if they showed their weight minits before the fight and in front of the crowd, at the moment of their walk in, from that point, till the end of the fight, only water is allowed.

zojo, wrote:

SaadOffTheDeck wrote:I lost 12 pounds in a day for wrestling in HS. I ate 3 almonds, an apple slice and swallowed a few sips of water. Pretty brutal.

Luckily, you didn't have to worry about getting punched (or kicked) in the head while dehydrated.

Luckily I was 17. Wrestling isn't exactly playing golf.