Another horrifying UFC weight cut?! Things need to change

Published: Sep 06, 2024 Duration: 00:03:23 Category: Sports

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there someone who can barely stand up on their own and needs assistance to walk out the room look in any way prepared for a fight the next day what's up it's ant Walker here with ringside Intel and let's talk about weight cutting so UFC Vegas 97 is taking place this Saturday afternoon another typical Apex Center offering from the UFC but early on in the car there's a preliminary contest between Dylan budka and Andre Petroski by now you've probably seen the video budka stepping on the scale at the weigh-in can barely stand up his eyes are unfocus he actually needs the assistance of several other people to walk out of the room and yet he's cleared to fight I mean he came in 2 and 1/2 lbs over is going to be forfeiting 20% of his purse and of course there was no way that he could cut any more weight with any reasonable degree of safety but even just watching how he looked somehow or another the commission approved this which baffling to me we kind of know this routine by now fighters who are more or less the same size agree to fight one another in a weight class in order to gain some sort of competitive advantage over one another they dehydrate themselves and D it down in order to cut weight and then they step on the scale to make the agreed upon weight immediately after they step on the scale they rehydrate they eat and by the next day they're more or less the same size fighting one another so so what's the point I mean I get weight cutting is a big part of the culture uh of course in MMA there are far less weight classes than boxing which means Fighters have less options as far as how much they want to weigh when they step in to compete there's simply going to be some people who do need to cut some weight in order to compete because hey otherwise they're going to be grossly under signs if they move up in weight and there's also the bleed over of wrestling obviously a lot of wrestlers transition into mixed martial arts and wrestlers are known to cut weight on a regular basis on a high school and college level wrestlers will cut weight on a weekly basis to make their tournaments and it's a lot on the body but it's something that they become used to and it just becomes part of what they do everyone does it so everyone has to do it right but does it make any actual sense I think I'm on the side of Common Sense here when I say no it it really doesn't make a lot of sense there has to be something done about weight cutting in mixed martial arts because the risk is just simply too high we've already seen weight cutting related deaths take place in wrestling we've seen weight cut related deaths take place in lower levels of mixed martial arts we've even seen a weight cut related death take place in one Championship which prompted their hydration test which obviously hasn't been executed to any reasonable level of scrutiny but that was a response to a very real problem in the sport and for the athletic commissions that are approving some of these fights to take place such as Nevada which oversees the Apex Center I'm no doctor nor am I a medical professional but I think we could all agree that Dylan bucka probably doesn't belong there so what do you think is weight cutting that big of a problem that there needs to be some overhaul to the culture of the sport and what alternatives would you suggest to handle this issue remember to like subscribe share tell a friend to tell a friend tell that friend to tell 10 more friends stay locked in the ringside Intel I'm ant Walker peace

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