GOAT of weight cutting (Mount Rushmore of weight cutters)

[BJJ4Tone]

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Zabit woke up and was like, "I wanna look disheveled as fuck."

 

[lweiberg]

 

[andgonsil]

Dillashaw at 125

 

[Bearknuckle]

Dan Hooker at 145 gets a mention too.

 

[Pechan]

Chiesa at 155, dude is bigger than every WW he has fought so far.

 

[pankrat]

I still have yet to see anyone within a weight class with the kind of size advantage Gleison Tibau had at 155.

He was big but there is lot of hyperbole with his size
Looks way smaller than Maia, who is just a weightclass above

 

[Logan M]

maybe Drew Dober, 155 to 183 (CSAC)

Dober was HUGE at lightweight for sure. Years ago there was a story going around that Tibau went from 156 at weigh ins to 187 on fight night. This was long before CSAC was doing their testing just what people who knew Tibau were saying. He was one of the guys that was always pretty upfront about cutting a shit ton of weight.

 

[warriorfan808]

Rumble RIP

 

[Fight Professor]

It is probably someone in the FW/LW classes. Some of the fighters get to 190+ lbs between fights.

 

[Sweater of AV]

 

[MDoza]

How is Cormier on the list?

He was at a healthy weight wrestling at 185lbs in college.

 

[cmw43]

He was big but there is lot of hyperbole with his size
Looks way smaller than Maia, who is just a weightclass above

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Maia did fight at MW for a good while as well and is quite tall.

Tibau was cutting nearly 30lbs for LW.

 

[puppybird]

Likely what killed him. RIP

 

[Big Tuppy Hole]

What did Tibau cut from?

 

[L0ki]

As much as I loved Rumble, he wasn't good at weight cutting.

Vitor is really good.

Went from competing at 232 lbs. at HW and went down to MW without ever missing weight.

BJ Penn did an awesome job bouncing from LW to HW.

Handy had the most success between division crossing.

DC did awesome from going up to the higher end of HW and dropping to LHW.

 

[Huligani]

DC didn't have to cut much weight to make LHW, though ultimately he did later in his LHW career due to bad habits.

 

[po_thead]

Forrest cut from over 240

 

[Ananth]

Rockhold

 

[xn7]

rumble just grew up and grew bigger and moved to higher weight classes. there are matchups in which fighters look multiple weight classes apart. did rumble dwarf the average sized ww?

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

What did Tibau cut from?

Reportedly as high of a walking weight as 220