How to fix weight cutting in the UFC.
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Exactly.
Why do you need to re-invent the bicycle? (Russian idiom)
ONE created the solution that should be adapted worldwide.
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How tho? Eye pokes are eliminated too
It's easy to just say stuff.
Do u mean no weight classes at all? U gotta explain
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Why not have a fighter be within 10% of the weight limit 1 month prior to the fight, and then 2 weeks prior to the fight have them be within 5% of the weight limit, and then at 1 week out from the fight, have them be at least within 5% of the weight limit again. Then make weight +1lb on the day before. Also have it where on fight night, they are only 5% above the weight limit (no swelling up).
Also these %'s that I used can be changed but I think the premise could work.
Also these %'s that I used can be changed but I think the premise could work.
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And just how would you do that? Say a guy comes in five pounds lighter in the weigh-in, and you challenge him on it. You know what he's going to say? "Oh, I had just used the bathroom, and I was so busy with media obligations that I forgot to eat anything." What are you going to do, call him a liar? Hire a guy to follow him around and write down every time he picks up a sandwich or uses the bathroom?
It's just not logical or feasible to ban weight cutting altogether, since weight fluctuations happen naturally. The best you can do is set a percentage limit, which, AFAIK, is what the UFC has already done.
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you mean have the fighters weigh in privately with UFC staff and never have to release the results?
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Ban dehydration and move everyone up a weight-class (change HW to no limit). That way everyone will be fighting the same guys and feeling better.
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The one fc path.
You mean the one where weigh ins are conducted in secret and no weigh in results are published?
You cite the "onefc path" without actually knowing what it involves
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What solution?
Secret weigh ins and no published results
Everyone makes weight on one because the weigh ins are held in private
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A gravity urine test is very easy to beat.
What should one do to easily beat it?
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The best solutiom with the least amount of effort is to weigh them as they enter the cage, over time averages will be established and the public demand for matches between fighters with significant weight deaparities and after an averages for given fighters are established the betting odds will reflect the trends of weight to results outcomes. And all you have to do is record one more stat and put a scale down.
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That’s really not a bad idea.
There should still be a weigh in from the day before though.
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How to fix weight cutting: eliminate it.
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And it is easy to weasel out and not answer.
One banned weight cutting.
It's really not that hard if you think about it. But you gotta think... I know it must hurt, but that's because you are not used to it...
I strongly advise you to try.
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LOL
sorry, ubt your example is just too stupid.
ONE banned weight cutting. Go check how they did it.
You will see that it is not so hard to do.
Wrestling, if I am not mistaken, also took steps to not allow wrestlers to do extreme cutting (after a wrestler died). Check it out how they did it.
DO you rather wait for a fighter to actually die before thinking about it without being an idiot doing so?
Hint: It has NOTHING to do with bathrooms.
It has to do with how hydrated fighter are while weighing them, and continuously weighting fighters (hint: they can't keep dehydrated for too long).
Much like the athlete's biological passport is helping against PED's, something similar can help against weight cutting.
If there ever was interest in banning weight cutting, they would have done it. easily.
But fighters don't want it (despite how detrimental to their own health this is), and the UFC doesn't want it (so they wouldn't be able to do all those champion moving weight and challenging the champion above/below).
And THAT is why we don't have it.
Pure unadulterated Greed.
This has NOTHING to do with science or inability to create a system that would support it.
