Cutting Weight

[Unkotare]

Not really current events anymore, but interesting that this UFC fighter passed out - twice - trying to make weight. There will no doubt we repercussions in the form of regulations of some sort.

UFC women's bantamweight Julija Stoliarenko faints on the scale during UFC Fight Night weigh-ins

Stoliarenko was set to fight Julia Avila on Saturday in Las Vegas

www.cbssports.com

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[justinacolmena]

> Stoliarenko then got back on the scale and made weight at 135.5 pounds before appearing to nearly collapse again.

That's "the usual" problem cheating on the weight class in wrestling. Wrestlers build their bodies, but then they dehydrate themselves dangerously to weigh in just under their assigned competition weight class cut-off, but after drinking up and rehydrating to a normal blood volume they'd be in the next weight class up if they had properly weighed in for the match.

She's too big and strong for her weight class, and she's cheating to stay under the cut-off.

Wrestling and boxing sports officials are going have to enforce a no-food no-drink no-water rule between the weigh-in and the match to keep the contestants in their weight classes.

 

[JoeMoma]

Wrestling and boxing sports officials are going have to enforce a no-food no-drink no-water rule between the weigh-in and the match to keep the contestants in their weight classes.

That's not going to happen, especially when the weigh in is 24 hours before the fight; however, I agree with you that the dehydrating to make the weight needs to stop.

 

[Muhammed]

> Stoliarenko then got back on the scale and made weight at 135.5 pounds before appearing to nearly collapse again.

That's "the usual" problem cheating on the weight class in wrestling. Wrestlers build their bodies, but then they dehydrate themselves dangerously to weigh in just under their assigned competition weight class cut-off, but after drinking up and rehydrating to a normal blood volume they'd be in the next weight class up if they had properly weighed in for the match.

She's too big and strong for her weight class, and she's cheating to stay under the cut-off.

Wrestling and boxing sports officials are going have to enforce a no-food no-drink no-water rule between the weigh-in and the match to keep the contestants in their weight classes.

Such a rule would make it even more dangerous.

A better idea would be to dug test them for loop diuretics like furosemide and spironolactone, the drugs they use to dehydrate themselves. Abuse of these drugs can cause permanent kidney damage.

 

[Unkotare]

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She's too big and strong for her weight class, and she's cheating to stay under the cut-off.
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It's not "cheating," it's just making weight. The UFC can address this by adopting some of the same rules that NCAA wrestling implemented long ago.

 

[Unkotare]

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Wrestling and boxing sports officials are going have to enforce a no-food no-drink no-water rule between the weigh-in and the match to keep the contestants in their weight classes.

Preventing fighters from drinking water when the problem is dehydration in the first place would be kinda stupid and almost certainly illegal.

 

[strollingbones]

lived next to a pageant queen at one time...she did the same...starved herself and dehydrated all to hell ..

 

[Unkotare]

Cutting weight over and over for many years can result in the joy of kidney stones later in life.

Not fun.

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

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She's too big and strong for her weight class, and she's cheating to stay under the cut-off.
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It's not "cheating," it's just making weight. The UFC can address this by adopting some of the same rules that NCAA wrestling implemented long ago.

When I was in high school wrestlers would spend the whole day wearing garbage bags to sweat out the weight. Don'

 

[Unkotare]

Then there's this:

Alves 11.5 lbs. over for all-time UFC weight miss

Rafael Alves' UFC Fight Night bout against Patrick Sabatini has been canceled after Alves missed weight by a record 11.5 pounds.

www.espn.com

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

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She's too big and strong for her weight class, and she's cheating to stay under the cut-off.
.....

It's not "cheating," it's just making weight. The UFC can address this by adopting some of the same rules that NCAA wrestling implemented long ago.

When I was in high school wrestlers would spend the whole day wearing garbage bags to sweat out the weight. Don'

Do not know if it still goes on today... times change , there is actually a teacher that got a student pregnant and I believe still teaches there.

 

[Unkotare]

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She's too big and strong for her weight class, and she's cheating to stay under the cut-off.
.....

It's not "cheating," it's just making weight. The UFC can address this by adopting some of the same rules that NCAA wrestling implemented long ago.

When I was in high school wrestlers would spend the whole day wearing garbage bags to sweat out the weight. Don'

Do not know if it still goes on today... .

It does not go on today. Rules were implemented years ago to address such practices.