The UFC has also instituted guidelines for fighters to arrive at the beginning of fight week no more than 8% over their fight’s weight limit. This is like a trial run to see how this works.” UFC President Dana White said at Thursday’s news conference, “We’re 100% supportive of it. “Guys should be fighting at a higher weight,” said Santiago, who said he’s routinely cut 40 pounds for fights. ![]() Karl Santiago, a smaller-league Smash Global MMA fighter, told of cutting from 210 pounds to 170 before his San Diego fight was scrapped and he was hospitalized for two days in November with acute kidney damage. They don’t respond well to questions, they’re very drawn out. ![]() “This has been an MMA epidemic,” Foster said, pointing to the culture of fighters drastically cutting weight. “You get all of those extra hours to rehydrate now … the better your body will be on fight night.”įoster, a former MMA fighter, has witnessed a variety of troubling fighter episodes in his three years on the job. “You better believe I’ll be there at 10, and I guarantee you every single person will be there in line at 10 a.m.” said UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz, who’ll defend his belt against er rival Urijah Faber at the Forum. to make the early weigh-in the new standard. of Boxing Commissions throughout the U.S. ![]() Anti-Doping Agency, which oversees UFC’s drug-testing program, banned the use of IV rehydration in October.įoster expects, along with the UFC, to press the Assn. The UFC was moving toward something similar after the U.S. That month Chinese mixed martial arts flyweight Yang Jian Bing died as a result of cardiopulmonary failure connected to a weight reduction before his ONE Championship bout in the Philippines. Foster sought to do something different after hosting a weight-cutting summit in December.
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