tfan
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 Posted: 11/28/20 7:24 am ::: |
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“You might be able to run around for a round, you’re pretty quick.” But people that fight at 145 walk around at, like, 165. Problematically, I would really need to step it up in terms of the LBs that I put on.
They’re like, “If you’re 145 right now, you’re probably fighting 125.” I can’t imagine trying to lose 20 pounds. |
There is talk on MMA message boards about how much some fighter "walks around at", or what they weigh at fight time, versus what they weigh at the weigh-in the day (now done in the morning) before. They were claiming that even the female fighters would weigh in 20+ pounds less than what they would fight at (weight classes are 105, 115, 125, 135, 145 for women). None of it was verifiable until someone was doing a study on the impact the "weight cut" fighters do had on their health and well-being. There was a female fighter who weighed in at 124 the day before her fight and she was weighed before she got in the ring at 144. Some of that is from pre-weigh-in starvation, but most of it is water loss. One fighter posted a video on her instagram and it showed her alternately sitting in a tub, and then getting into a bed with a lot of blankets as she was dehydrating herself.
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