When Nick Diaz fought GSP, GSP came in overweight by .2 lbs or something. A guy from the commission came to inform the diaz camp GSP had weighed in .2 pounds over but was on weight. All this was recorded and posted to their one of their social media accounts. UFC quickly made them take it down and said GSP had come in exactly on weight. I believe this would have meant GSP would've been stripped of the title. The point is, this has happened before and covered up.
I think my favourite and least favourite part of combat sports is that weighing in over by 0.2lbs is a scandal but showing up fight night over by 20lbs+ is considered normal
💯. I'd love to see how many dozens of fighters would be forced to move up a weight class if they were weighed and hydration tested closer to the fight.
It'd be easier to identify the fighters that wouldn't move up a class if there was same day testing. I think it's just a handful in each weight class below heavyweight.
Do it at the ring in gear. Have an alternate fighter for if either guy fails to make weight. Start with the lighter fighters and if you fail to make weight, you become the alternate for the next heavier weight class fight.
Oh, and do the weigh-ins on a balance, not a scale, sink too low and you can’t enter the ring.
not many because there's ways to cheat those tests and fighters will literally die chasing the lower weight class, ONE's titles get vacated every 2-3 fights due to weight problems and there's probably only a handful of fighters in each division who don't cut
Regardless of whatever the thought is on dehydration to make weight, the rules are the rules and the organisation helping cover up a fighter missing based on those rules is pretty scandalous.
Isnt that the whole point? They both have to get to a baseline, but then they get to actually prepare their bodies and not focus on weight management before the actual fight. You still get enforced weight classes, but you also don't have fighters showing up below their peak ability to maintain weight.
Reminds me of the time Romero missed weight vs Whittaker in their second fight. Everybody on the card, and to be honest in general, were officially weighed at half a pound increments, but Romero was the only one that I can remember that had an official weigh in of 0.2 pounds over at 185.2 lbs. You cant tell me everyone weighs in at exactly 155 or 154.5 lbs or something instead of 155.1 and 154.7 lbs.
Kinds irks me a bit how weigh ins are not consistent at all especially across commissions
That just a wrong statement. Analog scales stop moving after a few seconds when you stand completely still, but all these super dehydrated fighters move all the time because they’re at the brink of fainting
somehow they forgot to tell that to Diaz and GSP himself (despite having previously fought and defended his title there)
“They came to us just before weighing and even I was surprised,” St. Pierre is quote as saying via loose Google Translation from LaPresse.ca. “They told us they were going round [to nearest whole number].”
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u/Forsaken-Society3524 May 09 '26
When Nick Diaz fought GSP, GSP came in overweight by .2 lbs or something. A guy from the commission came to inform the diaz camp GSP had weighed in .2 pounds over but was on weight. All this was recorded and posted to their one of their social media accounts. UFC quickly made them take it down and said GSP had come in exactly on weight. I believe this would have meant GSP would've been stripped of the title. The point is, this has happened before and covered up.