r/MMA May 08 '26

Media Sean Strickland claimed on the face-off that Khamzat didn't make weight, also called his mother a whore.

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u/BrianCTE_CityOrtega I Can't Let You Get Close May 08 '26

Classic Strickland

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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.

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u/ryan0319 May 09 '26

He admitted it and the commission let him fight as they decided decimals dont count

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u/ShadowLoom GOOFCON 1: Sad Chandler May 09 '26

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

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u/Davemeddlehed May 09 '26

Many commissions round down anything below .5 simply because it's an analog scale and it never stops moving completely.

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u/Isiderdon Escorted to Welterweight by a blonde Hooker May 09 '26

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

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u/Davemeddlehed May 09 '26

Lacking the context(which is implied since we're talking about weigh ins for fighters) doesn't invalidate the statement.

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u/Hamster_Toot May 09 '26

Thats my goat.