Cutting Weight

“Weight cutting” is the practice of reducing your weight prior to fight weigh-ins, with the goal of gaining it back before the fight.
This is accomplished through dieting and severe dehydration.

CALL TO ACTION

You thought the fight was the hardest part of fight week?

As it stands right now, weight cutting is a mainstay in mixed martial arts. Most of us wish it wasn’t. In a perfect MMA world, everyone would fight in their natural weight class. Thanks to people that don’t, everyone else needs to cut weight to stay competitive. It’s important to understand how to conduct this unhealthy process in the healthiest way possible. There is a lot of bullshit floating around the internet about this process, so we’re going to get to the bottom of it.