Mackenzie Dern is one of many fighters who failed to make weight for their fight. It’s a far too common problem in professional mixed martial arts that you do not see in sports like amateur wrestling. Chael Sonnen gives his take on how to fix this issue.
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Chael “Palethera” Sonnen ?
I have a much better solution. Make fighters fight at a weight closer to their natural weight. Stop allowing people to cut 30 plus pounds to fight. Set a cutting maximum of 15 pounds.
New weight classes are needed.
Best example of missed weight, recently. Jervonte "tank" Davis
Agreed with cheal p sonnen
Spot on Chael
My thoughts on this are simple: be professional and make weight or move up. I don’t think adding weight classes helps either. Because I think you’re gonna see people to try and cut even lower and what if they miss? Then what? The only weight class that makes sense is maybe a cruiserweight at 225 or 235. That’s the only one that makes sense. We’ve seen fighters just say the cut is too much and the next weight class is more suitable, RDA was a world champion at 155, but the cut was too much and now he looks better than ever at 170, and has a chance to win his second belt at a second weight class. And even look at the knock on Khabib was that he couldn’t make weight and he should consider moving up permanently, but he was professional and fixed his diet, hired a nutritionist and made weight his last two fights I believe weighing in at 154 in one those as well. I’m with Chael on this; just disqualify them if they don’t make the weight. I wrestled for a long time and the one thing that always drove coaches crazy was a wrestler who couldn’t make weight. It wasn’t a guy getting pinned in 30 seconds or a guy getting tech fallen, but it was the guy who came in 2-5 pounds over and having to forfeit that weight class in that dual meet because he didn’t care. Be professional and make the weight or realize that you can’t make the weight and move to the next one
i say take away 70-80% of their purse. 20 or 30 is just not enough.
I thought in high school wrestling a forfeit in a dual meet was 6 points but that's not the highest u can score, I believe a pin is worth 7 team points unless each state differs
I disagree. I think anything above 2 pounds should be a FULL Purse cut. When you get nothing for putting your life on the line, that'll set you straight.