In the wake of Cynthia Calvillo’s bad weight cut at UFC Argentina, some are asking why UFC doesn’t employ ONE Championship’s putative tactics to combat intentional dehydration. While ONE’s methods – moving everyone up, hydration testing – sound good in theory, they don’t release any weigh-in information to the public or press. As it stands, there is no reviewable evidence that they’ve made any progress. That isn’t to say their methods haven’t worked, but that one way or the other, no one actually knows. Ben Askren spoke highly of their methods on Joe Rogan’s podcast, which is promising, but just anecdotal evidence. Real information about the full extent of the program is simply unknown, which means claims that ‘ONE Championship solved weight cutting’ are unverified.
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2018-11-17
point deduction if weight miss is by more than 1 LB
Maybe choose a weight class close to your natural weight ?
Prove it to you? It's called logical reasoning that Ones weight cutting program would make it seem to be better than UFCs. Now it's safe to say that some fighters cut weight better than others especially in regards to women to men. Even each fight varies. HOWEVER, it's 2018!! Figure it out! At least make an attempt. Just another example of the UFC not giving a shit yet so quick to point fingers.
This comes down to the UFC, is it reasonable to conclude that UFCs weight cutting program could/should be better? YES! Don't blame the dumbass fans for using One as a comparison. It's all they got to go on.
Just make fighting the rest of your contract out for free mandatory for missing weight and nobody will cut weight again.
Is Luke still refusing to pronounce this girl's name correctly? We must revolt!
The hydration test is enough test to know whether you are hydrated or not… One test their fighter in training camps… So they do know the hydration level of the fighters… The baseline was the camp sample… UFC doesn't do that… So they don't know… One does… And the fighters medical info is private… One doesn't need or have legal right to share medical info of the fighters… So the only way to know is at the weigh ins…
Dude's quite annoying and confrontationally opinionated.
Because one gives you a hydration test before you weigh in and no one there ever misses weight
Hi Luke. After implementing the new rules in ONE, they did publish both weigh in and hydration test results on their website, for a good while before they stopped releasing this information altogether.
I don't know why they stopped , but for the events in 2016 you should be able to find all the information if your google-fu is good enough. It was released, and I remember it seemed like the new weigh in regime was going smoothly.
I have a perfect solution for weight cuts in a Chinese organization. LIE ABOUT THE WEIGHT. It worked in Quebec when GSP fought Nick Diaz.