Weight cutting is one of the long terms problems of MMA that the sport has been searching for a way to tackle. Now the California Athletic Commission is actually taking steps.
Weight cutting has been one of those problems in MMA that the sport just can't seem to tackle. Everyone knows it's a problem, that it's become something of an out of control arms race with fighters that would have easily been light heavyweights 10 years ago now fighting at middleweight, and on down the chain. Fighters have figured out how to cut more weight regularly and in doing so, divisions have become remarkably over-sized and extreme cuts have become something of the norm.