It was early July. A UFC pay-per-view main event had just been dashed at the 11th hour due to, in part, issues relating to weight cutting.
I asked UFC president Dana White at the UFC 213 post-fight press conference what could be done about this ever-present issue in mixed martial arts.
“Weight cutting has always been a problem and it always will be,” White said.
White is right in one sense and off base in another. Weight cutting will likely always exist to some extent in MMA. But it doesn’t have to continue being a huge problem — and that’s exactly what it has become.