It was a little more than two years ago now that the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) called a stakeholder meeting regarding the problem of extreme weight cutting and severe dehydration in the sport of MMA.
At that summit, which included doctors, regulators, promotion officials and some fighters, the first proposition of an earlier weigh-in was broached. The idea to give fighters more time to rehydrate in between the weigh-in and the fight was meant then to be a trial — will this make for fewer fighters walking into the cage still dehydrated?
For the most part, that aspect of the morning weigh-in, which has been used almost across the board since June 2016, has been a success.