Michael Chandler is a veteran of the weight-cutting process, having wrestled and fought his whole life, and he’s tired of seeing his peers make a mess of it.
The two-time Bellator lightweight champion battles Goiti Yamauchi at Bellator 192 this Saturday at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif., where the California State Athletic Commission has been at the forefront of proposing weight-cutting reforms. Last May, the CSAC passed a 10-point plan intended to curb the dangerous measures that fighters will often utilize to make weight and “game the system”.
These changes, which included more extensive monitoring of a fighter’s weight before and after they compete, as well as their level of dehydration, have not been implemented in every state, and 2017 saw several high-profile fighters in jeopardy around weigh-in time.