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Across the sport of MMA, fighters have long recognized that changing weight classes can give a struggling fighter a new lease on life. Fans don’t remember as well losses that came against fighters no longer in the same pool. Some buy into the notion that the fighter is now a better version of himself or herself thanks to having added muscle mass relative to opponents or no longer having to deal with as taxing of a weight cut.