In a recent interview with the Three Amigos Podcast, UFC lightweight standout, James Vick expressed his frustration over the UFC's upcoming weight cutting guidelines.
The UFC's controversial new weight cutting regulations are just a month away from being rolled out officially at UFC 200, and there are growing concerns among fighters, fans and media pundits that while they aim to solve the problems of extreme weight cuts, it might just be opening up a whole new can of issues. The new guidelines, as reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal, state the following:
"There is also a stipulation that all fighters, beginning the week of UFC 200, must be within 8 percent of their target weight when they check in for fight week, which generally occurs on a Tuesday before a Saturday fight.