Daniel Cormier historically has a difficult weight cut, and having to step onto the scale in the morning hasn’t exactly helped.
The UFC light heavyweight champion said on the Outside the Cage podcast that the early weigh-ins, which were introduced to the UFC in June 2016, force fighters to go to sleep the night before almost entirely dehydrated.
“The morning weigh-ins does make it a little bit tougher,” said Cormier, who faces Volkan Oezdemir in the UFC 220 co-main event on Saturday night in Boston. “When I was making weight at four in the afternoon, it was real easy, because you could sleep all morning, get up at 11, go lose your weight like a normal workout, then go weigh-in in the afternoon.