Fighters are getting their first taste of the new UFC reality under USADA drug testing jurisdiction as reps visited the ATT gym and clued fighters in to a new regulation, no IV rehydration.
Fans may not realize it, but one of the more common, unseen, practices in MMA is IV re-hydration. We already know that MMA weight cutting is pretty extreme, but one of the ways that fighters are able to cut such ridiculous amounts of weight the day before the bout and bounce back more or less fully refreshed is through IV use in the re-hydrating process.