Mike de la Torre had no idea how to cut weight when he first entered the UFC. He didn't know what to eat. He didn't know how to water load. De la Torre was an admitted novice at all of those things.
The bantamweight entered the UFC as a prospect, but almost relied solely on his natural abilities. Not anymore.
Picking the brain of pros like Benson Henderson at the MMA Lab in Arizona, de la Torre has cleaned up his lifestyle and making 135 pounds was easy in his last fight. The result bore that out: a first-round knockout of Tiago Trator in February.