I am not at all interested in worrying about the larger weight classes. What I don’t like seeing is two guys who are obviously not the same size, but fighting in the same weight class. The example that I am watching at the moment is Silva vs Nedkov at the fight in Macao, China. Silva looks way, way bigger. S what gives?

Weigh-ins appear to be days before the fight. That gives unreasonable time to rehydrate. I wrestled in high school (admittedly not at a high, high level, but it was a sport where size got negated to at least some degree). I cut eight my senior year, and it, we’ll, sucked. But I was the wight that I wrestled at, day in, day out. I weighed in the morning of the fight and always made it, even if I was drawn and dehydrated. That was as an amateur. These pros add probably 15 pounds between weigh-in and fight night.

To me, that is totally against the point of even having wight classes.

I love seeing the mix of the mixed martial arts play out, but the balance of the mix doesn’t work if the balance of the scale doesn’t work.

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