UFC fighters can regain huge amounts of weight between the weigh-in and fight night  but gaining the weight back doesn’t necessarily mean their bodies have recovered.

we break down why UFC fighters put themselves through extreme weight cuts, why the system encourages almost everyone to participate, what happens to the body during the recovery period, and why fixing weight cutting is much harder than simply banning it.


Timestamps:
0:00 When a weight cut goes wrong
1:05 What a UFC weight cut actually is
2:00 Why every fighter keeps doing it
3:07 Regaining weight ≠ recovering
4:20 Why the UFC can’t simply stop weight cutting
5:45 What would actually need to change
7:25 The real problem with weight cutting