BAD MMA - The origins of combat™ » daniel lima https://www.badmma.com The BADDEST Brand on the Planet™ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:38:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Why are we so tolerant of the absurd insanity of weight-cutting in MMA? https://www.badmma.com/why-are-we-so-tolerant-of-the-absurd-insanity-of-weight-cutting-in-mma.html https://www.badmma.com/why-are-we-so-tolerant-of-the-absurd-insanity-of-weight-cutting-in-mma.html#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:38:29 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/why-are-we-so-tolerant-of-the-absurd-insanity-of-weight-cutting-in-mma.html At this point it’s basically a part of the routine. Fight week rolls around, the photo ops come and go, then suddenly it’s Friday morning, and we all wait to see who will show up looking like a walking corpse ready to have his remains weighed on the official scale. At UFC 216, it was Kevin Lee ’s turn. After bragging about feasting on tiramisu for dessert , he needed two tries to hit the lightweight mark , looking progressively cadaverous with each attempt. If that wasn’t enough of a fighter safety risk, we learned after the fight that he also had a staph infection on his chest.

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]]> https://www.badmma.com/why-are-we-so-tolerant-of-the-absurd-insanity-of-weight-cutting-in-mma.html/feed 0 This video from Japan should make you want to ban extreme weight cutting in MMA https://www.badmma.com/this-video-from-japan-should-make-you-want-to-ban-extreme-weight-cutting-in-mma.html https://www.badmma.com/this-video-from-japan-should-make-you-want-to-ban-extreme-weight-cutting-in-mma.html#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2017 01:39:09 +0000 BAD MMA News http://www.badmma.com/this-video-from-japan-should-make-you-want-to-ban-extreme-weight-cutting-in-mma.html Filed under: Blue Corner , Featured Videos , News , Videos Extreme weight cutting in MMA has been increasingly under the microscope in recent months. And if you needed any further evidence the practice needs to stop before someone gets killed, take a look at Daniel Lima merely trying to stand on the scale to make weight for his strawweight bout at Pancrase 290 in Japan. Lima needed two people to help him to the weigh-in stage, and then it took a couple minutes before his helpers could even take their arms off him with confidence he wouldn’t collapse so he could make weight

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