I’m old enough to remember when early weigh-ins were a great idea. This was way back when, all the way in the distant past known as the year 2016. “It’s 100 percent for the health and safety of the athletes,” UFC Vice President of Athlete Health and Performance Jeff Novitzky said prior to UFC 199 . Back then, Novitzky stressed the benefits of the added rehydration time between weigh-ins and fight night. Without that, he said , “(y)ou could be talking about some real brutal, serious safety issues – (death) being one of them.” That was then. Two years and nearly twice as many weigh-in misses later, the UFC seems to be changing its tune.
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Would a change in weigh-in times address the symptom or the disease? – MMA Junkie