Michael Bisping doesn’t mess about when it comes to rehydration.
After coming in bang on the middleweight championship weight limit of 185lbs at approximately 1:30 pm on Friday, ‘The Count’ refuelled up to more than 203lbs just six hours later.
Typically fighters tend to drain their bodies of all water prior to taking to the scales before they gradually return to their natural weight in the subsequent 24 hours.
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Bisping’s career began at light heavyweight, the weight class at which he won the third season of the Ultimate Fighter, before he made the decision to drop to middleweight in 2008.
And while his ability to master his weight cut is impressive on the one hand, it is also worrying as nobody would argue that depleting one’s body for days only to load it up by more than a stone in such a short period of time is a natural or healthy process.
Weight cutting is one of the more concerning elements of mixed martial arts and it was just minutes after Bisping stood on the scales that we learned that fellow Brit Ian Entwistle would not be competing at UFC 204 due to complications arising from a poor weight cut.
Many have advocated for same day weigh-ins and that could well be the next major change we see to the practices of the UFC, the most recognisable MMA organisation on the planet.
