UG Project: Identify extreme weight cut incidents
If you know of injury associated with extreme weight cutting in mixed martial arts, please post it, along with relevant links, etc. They will be aggregated and shared.
There is a culture of extreme weight cutting in mixed martial arts, and it is lethal. The fight against it is being led by Andy Foster, executive director of the California State Athletic Commission, who has an unparalleled perspective on the sport, as a fighter, promoter, judge, coach, fan, and regulator.
At present mixed martial arts is intensely focused, reasonably, on PEDs. However, Foster argues rationally that extreme weight cutting is more dangerous.
Although everyone in MMA has a story about someone being hospitalized for cutting, they are not aggregated anywhere. Thus the dangers are not fully appreciated.
If you know of injury associated with cutting, please post it below, along with relevant links, etc. They will be aggregated, and shared.
Documented weight cutting incidents in MMA, include:
•In December of 2015, Yang Jian Bing was cutting weight for ONE Championship 35, and died. In response, ONE ended weight cutting in the league. They lead the industry.
•In Aug of 2015, Dex Montenegro was hospitalized with a collapsed lung.
•In July of 2014 TopMMANews reported thatJer Kornelsen‘s heart stopped. “I passed out and stopped breathing in the sauna trying to make weight,” said Kornelsen. “I guess they did CPR on me for a while and I came to in the hospital. Seriously pissed off and feel horrible. Sorry to my team, Battlefield and mostly my opponent!
•On June 16 of 2014 it was reported that Jordan Murray had to have emergency surgery on his gallbladder. “All my weight cutting has finally caught up to me I guess,” he said. “Looks like I have to remove my gallbladder after spending all day in emergency and losing alot of blood the Doctor says its 100% from cutting weight, crazy!
•In December of 2013, the the UG’s own Useless, Ulysses Gomez, was hospitalized while cutting weight and was out the Cage Warriors 62 headliner in Newcastle, England.
•Nova Uniao flyweight fighter Leandro “Feijao” Souza passed away from a stroke while cutting weight at Shooto Brazil 43 card in Rio de Janeiro in September of 2013. He was 26 years old.
•UFC welterweight Brian Melanson revealed he suffered kidney failure from cutting, and nearly died.
•Light heavyweight T.J. Cook suffered kidney failure in the ring.
•Korean Sengoku vet “Shin Ramen” Yoon Young Kim suffered a mild heart attack while cutting.
•Veteran Marcus Davis revealed that a second cut to 155 in the MFCnearly killed him.
•UFC heavyweight Daniel Cormier had to miss his shot at Olympic gold in 2008 when his kidneys failed in Beijing. It nearly killed him. Cormier was cutting weight to compete at 211 lbs, and now is the champion at 205.
