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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Why are we so tolerant of the absurd insanity of weight-cutting in MMA? – MMA Junkie