Gallery Maycee Barber def. Hannah Cifers at UFC Fight Night 139: Best photos view 6 images Maycee Barber is perhaps the biggest female prospect in MMA today. Dominant performances through her young career have turned heads, and now it has come to light that she put on those performance in a less than optimal state. Barber (6-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) is one of many fighters who has operated off the smallest of margins when it comes to diet and weight cutting. It caught up to her finally, though, and that’s why Barber decided to make the decision to move up to the women’s flyweight division from strawweight, where she won her UFC debut in November. The incredible restrictive diet Barber needed to follow in order to make 115 pounds was becoming detrimental to her long-term health, she said, but with the assistance of the UFC Performance Institute, some essentially changes have been made in advance of Barber’s next bout against J.J.
See the original post:
Undefeated Maycee Barber explains move to flyweight for UFC Nashville – MMA Junkie