Stoopid

“I am sick to death of the sloppy way weight divisions are regulated in the UFC.

Fighting in a weight class does not mean that the fighter actually weighs what he's supposed to. It means he is able to be that weight for a single moment, 24 hours before the actual fight.

These guys are all normally much, much larger. The way they do it is by a tortuous process of short term loss, most of it fluid. After making the weigh in, they usually balloon most of the way back to their actual weight.

This is extremely harmful to fighters' general health, and produces a sham equality. Why use weight at all? Why not height? Or arm length?

Or, if weight is the desired measure, why not have them actally fight at the weight they are supposed to be? There aren't all that many UFC contract fighters. They should have to check in regularly. They should fight at the weight they actually are.

No more failed weigh-ins. No more dehydration-induced organ failure.

But wait? Wouldn't that put almost everybody into the light-heavyweight and heavyweight divisions. Of course not; readjust the weights.