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An article below from almost 3 years ago details an incident that occurred in December of 2015, which lead to the implementation of hydration testing at ONE FC.
“Earlier in December, 21-year-old Chinese prospect Yang Jian Bing passed away as he was cutting weight for ONE Championship's 35th event. Less than two weeks later, the Singapore-based promotion has decided to completely revamp their weigh-in system.
Their new systems hopes to curb dehydration and all the complications related to that process, and make fighters compete at their walking around weight. Fighters in the promotion will have daily weight checks throughout fight week, and will be tested up to three hours prior to the event.”
https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/12...ighter-one-fc-unveils-new-weigh-in-program-to
As many of you may recall, Max Holloway has some serious complications a year or so back, in which it’s believed he had “stroke like symptoms” as a result of his weight cutting leading to UFC 226.
So my question is why the hell hasn’t the UFC doing anything? What’s it going to take before they change the rules? It’s bad enough fighters can’t have IV anymore to help rehydrate, but when there’s documented, well known scenarios where fighters are putting themself in harms way, can we really justify not doing something about it? At the very least, some hydration testing?
“Earlier in December, 21-year-old Chinese prospect Yang Jian Bing passed away as he was cutting weight for ONE Championship's 35th event. Less than two weeks later, the Singapore-based promotion has decided to completely revamp their weigh-in system.
Their new systems hopes to curb dehydration and all the complications related to that process, and make fighters compete at their walking around weight. Fighters in the promotion will have daily weight checks throughout fight week, and will be tested up to three hours prior to the event.”
https://www.bloodyelbow.com/2015/12...ighter-one-fc-unveils-new-weigh-in-program-to
As many of you may recall, Max Holloway has some serious complications a year or so back, in which it’s believed he had “stroke like symptoms” as a result of his weight cutting leading to UFC 226.
So my question is why the hell hasn’t the UFC doing anything? What’s it going to take before they change the rules? It’s bad enough fighters can’t have IV anymore to help rehydrate, but when there’s documented, well known scenarios where fighters are putting themself in harms way, can we really justify not doing something about it? At the very least, some hydration testing?
