MMA Thread

Interesting weigh in for DC. Stepped on the scale at 206.2 naked, stepped off and 2 minutes later stepped back on while pushing down on the towel and hit 205. The commission didn't catch it but reporters did. I've never seen anything like that before..

Caught what, someone taking a shit to make weight?

He was pressing down on the towel to lighten his weight. I was under the impression that wasn't allowed.

Might not be that big of a deal but I thought that was not allowed during a weigh in.

Literally could not care any less about this.

runaway slave vs the college going boy dont interest ya huh

I wanna see the fight, just don't care about towelgate

Cormier looked like shit right before weighing in on the first try. Watching him shuffle to the scale was painful

I think it's more likely he went and gagged himself or took a dump or something than is applying enough pressure on that towel to get 2 pounds off the scale.

Oh I didn't realize you guys were being completely literal when you said 2 minutes.

What are the allowances in other sports? Is it more than 1 lb.? 1.2 lbs overweight doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm under the impression he would still have had 2 hrs to cut the rest of the weight and it wouldn't have been that big of a deal. 11 lbs like Rumble weighed in over the limit a time before is definitely unacceptable and it's really hard to pinpoint a number of lbs you can be over that would really compromise the legitimacy of the fight if the overweight fighter were to win. 2 or 3 lbs maybe? Maybe give those classes a 2 or 3 lb standard deviation (that's not how math works probably) would be an idea, but folks would still try to ride out as much weight as they could. One thing we don't need is a lot of other weight classes.

I've always liked the idea of a Middle Heavyweight Division for bigger LHW and smaller HWs but I wouldn't want to see any other weight class but that one added at the moment.

Anyways, here's the clip...he did it on purpose in my opinion but like I said before 1.2 lbs doesn't seem like that much of an issue. Also, #WarRumble

calhoonjugganaut said:

Anyways, here's the clip...he did it on purpose in my opinion but like I said before 1.2 lbs doesn't seem like that much of an issue. Also, #WarRumble

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There's no if ands or buts about it lol, you can see him push the towel down lower shortly before he makes weight.