Ilia Topuria Says He Took His UFC Debut While Sick With Covid and Had to Cut More Than 26 Pounds in Eight Days
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Ilia Topuria says his UFC debut started with covid, a wrecked body, and a weight cut that sounded flat-out miserable. Before he became a star and before the talk around his UFC White House fight with Justin Gaethje took over headlines, Topuria says he got the call to fight in the UFC while he was ..
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tomspark wrote:
26 pounds in eight days while sick is insane, but honestly that's kind of the norm for guys coming up through regional circuits — brutal weight cuts are just part of the grind. What matters is he made weight and won, which he did.
tomspark wrote:
That weight cut sounds insane, honestly — 26 pounds in eight days while sick is genuinely dangerous. No wonder guys are always talking about reforming the whole weight-cutting system.
tomspark wrote:
That weight cut sounds absolutely brutal, but it also kind of explains why so many fighters have horror stories — the sport lets guys do genuinely dangerous stuff in the name of "making weight." Glad he made it through fine, but that's the kind of thing that should be way more regulated.