Top 5 Scariest Weight Cuts In The UFC

Scariest weight cuts in the UFC. Photo via X (@RosssEdmonds)

By carefully adjusting their weight during fight camp, MMA fighters reach a point where this fluid loss will (hopefully) get them at the weight grade they intend to fight in.

The athletes lose weight by evacuating as much water from their body as possible, to get as big of a weight advantage on fight day.

However, more often than not the fighters struggle to make weight, and sometimes even get in serious condition before fight day.

Click ”Next” to check out some of the scariest weight cuts in the UFC!

T.J Dillsahaw makes 125 lbs

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When former bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw agreed to challenge Henry Cejudo for the 125-pound title, he reportedly weighed 154 pounds with 8 percent body fat.

Cutting 29 pounds in 12 weeks for his flyweight title fight was too much for the former champ. Not only did he lose the fight just 32 seconds into the first round, he was also testing positive for recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) and was suspended for two years by USADA.

Anthony Johnson makes 170 lbs

Anthony Johnson. Photo via Instagram

How light heavyweight contender Anthony ”Rumble” Johnson was able to spend a good portion of his career at welterweight is a mystery when you know how intimidating he was at 205.

In the photo above he reportedly weighed 285 lbs.

Max Holloway’s failed weight cut

Featherweight champion Max Holloway was forced to pull out of his UFC 226 fight against Brian Ortega, three days before the event, due to a unhealthy weight cut.

Just hours before the official announcement, a slurring Holloway took part in a scary interview with UFC Tonight, where he showed concussion-like symptoms.

Josh Emmett’s draining weight cut

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Josh Emmett’s weight cut ahead of his interim title fight against Yair Rodriguez was as draining as they come.

If the tough weight cut in fact affected the fight his performance is more than we can now, however, it was for sure a tough one.

Cris Cyborg’s dramatic weight cut

Cris Cyborg. Photo via YouTube

Cris Cyborg’s infamous struggle making 140 pounds for one of her early bouts in the UFC is one of the absolute scariest weight cuts in UFC history.

Check it out below!

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