Oliveria misses weight; stripped of title

[BigJay]

https://www.espn.com/mma/story/_/id...-lightweight-belt-failing-make-weight-ufc-274

Saw the odds dropped. Angle here?

I know in boxing sometimes a fighter who misses weight in a big fight can be sluggish the next day because of all they go through to make weight

I don’t know enough about UFC to know if there’s an angle b/c of this

 

[Bubbles]

so even if he wins tomorrow he will still not get the title?

 

[Wagerallsports]

1/2 pound overweight

Kinda ridiculous

Have fighters ever argued the scale is off and insist they have a backup?

 

[BigJay]

I’ve been to title fights for lesser titles, NABF, in boxing (was good friends with a flyweight who held the title for a couple of years) you’d be amazed what they do on day of weigh in to try to make weight.

Bundle up in a ton of clothes and plastic and then go into a sauna. Then go jog.

I’ve seen guys look like they’re literally about to die.

it costs them purse money as well as title if they hold it, which costs everyone on the payroll money. I think that’s why they get forced into doing it.

Then they go rehydrate the next 24 hours and gain an amazing amount of weight. I think they regulate the amount of weight they can gain now. A welterweight could weigh as much as 170 or more on fight night back in the day in boxing. Pretty crazy

 

[Wagerallsports]

Crazy work involved Jay

 

[BigJay]

Crazy work involved Jay

Yeah. It’s in that hour they give you from the first weigh-in to make weight that I saw and heard about some crazy stuff.

 

[BigJay]

Oliveria’s odds dropped from -170 to -135 in just over 12 hours since missing weight by a half-pound