Extreme weight-cutting is one of the biggest problems in MMA at present. Not only is it incredibly dangerous, but it also frequently derails fight cards, as fighters often miss their marks and can’t compete at their contracted weights. Former UFC welterweight and middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre thinks he knows how to fix this problem.<\/p>\n
His ideal solution? What Chael Sonnen said.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Sonnen] proposed to do a weigh-in the day of the fight,\u201d St-Pierre said during a recent press conference in Australia (transcript via MMAjunkie<\/a>). \u201cSo what he proposes, basically \u2013 we have weigh-in the night before the fight, like we normally do. But now, because the weigh-in is in the morning, people say, \u2018Oh, I have more time to recuperate,\u2019 so they try to cut more weight.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd it\u2019s sad to say, but sometimes I\u2019m thinking, \u2018Are we going to wait [for] someone [to] die out there to change things<\/a>?\u2019 I mean, it\u2019s ridiculous.\u00a0So what Chael\u2019s proposed is very smart.\u201d<\/p>\n