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This video from Japan should make you want to ban extreme weight cutting in MMA
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Extreme weight cutting in MMA has been increasingly under the microscope in recent months.
And if you needed any further evidence the practice needs to stop before someone gets killed, take a look at Daniel Lima merely trying to stand on the scale to make weight for his strawweight bout at Pancrase 290 in Japan.
Lima needed two people to help him to the weigh-in stage, and then it took a couple minutes before his helpers could even take their arms off him with confidence he wouldn’t collapse so he could make weight.
Lima told MMAFighting.com he cut 16 pounds in two days for his first fight outside his native Brazil and underestimated how difficult it would be.
Still, despite the scene, his team let him go on to fight the next night, and so did the promoters. Lima (12-6) lost a unanimous decision to Daichi Kitakata (17-8-1) and had a seven-fight winning streak snapped. Lima told MMAFighting.com he was “100 percent” for the fight. (Watch it in full below.)
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