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Make weight. Keep your power.
Long-form, primary-sourced writing on making weight, fight camp, commission rules and nutrition for combat athletes.
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Weight cut & fight week
Planning the descent to a class, the fight-week protocols, and what the literature actually supports.
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Fight camp
Camp periodisation, sparring load, conditioning, sleep and recovery.
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Rules & weight classes
Division tables, commission and federation rules, weigh-in formats and missed-weight penalties.
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Supplements & nutrition
Everyday fuelling, label reading, supplement evidence and banned-substance risk.
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How much weight can you cut before a fight?
What the 2025 ISSN position stand actually says about cutting weight for MMA and boxing: the graded 72, 48 and 24-hour figures, and where they stop.
August 24, 2026 · 18 min read
Rules & weight classesMMA weight classes explained
The ABC recognises fifteen MMA divisions, Nevada schedules eleven and the UFC ranks eleven. Exact limits in lb and kg, from the August 2026 rulebook.
August 24, 2026 · 22 min read
Weight cut & fight weekWeight cutting for BJJ tournaments
IBJJF weighs you in your gi, once, minutes before your first match. What that removes from an acute cut, and what judo and wrestling do instead.
August 24, 2026 · 19 min read