How an MMA weigh-in works

The claim under test

The claim is that the Unified Rules of MMA prescribe a weigh-in twenty-four hours before the fight. It is repeated on fan sites, in broadcast commentary, in coaching courses, and in a great many articles that look exactly like this one.

It is wrong, and it is worth being precise about how it is wrong, because the failure is not a rounding error. The Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, as approved in April 2001 and amended repeatedly since — most recently on 6 August 2025, with non-substantial changes — is a nine-page document. Its weight material consists of a table of fifteen classes running from atomweight at 105 lb to super heavyweight over 265 lb, and three allowance clauses. Those clauses are worth quoting because they are the only substantive weight numbers the model rules supply:

"a. Allowances within Division: there are no allowance restrictions if both combatants weigh-in within the same contracted division. b. Weight Miss Catch Weight: If a person misses the contracted weight and the two competitors are in different weight classes, the heavier opponent shall not exceed five (5) lbs. of the lower weighing fighter. c. Contracted Catch Weight(s): there is no weight spread allowance between contracted catch weight fighters, so long as both competitors are below the contracted weight."

That is it. No clock. No scale specification. No second attempt. No hydration test. The ABC's companion MMA Officials Handbook adds nothing either — a search of its full text for "weigh-in", "hydration", "dehydration" and "ceremonial" returns a single hit, and it is that same allowance clause reproduced. The ABC's own documents index lists a ringside handbook, a referee manual, medical-examination procedures, bout contracts and judging criteria, and no document on weight management, weigh-in timing or hydration at all.

An absence is only as good as the search that established it, so: the nine-page PDF was downloaded from abcboxing.com, extracted to about 32,500 characters of plain text, and searched in full. That is the method, and it is repeatable by anyone with the same file.

The Unified Rules also anticipate exactly this problem in a note of their own:

"Note: These are the Official Unified Rules of MMA. Any other form of these rules may not be called the 'Unified Rules of MMA' and shall be referred to by the name of the commission sanctioning the/an event."

The ABC is telling you, in its own document, that a commission's variant is not the Unified Rules. Which is the whole subject of this article.

Where the 24-hour rule actually lives

The 24-hour weigh-in is not invented. It exists, in an ABC document, in almost exactly the form people quote. It is simply in the wrong document, about the wrong sport, and it is twenty-one years old.

The ABC publishes a second text called the Regulatory Guidelines and Rules for All World and Regional Championship Bouts. Its scope sentence, verbatim from the page body:

"The following regulatory guidelines and rules govern all championship professional boxing competitions held within the United States of America, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, District of Columbia, and any Indian reservation."

Championship professional boxing. Every operative sentence in its weigh-in section says "boxer". A regex for "mixed martial" or "MMA" across the body returns two hits and both are false positives — the letters sitting inside "Muhammad", in the two references to the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act. The document does not mention mixed martial arts once.

And here is what it contains:

"Boxers shall be weighed within twenty-four hours prior to the scheduled event, at a time and place chosen by the promoter and approved by the supervising Commission."

"Boxers who weigh-in twelve to twenty-four hours prior to the scheduled event shall be required to re-weigh two hours prior to the scheduled event start time and will not be allowed to exceed the weight specified in the boxer/promoter contract by more than ten pounds."

"When weigh-ins occur less than twelve hours prior to an event's scheduled start time, the boxer shall not exceed the weight specified in the boxer/promoter contract. For safety purposes, no boxer shall be permitted to lose MORE THAN two pounds within twelve hours of a contest."

There is the 24-hour rule. There is the mandatory two-hour re-weigh with the ten-pound gain cap. Both of them, in an ABC document — and neither of them applicable to mixed martial arts by the document's own terms.

The guidelines go further than the MMA rules in another way that shows how different the two regimes are. Where the Unified Rules say nothing at all about a fighter over contract weight beyond the five-pound catchweight ceiling, the boxing guidelines set a cancellation default and three named cures: the supervising commission "shall cancel the contest" unless the boxer loses the excess at least twelve hours before the start, or loses all but two pounds twelve hours out and the final two pounds six hours out, or renegotiates the contract. That is a complete procedural regime. The MMA model rules have no equivalent.

The page carrying all of this opens with a date. The first paragraph of the document body, before the heading, reads Modified July 27, 2005. So the figure people quote as the MMA standard was written for championship boxing more than two decades ago, and it sits on the same website as an MMA rulebook amended in August 2025 that sets no weigh-in time at all.

That is the provenance, and it is the most useful thing in this article. If you have been told the Unified Rules require a 24-hour weigh-in, you were told something that is true of a 2005 boxing document and false of the 2025 MMA one.

What an official weigh-in actually is

Strip away the timing and the commissions converge on a short list of elements. An official weigh-in is a supervised measurement, on an approved scale, witnessed by named parties, producing one number of record per fighter per card. The details differ; the shape does not.

A commission representative present. Nevada requires the combatant be weighed in the presence of "a representative of the Commission and a representative of the promoter". Ohio requires the weigh-in be "conducted by an inspector or a representative of the Ohio athletic commission". New Jersey requires weights be "determined by a representative of the Commissioner with the matchmaker concerned present".

An approved, verified scale. Nevada requires the scales be examined and approved by the Chief Inspector, and requires the promoter to have them calibrated in advance by an approved calibrator and to produce proof of calibration before the weigh-in starts. Ohio supplies the scale itself unless the executive director authorises the promoter to, and adds a clause that matters more than it looks: if more than one scale is used, each contestant must weigh on the same scale as their opponent. New York gives combatants access to the official scale for at least an hour beforehand, and specifies that on the scale a combatant "shall stand still with his or her feet flat upon the scale and shall not make physical contact with any person or object other than the scale."

Stripped weights. Nevada: "The unarmed combatant must have all weights stripped from his or her body before weighing in, but may wear shorts and, if the unarmed combatant is female, a top." California: "All weights shall be taken with the contestants stripped." Florida's amateur rule: "stripped of clothing and other weight bearing objects." Ohio is the outlier in the other direction, limiting contestants to "shorts, shirt and socks" with super heavyweights excepted. What a fighter may wear on the scale is therefore a jurisdictional question too, not a sport-wide one.

A medical checkpoint attached, in some jurisdictions. Nevada's NAC 467.528 is blunt: "A physician designated by the Commission shall give each unarmed combatant a thorough physical examination at the time of his or her weighing in before a contest or exhibition." California's § 300 puts a thorough physical and eye examination at least one hour before the contestant enters the ring, and adds that commission physicians "shall test for signs of dehydration." Nothing of this kind attaches to a ceremonial appearance.

One number of record. Alabama states it directly: "Each card shall have one official weigh-in. A promoter may request additional official weigh-ins for one card. The Chief Inspector alone shall determine if an additional weigh-in may be held."

When: seven jurisdictions, seven answers

This is the section that does not compress. The whole point is that there is no single answer, so here are the answers, each with its citation and its status.

Nevada — no hour at all. NAC 467.514, last amended 30 January 2019, is the procedure for weigh-ins, and subsection 1 reads:

"Each unarmed combatant must be weighed in the presence of the public, his or her opponent, a representative of the Commission and a representative of the promoter, at a time and place designated by the Executive Director. The promoter shall arrange for reasonable space for interested members of the public to attend the weigh-in."

"At a time and place designated by the Executive Director." That is the entire timing rule in the state most associated with the day-before weigh-in. The famous format is administrative practice, not regulation. Subsection 7 adds a discretionary power — "The Commission may require unarmed combatants to be weighed more than once for any cause deemed sufficient by the Commission" — which is a power, not a mandate. And a case-insensitive search of the whole of NAC chapter 467 for hydrat, gravity and dehydr returns zero hits: Nevada has no hydration-testing regulation.

California — thirty hours. 4 CCR § 297, with amendments effective 12 July 2017 (Register 2017 No. 28):

"Contestants shall be weighed within 30 hours of the scheduled match, at a time and place designated by the commission, in the presence of a commission representative on scales approved by the commission."

Thirty, not twenty-four. This section sits in the boxing rules, and it reaches MMA through a piece of regulatory architecture worth understanding. California's martial-arts chapter, § 502, says that unless otherwise specified, all professional boxing rules apply to martial arts contests except a listed set of sections. Section 297 is not on the exclusion list. Neither is § 299 nor § 300. Section 298 — boxing weight classes — is excluded, because MMA has its own class table. So in California the thirty-hour window, the rehydration rule and the physician's dehydration check all reach MMA by operation of an exclusion list that leaves them in.

Section 299 is the rehydration rule, and it is one of only two hydration provisions found in any of these texts:

"(a) Contestants shall only rehydrate orally. Use of intravenous therapies to rehydrate shall prohibit the athlete from competing. (b) Contestants may be required to submit a urine specimen for a urine specific gravity test prior to competition to verify proper hydration."

Note "may be required". It is a power, not a standing test. Hydration testing in combat sports is its own subject, covered in hydration testing at weigh-ins.

Texas — a window that legally reaches fight day. 16 TAC § 61.105, adopted 1 October 2000 and last amended 15 October 2010, sets the weigh-in at a specific time set by the promoter and approved by the department, "generally between the hours of 2 p.m. of the day before the contest and 12 noon the day of the contest." Contestants failing to meet contract weight "shall have two hours to meet the allowances and be reweighed". Allowances graduate from three pounds at 112 lb and under to no limit at 201 lb and over. And Texas disqualifies where body weight exceeds the contracted weight by five percent or more, or on "evidence of dehydration, diuretics, or other dangerous weight-cutting methods" — a provision that appears neither in the Unified Rules nor in Nevada's chapter.

Florida — two rules, two answers, and one repealed trap. Professional MMA weigh-ins fall under rule 61K1-3.0165, new and effective 5 August 2015:

"(1) If, at the time of the official weigh-in, the weight of any participant in a match fails to meet the weight parameters of the rules set forth herein, the participant shall have 1 additional hour to meet such weight parameters. (2) A participant is not permitted to lose more than 3 percent of the initial body weight as recorded by the commission during the one additional hour."

One hour, capped as a percentage. The rule states no hour and no day for the weigh-in itself. It also requires each participant to produce an ABC federal identification card at the weigh-in, and bars participation without one.

Amateur MMA is a different chapter entirely. Rule 61K1-4.024, effective 14 March 2013, requires that "Amateurs shall be weighed within 28 hours of the scheduled match, at a time and place designated by the amateur sanctioning organization". Twenty-eight hours — not twenty-four, not thirty — and designated by the sanctioning organisation rather than the commission.

And a repealed rule to avoid: 61K1-1.004, "Weight Classes; Weigh-In; Pre-Match Physical", was repealed on 3 January 2017. It is still cited in older write-ups. Repealed is not amended and not in force; it is gone.

New Jersey — what the text says, and the caveat that must travel with it. N.J.A.C. 13:46-24B.5 is one sentence: "Weighing of all mixed martial artists shall be conducted in accordance with the requirements for professional boxers of N.J.A.C. 13:46-1A.3." That incorporated boxing rule says:

"(a) Weighing of all boxers for all shows must take place not later than one o'clock on the day of the show in which said boxers are to take part."

"(f) No boxer shall be permitted to lose more than one percent of his body weight on the day of the boxing contest in an attempt to make the weight required by his boxing contract and by N.J.A.C. 13:46-1A.3."

On its face, that is a fight-day weigh-in with a one-percent loss cap — and note the condition in (f), which is routinely dropped when this rule is quoted: the cap is on weight lost in an attempt to make contract weight, not on any weight a boxer happens to lose that day. The caveat is substantial and belongs in the same breath: the rule text carries no amendment later than 1984, it predates MMA regulation entirely, and it reaches MMA only through a cross-reference written decades afterwards. New Jersey in practice hosts day-before MMA weigh-ins. No primary document was located showing how the State Athletic Control Board reconciles the day-of text with day-before practice — a waiver, a bulletin, a later amendment or commission discretion. So the honest statement is: this is what the regulation says, and it is not a description of what happens at a New Jersey event.

Ohio — the most recent rule, and the most detailed. OAC 3773-7-03, "Weigh in procedures", is in force with an effective date of 1 March 2026, sits in chapter 3773-7 (Mixed Martial Arts) rather than being borrowed from boxing, and is authorised by R.C. 3774.34. Prior effective dates printed on the rule page run back to 2006. Subsection (A) sets the weigh-in "at a place and time designated by the promoter" — again, no hour in the rule. Subsection (F) requires amateur contestants not to weigh in earlier than ten in the morning on the day of the event. Subsection (G) is unusual:

"A contestant one hundred fifty-five pounds and lower may not lose more than two pounds within one hour. A contestant above one hundred fifty-five pounds may not lose more than three pounds within one hour. There are no restrictions to the number of times a contestant may attempt to re-weigh within the prescribed time period."

Unlimited re-weigh attempts inside the window, where Nevada, Florida and New York each structure the second attempt differently. Subsection (D) sets allowances between classes at three pounds from straw to bantam, five from light to welter, and seven from middle to heavy.

New York — timing by designation, second attempt by bout type. NYSAC Commission Bulletin 2014-2, issued 27 May 2014 and amended 21 July 2014 and 13 April 2017, is commission policy rather than codified regulation, and should be labelled as such. It states that "The Commission will designate the location of all official weigh-ins" and sets no hour. Its distinctive provision is the second attempt:

"In a non-title bout, a combatant will have one opportunity to make weight at the official weigh-in, except that a combatant who is over the contract weight may remove undergarments and accessories and step on the scale a second time immediately after the combatant's first time on the scale."

"In a title bout, if a combatant is not at or below the contracted weight when he or she gets on the scale at the official weigh-in, the combatant may be granted up to two hours from the time he or she takes the scale, to attempt to make the contracted weight."

Two hours if there is a belt on the line. In a non-title bout, nothing but stripping and stepping straight back on. New York is the only jurisdiction checked where the answer to "how long do I get?" depends on what the fight is for.

Alabama — a floor and a ceiling. Rule 165-X-3-.08(4)(a), in the Alabama Athletic Commission's amateur MMA chapter: "The official weigh-in shall not take place less than six (6) hours nor more than thirty-six (36) hours prior to the contest or exhibition." No other jurisdiction checked sets both bounds. Alabama also requires the time and location be submitted to the Commission at least seven days before for approval, and permits early weigh-ins up to the thirty-six-hour mark, which when used become the official weigh-in.

The second attempt, compared

Four different structures, four different ceilings, one shared premise that a fighter over weight gets some further chance. Nowhere does that chance come from the Unified Rules.

Nevada also supplies the forfeiture that makes the official weigh-in the one with teeth: a combatant who fails to make the agreed weight forfeits twenty-five percent of their purse unless a lesser amount is set, paid to the opponent — but no forfeit may be imposed if, during the hour following the weigh-in, they make the weight or come within one pound. What each of these triggers is the subject of its own article; the point here is that the clock you get is a property of the state on the licence, not of the sport.

Second-day and same-day weigh-ins

The second-day weigh-in is often described as something boxing does and MMA does not. Two of the jurisdictions checked have one in regulation, and they work differently.

Alabama mandates one. Rule 165-X-3-.08(4)(e)3: "A secondary weigh-in shall occur on the day of the event to ensure competitors have not gained more than ten percent (10%) of their body weight back in the time between the official weigh-in and the event." The enforcement is unusual — competitors over the ten percent "may still be allowed to compete but may be required to move up in weight classes for future matches, bouts, or exhibitions." It is a forward-looking classification remedy, not a cancellation.

Ohio permits one, at discretion. Subsection (E) of the 2026 rule applies where the first weigh-in was the day prior, exempts heavyweight and super heavyweight, and schedules the check within eight hours of the event's starting time. The caps are on gain, not on contract weight: contestants at 155 lb and under may not exceed the previous weigh-in by more than ten pounds, and those above 155 lb by more than thirteen. The closing sentence governs: "The random second day weigh-in will be at the discretion of the executive director." The verb in the main clause is "may be required", so this is a power the commission holds, not a fixture on the calendar.

Nevada, New York and professional Florida have no second-day provision at all. California's § 297 does not have one either; its second check is medical rather than a scale, under § 300, where physicians "shall test for signs of dehydration."

The same-day weigh-in, meanwhile, is not exotic. It is written into law in at least three of these texts: Texas's window legally permits a weigh-in as late as noon on fight day, New Jersey's rule on its face requires one by one o'clock on the day of the show, and Ohio requires amateurs to weigh in no earlier than ten in the morning on the day of the event.

Who is in the room

Here is where the "the private one is the real one" shorthand falls apart, and it falls apart in an instructive way.

Alabama closes its official weigh-in. Rule 165-X-3-.08(4)(b): "Attendance to official weigh-ins is strictly limited to promotional staff, participants, coaches, licensed organization representative, and Commission officials." A closed room with a named list.

Nevada does the opposite, and it is not a permission but an obligation. NAC 467.514(1) requires the combatant be weighed "in the presence of the public", and requires the promoter to "arrange for reasonable space for interested members of the public to attend the weigh-in". Subsection 5 does the same for press: the promoter "shall arrange for adequate space for all interested members of the media to attend the weigh-in." In Nevada the official weigh-in is legally a public event, and the promoter is on the hook for making it one.

New Jersey sits in between: "Members of the press, in addition to the responsible handlers of the boxers, shall be permitted to attend the weighing of principals", and "Opponents should be weighed in the presence of each other."

So the arrangement people describe — a private morning weigh-in with a commission official and a public afternoon show — is Alabama's arrangement, not a rule of the sport. In Nevada the official weigh-in is open by law and the ceremonial one is open by choice, and both happen.

The ceremonial weigh-in, in a regulator's own words

Almost everything written about the ceremonial weigh-in is fan-site material. There is one regulation that names it, and what it says is short enough to quote whole.

Alabama Administrative Code rule 165-X-3-.08(4)(c), in the Alabama Athletic Commission's amateur mixed martial arts chapter:

"Ceremonial weigh-ins may be conducted in such a manner and at such place as agreed to by all parties involved in the promotion or match, contest, or exhibition."

That is the whole of it. No time. No scale. No official. No consequence. And it sits directly between two clauses that do all of those things for the official weigh-in: a six-to-thirty-six-hour window, a promoter-set time submitted to the Commission seven days in advance for approval, a strictly limited attendance list, and, at (d), the sentence that settles the question people are really asking — "Each card shall have one official weigh-in."

One. Whatever a scale shows on a stage with a backdrop behind it is not that one, and only the Chief Inspector may authorise an additional official weigh-in.

The rule does not say when the ceremonial event happens relative to the official one, because it does not care. The observed pattern — the official weigh-in in the morning, the ceremonial one in the afternoon in front of a crowd — is promotional practice, and no regulation checked here sets a ceremonial time. Anyone who tells you the ceremonial weigh-in "is held the afternoon before" is describing a habit, not a rule.

And in every other text fetched for this article — Nevada, California, Texas, Florida, Ohio, New Jersey and the New York bulletin — the phrase does not appear at all. That silence is the finding. For almost every regulator here the ceremonial weigh-in is not a regulated event, so there is nothing for them to write down about it. It is a promotional appearance: a photograph, a face-off, a crowd, and a number that has no standing.

The practical consequence for a competitor is narrow and worth stating plainly. The official weigh-in is where the number of record is set, where the commission's representative signs off, where the scale has been calibrated, and in Nevada and California where the physician examines you. The ceremonial one is an obligation under your promotional agreement, not under the regulations.

What this changes for a fighter and a coach

The operational conclusion is unglamorous: you cannot plan a fight week from a general rule, because there is no general rule. The questions that have to be answered per event, from the licensing commission's own documents and the bout agreement, are these.

Which commission licensed the card, and what does its weigh-in rule say? Not what the Unified Rules say — they say nothing — and not what the last card you fought on did.

Is there an hour in the rule, or only a designation power? In Nevada, New York, Ohio and professional Florida the rule sets no hour, which means the answer comes from the commission's designation for that specific event rather than from the regulation.

How long is the second attempt, and what caps it? One hour in Nevada and Florida, two in Texas, two in a New York title bout and effectively none in a New York non-title bout, unlimited attempts inside one hour in Ohio. The ceiling is an absolute in Nevada and Ohio and a percentage in Florida.

Is there a second-day check? Mandatory in Alabama's amateur chapter, discretionary and random in Ohio, absent from the rest. Where it exists it is measured as a gain from the recorded weight, not against the contract.

Is there a hydration provision? Only two of these texts contain one — California § 299(b) and Alabama (4)(e)4 — and both are permissive.

That is a per-event checklist, not a protocol, and none of it is advice about how to reach a weight. Fighter Cut's plan view runs from today to a weigh-in date you set, which is useful precisely because the date is not a constant.

Two further notes on precision, since this whole article turns on it. Weight classes are not uniform either: the ABC model table has fifteen classes, Nevada's MMA regulation has eleven and omits super lightweight, super welterweight, super middleweight and cruiserweight, and Texas's MMA section has nine. MMA weight classes explained covers that divergence. And rule states matter: adopted, in force, amended and repealed are four different things, and this article has an example of each — Florida's professional weigh-in rule was new on 5 August 2015, Ohio's is in force with an effective date of 1 March 2026, Nevada's was amended on 30 January 2019, and Florida 61K1-1.004 was repealed on 3 January 2017.

What we could not verify

California's current text, for four of the five sections. Sections 299, 300, 502 and 510 were read in the California State Athletic Commission's own Laws and Regulations compilation, whose cover reads September 2018 and whose embedded regulation text carries the line "This database is current through 1/3/14". Attempts to reach an official up-to-the-day text failed: Justia returned HTTP 403 on four attempts and Casetext returned HTTP 410. Section 297 is on firmer ground — it was confirmed against Cornell's Legal Information Institute with its OAL history and amendments effective 12 July 2017 — but the state's own portal refuses automated retrieval. The section 510 class table in the 2018 compilation predates classes the commission adopted afterwards and is not reproduced here for that reason.

Whether Texas § 61.105 still reads as quoted. Texas adopted Title 16 rule amendments in the Texas Register of 13 June 2025. That issue was not opened. The § 61.105 text above is as mirrored by Cornell's Legal Information Institute, read 23 September 2026, with a rule history ending at the 15 October 2010 amendment; a direct fetch of the state's own rules host returned HTTP 503 that day. The related applicability clause at § 61.111(a), which is what carries § 61.105 across to MMA, was read in a search summary rather than in the rule text itself and should be verified before being relied on.

How New Jersey reconciles its rule with its practice. N.J.A.C. 13:46-1A.3 carries no amendment later than 1984 and requires weighing "not later than one o'clock on the day of the show in which said boxers are to take part". New Jersey events are observed to run day-before weigh-ins. No waiver, bulletin, later amendment or statement of commission discretion reconciling the two was located. The rule text is reported here as text; it is not a claim about what happens at a New Jersey event.

Observed practice anywhere. No primary source documents how often Ohio's executive director orders the discretionary second-day check, what hour each commission designates when it is free to designate one, or which format any given card actually runs. Everything above describes what the regulations permit and require.

The status of the CSAC ten-point plan on severe dehydration. A California-authored plan was reportedly endorsed by the ABC around 2017 and adopted by several states. The relevant CSAC publications were not opened for this article, so nothing is asserted about its current content or its status, and it is in no case part of the Unified Rules.

Whether this sample is representative. Seven jurisdictions plus the ABC model rules is a sample, not a census. There are roughly fifty US athletic commissions plus tribal regulators, and no claim is made here about how many of them do any particular thing.

Sources

Sourced to

1. Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts — Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports, model rules, approved April 2001, last amended 6 August 2025 with non-substantial changes; PDF downloaded and full text extracted 23 September 2026
2. ABC Regulatory Guidelines and Rules for All World and Regional Championship Bouts — Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports, scoped to championship professional boxing competitions, page body carries "Modified July 27, 2005"; read 23 September 2026
3. ABC MMA Officials Handbook — Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports, Mixed Martial Arts Rules Committee; PDF downloaded and searched 23 September 2026, contains no weigh-in procedure
4. ABC Documents index — Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports; read 23 September 2026 for the documented absence of any weight-management or hydration document
5. Nevada Administrative Code Chapter 467 — Nevada Athletic Commission, NAC 467.476, 467.514 (amended 30 January 2019), 467.522 (amended 9 September 2016), 467.528 and 467.7956 (amended 30 January 2019); full chapter fetched and searched 23 September 2026
6. Cal. Code Regs. tit. 4, § 297, Weighing Time — California State Athletic Commission, Title 4 Division 2 Chapter 1 Article 6, via Cornell Legal Information Institute; Certificate of Compliance filed 12 July 2017, amendments effective 12 July 2017, Register 2017 No. 28; read 23 September 2026
7. CSAC Laws and Regulations compilation — California State Athletic Commission, cover dated September 2018, source for §§ 299, 300, 502 and 510 under the currency caveat stated in the article; PDF fetched and extracted 23 September 2026
8. 16 Tex. Admin. Code § 61.105, Weight Categories and Weigh-in — Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, via Cornell Legal Information Institute; adopted 1 October 2000, last amendment in the printed history 15 October 2010; read 23 September 2026
9. 16 Tex. Admin. Code § 61.111, Mixed Martial Arts — Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, via Cornell Legal Information Institute; adopted 1 October 2000, amended 1 December 2007; read 23 September 2026
10. Fla. Admin. Code r. 61K1-3.0165, Weigh-In — Florida Athletic Commission, professional; new and effective 5 August 2015; read 23 September 2026
11. Fla. Admin. Code r. 61K1-4.024, Mixed Martial Arts Weight Classes; Weigh-In — Florida Athletic Commission, amateur; effective 14 March 2013; read 23 September 2026
12. Fla. Admin. Code r. 61K1-3.027, Weight Classes for Boxing, Kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts — Florida Athletic Commission, via Cornell Legal Information Institute; new 10 December 2015; read 23 September 2026
13. N.J.A.C. 13:46-24B.5, Weighing of mixed martial artists — New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, via Cornell Legal Information Institute; read 23 September 2026
14. N.J.A.C. 13:46-1A.3 — New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, via Cornell Legal Information Institute; recodified 1 November 1982, subsection (f) added 7 January 1984, no later amendment in the printed history; read 23 September 2026
15. Ohio Admin. Code 3773-7-03, Weigh in procedures — Ohio Athletic Commission, mixed martial arts chapter, authorised by R.C. 3774.34; effective 1 March 2026, page footer last updated 2 March 2026; fetched and extracted 23 September 2026
16. NYSAC Commission Bulletin 2014-2, Weigh-In Procedure for Boxing and MMA Events — New York State Athletic Commission, New York Department of State; issued 27 May 2014, amended 21 July 2014 and 13 April 2017; commission policy rather than codified regulation; PDF fetched and extracted 23 September 2026
17. Ala. Admin. Code r. 165-X-3-.08 — Alabama Athletic Commission, Chapter 165-X-3 Amateur Mixed Martial Arts Rules, subsection (4) Weighing of Mixed Martial Artists; PDF fetched from the Alabama Legislature's administrative code service and extracted 23 September 2026

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