Weight cut & fight week
Weight cut & fight week
Planning the descent to a class, the fight-week protocols, and what the literature actually supports.
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Weight cut & fight week
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
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