“You feel like you’re dying,” is how former UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley once described cutting weight. After all, the main way fighters cut weight is by dehydrating themselves severely, which dehydrates your organs (including the brain) and makes your body feel like it’s dying of thirst. Remember Ilia Topuria weeping because of his grueling cut ahead of UFC 298, or TJ Dillashaw looking like a cluster of bones for his flyweight debut against Henry Cejudo? Excruciating!
And as you can imagine, the more weight you cut, the harder it is. This is why it was shocking to see UFC middleweight phenom, Bo Nickal, who is set to face Dutch former ONE Championship double champ Reinier de Ridder on May 3 at UFC Des Moines, post a video that showed him weighing 222.6 pounds!
The duo is set to clash this weekend in a 186-pound limit middleweight non-title clash, which means that the three-time NCAA wrestling champ will have to cut over thirty-five pounds of weight for the clash! Or will he? Fans are a bit more skeptical.
Fans react to Bo Nickal weighing in at 222 pounds days before the middleweight clash
The theme among many fans was that Nickal was not actually 222 pounds, and it was a joke he was playing on fans and perhaps even his Dutch opponent. After all, the weight and Nickal are not in the same frame anytime in the video, so the reading may well have been spliced from a different video.
“No way he’s 222 ”
“No shot that’s real. No way he’s making 85”
One fan, who did believe Nickal weighed over 220 pounds, felt that cutting so much weight was unhealthy and felt that he should just not even try to make weight and surrender part of his purse instead: “Just miss weight and take a lil pay cut, you’ll be right”.
Other fans were far more divided:
“Y’all don’t realize Bo been a big dude and he also been cutting weight since he was a kid, so he knows how to lol”.
“Wearing the full sweatsuit on the scale is how we can tell this is a joke”.
“Weight bully ”
“Thank god you don’t have to fight the same day you make weight like in wrestling ”.
(more to follow)
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