Recently displayed images from all the way back in 2012, Dana White shows perplexed that due to the unusual technology of Vitor Belfort for cutting weight.
With every passing week, the UFC production team releases hours after hours of visual material that offers a glimpse of a glimpse of modern MMA hunters -but that was not always the case.
In 2012, it was Dana White's own personal camera crew who followed the majority of the heavy work, the UFC CEO of event-to-event and recorded all kinds of content behind the scenes.
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Dana White left left by the secret of Vitor Belfort to the weight of the weight
In January 2012, the UFC returned to Rio de Janeiro for a PPV with Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson and former light heavyweight champion 'Belfort' Belfort in the Co-Main event.
Johnson vs Belfort was originally booked to take place in the middleweight, but was eventually moved to a catch of 197 pounds after the American had not arrived.
But behind the scenes video images of Dana White's Fight Week Vlog series, which recently appeared online, reveals that Belfort also had trouble cutting the kilos.
While White Belfort saw cutting room in the dressing room in the dressing room, the UFC -CEO looked completely stupid when the Brazilian picked up and packed with ice cubes on a towel.
“Hey, can I get a bite from that?” Laughed white while trying to negotiate the consequences of a catch weight, ie 20% of Johnson's wallet, Belfort would like to abandon the rest of the cut.
The pre-Vecht Snack from Belfort certainly raised one or two eyebrows; What he did, however, was keeping his mouth wet, so that he did not take more water than he needed for roads.
Belfort would eventually agree to fight Johnson on 197LBS that decision turned out to be worthwhile, but a few hours later he scored a first round entry for his noisy home crowd.
Joe Rogan calls UFC weight cutting 'sanctioned cheating' in fiery anger
In a sport that allows elbows, knees, stairs and all kinds of harmful strikes; The most dangerous part of fighting in mixed martial arts remains the weight change process.
During his career as a UFC commentator, Joe Rogan has seen how the process can have disastrous consequences for the career and health of a hunter, even once labeling as 'sanctioned cheating'.
“Nobody should cut children, I think what they really have to do, just find out what you weigh f – real and just stop this nonsense,” he said on Joe Rogan's podcast in September.
“It must be viewed in the same way as steroids, it must be viewed in the same way in which all other types of cheats are viewed – it is sanctioned cheating … and [there should be] More options for weight classes.
“One of the things they say about head injuries and killing in boxing is that the vast majority of them do not take place in heavyweight,” acknowledged the popular UFC insider.
“So the boys who become the most difficult are not the boys who get this terrible brain injury or death in the ring … Many of the boys who die die die in weight classes where they cut a lot of weight.
“Let them eat, let them hydrate themselves, f – all this weigh,” Rogan concluded, and added how “the part of the [MMA] Culture that can be eradicated – I don't think it's impossible. “
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