🧵 Why are some fighters so fat?
Anonymous at Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:47:37 UTC No. 195123
Seems like some prefer to risk missing weight than lose fat.
Also why do fat fighters often win against taller and leaner fighters?
Anonymous at Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:55:09 UTC No. 195125
>>195123
Because they eat food
Anonymous at Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:20:14 UTC No. 195126
Your body needs a certain amount of fat to operate properly, Then you have the greatermass increasing power generation, and then performance wise the people who are bigger didn't spend the last few weeks crash dieting and dehydrating themselves.
The guys that cut weight and get super lean for fights are doing that basically to cheat not because it's a good idea performance wise, the belief being the loss in performance will be outweighed by the baseline physical advantage of fighting someone who is much smaller than you
But since everybody does it it sort of becomes mandatory
If weight classes were instead based on height you'd never see lean fighters anymore
Bigger is better
Anonymous at Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:09:51 UTC No. 195144
>>195126
If weight classes were instead based on height you'd never see lean fighters anymore
Bigger is better
What about Stipe and other heavyweights who are quite lean, even though they are much lighter than 265 and allowed to bulk up by current rules?
Anonymous at Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:19:11 UTC No. 195145
>>195144
Those are just guys fighting at their normal comfortable weight though, look at conrad mcgrundle at 145, looks like a skeleton
And it's no wonder kebab beat his tits off at 155 Because he struggles to get down to even that weight
If weight classes were not a thing both of those guys would be fighting closer to 185
Anonymous at Wed, 24 Apr 2024 05:51:51 UTC No. 195213
>>195123
>Why are some fighters so fat?
Because they're too lazy and undisciplined to not be fat anymore.
>Also why do fat fighters often win against taller and leaner fighters?
They usually don't (outside of sumo)
Anonymous at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 06:15:33 UTC No. 195415
>>195414
I want to make a graph like this to show weight advantage at heavyweight, but idk how to make one.
Anonymous at Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:18:07 UTC No. 195469
>>195414
>11 inch difference valleys
>vidrel
>11 inch difference
>shorter dude wins
well ill be damned
Anonymous at Sat, 27 Apr 2024 03:55:58 UTC No. 195520
>>195469
probably 1 of 2 or 3 fights impacting that dot