Andy Foster, the present executive director at the California specify Camiseta Olympique Lyonnais athletic Commission, just recently interviewed with Joe Ferraro where Foster exposed that he is spearheading regulatory modification to bring reform to the dangerous fast extreme Weight Loss methods prevalent in MMA as well as Boxing. You can listen to the full interview right here starting at the 13 minute mark:
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Fosters comments include the following
Next week I’m really going to Las vegas to discuss this problem with the association of Ringside Physicians.
What I can tell you is something’s going to be coming….We want something to happen. I believe that (caliper measurements) they’ve had some great success with that. So I believe that is definitely coming. Another thing I believe is the gold basic as well as something I wold support is hydrostatic testing to determine the minimum weight that you can fight at for the year….Those are two ideas.
What we have right now is not working…What truly got me into a panic, so to speak, was after the UFC (177) right here in Sacramento, the day of the weigh-in. We have two of our fighters not able to evaluate in, or licensees, since they’ve lost as well much weight…I believe that’s a problem. That’s want type of stirred me to begin taking action.
The A.R.P. is definitely Camiseta SS Lazio on board with doing something. They issued their statement last year about weigh-ins…(once) we establish the lowest weight…that lowest weight be put on the fighters long-term record both with the A.B.C. (Association of Boxing Commissions) database as well as the fight Fax database….When a compensation pulls the fight Fax as well as looks up a record, we can see right right here as well as we can make sure they are not contracted for less than that amount of weight
Fights between dehydrated opponents complying with fast extreme Weight Loss methods are one of the biggest dangers in MMA, a unfortunate irony thinking about weight classes are designed to protect fighters. Foster’s efforts should be motivated by all stakeholders thinking about the long term well being of the battle sports landscape.
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