Dramatic weight cut renders UFC fighter impotent - Forget Saul, Better Call Sean!

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To put this in musical terms, Alex Hernandez went from Steely Dan to Limp Bizkit in one single training camp.

That’s because “The Great Ape” made the not-so-great decision to drop down to the 145-pound weight class to battle Billy Quarantillo at the UFC 282 pay-per-view (PPV) event last December in Las Vegas, which ended with a second round technical knockout loss.

And a picket-line penis.

“I’ve got some of the best nutritionists in the world, Perfecting Athletes is the group I go with. It’s not like I wasn’t eating it was just small man,” Hernandez told reporters at the UFC Vegas 69 media day (transcribed by Express.co.uk). “It was rough, it was the roughest. It wasn’t like I was moaning every day, I was locked in, but my d*ck didn’t even work in the morning. I was Gender X, just moving through for three months. Just a straightforward path.”

Hernandez, 30, returns to the lightweight division to throw hands opposite battle-tested veteran Jim Miller as part of the UFC Vegas 69 event this Sat. night (Feb. 18, 2023) at APEX in Las Vegas, following a 155-pound fight camp that freed him of “pain and struggling.”

Things are looking up, so to speak.

“Doing that for enough time probably weighs on the brain a little bit,” Hernandez continued. “It was tough, everything was low. Everything was depleted. I felt strong though. I felt fast, I felt faster than I’ve ever felt. The conditioning was fantastic, but I just needed to keep the mental game right. I just needed to remember why I was doing all this pain and struggling for.”

 

[Billy Bob Dick]

the fuck would you even admit to that publicly, no one needs to know that shit

 

[Matt Damon]

Cutting weight while maintaining a high effort routine is miserable and extremely draining, but I can't say my dick ever stopped working because of it.

 

[oldTireWater]

Weigh-ins should be done in the ring. If you don't make weight then your opponent gets a free shot for each pound you're over.

 

[Schwarzwald]

"And in this corner, weighing in at 145 pounds... ALLLLLLLLEEEEEXX "TEQUILA DICK" HERRRRNANNNNDEZZZZ!!! We hope this fight doesn't leave you as disappointed as his wife every single day of her life!!! Not saying she's secretly screwing the mailman, but I'm also not not saying it!!!"

 

[Irrational Exuberance]

I’ve got some of the best nutritionists in the world, Perfecting Athletes is the group I go with. It’s not like I wasn’t eating it was just small man,” Hernandez told reporters at the UFC Vegas 69 media day (transcribed by Express.co.uk). “It was rough, it was the roughest. It wasn’t like I was moaning every day, I was locked in, but my d*ck didn’t even work in the morning.

That's just your body trying to keep up with the weight loss, man; you're throwing it all out of wack and it's drawing blood away from non-essential areas for its own protection.

 

[ZipDisk]

Nutritionists are fucking witch doctors and they eat like shit.

 

[DumbDude43]

Cutting weight while maintaining a high effort routine is miserable and extremely draining, but I can't say my dick ever stopped working because of it.

pro fighters cut twice as fast while training five times as hard as any normal person who just does sports as a hobby.
that, plus there's a good chance he's on steroids too, which is known to sometimes cause shrinking balls and broke dick.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

I might be ten kilos overweight but I'm strong as fuck AND my dick works great.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Cutting weight while maintaining a high effort routine is miserable and extremely draining, but I can't say my dick ever stopped working because of it.

Could it be because he was eating so small? I'll be sure to never eat too little.

 

[Matt Damon]

Could it be because he was eating so small? I'll be sure to never eat too little.

I guess it's possible. I know that I'd feel so lethargic while dropping weight that all I wanted to do was sleep and conserve energy. Forcing myself to lift was miserable.

If the caloric deficit is extreme enough, maybe your body becomes so depleted that those kinds of non-essential functions just stop working.

 

[Claude Sigma]

It's a pretty normal reaction to any situation that the body perceives as dire. Whenever you're really sick, really terrorized, or really underfed, your body will shut down sexual functions to preserve anything it can for survival.
It's not as easily seen on men because not everyone realize they don't have nocturnal/morning erections anymore, but you will hear lots of cases of women not having their periods when they're under heavy stress, doing a fast, or being sick with fever, cancer, etc.

Doing like a minus 1000 calories from your TDEE and train hours and hours every day is enough for the body to think you're in a situation where food is not available and you're in danger and have to fight daily. So it stops giving ressources to the reproductive system.

It's not a big deal per se, nothing really unhealthy about that.
The water cut done for the weigh in is absolutely terrible for the fighters' health though. The organization and the commissions are fucking retards though, so they probably won't change that any time soon.

 

[Syntaxion]

Nutritionists are fucking witch doctors and they eat like shit.

Not persé, but often yeah.

The way it works where I live, and I assume it's similair in the USA, is that to be a dietician, you have to be licensed and often went to college for it.

Nutritionists require no such things, so most nutritionists are people with no background using the title because it seems meaningful, even though it isn't.

Though you can still major in nutrition and dietetics without becoming licensed, or dropping the license at some point. So not every nutritionist is a quack.

 

[Looney Troons]

Nutritionists and dietician’s scare the fuck out of me. I had one recommend ketosis, and I ended up in the emergency room. When I came back to it, the same person recommended that I keep at it.

I’m a big MMA fan, and you have to wonder about people like Davieson Figueredo, who fights at 125, but reportedly walks around at 160 lbs.

 

[Matt Damon]

I’m a big MMA fan, and you have to wonder about people like Davieson Figueredo, who fights at 125, but reportedly walks around at 160 lbs.

Or powerlifter guys like Matt Kroczaleski (sigh... before he trooned out) who would drop 30 pounds in the 24 hours before a weigh-in. He'd seal the door of his hotel bathroom and use the shower to turn it into a makeshift sauna.

That's gotta be absolute hell on your kidneys.

 

[Slimy Time]

Nutritionists and dietician’s scare the fuck out of me. I had one recommend ketosis, and I ended up in the emergency room. When I came back to it, the same person recommended that I keep at it.

I’m a big MMA fan, and you have to wonder about people like Davieson Figueredo, who fights at 125, but reportedly walks around at 160 lbs.

Some of these cuts are scary. Alex Pereira is at 220+ on his off days, he cuts to 185, in ring apparently 210-215lbs. He is larger than most Light Heavyweights. Jamahal Hill and Dom Reyes looks small next to him.

This one I remember because Hernandez looked almost exactly the same as he did at 155, which I thought was strange. Yeah, no wonder his dick wasn't working.

Why is this a thing with floundering fighters? Oh the issue must be the weight, better drop weight class and see how I do there. Dan Hooker did the same thing. Maybe the issue isn't the weight, maybe the issue is an inability to improve on certain skills. Garbrandt did it as well.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I don't have any particular medical knowledge on the subject but my cousin told me that a several of the guys he was in basic training with ended up with ED for several weeks during the process. I assume there's just something to a sudden, sustained increase in exertion combined with a harsh cut that will cause it

 

[polonium]

That's gotta be absolute hell on your kidneys

It's gonna be hell on the wallpaper too.

 

[Moths]

Some of these cuts are scary. Alex Pereira is at 220+ on his off days, he cuts to 185, in ring apparently 210-215lbs. He is larger than most Light Heavyweights. Jamahal Hill and Dom Reyes looks small next to him.

This one I remember because Hernandez looked almost exactly the same as he did at 155, which I thought was strange. Yeah, no wonder his dick wasn't working.

Why is this a thing with floundering fighters? Oh the issue must be the weight, better drop weight class and see how I do there. Dan Hooker did the same thing. Maybe the issue isn't the weight, maybe the issue is an inability to improve on certain skills. Garbrandt did it as well.

Lmao can no longer be competitive bet I can beat the wimps in the lightweight clasd

 

[Looney Troons]

Or powerlifter guys like Matt Kroczaleski (sigh... before he trooned out) who would drop 30 pounds in the 24 hours before a weigh-in. He'd seal the door of his hotel bathroom and use the shower to turn it into a makeshift sauna.

That's gotta be absolute hell on your kidneys.

Hella heat stroke risk. Maybe that’s why he trooned.

:/