Growth Quote by Michael Chiesa

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

— Burt Young

I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.

— Mikey Garcia

Getting to fight at my natural weight, that was huge for me.

— Sage Northcutt

I had trouble my whole career maintaining an unnatural weight. When I was middleweight champ of the world, I would go the last week…

— James Toney

Actually, when I first started dropping weight to fight, my biggest worry was how my smaller body would look compared to the size of…

— Alexander Volkanovski

People always say you have to grow into your body, but for me, it wasn't even growing into my body - the more weight…

— Zion Williamson

In year seven and eight I was very small, but I was muscular. Year nine, ten and eleven I got massive. I was in…

— Anthony Yarde

I hit a big growth spurt between my 10th and 11th grade years.

— Rodney Hood

I wasn't the type of person to gain much weight after a fight, but at 115 I can be bigger and more powerful than…

— Jessica Andrade

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Cutting weight is the worst part. Fighting is just fun.

— Marlon Moraes

It's taken me 26 professional fights to seek out nutritional help and I finally did and it's made a big change in my weight…

— Jorge Masvidal