Fight Quote by Raquel Pennington

The worst thing is having to make weight before a fight. It's hard to cut down.

— James DeGale

Fight week you're going to eat the same thing, that's a standard thing regardless of weight.

— Dan Hooker

The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how…

— Dustin Poirier

I used to get so stressed out before the fight, weeks out, because of how much weight I had to cut to get there.

— Robert Whittaker

Even after your fight on the night, you have loads of media you have to do and people expecting stuff from you and you…

— Anthony Yarde

I try to take two weeks off after a fight and then get back to working out four or five times a week.

— Chuck Liddell

My diet is usually pretty consistent whether I'm training for a specific fight or not. I don't like to mess too much with it.

— Conor McGregor

I don't think people realize what those weight cuts were doing to me. It took so much out of me to make 155. I…

— Michael Chiesa

Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight, I can fight more often.

— Dustin Poirier

Because I'm an athlete people think I'm on a certain strict diet before the fight. But the only time things change up in my…

— Marlon Vera

It gets a little tough when you're cutting weight to travel all over the place, when you want to focus on really getting yourself…

— Colby Covington

I've never pulled out of a fight. I've never missed weight.

— Dustin Poirier