Coach says Tate's weight cut 'little bit tougher’ than usual, Miesha Tate about absent the window to weigh-in Friday morning for UFC 200, because she was accepting a harder time acid weight than usual, according to her coach.
Tate's drillmaster Robert Follis told Submission Radio that the UFC women's bantamweight champion's weight was just not advancing off as bound as it usually does. Tate was about backward for the 8 a.m.-to-10 a.m. weigh-in actuality at Monte Carlo, but arrested in afore 10 and hit the calibration at 10:02 a.m.
A UFC agent said if Tate had absent the two-hour window, her capital accident appellation action with Amanda Nunes would accept been off.
"It was just a little bit tougher than we're acclimated to, but it wasn't outrageous," said Follis, the arch drillmaster of Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. "It just took a little bit best than what we're acclimated to. Just her physique wasn't absolution the baptize go as able-bodied as it commonly does. But it wasn't a big deal, either.
"We planned for a appellation action and acutely missing it was a big deal. We were assured we were gonna accomplish it, but you never apperceive until you get on the official scale. Our calibration said we were on and we were cat-and-mouse to get on the official one, accomplish abiding there wasn't any discrepancy."
Tate had to accomplish 135 or beneath for the appellation action to be official. Her administrator Josh James told MMA Angry in a account that Tate was artlessly application all the account allocated for her to accomplish the weight.
"Miesha has consistently been a being that uses all the time accustomed to her for alertness whether it's a action or weigh-ins," James said.
Tate came in appropriate afterwards Kelvin Gastelum and Johny Hendricks, who absent weight by 1/4 of a pound. If Tate came in backward and aswell absent weight, Nevada Athletic Agency controlling administrator Bob Bennett told MMA Angry that the action would acceptable be off, admitting he said he'd be accommodating to altercate affairs with the UFC.
Follis does not anticipate a tougher weight cut affliction Tate in the action Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.
"I don't anticipate so," he said. "Nah. We've had weight cuts like this afore that we're down to the wire and gone out and performed actual well. The endure one, we formed in at the endure minute. We don't like crumbling time and sometimes it gets a little too close. But we've never missed. This is addition one we've made. Just because it was abutting doesn't beggarly we didn't accomplish it."
The aboriginal weigh-ins are a accomplished new apple for the UFC and commissions. The California State Athletic Agency (CSAC) got the brawl rolling by casual new regulations in February and the UFC is cerebration about adopting an aboriginal weigh-in permanently. The accessible contest this summer will all affection aboriginal weigh-ins. The UFC petitioned Nevada to do it this anniversary for the three International Action Anniversary contest and it was approved.
A morning weigh-in has been universally advantaged by fighters, who are accustomed added time to rehydrate and now no best accept to sit dehydrated cat-and-mouse for the weigh-in show. There will still be a august TV weigh-in appearance Friday afternoon on FS1 area the official weights from the morning will be announced.
"Love it," Follis said of the aboriginal weigh-ins. "It's abundant for the fighters. I've in fact been talking about this for years and years. Why aren't we belief in beforehand and accomplishing a apish weigh-in? I've been adage that for years. If we absolutely affliction about the fighters, let's get them on weight, get them on a scale, get them rehydrated, accord them best to let their physique re-acclimate. So, I anticipate this is admirable that the agency and the UFC has pushed for this to happen. It's traveling to be abundant for the fighters in the continued run."
There was a babel in the Monte Carlo amphitheater as admiral and media waited for Tate to appear in, abounding not alive what would appear if she was late. Follis said the best had to block all that out afore she hit the scale.
"You administer that commotion," Follis said. "This isn't the aboriginal time we've been abutting with fighters. I mean, it happens. Acid weight is not a science, it's an art. Sometimes things change a little bit and it took a little bit best to get it off, but we knew we were gonna get it off and we went in and got the job done. Actuality we are angry for the title. Now it's all done."
Tate's drillmaster Robert Follis told Submission Radio that the UFC women's bantamweight champion's weight was just not advancing off as bound as it usually does. Tate was about backward for the 8 a.m.-to-10 a.m. weigh-in actuality at Monte Carlo, but arrested in afore 10 and hit the calibration at 10:02 a.m.
A UFC agent said if Tate had absent the two-hour window, her capital accident appellation action with Amanda Nunes would accept been off.
"It was just a little bit tougher than we're acclimated to, but it wasn't outrageous," said Follis, the arch drillmaster of Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas. "It just took a little bit best than what we're acclimated to. Just her physique wasn't absolution the baptize go as able-bodied as it commonly does. But it wasn't a big deal, either.
"We planned for a appellation action and acutely missing it was a big deal. We were assured we were gonna accomplish it, but you never apperceive until you get on the official scale. Our calibration said we were on and we were cat-and-mouse to get on the official one, accomplish abiding there wasn't any discrepancy."
Tate had to accomplish 135 or beneath for the appellation action to be official. Her administrator Josh James told MMA Angry in a account that Tate was artlessly application all the account allocated for her to accomplish the weight.
"Miesha has consistently been a being that uses all the time accustomed to her for alertness whether it's a action or weigh-ins," James said.
Tate came in appropriate afterwards Kelvin Gastelum and Johny Hendricks, who absent weight by 1/4 of a pound. If Tate came in backward and aswell absent weight, Nevada Athletic Agency controlling administrator Bob Bennett told MMA Angry that the action would acceptable be off, admitting he said he'd be accommodating to altercate affairs with the UFC.
Follis does not anticipate a tougher weight cut affliction Tate in the action Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.
"I don't anticipate so," he said. "Nah. We've had weight cuts like this afore that we're down to the wire and gone out and performed actual well. The endure one, we formed in at the endure minute. We don't like crumbling time and sometimes it gets a little too close. But we've never missed. This is addition one we've made. Just because it was abutting doesn't beggarly we didn't accomplish it."
The aboriginal weigh-ins are a accomplished new apple for the UFC and commissions. The California State Athletic Agency (CSAC) got the brawl rolling by casual new regulations in February and the UFC is cerebration about adopting an aboriginal weigh-in permanently. The accessible contest this summer will all affection aboriginal weigh-ins. The UFC petitioned Nevada to do it this anniversary for the three International Action Anniversary contest and it was approved.
A morning weigh-in has been universally advantaged by fighters, who are accustomed added time to rehydrate and now no best accept to sit dehydrated cat-and-mouse for the weigh-in show. There will still be a august TV weigh-in appearance Friday afternoon on FS1 area the official weights from the morning will be announced.
"Love it," Follis said of the aboriginal weigh-ins. "It's abundant for the fighters. I've in fact been talking about this for years and years. Why aren't we belief in beforehand and accomplishing a apish weigh-in? I've been adage that for years. If we absolutely affliction about the fighters, let's get them on weight, get them on a scale, get them rehydrated, accord them best to let their physique re-acclimate. So, I anticipate this is admirable that the agency and the UFC has pushed for this to happen. It's traveling to be abundant for the fighters in the continued run."
There was a babel in the Monte Carlo amphitheater as admiral and media waited for Tate to appear in, abounding not alive what would appear if she was late. Follis said the best had to block all that out afore she hit the scale.
"You administer that commotion," Follis said. "This isn't the aboriginal time we've been abutting with fighters. I mean, it happens. Acid weight is not a science, it's an art. Sometimes things change a little bit and it took a little bit best to get it off, but we knew we were gonna get it off and we went in and got the job done. Actuality we are angry for the title. Now it's all done."
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