Rich Attonito got hip to the arms race of weight-cutting pretty quickly.
It was one thing to fight on the local circuit against part-timers. But the more success he had in MMA – and the higher his stature rose – the more he noticed flab turning to muscle in the physiques of his opponents.
“I always knew in the back of my head that to put myself in the best possible position to be successful, I’d probably have to take that extra step,” Attonito recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio.