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George Lockhart was a huge piece to the puzzle when it came to Max Holloway stepping in to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223. Before anything could be accepted, Holloway’s manager Brian Butler-Au and Holloway reached out to Lockhart, who is Holloway…
George Lockhart was a huge piece to the puzzle when it came to Max Holloway stepping in to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 223. Before anything could be accepted, Holloway’s manager Brian Butler-Au and Holloway reached out to Lockhart, who is Holloway’s nutrition and weight cut coach. It was up to Lockhart to determine whether Holloway […]
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UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway may usually fight at 145 pounds, but his nutritionist says he’s still cutting a massive amount of weight to make the lightweight limit less than a week away from UFC 223. George Lockhart, who’s working with both Khabib Nurmagomedov and Holloway to make weight for this Saturday’s main event from […]
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UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway may usually fight at 145 pounds, but his nutritionist says he’s still cutting a massive amount of weight to make the lightweight limit less than a week away from UFC 223.
George Lockhart, who’s working with both Khabib Nurmagomedov and Holloway to make weight for this Saturday’s main event from Brooklyn, revealed via Bloody Elbow that Holloway’s current weight makes him tied with the biggest weight cut Lockhart has ever done:
“I saw [Max’s manager Brian Butler’s] number show up on my phone, and he was like, “Hey man, do you think you can get Max down to 155?” and he gave me his weight. I was like, “Uhhh, give me a sec.” I had to call Tyler Minton [who is part of the Lockhart & Leith team], who worked with Max for his last fight, and we were running numbers back and forth, and seeing where he previously was fight week.
Then I had to talk to Max and ask him what he had been eating, if he had been training. God’s honest truth, I was hoping he was eating crap, because if he was eating crap and we cleaned it up, we could drop some weight really quick, but the kid has been eating decently. I found out his body fat percentage and worked out how much water he had to lose.
This is literally tied with the biggest cut I’ve ever done. It’s the exact same number as the biggest cut that I’ve ever done in my life.“
Holloway is actually cutting 10 less pounds than he usually does when he meets the featherweight limit. Obviously, he didn’t have time to properly prepare for the out, as Nurmagomedov’s original opponent Tony Ferguson pulled out just six days from fight night.
Will this massive weight cut hurt Holloway’s chances on Saturday? Or does this mean he will be bigger than folks expected him to be come fight night?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hldL4GcrRjY
Earlier, we told you about how, on the latest episode of the UFC Unfiltered podcast, UFC President Dana White claimed that Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino had turned down offers to fight at her preferred weight, 145 lbs., for a new UFC Women’s Featherweight Championship. Specifically, that there was a tentative offer to fight Holly Holm and a more solid offer to fight Germaine de Randamie. After White’s podcast appearance was released, MMAFighting reached out to “Cyborg,” who released this statement:
In my last weight cut I almost died. I was in the bathtub cutting weight, and I thought, ‘I will die in this bathtub.’ It was the worst weight cut in my life. My nutritionist George Lockhart, who, by the way, is a UFC employee, didn’t do an effective job with this birth control pill he indicated saying that would help me. But thank God, in a war, I made weight, cutting 24 pounds in a week. My body was retaining a lot of water. The last time I spoke with George Lockhart was in the locker room before my fight. He disappeared after the fight. I’m not working with him anymore.
For the first time I didn’t warm up in the locker room like I do for every fight because I was too weak. I was just praying for God and went for the fight, and, once again, God gave me the victory. After all this, I went back to my hometown on Sunday and I felt sick on Sunday. My mother gave me tea and I fell asleep. The next day, like I always do after my fights, I did blood tests to see if everything was okay after a terrible weight cut. And for the first time, the nurses couldn’t take my blood, it was so thick it wouldn’t come out, so we couldn’t do tests. I was in treatment for 10 days with Dr. Ulisseia. I was in observation because I was feeling sick all the time.
You can see that I give no interviews after the fight. I told UFC Brazil PR Lilian (Caparroz) that I wanted to cancel all my interviews and couldn’t travel. After all that, at home, I decided I would not fight at this weight anymore, that I would only fight at my division. And only with 12 weeks’ notice. For my last fight, they told me eight weeks before.
I got a call from the UFC offering me another catchweight fight, and I said I would not fight at this weight anymore. I needed a break to get my health back to normal because my body was weak, I was anemic.
After that, they invited me to fight again, but this time at my weight and for the belt, but with 10 weeks’ notice. Knowing that I was recovering, like I said, I told them I can fight anyone in March, but I need to take care of my body, and no mention of the fact that I’m dealing with severe depression and can’t have another brutal weight cut like before. This decision is more important than the belt or the division, I’m thinking about my health.
I thank my fans. We did it! I’ll soon be fighting in my division, where I’m the world champion. You and God are loyal. I’ll be ready to fight in March.
For what it’s worth, to the best of my knowledge, George Lockhart is not a “UFC employee,” but his fee for a few fighters has been covered by the company in a few cases. He also explained the issue of the birth control pill that he wanted Cyborg on in detail at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hldL4GcrRjY
Earlier, we told you about how, on the latest episode of the UFC Unfiltered podcast, UFC President Dana White claimed that Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino had turned down offers to fight at her preferred weight, 145 lbs., for a new UFC Women’s Featherweight Championship. Specifically, that there was a tentative offer to fight Holly Holm and a more solid offer to fight Germaine de Randamie. After White’s podcast appearance was released, MMAFighting reached out to “Cyborg,” who released this statement:
In my last weight cut I almost died. I was in the bathtub cutting weight, and I thought, ‘I will die in this bathtub.’ It was the worst weight cut in my life. My nutritionist George Lockhart, who, by the way, is a UFC employee, didn’t do an effective job with this birth control pill he indicated saying that would help me. But thank God, in a war, I made weight, cutting 24 pounds in a week. My body was retaining a lot of water. The last time I spoke with George Lockhart was in the locker room before my fight. He disappeared after the fight. I’m not working with him anymore.
For the first time I didn’t warm up in the locker room like I do for every fight because I was too weak. I was just praying for God and went for the fight, and, once again, God gave me the victory. After all this, I went back to my hometown on Sunday and I felt sick on Sunday. My mother gave me tea and I fell asleep. The next day, like I always do after my fights, I did blood tests to see if everything was okay after a terrible weight cut. And for the first time, the nurses couldn’t take my blood, it was so thick it wouldn’t come out, so we couldn’t do tests. I was in treatment for 10 days with Dr. Ulisseia. I was in observation because I was feeling sick all the time.
You can see that I give no interviews after the fight. I told UFC Brazil PR Lilian (Caparroz) that I wanted to cancel all my interviews and couldn’t travel. After all that, at home, I decided I would not fight at this weight anymore, that I would only fight at my division. And only with 12 weeks’ notice. For my last fight, they told me eight weeks before.
I got a call from the UFC offering me another catchweight fight, and I said I would not fight at this weight anymore. I needed a break to get my health back to normal because my body was weak, I was anemic.
After that, they invited me to fight again, but this time at my weight and for the belt, but with 10 weeks’ notice. Knowing that I was recovering, like I said, I told them I can fight anyone in March, but I need to take care of my body, and no mention of the fact that I’m dealing with severe depression and can’t have another brutal weight cut like before. This decision is more important than the belt or the division, I’m thinking about my health.
I thank my fans. We did it! I’ll soon be fighting in my division, where I’m the world champion. You and God are loyal. I’ll be ready to fight in March.
For what it’s worth, to the best of my knowledge, George Lockhart is not a “UFC employee,” but his fee for a few fighters has been covered by the company in a few cases. He also explained the issue of the birth control pill that he wanted Cyborg on in detail at the time.