UFC’s Paige VanZant recently shared details about her dangerous weight cut in order to make 115 pounds.
During a recent interview with FloCombat, VanZant talked about the danger she put herself in while fighting in the strawweight division.
“I don’t like to make excuses, I don’t want to take anything away from anybody but it came to a point where my team and my parents told me that if I’m going to keep making that weight cut that I need to stop fighting. It’s just not worth it. I was killing myself to make 115 (pounds). It’s a hard, hard cut for me,” VanZant said.
“My last one, one of my best friends found me passed out on my bathroom floor and they didn’t know what to do anymore. It was too hard of a cut for me and I’ve said it before, I’m a really big advocate for body positivity and loving yourself for who you are. I really was giving myself an eating disorder to try and make weight and killing my body. Putting it through something worse than it needed to go through to make weight.”
Paige VanZant’s next fight will be in the newly adopted women’s flyweight division. She will make her 125-pound debut against Jessica Eye at UFC 216 on Oct. 7 in Las Vegas.
“I know for sure I’m going to feel so much better. The fact that I don’t have to cut the extra 10 pounds. My body will easily make 125 but getting anything lower than 125 just hurts me,” VanZant said. “I know I’m going to be more athletic than I’ve ever been. I’m going to be stronger than I’ve ever been. It’s just going to be a whole new athlete. I’m the most athletic I’ve ever been at 125.
“I think the world’s going to see this is where I really belong in the 125 division. I can’t wait to get back in there.”
