Big John McCarthy: Weight Cutting Is More Dangerous Than PEDs in MMA

– Big John McCarthy recently spoke with mmajunkie.com, here are the highlights…

On Weight-Cutting Being More Dangerous Than PEDs in MMA: “There’s no fight you’re going to show me – caused by performance-enhancing drugs – that almost killed the fighter in a way that weight-cutting is doing.”

On Fighters Not Understanding The Repercussions of Unhealthy Weight Cutting: “Almost 100 percent of fighters are going through weight-cutting, and they are doing things that are negatively affecting their health in a really bad way,” he said. “Although it negatively affects them now, they don’t understand the repercussions that are going to come down the road.”

On Feeling That The Problem Will Get Worse: “Now, (a death from weight cutting) hasn’t happened in the UFC, but we’ve had serious problems,” he said. “It’s a situation where we have got to start to limit what people can do. Because when we don’t limit it, we’ve seen they’ll go to extremes to try to be the bigger guy in the lighter weight class.”