Zoila Frausto took to Instagram to discuss her hospitalization after a botched weight cut that contributed to a loss for the vacant 115-pound title at RFA 31. Frausto lost the fight to Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger by unanimous decision and said that the weight cut tapped into her central nervous system and caused damage to her.
Frausto’s manager told MMAjunkie that the cut, which was complicated by a shoulder injury a week before the bout, caused her to be hospitalized for two days after the fight. She suffered facial fractures and injuries to her hand, shin, ankle and shoulder.
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Take the lesson from me ladies & gentlemen, cutting more thn 10% of your body weight for a fight, though it doesn't seem like much at the time, you will end up paying for it, if not during, then after the fight. Don't tap into your central nervous system for a weight cut!! Though, I knew this fact from previous cuts early on in my career, I was still stubborn & desperate to make it to this fight. I'm not at all trying to make excuses, just going to give my reasoning & story so other athletes don't make the same mistakes. 3weeks before the actual cut, we were ahead of schedule, dropping the weight down to a science, day by day, with the proper nutrition & cardio & sessions needed to cut the fat & a little muscle to get the weight down safe & effectively, to be at my strongest, come fight night. The only problem that we ran into was I sustained a shoulder injury that kept me from doing anything, except cardio for about 7days. It ultimately ruined our schedule on the safe cut. But as hard headed & focused as I was, I wanted nothing more than to make it to the fight/opportunity & win. I was confident with the shape I was in, I'd be able to beat anyone with or without injury. I wasn't expecting everything else that happened to my body in the first round, that unable me to do everything I needed to, to come out victorious. Again, none of this is an excuse. It's just my story to warn those of you that think weight cuts aren't dangerous, when 100% they are! I've been hit way harder & have thrown harder punches, kicks and elbows at practice & none of them hurt me the way every first initial blow effected me during this fight on Friday. Yes, I won't take anything away from Lybarger that night, she won that fight fair & square & was the better fighter. But I alone put myself in an unhealthy situation to fight when my body wasn't nearly ready from tapping into my CNS & cutting too much weight. None of this was because I was careless or from bad dieting(like most), it was simply a few days too less on not being able to put out the proper training sessions & drop a little more weight before the actual cut. Take it from me athletes, be smart when it comes to cutting!!!
A photo posted by ZOILA"Warrior Princess"FRAUSTO (@zoilafrausto) on Oct 13, 2015 at 9:21am PDT