Angela Lee needs to make 42 kilograms (114.6 pounds) on the dot to defend her ONE Championship title. And like every other fighter, she eats between fights.

In the past, Lee (9-0) has cut weight to make the limit. But now she has a different term for her process. It’s not a weight cut; it’s a “weight descent.”

“It’s just about being more responsible, like diet-wise, leading up to the fight,” Lee, who in May notched her third title defense, told MMAjunkie Radio. “It’s a much better system. You don’t have to feel all dehydrated the night before, and that’s a terrible feeling everyone’s gone through.

“I think it’s much better, and I’m happy to be in this new weight descent.”

After ONE Championship took steps to eliminate weight-cutting, her options were limited. In late 2015, the promotion overhauled weigh-in procedures after one of its fighters died from complications due to a weight cut. To push fighters to compete at their “walk-around” weight, multiple weight and hydration checks are required before and during fight week.

Fighters must be no more than eight percent over their contracted weight class in the first two weeks of an eight-week “competition zone” prior to a fight. They are then required to be within their contracted weight class on fight week.

As soon as three hours before a fight, a combatant can be disqualified if the tests show excessive dehydration. Athletes must also wait until they are outside an eight-week “competition zone” to request a change in weight class.

Loren Mack, ONE Championship’s VP of PR and communications, said the problem of excessive weight-cutting is unique to combat sports and requires decisive action. Since implementing the new policy, he said the promotion has changed the culture among its fighters.

Although fighters have “some nerves” about competing at their natural weight, thus eliminating a potential advantage on fight night, Mack said they now overwhelmingly support the decision.

“What our athletes have learned going through the process of not weight cutting is that they compete at a much higher level,” he said. “They’re mentally and physically 10 times better during fight week. And they’re actually happy because they get to eat breakfast in the morning. And they compete better.”

Mack added a prediction that other MMA promotions around the world eventually will follow in ONE Championship’s footsteps. With so many competitors falling out of major UFC events due to weight-cutting issues, he said the policy could save a lot of fights.

“You avoid a lot of the type of thing that’s going on here,” Mack said.

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