10 Insane Ways MMA Fighters Have Gotten In Shape

[@kidnamedfinger37]

"Overeem wasn't on steroids, but the horse he ate was fucking riddled with them."

[@heresthethingyouguys]

It takes two to tango

[@CocaineCowboyJones]

Fun fact: Alistair was Lean now

[@TMeek94]

​@@CocaineCowboyJoneshe was lean now?

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Napolean Blownapart is a legend. He got me back into MMA a few years ago.

[@antr7493]

[@AZ-kh7np]

“50-44 your kidneys and your heart” 😂 oh Tommy

[@mikebean.]

Can you explain?

[@solivagant3810]

​@@mikebean.There's a 10-8 round in there 😂

[@thediaz07]

​@@mikebean.Fight rounds...it how they judges score a complete shut out.

[@thediaz07]

LoL I've been watching boxing n MMA for a little under 20 years and the 50-44 went over my head until I saw you write it out.

[@youknow2849]

Controversial decision I feel like it could have went either way.

[@philnight9563]

Ronda Rousey’s boxing makes me laugh so hard every time I see it so thank you I needed that this morning!😂

[@NOT-A-Monolith]

She'd still beat you tho 😂

[@MikeYt673]

She'd ko you😂

[@tylerwoodward9517]

It’s the evening

[@pubgsniperlord7055]

​@@NOT-A-Monolithyh if he moves in slow mo

[@joechill9964]

@@MikeYt673ko these nuts, that boxing is akin to a cat swatting yarn

[@balkanboi06]

_“He was going so hard, he couldn’t get hard.”_ nice one tommy aha 😂😅

[@MyCharlie223]

Watching Rhonda throw punches never gets old

[@isaacwoods5526]

I beg to differ. It’s painful to watch

[@Abettergrappler]

#1 is all too real. I wrestled D1 at 157Ibs. I now compete at 200 in BJJ. I've had to cut 25+ in a few days dozens of times in college. Took almost a decade to not see food as scarce and gorge every meal.

[@Gnarkilla720]

Dude that shit killed me, I still have issues till this day. It sucks. I cannot eat like I used ro, and I look at food as purely substance.

[@Abettergrappler]

@@Gnarkilla720 It's the Carbs, man. I can run through 5k cals like it's nothing.

[@FiqqyBlake-lc1od]

Who did I wrestle for in college? I wanna look u up and watch some matches!

[@Kolor-kode]

1:05 Definelty timed that edit of Rousey shadow "boxing" to coincide with the words 'professional fighter' intentionally.

[@mcryan3890]

Imagine JJ as a police officer. He would abuse the shit out of that power

[@drunkenmmamaster419]

He did say he wanted to get into law enforcement before he became a fighter

[@cmbells7736]

Fit right in

[@EasyMoneyKarsten]

Gets ED from cutting weight: David Goggins: Stay Hard!!

[@prophetzzz6398]

Ronda’s boxing is comedic art

[@ynotefil]

MMA Right On Point 💯

[@zhan2231]

always producing the top stuff! thanks guys!!!

[@FaithRox]

Machida's "Cant piss hot if you drink all your own piss" diet is sorely missed from this video.

[@percules94]

I prefer the jon jones “snow” diet, lost 70 pounds that way!

[@ghhhp]

people act like coke wasn’t actually given out by the government for real reasons lol if coke was allowed like how weed is and super regulated and sold at stores and shit i guarantee the work rate would be insane you’d see a huge percentage boost in literally everything 😂

[@boneytony5041]

Just say snow!

[@reservoirfrogs2177]

⁠@@ghhhp Including overdoses, heart and damage and increase in violent and irrational behavior in a world ripe with violent and irrational behaviors. Lets just fuck over our bodys and brains so we can slave away harder lmao, brilliant.

[@sollybear33]

​@@ghhhpheart attacks, heart attacks everywhere.

[@noodle_tax]

damn i only lost 60 pounds. still expensive tho 😕

[@patrickcullen1959]

I’m an elite marathoner and the claim that anyone could put up 140 mile weeks while training mma, the single most brutal kind of training there is, for 4 hours every day is literally absurd and nobody should take it seriously. I run 110 mile weeks and unless you are crazy specialized it is basically impossible to do this

[@jihadao]

you're a mid level college pro bro, chill out. you have no idea what fighters go through. you train part time. your results are part time.

[@Aceg13579]

Na you’re just soft and weak

[@patrickcullen1959]

@@jihadao I just ran 2:22:08 for my first marathon and I’m 21 I’m pretty sure I know how to train mate

[@backyardwrenches2283]

Keep up the hard work. Don’t let negative people bother you.

[@nicolasstarheart2903]

I fluctuate around 183-191 lbs for my walking around weight. I always grapple around my walking around weight, and sometimes I’ll be small for whatever weight class I signed up to grapple in. The #1 entry on this list is part of the reason why I have no intention of going lower than 170 lbs whenever I make the transition to MMA. Eating disorders run in my family history, I have some mental health struggles that sometimes leave me with a lot of unhealthy food cravings whenever my daily medication wears off, and I make incredibly bad choices from the stress of being hungry or thirsty. Sometimes you just have to deal with the fact that you’re not a giant in your weight class in order to preserve your longevity as a functional human being.

[@swaggercookington]

So you're saying after the stims wear off you're hungry? Color me surprised

[@nicolasstarheart2903]

@@swaggercookington Having ADHD and Autism is a bitch, man. Without those meds, I’d be unable to function.

[@asasipogi]

Damn bro, how do u compete natty (i assume cause u wanna transition to mma) in grappling against juiced up grapplers... no to mention weight bullies!

[@nicolasstarheart2903]

@@asasipogi I keep fighting until one of us gives up.

[@colbymclemore7642]

Thank fucking god Jon Jones was never given a police badge.

[@s.z.9517]

1:04 This never gets old !

[@diplamatikjuan3595]

Alex: I couldn't go hard Tito: Go hard and go home!

[@jdrahonovsky]

Ronda's ear on her shoulder while she shadowboxes will always be funny to me.

[@diplamatikjuan3595]

Can you imagine what a dirty cop officer Jon Jones would be? Drug busts would happen but no product would be found

[@madgavin7568]

He'd be one of those cops who'd do the mafia's dirty work.

[@srt10viper2]

Holy shit I thought that said “Dies” not “Diets” on the thumbnail for a second lol

[@EasyMoneyKarsten]

Tiramisu time baby

[@tomgunning1020]

The "Oh hi Mark" absolutely killed me. 🤣

[@disrespectthemwomensubjuga5471]

I Did not hit her!

[@wadekays2536]

You guys deserve way more than just one million subscribers I swear

[@Skiezah]

Lol that rousey shadow boxing

[@TrapGambino]

I dropped 25lbs in one week to prove a point to my old manager. Then the fight was cancelled. 😭

[@bsenka]

This video hit me in the feels. I'm just a recreational grappler. One of the main reasons that I compete at all is to keep my weight from getting away from me as I get older. The flip side is, the things you do to be able to hit a specific number on a certain date are decidedly not good for you. I've done several of the things on this list, and while they all really worked as far as moving the number on the scale, I'm convinced that my performance suffered as a result.

[@jaysalisbury193]

Thank you for being honest. I'm 3-0 ammy mma and 40-2 ammy kickboxing. I walk around at 180. The cut to 146 definitely took something away from me, at very least in the motivation stakes. The 138lb cut definitely made me a shell of myself. I once passed out just before having to go to the ring, I couldn't even hear my coach giving instructions. All the best, bro. I hope you are good. :) respect.

[@DiggyDougSauce94]

I LOVE the Anderson Paak reference!

[@brandonm8901]

20 mile runs in 3hrs EVERY DAY - As you say, elite Marathon runners don't do that many miles.....

[@michaelspikes1506]

Best video so far now

[@greglane334]

All JBJ needed to get to HW was three years and a lot of dodging Francis

[@aquatazer]

And a lot of gear, alongside fighting a guy who’s only been training MMA for four-five years and has almost certainly never wrestled before his most recent camp.

[@greglane334]

@@aquatazer True. I forgot about the Cyril part of the equation

[@madgavin7568]

Given the length of time it took for him to eventually get a fight booked at HW, it leads more credence to the theory that Jones was actually serving an unannounced USADA suspension since USADA won't announce Jones testing positive anymore.

[@Blackhaze3000]

@@aquatazer I'm sure your the same person who predicted Gane was going to win, now that Jones manhandled him in seconds, it's because Jones is on steroids and Cyril only been in the sport 5 years. You Jon Jones critics crack me up 😂

[@C0d0ps]

@@aquatazer Most heavy weights are on gear. This is ufc an elite sport, where their livelihood, depend on their physical performance.

[@randomguy8323]

0:35 I think we can all relate to Hernandez here

[@jasontucker5080]

Tommy!! Good to hear your voice man!

[@JulesBrunoJjBaggy]

This weekend I forgot to order a pizza for the fight. You could say I'm making the cut down to heavyweight 😏

[@calebtome3065]

Going so hard he couldn’t get hard

[@glee0425]

1:04 "HEAD MOVEMENT"

[@rellgreen6558]

That clip of Rhonda shadowboxing was hilarious. No amount of head movement can help that.

[@georgehutchinson527]

Awesome edit boys! Great quality as per

[@riproky12]

Can’t forget paulos secret juice diet

[@SoWillCoGOP]

Tiramisu😂

[@bookaufman9643]

It's awesome to know that I have something in common with JDS. I have a condition that's actually a terminal mitochondrial myopathy but the whole thing started with me being hospitalized on five occasions with rhabdo. I would go on a half-mile walk around the neighborhood and the next day my feet would be three times their size and my legs would be so swollen that if I put socks on their would be a mark across my calf for 36 hours. This kept occurring and then they took blood test and my blood tests were all bizarre as if my body's immune system was just quitting while other parts were attacking. It took two years of specialist until a geneticist found out that I have a thing called KSS which is 50% deletion of the mtdna in my brain. That's the energy source for your body so as more and more of it dies your heart dies your liver dies so at Max I have maybe two more years to live and I'll be blind when I die. who says I can't bring the happy news? Anyhow it could be a little longer, it could be a little less but it all started with rhabdo so JDS to the max.😊

[@jaysalisbury193]

Im, honestly, very sorry to hear this, brother. I hope you are doing okay as of right now. I hope you are happy. God bless.

[@crazypato3752]

Sorry bro🤲🏼

[@bookaufman9643]

@@crazypato3752 so far so good. The real issue is that there's no way to tell if it's early days or time for the final party. My doctor won't tell me shit about how the tale is going to end. I found some research papers on the internet that say there's a way to gauge it but he says it's all bulshit. I think he's just protecting me from bad news. Anyhow.

[@asasipogi]

Live your life to the fullest man!

[@bookaufman9643]

@@asasipogi I would if I could. I'm pretty damn broke and I have to live with family and my left side is consistently going out on me. It's getting harder to get around I think that people fantasize about what they would do if they knew they weren't going to live for a long time but most of the time that they get that kind of death sentence there most likely too ill to take advantage of knowing that they don't have long. It's another one of those catch 22 situations that life is so fond of giving you. I do know that you should not wait for a death sentence to start living. Like I said it's probably too late by the time you get that.

[@kennyyuen1600]

Ronda's shadow boxing always makes me laugh

[@Etanki]

Went so hard you gave yourself Ed 😂

[@streeta1484]

Watching this in the McDonald's drive thru

[@johnjohn4352]

Top notch editing on this one 😂

[@GrGidley99]

A+ Video guys!

[@KingOfWinter]

If Davis isn’t lying (he is) then he should retire from fighting and become a professional marathon runner. He’d be the number 1 guy in the sport probably win a gold medal with those numbers and not look like a holocaust survivor doing it unlike every other marathon runner.

[@RubberDuckyTheOne]

that batman meme was well done, fucking hilarious. "Swear to me!!"

[@The10thManRules]

As a 52 year old, I'm telling you, this works. Stop playing with the kitchen cabinet concoctions and "no sweat workouts".

[@PrinceIsot]

I'm glad I can naturally pack on muscle fairly quickly

[@MuhGlassRibs]

Mariusz Pudjanowski eats nothing but syringes 5 times a day

[@DylanClaggett]

140 miles a week is just insane he would have had the best cardio in the ufc no fighter has that cardio

[@patrickcullen1959]

Bro he is obviously capping that’s not even possible to do if you are also trying to train for mma

[@asentientbroccoli8658]

@@patrickcullen1959 Lmao you know nothing. In Thailand 100 is considered pretty normal for Muay Thai fighters. 140 is not outside the realm of possibility.

[@crazypato3752]

​@@asentientbroccoli8658cap. Not even Buakwaw trains like that

[@Ambo1216]

Luke killed it.

[@User-54631]

Some of the movie cuts had me dying.

[@isaacwoods5526]

“Personally I don’t believe any of this” is goated

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Rhabdomyolysis is painful as hell. I can't imagine training and fighting while experiencing it.

[@coolbreeze3793]

Tommy toe hold is on gear. 😤

[@jonlawinger]

I love it any time you can fit a Roxanne Modafferi clip in there.

[@constipatedsheep6864]

Lesson of the story is dont cut weight

[@nicorepetto5781]

When will people learn that you can only train what you can recover from

[@ontario39212]

Anderson Paak! Substances?

[@darrylkemp3253]

Rondas punching is always hilarious

[@Deeplycloseted435]

Jon Jones took 3 years to gain 20 pounds. Then claims Frances ran from him.

[@C0d0ps]

To be fair, Jon Jones has no losses, Francis does. This can lead to an over inflated ego.

[@nigeledwards2283]

Kirby is jacked out of his mind though 😂

[@Jamesfrancosdog]

Just wanted to throw some appreciation for that Christopher Walken clip at 0:56

[@lusteraliaszero]

does espn know that a low max heartrate is.. a bad thing? that's just something that happens when you age, a low heartrate is good, but a low max is not desirable in any way

[@robertnewell4054]

The Polish Monster wasn’t a power lifter …. He was StrongMan 💯%. He also had the most symmetrical & ripped physique in StrongMan Competition.

[@PulseRELOADED]

Cannonier is an inspiration

[@guywilliams6569]

Juicy JDS was a SCARY dude!

[@honeybadger3655]

😂 ol Christopher Walken from Envy. Great touch 👏🏻 👌🏻 movie is super Underrated and under appreciated

[@identitywithheldsports4324]

Should it be any surprise that guys who want to roundhouse kick and armbar each other for a living are in insane shape?

[@xToshMoosex]

Can’t believe we thought Ronda was actually good while we saw that whacky shadow boxing lol

[@effiveonline4419]

Paak at Tiny Desk 😂

[@Karabo4344]

He was going so hard, he couldn't get hard😂😂😂 Tommy you're a treasure Can 50-44 your heart and kidneys, I'm fucking dead

[@brrosee]

gifs were on point keeping it interesting but not overdoing it

[@almokhber]

still waiting for the top 10 moments when the fighter talked trash during the fight😢😒

[@da_blokae5014]

That stuff about the yo-yo diet is no joke, in two years of competing I’ve frequently fluctuated 20-30 pounds of pure fat between competing and off times, then mix an injury in there and I’ve put myself in one hell of a spot we’re working out of as I type this

[@danelynch7171]

It's almost like the weight cuts are a bad thing..... How bizarre.

[@SlayerOfTheDamned]

Dieting is hard. 23&me says I should be 178-180 so I made it there. But I looked best at 165-170. Less blubber to carry around and more definition in my body. But I’m close to getting back to where I was.

[@rootpooty23]

Never knew JDS had those issues in the 2nd Velasquez fight. Regardless Cain schooled him yet again in the 3rd fight

[@eddieatalbany]

Weight cutting is a unique thing that few people will ever understand. When i would cut 10 to 15 pounds below my natural weight to wrestling in high school i would eat myself (literally) sick and still think about nothing but eating (while being on the verge of throwing up) and this would last days sometimes. I can't even imagine what goes on inside these guys minds during and after those weight cuts. Does weight cutting contribute to eating disorders? yes. 100 percent.

[@ekko6757]

Jones: "Chicken and broccoli"

[@HawkeyFanatic]

Idk if you guys take suggestions but show stealing opening fights would be a good one

[@justlogan6979]

The biggest change I want to see in the sport is the elimination of drastic weight cuts

[@MidwesternMarx]

What happened to Hernandez happens to a lot of people actually

[@YearsOVDecay1]

I remember reading Mariusz' supposed diet in some Muscle magazine, Flex or Men's Fitness etc and I'm just not buying it. Comes off more trolling to me kinda like how Arnold used to give bad advice to competitors so he'd mess em up thus keeping Arnold at the top

[@justinbarton2278]

20 miles at a 7.5 min pace that guy would be nothing but skin and bones. Lies.

[@TheBillhs]

every time i see ronda shadowbox i die a bit inside

[@4EverAwesomness92]

wtf is that ronda boxing in the beginning 🤣

[@gjfwang]

It’s different on treadmill

[@korie4198]

While in the Army I had to try to cut weight from 120 to 114 and never was successful. We were weighed immediately after our PT test, so dehydration isn't an option. For 2 weeks I'd eat nothing but salad and plain chicken, drink nothing but water and carbo load the night prior. I would also make myself vomit before being weighed. Was always 116. After my best score I was told I needed to drop muscle and work out less to make weight, AS IF THAT MAKES SENSE.

[@clintelliston9687]

Only 6 lbs. Anyways why would they make you cut weight anyways 120 seems a healthy weight for a female

[@korie4198]

@@clintelliston9687 because females between 18 to 22 that are 4'11" are only allowed to weigh between 100 and 114. I was a size 4 but considered overweight. I have always carried a lot of muscle in my legs and all the running just made me put on even more muscle.

[@keilman7051]

You could definitely dehydrate yourself a little bit and still do a pt test. 6 lbs isn't that much to lose.

[@korie4198]

@@keilman7051 it is when you are already small. The standard the Army used at the time was very out of whack and had been replaced since. These evaluations were not supervised by medical professionals at all. Just who ever was in charge of the unit and everything was compared to a chart. BMI was also determined by the same people and that method has since been replaced and proven to be completely inaccurate. Your ability to do well in PT and make weight can effect your career because you have to sign forms everytime this happens. It's unhealthy and encourages eating disorders. I choose not to risk having a seizure or stroke due to dehydration and do well on my PT test but that isn't a choice I should have had to make. People have died due to dehydration in the military and there was always at least one person at each test who would faint. Frankly I struggled and felt like I was on the verge of being too small already and only met 2 women smaller while in the service. I trained hard in order to do well in PT, 6.5 mile runs are NOT easy, especially when your legs are short. I signed up knowing it would be hard and rose to that occasion. I wasn't aware that my body would be so closely monitored and that 2 lbs would somehow diminished all of my hard work and accomplishments.

[@k45207]

8:15 that guy is lying his ass off unless he also had a board position at EPO along with TJ

[@JurgenMiHoff]

11:48 your welcome 🙏

[@derekrusher5172]

Do you guys get more views when its TTH videos VS the other new guy im just curious? tommy feels like a part of my youth

[@vulgartech9192]

Though not with us any longer, Rumble Johnson had a place on this list...

[@krylesangerbeaver]

11:50 Pretty without them, but I assume still pretty with them. I'll come back and edit this when i am able to look up enough to see.

[@thedarkcriminal1658]

I heard Jones to get in shape chased his wife around the house to beat her up and ran as fast as he could to not get caught after running over people with his car. Picograms also helped.

[@mpforeverunlimited]

I thought ED was common during weight cuts

[@guywilliams6569]

Where is the Chael Sonnen VEGAS FOOTAGE!?!?!?