Tony Bellew Quotes

After a weigh-in, you drink and put on the pounds. But it's just fluid, not muscle, so you get in the ring and feel flat.

It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.

Cutting weight is always rough, especially for guys like myself that make a significant cut to make a number.

I think a lot of fighters are cutting way too much weight.

I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you've done it that many times.

I had trouble making weight before in my career.

I hate cutting weight. I hate making weight. I hate dieting. But I'm going to make this weight. I can't wait to do that when I step on them scales.

I've always seen myself as a big light heavyweight fighter, I have a big frame and walk around quite heavy. So I've always had to cut around 33 lbs to make weight.

I've never met a fighter who said, 'I love cutting weight.'

All weight cuts are hard.

I wanted to drop the weight class to go to the 125s, and I played it off on how easy it was going to be. 'I can do this, no problem, I always cut weight.' I pushed my body to the extreme.

If I went up there and beat T.J. Dillashaw at 135 pounds, I have no interest whatsoever in staying at 135. People are like, 'Why not?' and I'm like, 'I have no interest in fighting guys who walk around at 160 pounds.'

The worst 24- to 36-hour period of my whole camp, the part I like the least, is the part where I've gotta cut 13 to 15 pounds of water weight.

I've never had a problem making featherweight. Of course, it wasn't easy, but it also was never an issue.

Going into a contest, I do not eat solid food and take in minimal calories for days, so I am hungry.

I wrestled at 165 pounds in college. I would actually cut from 205 pounds down to 165, and it wasn't really a big deal for me. With me wrestling all of the time, my body got used to it.

The first time I fought Ian McCall, I cut carbs completely out of my diet all through training camp. I was afraid I wasn't going to make weight, that I'd get on the scale, and it would be all, 'He weighs 128,' and the people would throw cabbage at me. I basically cut all carbs on the diet, just eat chicken and greens all the time.

We're never going to solve weight cutting, we need to just get past that. People are always going to cut weight.

In the past when I'd made my 33 lbs weight cut there would always be some small injury, my back, my knee or something else.

I've focused on being as lean as I can.

That's what I signed up for in the beginning. I was 170 pounds; 155 was forced on me.

Even when on 'The Biggest Loser', I was out doing back handsprings on the show, throwing dummies on the mat.

Every time I'm in training mode, I've had to monitor what I'm eating. I'll break 210 and be around 215 pounds. I know what it takes to compete with the best guys at 205. I've trained with them.

Most of my family is severely overweight. It's been taxing to keep my weight under control.

My first opportunity in the UFC was to cut to 140 pounds. This was too tough for me, but by me going through that, it opened the door for a 145-pound division.