Trying to make weight ahead of a fight can be a dangerous time for a fighter as they push the absolute limits of human strength.
Fighters in the past have been helped onto the scales while others have collapsed after just weighing in under the limit.
For some as much as they try and as dangerous as the feat is, they still fall short of the required cutting.
But for one MMA fighter, it almost cost him his life.
Heavyweight Tyrell Fortune spoke to Fansided's Amy Kaplan and detailed the moment just out of college when he attempted to cut drastic weight that ended with him being rushed to hospital and pronounced dead.