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Iceland's Gunnar Nelson blasts 'stupid,' 'unhealthy' weight cutting, dreams of a day when UFC fighters fight 'people their size'

"I just think guys should fight [at] their weight. And as it is now, it's not really the fighters, it's the rules. And the fighters are just taking advantage of the rules, and they're working it the way it is. And they're actually fighting guys their weight, because everybody cuts so much weight, except me maybe and a few others. But, I think they should change it so that people can just fight closer to the weight, so that people don't have to be cutting all this weight to have to fight people their size. I just think it's a stupid, ridiculous situation that we've built up, and I feel like there's ways around it and there's ways to get rid of it.