{"id":930055,"date":"2026-10-16T08:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930055\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:38:15","slug":"mma-liz-carmouche-shaves-head-to-make-weight-for-pfl-world-title-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930055\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA: Liz Carmouche shaves head to make weight for PFL world title fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liz Carmouche shaved her head to successfully make weight for her world title fight in Chicago on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MMA veteran, who has previously fought in the UFC and Bellator, faces Jena Bishop in the main event for the PFL flyweight world title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bishop came in just under the 125lb limit, but 42-year-old Carmouche needed a hasty haircut before she stepped on the scales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The American&#8217;s team used electric clippers to shave her head and ensure she made weight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the last-minute rush, Carmouche was all smiles as she weighed in, rubbing her hair to show off her new haircut &#8211; including some bare spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking earlier in the week, Carmouche admitted flyweight was a &#8220;crazy cut&#8221; for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My bone density keeps increasing, therefore my weight keeps increasing and I can keep reducing calories but that&#8217;s not going to change the build of my body,&#8221; she told Ariel Helwani on Uncrowned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So 135lb makes the most sense, but the performance I have at 125lb makes it really hard to want to go up a weight class.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liz Carmouche shaved her head to successfully make weight for her world title fight in Chicago on Friday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-930055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}