{"id":150616,"date":"2025-09-17T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150616\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:09:11","slug":"mma-coach-believes-kelvin-gastelum-may-have-a-serious-eating-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150616\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA coach believes Kelvin Gastelum may have a “serious” eating disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"

MMA coach Ray Longo is of the belief that Kelvin Gastelum may well have a serious eating disorder after he once again missed weight.<\/p>\n

For many years now, Kelvin Gastelum has been an ever-present member of the UFC roster. He has fought across multiple weight classes and he has been able to defeat a plethora of big names. However, one thing that\u2019s always haunted him has been his issues with cutting weight.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Daniel Cormier reflects on \u2018unfair\u2019 interview with Kelvin Gastelum at Noche UFC after catastrophic weight miss<\/a><\/p>\n

On multiple occasions, Gastelum has missed the scale, with the most recent incident taking place at Noche UFC last weekend. He wasn\u2019t able to make the middleweight limit<\/a> for his bout against Dustin Stoltzfus and although he picked up the win, he clearly wasn\u2019t happy in the immediate aftermath of the contest.<\/p>\n

In a recent podcast appearance, Ray Longo made some interesting comments regarding Gastelum\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Longo\u2019s view on Gastelum\u2019s weight issues<\/p>\n

\u201cI like Kelvin,\u201d Longo said. \u201cHe\u2019s really been a nice guy from the first day I met him, but I do think he\u2019s got a serious eating disorder. He might fall into a category. He\u2019s struggling or something. I believe he\u2019s struggling. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that he doesn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI really believe this guy struggles with something or his body\u2019s not responding like a normal person,\u201d Longo said. \u201cI don\u2019t know. I could be completely wrong. I feel bad for him because it\u2019s not a good look. Again, don\u2019t sign the agreement if you can\u2019t make the weight. I just watched my guy [Freddy Vidal] almost die, seriously, cutting 30 pounds. He had to go another five, in six days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw [Chris] Weidman kill himself. Wouldn\u2019t accept three pounds. He just wouldn\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Quotes via MMA Fighting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MMA coach Ray Longo is of the belief that Kelvin Gastelum may well have a serious eating disorder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-150616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}