‘It got really scary’: Daiane Silva’s manager pushes for serious changes to weight cutting in MMA after near-death experience 

It’s a message Alex Davis never expected much less one that he wanted to see.

The veteran manager, who works with athletes such as Edson Barboza, John Lineker, Amanda Ribas and Norma Dumont, has spent almost his entire life around martial arts, but nothing could have prepared him for when one of his newest clients was on the way to the hospital following a harrowing weight cut.

This past September, Daiane Silva was preparing...