Weight Class: A Fighter's Life-or-Death Battle with an Eating Disorder

WEIGHT CLASS is the story of Danny O'Connor, an elite athlete living with a male eating disorder in a sport that demands absolute obedience to the scale. From high school wrestling, to the Olympic Games, to a professional boxing career at the highest level, extreme weight-cutting-starvation, dehydration, purging, collapse-was not only tolerated but normalized as preparation. Over time, discipline became self-destruction. "They had no idea what had happened or what I was battling. All they k...