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The weight cutting problems for former UFC welterweight Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson (10-4) keep piling up for the fighter as reports have surfaced that Johnson was far from making the 186-lbs cutoff for his middleweight Titan Fighting Championship 22 bout versus David Branch.
The two fighters have agreed to meet in a 195-lbs catchweight bout for the event, which was confirmed by Branch’s manager Ali Abdei-Aziz.
“Both of them made weight, they agreed to fight at 195lbs,” Abdel-Aziz told MMAWeekly.com on Thursday. “This is going to be an amazing fight.”
According to promoter Joe Kelly, who spoke on Thursday’s edition of Bloody Elbow Radio, both fighters had signed catchwieght contracts with Johnson weighing in at 194.2-lbs and Branch weighing 189.2-lbs.
Johnson is notorious for missing weight, having missed weight for several welterweight matches in the Octagon in the past. His most notorious missed weight debacle, his last fight in fact, was his middleweight debut versus Vitor Belfort last January at UFC 142 when Johnson weighed in at 197-lbs for the 185-lbs affair.
Belfort agreed to a catchweight bout and subsequently submitted ‘Rumble’ in the first round.