UFC 142’s Anthony Johnson done for now with welterweight division

After years of cutting in excess of 30 pounds – and sometimes as much as 50 – to fight in the welterweight division, Anthony Johnson likes the idea of fighting at middleweight.

So much so, in fact, that he’s “so far” done with his former weight class…

After years of cutting in excess of 30 pounds – and sometimes as much as 50 – to fight in the welterweight division, Anthony Johnson likes the idea of fighting at middleweight.

So much so, in fact, that he’s “so far” done with his former weight class.

“This is easy,” said Johnson, who fights Vitor Belfort next week at UFC 142. “This is going to be a lot of fun for me.”