Anthony “Rumble” Johnson misses weight by over 11 pounds due to “medical reasons” a.k.a. dehyration. A doctor administered fluids after Johnson fell ill about 3 hours before weigh-ins: Read here. Anderson Silva‘s mounting injuries leave.
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UFC President Dana White told MMA Junkie he was “beyond pissed” at Anthony “Rumble” Johnson for weighing 197 pounds for a middleweight UFC 142 co-main event bout against Vitor Belfort.White said Johnson came within a pound-and-a-half of the 186-pound l…
White said Johnson came within a pound-and-a-half of the 186-pound limit allowed for non-title middleweight fights, but was forced by a doctor to rehydrate because “he couldn’t make it.”
“His job is on the line,” White stated, pulling no punches. “His job is absolutely on the line, win or lose.”
Glenn Robinson, Johnson’s manager, told both MMA Mania and Yahoo! Sports that the reason for being nowhere near the middleweight limit is that Rumble fell ill hours before the fight and was forced to rehydrate for “medical reasons.”
“They called in the local doctor, who made him drink a bunch of fluids to see if that made him feel better. About an hour later he started feeling better. By the time he started feeling better, it was an hour to weigh-ins. … There was no time to shed the weight,” Robinson said.
I’m already laughing at what ppl are saying. Yeah it was for medical reason and I did what the UFC Dr Told me to do. Believe it or don’t I give a f**k cuz the ppl close to me were freaking out but I’m still alive and something like this has never happen before. Say what you want I’m still gonna do my thang. You try not having feeling in your legs and can’t move then and see how you look at life after that.
One has to ask the question: if Johnson is telling the truth about the situation, why is he being permitted to fight tomorrow?
This marks the third time in the UFC that Johnson has missed weight drastically and been fined 20 percent of his “show purse.”
Johnson, who reportedly walks around in the range of 220-230 pounds, fought Rich Clementi at a catch weight of 177.5 pounds at UFC 76 and also battled Yoshiyuki Yoshida at 176 pounds at UFC 104.
By now, you’ve probably heard the big news of the day: Anthony “Hey Yo, Is That My Tummy Rumblin’?” Johnson missed weight today in historic fashion, tipping the scales at 197 pounds. According to some research that I absolutely did not just do, twelve pounds is the most that anyone has ever blown weight anywhere ever, and you can feel free to correct me in the comments. Vitor Belfort has agreed to fight a catchweight at 197, but has asked that Johnson weigh-in again tomorrow at no more than 205.
Now, maybe I’m not shocked by this — but damn brotato, how do you miss — how do you go UP a weight class because you have a nightmare cut at 170 and the boss has said you belong at 185, then proceed to bulk up like you got a call from Vince McMahon?
Serious question: is Anthony Johnson dyslexic with numbers or something? Just checking.
By now, you’ve probably heard the big news of the day: Anthony “Hey Yo, Is That My Tummy Rumblin’?” Johnson missed weight today in historic fashion, tipping the scales at 197 pounds. According to some research that I absolutely did not just do, twelve pounds is the most that anyone has ever blown weight anywhere ever, and you can feel free to correct me in the comments. Vitor Belfort has agreed to fight a catchweight at 197, but has asked that Johnson weigh-in again tomorrow at no more than 205.
Now, maybe I’m not exactly shocked by this — but damn brotato, how do you miss … how do you go UP a weight class because you have a nightmare cut at 170 and the boss has said you belong at 185, then proceed to bulk up like you got a call from Vince McMahon?
Serious question: is Anthony Johnson dyslexic with numbers or something? Just checking.
The downsides are all on Rumble’s side. Dana is already going on record calling him “unprofessional”, which may be code for “black”, but in this case is actually code for “I’m going to fuck him worse than he’s ever been fucked before”. Unless Rumble puts in a Fight of the Night-worthy performance, he will almost certainly lose his job and wind up in StrikeForce, except without their awesome salaries.
First off: bungalow fans rejoice, because this just became a slugfest. Johnson has to know that a methodical, grinding win will result in Dana firing him angrily during the press conference (which Johnson would not be invited to). Johnson is going to have to use his reach and size (ha ha, get it?) to win a stand up fight with Belfort.
Belfort himself comes out of this like a champ, because he can not lose in this situation. He’s stepping up to save the fight, which means he’ll have a job with the UFC through the next two years or four losses (whichever comes first). Should he lose, his record will have an asterisk for all eternity that Johnson was a 250 pound roid-monster in the cage, and if he pulls out a win the internet will explode because Vitor Belfort just knocked out a heavyweight holy shit did you see that, bro!? It’s like UFC 13 again, only in Brazil.
Meanwhile Johnson loses pretty much any way you slice it. He’ll be a visibly larger man in the cage to anyone with rods and cones to rub together, and any win he gets will be tainted. No one is going to be particularly impressed with a quick knockout on a smaller Belfort, and if he actually tries to wrestle Belfort for a decision?
UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo is 20-1 as a pro fighter, 2-0 in his UFC career with a “Fight of 2011” candidate in his UFC 129 win over Mark Hominick and a UFC 136 win over Middleweight-turned-Featherweight Kenny Florian, and he’s seen by some as…
UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo is 20-1 as a pro fighter, 2-0 in his UFC career with a “Fight of 2011” candidate in his UFC 129 win over Mark Hominick and a UFC 136 win over Middleweight-turned-Featherweight Kenny Florian, and he’s seen by some as the best Featherweight in MMA while others argue that Aldo is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport.
However, this Saturday night, Aldo faces a tough task at Brazil’s HSBC Arenain Rio de Janeiro; while he’s going to have 14,000-plus people on his side, he will also have to contest the athleticism, wrestling, strength, and relentlessness of the undefeated Chad “Money” Mendes—and justifiably so. Some believe that Mendes will in fact be the first man to snap Aldo’s win streak, which dates back to 2005.
Underneath Aldo’s trip home is the debut of who some might call “The REAL Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson” as he steps into enemy territory to combat TUF: Brazil coach and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort in the explosive co-main event of what promises to be a successful return to Rio and also a successful first card for the UFC’s 2012 schedule.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages and nationalities, with all this and more, Bleacher Report MMA presents UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes, and we’re giving you every hard-hitting moment of the action as seen through the eyes of your “Human Torch of MMA”, Dale De Souza, from the first opening bell to the final official decision of the evening!
Filed under: UFC, NewsWhen Anthony Johnson moved up from welterweight to middleweight for his UFC 142 fight with Vitor Belfort, it just seemed like common sense: Johnson had struggled mightily to make the 170-pound welterweight limit, and so the 185-po…
When Anthony Johnson moved up from welterweight to middleweight for his UFC 142 fight with Vitor Belfort, it just seemed like common sense: Johnson had struggled mightily to make the 170-pound welterweight limit, and so the 185-pound middleweight class was a much better home for him.
But there’s just one problem: Johnson can’t make weight at middleweight, either. Johnson came in at 197 pounds.
Just before the UFC 142 weigh-ins on Friday in Rio de Janeiro, UFC President Dana White announced that Johnson is over the 185-pound limit and won’t be able to get down, and so the fight is in jeopardy, although Belfort is expected to agree to fight Johnson anyway.
“Rumble Johnson is not on weight today. And when I say he’s not on weight he’s way off weight,” White said.
So the UFC has essentially decided to turn this into a light heavyweight bout, but with an added condition: They’ll have a second weigh-in on Saturday at which Johnson will have to make it under the light heavyweight limit of 205 pounds again. If Johnson can’t make weight then, the fight is off.
“The stipulation is, Vitor does not want him to weigh more than 205 pounds by tomorrow at like 2 o’clock in the afternoon,” White said. “So we’ll see how this thing plays out. He’ll weigh in today and have to weigh in tomorrow.”
White made it clear that he’s not happy with Johnson.
“As a fighter, you are a professional. You are contracted to come in at a certain weight. This is not the first time this has happened with Johnson. He moved up to 185 pounds so this wouldn’t happen to him at 170 pounds, and here we are in the same position again. [Belfort] came in like a professional on weight, and Anthony Johnson comes in as a total unprofessional, way overweight.”
White appeared angry enough on Friday that this might be Johnson’s final fight in the UFC in any weight class.
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