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10 Worst Weight Cuts In UFC History

These 10 fighters had the worst weight cuts in UFC history:

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Weight cutting has been an integral issue at the forefront of the conversation in MMA lately.

It seems like every card is ruined by a fighter missing weight, and usually by a large margin. Main event fighters like Darren Till, Yoel Romero, and Kevin Lee have soiled recently featured bouts, and fight fans are rightfully getting frustrated.

Solutions from more weight classes to eliminating early weigh-ins have been considered, but thus far, nothing substantial has been done to address this glaringly obvious issue in MMA.

You won’t believe the amount of weight some fighters have clocked in at. Even worse, many of them are repeat offenders, making every weigh-in a gamble as to if they will actually make weight.

However, some of the fighters on this list who struggle with their weight cuts have been champions; for example:

 

10. Renan Barao – UFC 177

The former bantamweight champion had some serious difficulty making the 135-pound limit and didn’t even come close at UFC 177. Barao was attempting to take the title he had lost to TJ Dillashaw beforehand, but the rematch didn’t end up happening at UFC 177.

Rumor has it that he was cutting down from 163 pounds, making it a nearly 30-pound weight cut.

Barao’s weight cut was so bad that he actually passed out while in the sauna as he tried to sweat out water weight in an effort to make the bantamweight limit. Barao smacked his head on the bathtub upon blacking out and was forced out of the fight as a result.

Joe Soto ultimately filled in for Barao, making this a seriously messed up weight cut on Barao’s part. Blacking out and not even making it to a title fight is as bad as it gets.

Barao now fights at featherweight, which is still likely a difficult cut, but at least it hasn’t caused him to blackout.

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Quote of the Day: Melvin Guillard is “Praying” for a Joe Lauzon Rematch

Joe Lauzon Melvin Guillard UFC 136
(Come to think of it, we’d watch this again.) 

Perhaps Melvin Guillard has made some DRASTIC improvements to his ground game since joining up with the Blackzilians, or perhaps he simply has some sort of autoerotic asphyxiation fetish, because the hard hitting lightweight recently told MMA Weekly that he wants his next fight to be a rematch against Joe Lauzon, whom you may recall, dropped Guillard and finished him with a rear-naked choke in just under 50 seconds of their UFC 136 bout. According to Guillard, the loss is the only in his career that he felt he truly should have won. Here’s what “The Young Assassin” had to say:

In the 10 losses I have in my MMA career, I haven’t rematched anyone I’ve lost to. Not once, I’ve never really cared for rematches because I felt they won, now I’ll move on. Right now, I’m at the point where this fight means something to me, I have something to prove against Joe Lauzon, so this is a rematch I’m asking for. Right now, I’m looking to watch the fights in Japan and I’m praying that he loses to (Anthony) Pettis because I want a rematch against Joe Lauzon. I don’t want to fight nobody next but Joe Lauzon. I don’t even care how it goes, I just want to see Pettis win and I want an immediate rematch with Joe Lauzon. Hopefully, I can get that rematch by fourth of July in Vegas.

Join us after the jump for a few more interesting musings from Guillard’s interview.

Joe Lauzon Melvin Guillard UFC 136
(Come to think of it, we’d watch this again.) 

Perhaps Melvin Guillard has made some DRASTIC improvements to his ground game since joining up with the Blackzilians, or perhaps he simply has some sort of autoerotic asphyxiation fetish, because the hard hitting lightweight recently told MMA Weekly that he wants his next fight to be a rematch against Joe Lauzon, whom you may recall, dropped Guillard and finished him with a rear-naked choke in just under 50 seconds of their UFC 136 bout. According to Guillard, the loss is the only in his career that he felt he truly should have won. Here’s what “The Young Assassin” had to say:

In the 10 losses I have in my MMA career, I haven’t rematched anyone I’ve lost to. Not once, I’ve never really cared for rematches because I felt they won, now I’ll move on. Right now, I’m at the point where this fight means something to me, I have something to prove against Joe Lauzon, so this is a rematch I’m asking for. Right now, I’m looking to watch the fights in Japan and I’m praying that he loses to (Anthony) Pettis because I want a rematch against Joe Lauzon. I don’t want to fight nobody next but Joe Lauzon. I don’t even care how it goes, I just want to see Pettis win and I want an immediate rematch with Joe Lauzon. Hopefully, I can get that rematch by fourth of July in Vegas.

Guillard also stated that his dislike for Lauzon has dramatically increased over the past couple months thanks to Twitter, go figure. Apparently Lauzon had some less than nice things to say about Guillard in the wake of his first round submission (also by rear-naked choke) loss to Jim Miller at the inaugural UFC on FX event. Shortly after the fight was over, Lauzon posted, “Some people never learn…that looked familiar.” That statement, along with several other comments Lauzon made expressing his frustration over Guillard’s claims that the loss was a fluke seem to have angered Guillard to no end:

Lately on my Twitter some posts have been popping up and I’m like what the hell is this? So I’m looking and next thing I know it’s people talking about Joe Lauzon hit the nail on the head, he was right, so I went in and read the article and all of a sudden he’s blasting me talking about he slapped me and he choked me out, and Melvin’s going around telling everybody I got lucky. 

I never said the dude got lucky. I said it was a good fight, I always gave Joe Lauzon the respect that was due, and I thought he was the better guy that day. Did I think the fight was a fluke on my part? Yeah, the fight was a fluke on my part, but I never took anything from him. So I guess he misinterpreted what I said.

Guillard has grown so heated over Lauzon’s recent comments, in fact, that he has threatened to violate the CP ban of bringing back your old self when discussing his future pans for “J-Lau.”

The new me, I’m trying to be respectful and handle it the right way, but at this point right now I’m kind of fed up with it. The old me is about to come out on Joe Lauzon. He’s about to take Rich Clementi’s place of being that guy that I just don’t like.

If you recall, Clementi and Guillard had an epic war of words before, during, and after their UFC 79 battle. If you also recall, Clementi won that fight by way of REAR-NAKED CHOKE. Afterward, Clementi and Guillard nearly came to blows yet again when Clementi told Joe Rogan in the post fight interview that Melvin “still hadn’t learned his lesson.” Ironic.

What do you guys think? Does Guillard deserve another shot at Lauzon, or should we be talking about the fact that a man who was being touted as the next lightweight title contender not too long ago is now asking for rematch against an opponent who would hypothetically be coming off a loss? Discuss.

-J. Jones

Frankie Edgar Says Watching UFC 136 Fight Is Like An Out-of-Body Experience

Filed under: UFC, MMA Fighting ExclusiveThe night of Oct. 8, 2011 is likely to be Frankie Edgar’s defining moment as a fighter. On that evening, Edgar authored the most triumphant comeback Houston had seen since the landing of Apollo 13, overcoming a d…

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The night of Oct. 8, 2011 is likely to be Frankie Edgar‘s defining moment as a fighter. On that evening, Edgar authored the most triumphant comeback Houston had seen since the landing of Apollo 13, overcoming a disastrous first round before knocking out challenger Gray Maynard in the fourth.

Edgar is not a fighter who likes to watch much tape on himself, but he’s watched and re-watched his UFC 136 performance a few times with his coaches and family, and likens it to an out-of-body experience.

In fact, when he discusses it, he does so in a way that makes it sound like he wasn’t there that night, that he was just another fan watching two fighters. A smile forms on his face and he shrugs his shoulders, an unintentional participant in history.

“I was in awe of it myself,” he told MMA Fighting. “I was in awe of what I’d done, just like everyone else.”

That candid reaction almost comes as a surprise from the usually soft-spoken champion.

Most people who’ve seen him interviewed know that he speaks quickly and efficiently, an economy of words that mirrors his speedy and effective style in the cage. Sometimes, you have to pull the words out of him.

But his thoughts on that fight are fully formulated, even though it’s taken him a few viewings to get there.

“I don’t like the first round,” he said. “I have two young kids. They’ll be watching it, and they don’t like the first round either.”

He laughs at that before going on.

“Everyone asked how did you make it through the round?” he said. “I don’t know. I don’t know what it is. I guess I’ll attribute it to how I prepare myself, and my will to win. When I watched it, it’s like I became a fan of myself, too.”

Edgar probably made many new fans that night. After the bout, UFC president Dana White equated his heart and late-round ferocity to that of the late boxing warrior Arturo Gatti. After spending most of the last two years focused on Maynard and BJ Penn, Edgar can finally look forward to a new challenge when he faces Ben Henderson at UFC 143 in Japan in February 2012.

For now, Edgar’s in the early stages of planning for the fight. He says he’s been impressed with Henderson’s tenacity and improvement in romping past Mark Bocek, Jim Miller and Clay Guida in consecutive fights. He also knows he’s likely as always to be at a size disadvantage. Henderson recently said he would look to add on a few pounds of muscle to give himself the biggest edge possible.

Edgar says he doesn’t worry about things he can’t control, and he certainly can’t control Henderson’s diet. Instead, he will focus on what he does well. And he’ll eventually walk to the cage knowing that even if seemingly everything goes wrong, he can summon the will to rebound.

“As far as technique goes, [Ben] is a tough kid,” he said. “We’ve both fought great opponents and he’s been impressive. But I’d say my edge is my experience in title fights. I know he was a champ in the WEC, but it’s a different animal in the UFC. The media, the lights, the crowd, everything. I don’t know if he’s sure about all that, but I am. I’m comfortable with it. I’m comfortable with everything.”

 

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Your Daily Dose of Danavlog: UFC 137 Edition

Dana White’s video blogs, though sporadic, have taken an increasingly interesting turn in that they are now largely made up of post-fight footage from UFC events rather than the day-to-day extravagance that is “The Baldfather’s” life. As with his UFC 136 vlog, Dana gives us a brief introduction and wishes us a happy Halloween before throwing us behind the scenes of UFC 136 to witness the agony of defeat firsthand.

Particularly tough to watch is that of Melvin Guillard, who, after having his lightweight title aspirations choked out of him by Joe Lauzon, completely loses his shit backstage, throwing a chair across the room before breaking down on his hands and knees as the doctor’s try to attend to him. Even Joe Warren had to look away.

Join us after the jump for some other musings from this week’s vlog:

Dana White’s video blogs, though sporadic, have taken an increasingly interesting turn in that they are now largely made up of post-fight footage from UFC events rather than the day-to-day extravagance that is “The Baldfather’s” life. As with his UFC 136 vlog, Dana gives us a brief introduction and wishes us a happy Halloween before throwing us behind the scenes of UFC 136 to witness the agony of defeat firsthand.

Particularly tough to watch is that of Melvin Guillard, who, after having his lightweight title aspirations choked out of him by Joe Lauzon, completely loses his shit backstage, throwing a chair across the room before breaking down on his hands and knees as the doctor’s try to attend to him. Even Joe Warren had to look away.

Some notes:

–Nam Phan and Leonard Garcia are two of the coolest dudes in the sport, at least when around one another.

–Brian Stann sweats better interview answers than most fighters can dream up in their lives.

–Chael Sonnen is in fact capable of showing affection to anyone but himself.

-It never gets any easier seeing that look on Ken-Flo’s face following a title fight.

–Anderson Silva wants a different belt for every time he defends it, because why not? He also is a follower of the Ron Swanson/Tiger Woods power outfit theory.

–Gray Maynard is a man of very few words.

–Jon Jones is a Frankie Edgar fan.

-Danga 

Chael Sonnen on Anderson Silva: I’ll Slap Him and Dump a Coke on Him

Chael Sonnen continues to pull out every trick in the book in attempts of getting Anderson Silva to agree to fight him Super Bowl weekend in early 2012. Sonnen took it a step further when he was live on the Jim Rome Show (video above) and addresse…

Chael Sonnen continues to pull out every trick in the book in attempts of getting Anderson Silva to agree to fight him Super Bowl weekend in early 2012.

Sonnen took it a step further when he was live on the Jim Rome Show (video above) and addressed his current dilemma with Silva.

“I’m not going to quit picking a fight with him and I’m not sorry for any of it,” Sonnen stated.

In shock, Rome fired back with several questions for Sonnen:

“You’re picking a fight with this guy? You’re calling this guy out? Will you get him to fight you? Will he accept?”

It didn’t take Sonnen long to turn the question back around on Silva.

“Is he going to take the fight? No,” Sonnen said. “Is Dana (White) going to make him take the fight? Yes, absolutely. Dana picks the fights—not Anderson.”

This isn’t the first time Sonnen has called out Silva on national television. Following his victory over Brian Stann at UFC 136, Sonnen was quick to address Silva and challenge him to a “loser leaves town” fight.

Rome questioned Sonnen to what he would have done if Silva would have done this to him.

“I would come over the guard rail,” Sonnen said. “I would have walked up those little steps. I would have gotten in the Octagon, and taken the microphone out of his hand, and shoved it straight down his throat.”

A bit harsh.

While Sonnen was quick to address his much-desired rematch with Silva, he wasn’t so fast to discuss his lost to Silva at UFC 117.

When Rome attempted to question being submitted in the fifth and final round of action against Silva the first time around, Sonnen quickly changed the subject and laughed.

Sonnen one-upped himself when Rome asked if there was anything left he could do to get Silva to fight him.

Sonnen’s response? “I’ll slap Anderson the next time I see him.”

“That might be the only way to get it done,” Rome stated. “You have to throw a drink in his face; you’ve got to slap him in the face—you have to do something like that.”

Sonnen cheerfully agreed:

“I don’t know what to do—I was going to dump a Coke on him one time. He was right next to me one time and the waitress just brought me a Coke. If I thought he was worth a buck-fifty. I would have done it.”

If for some reason White doesn’t have these two squaring off, a slap in the face and a dumped Coke just might be enough.

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Like a Typical Politician, Chael Sonnen Retracts His “Loser Leave Town” Remarks


(And for my next trick, I’ll make my transcribed threats disappear.) 

Who didn’t see this coming? Though we’ve long questioned/marveled at Chael Sonnen‘s mental stability, or lack thereof, his recent appearance on the Jim Rome Show has more or less confirmed or suspicions that most of what comes out of his mouth is utter bullshit. For instance, when asked if the “loser leaves town” scenario that he proposed to Anderson Silva during his post fight interview at UFC 136 was still valid, Sonnen, like a typical politician, said that the offer had expired. We’ll let “The Oregon Wankster” explain:


(And for my next trick, I’ll make my transcribed threats disappear.) 

Who didn’t see this coming? Though we’ve long questioned/marveled at Chael Sonnen‘s mental stability, or lack thereof, his recent appearance on the Jim Rome Show has more or less confirmed or suspicions that most of what comes out of his mouth is utter bullshit. For instance, when asked if the “loser leaves town” scenario that he proposed to Anderson Silva during his post fight interview at UFC 136 was still valid, Sonnen, like a typical politician, said that the offer had expired. We’ll let “The Oregon Wankster” explain:

That was a spur of the moment type of thing. I’m trying to pick a fight with this guy…That offer was good when I made it, but it’s like any offer, you know, they’ve got to expire. Apparently, that didn’t work. I’m doing anything I can to lure him out, and yes, I would have absolutely done that. I’d have done a winner-takes-all, I’d have done any stipulation he wanted. All he needed to do was stand up and give me a thumbs up. He wanted to accept that offer, all he needed to do was nod to me, or have one of his handlers come into the back and says ‘Anderson accepts.’ He did the exact opposite. He went to the media and said ‘I do not want to fight that guy.’ So what can I do? Now I have to come up with a new offer.

Apparently an offer from Chael Sonnen explodes faster than one from IMF. And I gotta say, this latest move makes Chael Sonnen seem much less confident in his abilities heading into a possible rematch with “The Spider” than we’ve seen before. Then again, we’ve seen this kind of behavior on so many occasions that it’s getting harder and harder to take anything Sonnen says seriously. For instance, this is what Sonnen had to say about the possibility of a superfight between GSP and Silva in the future:

Me fighting the air is a bigger fight than those two turkeys … Apparently because I’m wildly popular … A mop and a garbage can in the ring with me would be more interesting than those two.

Truly the words of a “People’s Champion.” Then again, that title is really starting to lose some of its valor. Check out the full audio of Chael’s appearance below.

-Danga