UFC 104: Johnson Misses His Mark At Weigh-In

October 24, 2009, at 10:37 am

Welcome to yet another UFC Saturday. Pumped, Thy Name is I.

However, there was a bit of Buzzkill last night as Anthony “Rumble” Johnson, who is one of Jason’s favorite fighters, weighed in way over the 170 pound welterweight limit.

While Johnson will still be able to fight, he’ll likely have his pursed slashed into fractions of what he was supposed to make. To make things worse, anyone who has ever watched The Ultimate Fighter will tell you that there is nothing that UFC President Dana White hates more than fighters missing weight. Now, it’s suddenly incredibly important that the 4-2 (UFC Record) Johnson win his fight. Mainly because if he wins, White can’t exile him from the promotion as fighters can only be cut after a loss in the UFC.

Johnson is just HUGE for a welterweight. According to Sherdog, he began his six week training camp weighing an amazing 220 pounds. Let’s think about this for a second. Johnson essentially lost a pre-teen girl worth of weight and couldn’t cut to his weight class. Hell, light heavyweight champion and all-around badass Lyoto Machida doesn’t cut weight, and weighed less than Johnson did when he started camp.

I know that every fighter tries to get to down the lightest weight class that they can for the strength advantage, but at a certain point it becomes stupid.

This just proves something that I have been thinking for a while. “Rumble” should be a middleweight. Think about it, who in the middleweight division, outside of the top three or four guys, would really challenge him? Let’s list the guys who would handle him easily: