We were just texting a few minutes ago and he said, ‘Hey, I’m sorry about that. I’ll come back stronger.’ I said, ‘Yeah, at one 185 you will.’ He said, ‘No, I want to stay at 170.’ It’s not like this guy has been off for a year, he looked lethargic tonight. He looked slow. He doesn’t belong at 170. He belongs at 185 pounds. It’s (expletive) to have guys make weight and have guys not make weight, especially at this level. When you’re in the UFC, your job is to make weight. Everyone else made weight that day, so it wasn’t the scale. He didn’t come in on weight, period. Believe me, I didn’t think Thiago didn’t want to make weight. He can’t. Could he have cut that half a pound? Maybe he couldn’t have. Maybe he cut so much weight that mentally, it would have broke him to go cut that last half a pound and that’s (expletive). I guarantee he can make 185 and he’ll never have a problem at it.
På den här nivån så går folk ner upp mot 20 kilo inför matcher, och Thiago Alves är en av toppen i detta bantnings-VM. Det är sjukt, men även något som ska göras. Alves lovade oss några dagar innan invägningen att han lätt skulle klara vikten. Ändå vägde han in 225 gram för mycket inför UFC 117, och det uppskattades inte. Som straff fick han böta 20% av sin grundlön, vilket i detta fall kanske är ca 30-60 000 kr.
Nu lutar det åt att han precis som James Irvin, inte får välja sin viktklass utan rulla med det Dana White säger.
