Johnson looking for Oct/Nov return at middleweight
Finishing a stint in rehab, Anthony Johnson ballooned up to around 230 pounds in his off time, and now he’s…
Finishing a stint in rehab, Anthony Johnson ballooned up to around 230 pounds in his off time, and now he’s battling back and making some decisions about what weight class he wants to fight at next.
“Anthony Johnson at one point weighed the same as Ricco Rodriguez, which is kind of scary. He weighed the same as Ricco Rodriguez, except he had abs,” Johnson’s agent, Ken Pavia, joked with MMAWeekly Radio. “He had a knee injury. He had surgery, took some time off to let it heal, it was giving him some problems, but now he’s in rehab and doing rehab for his knee.
“We had a UFC offer in September that we weren’t able to pursue. We’re entertaining the possibility of taking a fight at 185, which is something we might have done anyway even if he didn’t have the knee injury because that cut is just so tough for him.”
“We were offered a fight at 185, a fight that we liked and before he accepted it, he said even if I do take a fight at 185, September might be pushing it. I want to get some time in the gym first,” said Pavia.
“We’re looking at late October, early November for him, and we’re not sure if the first fight back is going to be at 70 and we’re going to kill ourselves, or at 85 and just kind of kill ourselves.”
