The New York State Athletic Commission is the greenest in the USA, and it showed at UFC 210 in April. Daniel Cormier weighed in heavy before weighing in on the nose just two minutes later. He did so not by serendipitously finding a gravity leak, but instead by pulling off a high school wrestling trick – DC pretended to hold the towel in front of him, while in reality pressing down on it with 1.2 pounds of pressure.
But the NYSAC won’t be fooled again.
Sergio da Silva and Matt Rizzo agreed to a 130 pound catchweight fight at Saturday’s Bellator 180, but when da Silva stepped on the scale, he clearly knew that he was high. So he tried a series of stupid fighter tricks to make weight:
•Stand on one foot and push ever so gently with the other foot on something solid;
•Lean as far forward as possible, like you are trying to walk into a great wind;
•Constantly move so the weight bounces up and down, sometimes low enough to pass; and,
•Stand on different parts of scale looking for an inaccurate spot.
To their notable credit, the NYSAC inspectors were having none of it, professionally but firmly getting da Silva to knock it off with each attempt.
https://twitter.com/MMAjunkie/status/878290300409696258
In the end da Silva weighed in at 137.6 for the 130 catchweight. Opponent Rizzo weighed in at 133.6, and as it was a catchweight anyway, the bout will go ahead, without punishment for either fighter.
Bellator 180 and Bellator NYC take place Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.
