Source: Johnson was 30 pounds over limit two weeks before weigh in
At UFC Fight Night 24 Anthony Johnson claimed he weighed 230 pounds just eight weeks before successfully making the 171…
At UFC Fight Night 24 Anthony Johnson claimed he weighed 230 pounds just eight weeks before successfully making the 171 weigh limit for the Dan Hardy fight. That is an almost unimaginable drop of 60 pounds.
Charles ‘Chainsaw’ McCarthy’s CageJunkies has learned from sources with direct contact to Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson that the would be middleweight weighed in at 215 lbs two weeks ago. Even this drop, half what Johnson claimed he did for the Hardy fight, proved to be life threatening.
To put this into context, Johnson would have had to lose 30 lbs. in two weeks to make weight for his fight with Vitor Belfort at UFC 142.
Thirty pounds is an extraordinary amount of weight,” said McCarthy. “I was a big cutter and I would do 20 pounds in two weeks. As a matter of fact, I have never met a fighter that started his cut over 205 to get down to 185 pounds in that timeframe.”
This is lends further weight to the idea that something has to be done about weight cutting in MMA, before, not after someone dies.