Just announced on the FUEL TV special broadcast for today’s UFC 142 weigh-ins is that Anthony “Rumble” Johnson has not been able to make his contracted weight of 185 pounds for tomorrow’s co-main event against Vitor Belfort.
UFC president Dana White made the announcement live on TV just moments ago.
“Vitor does not want him to weigh more than 205 pounds on fight night,” said White. “He will weigh in today and weigh in tomorrow. As a fighter, you are a professional, you are contracted to come in at a certain weight. This is not the first time this has happened with Johnson.”
As a result the bout could be in jeopardy from going down. Vitor is on weight, but Johnson may not even be able to make the light-heavyweight limit in his debut to middleweight.
The bout goes on as long as after re-hydrating Johnson doesn’t weigh more than 205 pounds.
The result is that a middleweight fighter in Vitor Belfort has agreed to face a light-heavyweight fighter in Anthony Johnson.
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Props to Vitor for still willing to fight. I like Rumble but Dana does need to put his foot down and make an example here this is ridiculous.
He seriously needs to get cut. He cut too much weight and missed weight too much at WW so what does he do? Go up to MW and miss weight more than twice more he ever has in his career. He is a can crusher anyway and is not even that good. Send him to SF Rockhold needs a challenge if his fat ass can make weight that time.
I like this idea.
12 lbs above the limit? really? damn, take away his purse since he doesn’t seem to care about it. I hope Vitor knock him the f*** out worst than he did Matt Lindland.
Vitor should get the whole purse win lose or draw,what a disrespectful mofo!!!
How disrepectful. You know what you have to weigh; why not just call and cancel saying you’re stuck in the McDonalds drive-thru or something???
Belfort should get Johnson’s share as well; win, loose, or draw. Might make some people try to make weight or fight in a different weight class.
Class act award to Vitor. He’s letting Rumble ride with this one. Both of them will blow up to around 205 after carb loading anyway on fight night, so he gives Rumble a break not having to go through the disadvantage of putting his body through the wear of cutting.
Rumble is much much heavier than 205, he will have to continue to dehydrate to make 205. He’s fucked.
They should send him packing and bring in another fighter. im sure Vitor is game, johnson just doesnt deserve the fight or even to be in the UFC. No class man…
Damn what an @hole. Props to Vitor for making weight and still wanting to go on and give the fans the fight they’ve been waiting for…
If Johnson resorts to lay n pray he should be cut immediately.
SO DOES THIS MEAN RUMBLE CAN’T EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING TILL SAT AT 2PM BRAZIL TIME?!? NOT EVEN SURE IF THAT’S POSSIBLE WITHOUT DYING. LOL. IF HE DOES MAKE IT HE WILL BE A SICK DEHYDRATED ZOMBIE…DAT VITOR WILL EASILY DESTROY. DAMN HE PUT HIMSELF IN A HORRIBLE POSITION. I DON’T THINK THERE IS ANYWAY HE CAN MAKE THESE STIPULATIONS. IF I WERE HIM I WOULD PULL OUT. NOT A FAN OF FIGHTERS PULLIN OUT..BUT THIS IS SERIOUS HEALTH ISSUES IF HE FIGHTS THAT DEHYDRATED.
Totally agree, I think your 100% correct…Johnson will gas before he enters the ring and get fucked up. But if he pulls out then he knows he is gone from the UFC. Down here in brazil the fights are very important, so if he cant fight then causes problems for Dana´s pocket. No matter what happens now, Johnson has already hurt his career badly.
This is a joke, he is an embarrassment to MMA. I like Johnson, but this is just ridiculous and I am sure after this fight regardless of a win or a loss Anthony will be in deep do do. It is bad enough to risk making a fight cancel in the United States, but to take the second show in Brazil and then take out a Co-main event fight with arguably the countries most popular fighter. Johnson will be on the fence win or lose Dana didn’t look very happy.
he makes weight on 170 but can’t make weight on 185. hmm.
Wow what a shit head… hope Vitor knocks the stupid right off his face!
Check Rumbles twitter page fags…he gives an explanation of what was goin on…keep callin urselfs fans but are quick to throw a dude under the bus. And Dana White is the man with all he’s done with the UFC but this is the second time a fighter has said that the UFC was informed with what was goin on yet Dana gives an interview and acts completely blindsided. Nate Marquardt and now Rumble. Somebody isn’t being honest. Jus sayin.
I just googled it and didn’t see anything… his last tweet was Feb 3rd 2010. Be a good sport and fill us in.
try this one http://twitter.com/Anthony_Rumble
And try to refrain from the insults (fags). He missed weight by a lot… fans are bound to be pissed.
hahaha you an idiot,…if he told dana week ago the fight would be caneled,,,and nate was liar ok bro he took juic then used a doc for cover…wha a fag you ar talking shit
hahahahahahahaaa
Remember Rumble, 1-8-5! Not 2-0-5!
Vitor def the man for still accepting this fight. I think even if Rumble still weighed 215, Vitor would still fight him. If I’m not mistaken this is his first UFC fight in his hometown. 20% pay cut should be just for the first few pounds. % should go up every few pounds more. I hope Vitor whoops his ass for 14 mins then knocks him out. Pretty sad that he missed it by so much..
Nope second in less then a year, first of 2012. Vitor beat V.Silva in Rio back the late 90´s
You’re right. My bad. Been a long time tho. You know he doesn’t want to miss fighting tonight.
Talkin crap couldn’t even make weight wtf feed him to overeem!
I think he is looking for advantages…he already lost if Vitor is in his head enough to make him want ANY advantage. Not very professional in my opinion. Hope theys till fight! WAR PENN WAR!!!
This is gonna cost Johnson the fight, now that he didnt make weight, he has to be only 205 tomorrow? wow, he wouldve weighed more than that if he wouldve weighed in at 185lbs…. now he is gonna have to still cut some weight tomorrow, and then hes gonna have to fight right after that?! thats gonna be rough…. hes gonna have no cardio….. sucks……fuck Johnson, the fuck you thinkin?
with that bein’ said, yall need to SHUT THE FUCK UP! I know we as fans have the right to be pissed, but for you losers, who are probably excessive over weight, sitting on your ass, talkin all this shit about johnson, shut your cookie filled mouths….
Anyone who is tryin to read what Johnson put out to the media check out MMA Weekly…they posted an article sayin that about an hour or so before the actual weigh-in Johnson was actually on weight when he started to feel light-headed and extremely sick. He was taken to see the doctors who rehydrated him which made him feel fine. He was gonna continue to cut the weight but only had an hour left and apparently that was not enough time for him to successfully cut the 15 or so pounds he had put back on from the rehydration. Apology for the “fag” comment…really frustrating reading peoples comments and all they do is talk crap. If your a fan of someone you should definitely try to get the whole story before spittin all over them. It sucks that Rumble didn’t make weight but 12 pounds over was just a little too much. Missing weight by that much would mean he barely even tried to cut the weight. Yes he’s missed weight before but never by such an amount. Sucks for his debut but I think it will be an isolated incident.
Johnson is on roids. How he thought he could put on all that size and still make 185 makes no sense. If you watch his latest video he is bigger than Rashad. Hopefully he will fail his drug test too but either way it is pretty obvious why he is so far over the limit and why he got so big so fast.
There has to be preventive measures taken to ensure this never happens again. I like that he can’t weigh in the day of the fight more than 205 pounds which is the weight class higher than middleweight. That should be the rules for every fight from now on. That’ll detour the idiots like AJ who are cutting way too much!
Spirit splice u really have no idea sorry if u think I’m bein rude or judgmental but ur very silly
AJ is a natural heavyweight and shouldn’t fight no smaller division than 205. When he was at welterweight in weigh-ins, i bet he’s grandma made the scale show 170 by some african voodoo sheeeet.