MMAPaddy Pimblett Admits Ego Cost Him Against Justin Gaethje in UFC Interim Lightweight Title Fight
MMA · Apr 29
Title Eliminator Set for Late Summer as Both Camps Reset After Weight-Cut Warnings
A late-summer title eliminator is on, after both camps were told to rethink weight cuts that nearly emptied the division.
The eliminator is booked for late summer. The more interesting note is the warning that came with it. Both camps have been told, in terms that left little room for pride, that the weight cuts which nearly pulled fighters off recent cards will not be tolerated again.
Missed weights wreck cards and they wreck the people who make them. The promotion’s stance is that a title shot is not a prize for the athlete who can suffer the most on a scale. It is a prize for the athlete who can make the contracted weight and still fight.
Both sides say they have heard it. The scale, as always, will keep the minutes.
