The obvious... Anthony Johnson cut from the UFC

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Probably wasn't hard to see this one coming.

Following his submission loss to Vitor Belfort last Saturday night (Jan. 14, 2012) at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has officially released Anthony Johnson from his ZUFFA contract.

That's according to a report from ESPN correspondent Franklin McNeil.

Johnson failed to make weight for his UFC 142: "Aldo vs. Mendes" co-main event against "The Phenom," tipping the scale at a whopping 197-pounds, a full 11 pounds over the 186-pound contractual limit.

It was the third time "Rumble" missed weight in his UFC career. The first came against Rich Clementi at UFC 76 and then again opposite Yoshiyuki Yoshida at UFC 104.

And as Dana White told FUEL TV, three strikes and you're out.



"Three strikes and you're out. This is his third time that he hasn't made weight. He's the co-main event in a huge fight down here in Brazil and this one was a bad one. Rumble Johnson did the damage to himself. To be that unprofessional and not come in on weight, and to be that far off when you used to fight at 170, now you went to 185 pounds so you wouldn't have trouble making weight, and this is your worst weight cut ever? That's at a detriment to himself."

Johnson claims he was on target for his middleweight debut, until his body betrayed him just hours before hitting the scale. On the advice of attending physicians, he rehydrated to preserve his health at the expense of making weight.

Belfort agreed to proceed as planned and gave Johnson a stipulation of making 205-pounds by fight night, for which he did. It kept the co-main event intact and allowed the Brazilian to get his revenge the good, old-fashioned way.

By winning.

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wtf, I had no idea he missed weight; they didn't mention it at all prior to the fight or during.
He looked huge and I guess now I know why, honestly though, is a guy even trying to make weight when he is 11 pounds over weight.

Ridiculous, kids fun to watch hopefully he can pull his shit together to come back and entertain once again some day.

Well that came out of nowhere...

Too bad, he was an exciting fighter to watch when he was ON. Too bad he couldn't get his shit together.

Not surprised at all, I figured unless rumble went in there and put on a really good fight he was going to be cut. There is no excuse for 11 pounds over. To be honest i really dont think Rumble would have done well at middle weight either. I cant see him beating any one in the top 10 middle weight divison.

butterknifeninja wrote:

Well that came out of nowhere...

It did?