![]() ![]() That’s how I feel whenever I step on the scale.” You step on that scale and you’re still 174 and you still have to get down there. Your eyes are sinking into the back of your head. When you’re depleting yourself and you’re already lean and you go into fight camp and you have to cut 11 to 12 pounds more of water weight and you’re struggling. “Everybody knows what happened with Till - I told myself then after that fight, I will never do this again,” Thompson said. The only problem - Thompson’s mind was already made up because he had no intention of fighting any opponent who couldn’t make weight. Pereira set foot on the scale at 174 pounds - a full three pounds over the limit for a non-title welterweight fight - and there was no chance he was going to shed another ounce.Īs for Thompson, he hit the mark at 170.5 pounds and he knew negotiations were going to start in an attempt to move forward with the fight. It’s your word that you’re going to do what’s on this contract to be able to make this fight happen and that’s make weight. “When you sign that contract, you’re giving your word, a man’s word, which nowadays it doesn’t mean a whole lot to some people but to me it is. But I feel like it’s almost a slap in the face whenever they don’t make weight. Even Michel Pereira, who’s 15, giving these guys an opportunity to come up. I’ve been doing that with a lot of guys, Vicente Luque, Geoff Neal, all these guys. The Johny Hendricks’, the Rory MacDonald’s, the Jake Ellenberger’s, I wasn’t even ranked, these guys gave me that opportunity. 15 the opportunity to come up and fight me, which guys have done in the past for me. “When he didn’t, it was Darren Till all over again,” Thompson told The MMA Hour. In the end, Thompson lost a controversial decision and he walked away knowing that he would never allow an opponent to get away with that again.įast forward to this past Friday and Thompson experienced an unwanted flashback after learning the unfortunate news that Michel Pereira would not make weight for their fight at UFC 291. Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson learned a valuable yet harsh lesson when he made the ill-fated decision to fight Darren Till after he missed weight for their clash back in 2018.Īt the time, Thompson felt like it was the right thing to do, especially serving as the main event but he couldn’t ignore the size and power advantage that Till maintained after hit the scale three and a half pounds over the welterweight limit. ![]()
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