5 UFC fighters with huge walk around weights

#4. Former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw

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Recently returned UFC fighter TJ Dillashaw always looks rather lean at 135lbs to say the least. It came as a shock to many when he announced he was going to lean out even further to fight at flyweight.

When he’s not having to fuss about making weight, TJ Dillashaw typically weighs around 155lbs. His drastic weight cut to become a flyweight remains one of the most alarming in UFC history. Debilitatingly dehydrated, a gaunt Dillashaw arrived on the scale ahead of his January 2019 flyweight title fight with Henry Cejudo.

Despite his relative dominance as a bantamweight, Dillashaw ate a dispiritingly lopsided defeat. Cejudo made short work of the then-bantamweight champion, punching his way to a first-round TKO win at just 32 seconds.

Dillashaw’s life-endangering dreams of becoming a two-division kingpin were scattered. Sadly for ‘Snake’, the misfortune didn’t end there. He was later busted for EPO and received a whopping two-year suspension.

His return this year saw him back at bantamweight where the weight cuts, while grueling, are slightly more manageable for the almost 160 pounder.

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#3. Former UFC featherweight champion José Aldo

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The UFC’s former long term featherweight kingpin turned some heads when he announced his move to bantamweight. At featherweight, Aldo would often look drained at the weigh-ins. At one point, many expected ‘Junior’ to eventually move up to lightweight.

Aldo had clearly been in a bad way more than once at weigh-ins for his featherweight fights. The general consensus was his body would struggle more and more as he got older.

The Brazilian striker typically walks around at about 170lbs making him incredibly large for his division. When he revealed plans to drop down another weight class, many expected the worst for his health.

At UFC 245, Aldo made his bantamweight debut, a split-decision loss to Marlon Moraes. Despite putting in a competitive performance, the main takeaway was how alarmingly gaunt and sickly Aldo looked at the weigh-ins.

Aldo has since claimed that cutting all the way down to 135lbs is easier than dropping to 145lbs. He’s credited his changes in diet and workout regimen for his newer, lighter lease on fighting. After a TKO loss to Petr Yan at UFC 251, Aldo has turned it around at bantamweight and won his most recent two fights.