Fighter's who moved up to another weight division to challenge another fighter?

[Workaholic]

Machida weighed 222 when he fought BJ at open weight so I'm skeptical about the whole Machida didn't cut weight to fight at 205.

Losing weight isn't cutting weight

Machida took a bunch of fat off to fight at 205. He didn't start cutting weight until he started fighting at 185

He weighed in at 201 vs Bader, 202 vs Shogun, 202 vs Hendo etc. As anyone who has ever cut weight knows, you don't cut more than you have to and you definitely don't cut more than you have to every single time

 

[cburm]

Anderson Silva did it 3 times in the UFC
Vs Irvin, Griffin & Bonnar

there is 5 champ in two division
Couture
Penn
GSP
Conor
DC

a few moved up and down during their career.
Too lazy to make a list.

Anderson also went up to fight dc on short notice so thats 4

 

[cburm]

Silva went up 4 times not 3 he took a short notice title fight vs dc to save the card.