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He has been amazing to do what he has at LHW but I think he would go from just a top 5 LHW to easily the most feared person down there outside of spider. He was a MW fighting HWs on TUF and spent most of his career as a MW fighting LHWs. He had his shot at Jon Jones and I don't think anything changes in a rematch. There are so many more opportunities for him at MW. And it's not like I think his career needs a boost or anything the way boestch and bisping did when they dropped. Just that I feel he would find even more success at that weight class than even he has now.
He can always move back up if he doesn't like it.
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He can always move back up if he doesn't like it.
Quote from rashad on the subject
“I thought about (moving to middleweight), then I thought about how hard that weight cut is. I used to wrestle at 174 in college, I would cut so much weight on a continuous basis and I was like, ‘You know what? If I ever have to compete again, I’m not cutting weight like that’. Because what ends up happening is, the philosophy is, ‘Oh well you go down to a lower weight and you’ll be stronger’. Not necessarily. Some people go down to a lower weight and they’re actually weaker, and I felt like when I was the best athlete I could be in college wrestling, is when I wrestled to my natural weight. So that’s what I try to do in fighting, I try to compete at my natural weight. I may go to 185 and not be the same fighter because I’m maybe cutting too much weight.”
“Anderson (Silva) is somebody I would love to fight because when it’s all said and done, whether you win or lose, to compete against the best in the sport is really what it’s all about. You know, if I can walk away from my career and say I competed against some of the best in the sport in my time and era, then I can wrap up and say I had a really great career. So if the opportunity comes, and that fight happens, yeah I would drop to 185 to fight.”
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