Media Topuria walked around at 80kg/180lbs as a FW (From new JRE just dropped)

[usernamee]

JRE with Ilia just dropped and first thing that was said was that. That's pretty wild!

He's such a short dude and I've never seen him chubby looking between camp either. Must be a solid motherfucker.

 

[flektarn]

thicc. put down the tapas.

 

[moosaev]

Of course, he admitted on the PBD podcast that the UFC never said he had to vacate to fight for the LW belt. He just didn’t wanna make the weight cut anymore. Entire LW division has to be re-arranged because ilia likes Khachapurri too much smh.

 

[AndrewGolota48]

He's absolutely huge, he will be one of the biggest LWs too when he pulls up, looking like Palhares. He looked huge in there with Jai Herbert, shorter yes but incredibly thick and muscled and big framed. He's much much much larger than other FWs that have moved up like Poirier and Hooker and Oliveira.

 

[volcom5]

Weight bully!

He needs to move up and fight Jake Matthew.

@Oz.Pride

I did it right, guys?

 

[usernamee]

He's absolutely huge, he will be one of the biggest LWs too when he pulls up, looking like Palhares. He looked huge in there with Jai Herbert, shorter yes but incredibly thick and muscled and big framed. He's much much much larger than other FWs that have moved up like Poirier and Hooker and Oliveira.

Virtually identical

 

[El Fernas]

Entire LW division has to be re-arranged because ilia likes Khachapurri too much smh.

Its fresh matchups whats the issue? The "problem" would be a FW stepping up to LW, taking the belt and never defending it...like Mcgregor did, adding one extra guy at the top of the division is great, it means no more Gaethje vs Poirier vs Chandler vs Oliveira happening every other card (probably wont happen anymore, but you get the point) rank squatting, imho is not the best for him as he will be undersized at LW.

 

[AmericanMMA]

Hand sanitizer boy is manlet, lad

 

[Ladder Master]

He's absolutely huge, he will be one of the biggest LWs too when he pulls up, looking like Palhares. He looked huge in there with Jai Herbert, shorter yes but incredibly thick and muscled and big framed. He's much much much larger than other FWs that have moved up like Poirier and Hooker and Oliveira.

Hooker and Oliveira are not FW’s.
They are LW’s that cut down to 145lb.

Charles is at the top for most weight misses in the UFC.

 

[RockyLockridge]

Of course, he admitted on the PBD podcast that the UFC never said he had to vacate to fight for the LW belt. He just didn’t wanna make the weight cut anymore. Entire LW division has to be re-arranged because ilia likes Khachapurri too much smh.

lol imagine criticising someone because they DONT want to cut 30 pounds and they WANT to fight closer to their natural weight

 

[Luthien]

Funny how nobody called him a weight bully at 145

 

[AndrewGolota48]

Hand sanitizer boy is manlet, lad

In all seriousness, I was thinking about how he is the ultimate maximized alpha manlet. I don't like using that condescending term honestly, because I'm a former short guy that grew to 6'1" (short for Sherdog standards I know) very late compared to most people, so I feel the pain, having been 4'11" in my freshman year of high school.

But anyway Topuria is rich, confident, good looking, has a lot of style, hot wife, and can beat up the vast majority of other men on the planet, even at his size. I could see him as a hero to the short community because he was able to overcome that and reach such a high status in several different aspects of life.

 

[MMAProfessional]

He's absolutely huge, he will be one of the biggest LWs too when he pulls up, looking like Palhares. He looked huge in there with Jai Herbert, shorter yes but incredibly thick and muscled and big framed. He's much much much larger than other FWs that have moved up like Poirier and Hooker and Oliveira.

Dudes like 5'5

 

[AndrewGolota48]

Dudes like 5'5

Being sarcastic bro, he even came up from 145 earlier in his career and I'm supposed to believe he's this huge FW just because of his weight in the cage. I'm not one of those people that buys into the "weight always equals size" philosophy.

 

[Wreckless]

They should do random weight checks in the off season. If you're more than 15 pounds over your weight class, you’ve gotta move up

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

Damn, thats a seriously big FW. I didn't realize he was that heavy, I was thinking he could get up to around 170 perhaps

 

[El Panteron]

I'm not one of those people that buys into the "weight always equals size" philosophy.

What? Brother the weight is literally the measure of someone's mass

 

[Hymen Crusher]

180 has to be normal for a lot of these dudes out of camp. Volk has to be 180 even in good shape.

 

[Hymen Crusher]

What? Brother the weight is literally the measure of someone's mass

I mean sort of but not exactly

 

[nostradumbass]

Yeah, cards in California release fight night weight, and Topuria was like 168 in cage against Volk, Volk was slightly less, so I guess he diets down about 10-12 lbs during camp, then cuts about 23 of water for the weigh in, which is on the high end of normal.