Who else is recent history jumped a weight class? Who should?

[ackileez]

BJ Penn LW to WW
Chael MW to LHW (Championship)
Anderson MW to LHW

GSP Should have IMO
Jones probably will...

Is Conor the first one to Jump 2?
Conor vs RDA FW to LW.
Conor vs Diaz LW to WW

anyone else?

 

[Elmonstro1]

Rumble ww too hw down too lhw

 

[Upchuck22]

Dan Hooker who fights at FW in the UFC has fought at HW.

 

[Ez Eric]

Also Dan Henderson, Wanderlei Sakuraba, Randleman, Couture... lots of guys have done it

 

[Team Sleep]

Kenny Florian fought from Mw to FW

 

[hasar]

Chael was former LHW.

 

[billharford]

George Roop went from internment camp weight to machinist weight

 

[SlicerDM]

Plenty of fighters have jumped weight classes.

Wanderlei Silva fought Hunt with a 60 pound weight disadvantage.

 

[Bend NvR Break]

Vitor has fight all over the place. MW, LHW, HW.

Andersen also completed at WW and fought Carlos Newton.

 

[rev0lver]

Dan Hooker who fights at FW in the UFC has fought at HW.

Wait what? This sounded too crazy to me so I went through his record wtf are you talking about

 

[Mutdog]

BJ fought Machida at LHW

 

[benibloom]

Dan Henderson from middleweight to fight Fedor.

 

[Upchuck22]

Wait what? This sounded too crazy to me so I went through his record wtf are you talking about

Not in the UFC,in another organisation.
http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/ufc-fw-daniel-hooker-in-hw-fight.2811399/

Oh yeah one last thing Doubty McDoubt..

 

[fortheo]

Florian fought from MW to FW, if I remember correctly.

More recently though:

 

[godofghosts]

What constitutes recent history?
MMA as a sport in itself is all recent history.

And this man below...fought at WW to HW while being undersized....

 

[Big_Chief_Stove]

BJ Penn LW to WW
Chael MW to LHW (Championship)
Anderson MW to LHW

GSP Should have IMO
Jones probably will...

Is Conor the first one to Jump 2?
Conor vs RDA FW to LW.
Conor vs Diaz LW to WW

anyone else?

Rumble went from 170 to 205, that's probably a record in the UFC. Penn fought Machida when Lyoto weighted like 230 lbs, I can't remember the promotion and he fought Renzo at middleweight too.

I really hope that Gus decides to go to heavyweight. He would be in the top ten pretty fast IMO.

 

[Big_Chief_Stove]

Diego and Kenny florian I guess both were at middleweight, then welterweight, then lightweight. For Kenny he even went to FW. Florian might actually have the record with 4.

 

[Aranha21]

Not in the UFC,in another organisation.
http://forums.sherdog.com/threads/ufc-fw-daniel-hooker-in-hw-fight.2811399/

Oh yeah one last thing Doubty McDoubt..

Haha that's crazy. 2 v 2 kickboxing! Fucking Kiwis man

 

[Fastfoodjames]

Nick Diaz fought 160 in eliteXC up to middleweight

 

[Source]

Penn (191) fought in an open weight bout against Machida (225). For all intents and purposes this was a HW match. While not all I. The UFC BJ has fought in basically 5 different classes.