Joe Lauzon was present at UFC 274 when Charles Oliveira missed weight and was stripped of the lightweight title. Lauzon ended up not fighting at the event but the longtime lightweight did have some advice for the Brazilian.
The title stripping at UFC 274 was very controversial and things got even more complicated as Charles Oliveira won his fight handily. Joe Lauzon was quick to point out that the Brazilian knew the rules when it came to making weight.
“I think it sucks, but what are you going to do?” Lauzon said in his recent appearance on The MMA Hour. “How do you go and make an exception for that? You know you’re supposed to make ‘55 on the nose.
“I don’t know when they checked their weight, they could have checked their weight at 5 a.m. and just not worried about it, [but] I think you have to be ready. You have to be ready to make an adjustment. If I was a half-pound over, I would have made the extra weight.
“Maybe this is a cautionary tale — don’t be so freaking big. Don’t have such hard weight cuts. This is the reality of it. You want to be as big as you can, but there’s too big, and you need to be ready for that.”
Joe Lauzon also went on to explain his process for making weight throughout his UFC career. He even brings his own personal scale to make sure there are no problems.
“I check my weight four or five times a day. I’m checking my weight nonstop. I checked my weight five times from when I woke up to when I stepped on the scale,” he said. “I knew exactly where I was. At 4 a.m, I woke up and checked my weight. I peed, I checked my weight. I pooped, I checked my weight. I peed again, I checked my weight. I checked my weight all the time. That’s what you do.
“They were posting on Thursday night, saying they were on weight, which is awesome. That’s what I try to do. I went to bed at ‘56.6 on Thursday night. I was confident I was going to sleep it off, but when I woke up at 4 am, I checked my weight, I knew I was good. I wasn’t worried about it.
“You don’t just check your weight and are like, ‘Oh, I’m good,’ and never check it again. You check it nonstop.”
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