A beloved UFC legend, Matt Brown is understood for his lethal hanging and ‘by no means say die’ perspective within the cage. Nevertheless, it’s additionally spectacular to assume regardless of all his skilled fights; Brown has solely missed weight a single time. And now, he’s revealing the unusual story that brought about the load miss.
“I missed weight one time in my life, and there’s a comic story behind that.” Matt Brown instructed MMA Fighting. “It was after I was combating Robbie Lawler, and I didn’t have time to chop the load. It was again after they had been at 4:30 (the weigh-ins). I needed to get on the bus, and I referred to as Bert, and I stated, ‘man, I would like like 20 extra minutes. I obtained half a pound to go.’”
“He stated, ‘no, you gotta get on the bus proper now. You’ll have an hour after the weigh-ins (to make weight)’,” Brown recalled.
The Weird Story of a Faux UFC Physician that Prompted Fighters like Matt Brown and Extra to Miss Weight
“So I am going there, get weighed in, and I’m sitting within the again, and this man is like posing as one of many docs. And he stated: ‘I seen you on the market chopping weight. You may’t minimize any extra weight. It’s essential rehydrate’ So, I began consuming water,” Matt Brown declared.
“Dana comes over like 5 minutes later,” Brown continued, “And he’s like: ‘hey, did anyone simply inform you to not minimize weight?’ He goes, ‘that dude shouldn’t be a health care provider. I don’t know who that man is’ And I assume he instructed anyone else to not minimize weight both… And that was the final I heard of it.”
Matt Brown would say that he instructed Dana White he may try to chop extra weight and was simply mainly following the “faux docs” orders. After all, Brown didn’t know the physician was faux till it was too late, so Brown stated that Dana and the UFC mainly brushed the entire unusual sequence of occasions apart.
What was much more unusual is seemingly, the faux UFC physician instructed a number of fighters to cease chopping weight that day, and Brown wasn’t the one one unlucky sufficient to get bamboozled by the faux doc.
Is that this the strangest story you’ve ever heard from the MMA world? If not, what is?