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DrBdan · 06-11-2009, 04:58 PM

At lightweight Nate Diaz and Cole Miller are both 6'0. At welterweight GSP and Koscheck are both 5'10. Heck, Wanderlei Silva is 5'11 and he fights at light-heavyweight (though he's dropping to middleweight after this weekend). Cain Velasquez is 6'1 and he weighs something like 240.

I guess my point is that you can't look at UFC fighters and their height/weight to see where you should be fighting. Who's "everyone" that is telling you to drop to 155? Friends, training partners, coaches? If it's a coach or training partner ask them why, if it's a friend who doesn't train they're probably talking out of their ass.

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DrBdan Purple Belt Join Date: May 2008 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,838	At lightweight Nate Diaz and Cole Miller are both 6'0. At welterweight GSP and Koscheck are both 5'10. Heck, Wanderlei Silva is 5'11 and he fights at light-heavyweight (though he's dropping to middleweight after this weekend). Cain Velasquez is 6'1 and he weighs something like 240. I guess my point is that you can't look at UFC fighters and their height/weight to see where you should be fighting. Who's "everyone" that is telling you to drop to 155? Friends, training partners, coaches? If it's a coach or training partner ask them why, if it's a friend who doesn't train they're probably talking out of their ass. __________________ Bacon is a gateway meat Beware the 13 Benchmen of the Benchpocalypse!