Former UFC Lightweight Champion Rafael Dos Anjos has recently announced that he’s changing weight classes, he moved up to the welterweight division. Dos Anjos has a good reason behind the change in weight clas♔ses.
“I'm killing myself to make 155, and [without the championship] I'm not making much money,” Dos Anjos said to . “I would make 155 pounds for a super fight or something, but for what I'm making today? No, it's not worth making 155.”
Dos Anjos looks back at UFC Fight Night 80 a♏s the night things started to change.
“My coaches took me out of the bath and placed me on the bed,” Dos Anjos recalled. “I came back for a couple seconds and passed out again. I came back and passed out a third time. I was almost out for three minutes, they said. At one point, they said, 'Let's call 911 and cancel the fight.' I woke up and asked them what was going on. And after all that, I still didn't know if I had made the weight. So I had to check my weight, but I couldn't stand up. I lied down with a cold towel on my head. It took me about 40 minutes to get up. I checked my weight, and it said 155. If I hadn't been on weight, there's no way I could do any more. I couldn't do it. On the walk to the weigh-ins, I was just feeling miserable.”
Dos Anjos won the UFC Lightweight Title by defeating Anthony Pettis at UFC 185, he would lose it to Eddie Alvare💯z at UFC Fight Night 💮80.
