Former UFC Welterweight Champion Johny Hendricks has a history of failing to make weight in the UFC.
He had missed weight so many times as a welterweight that the UFC forced him to move up to the middleweight division.
This past weekend, Hendricks fought in his second fight as a middleweight, but the day before the fight, Hendricks failed to make the 185-pound weight limit.
“Wednesday, something happened and I started running a fever. Thursday, Friday I’m sitting there going, ‘Oh my gosh.’ It’s funny because I love fans but I think that they’re the most ill-informed people and the reason that I say that is because if y’all are feeling sick, what do y’all do? If you are sick what do you get to do? You get to take a day off,” Hendricks told Submission Radio.
“My family was going through sickness for three weeks prior to the fight and I laughed because I didn’t get it. I was super excited. Awesome, nothing’s going on. Until you start cutting weight. I showed up and I think I was 13 (pounds) over and I drank 10 pounds of fluids that day and at that point, you’re fighting not only the weight but also your body. It just sucks because 185 is not that hard to make but whenever you’re sick, it is. You’re body’s not gonna give up anything and the next thing you know, you’re trying to turn right around in 48 hours and fight for your life.”
Hendricks fought Tim Boetsch at a UFC Fight Night in Oklahoma City. Boetsch earned the biggest win of his UFC career when he finished Hendricks by TKO. Boetsch landed a brutal head kick and followed it up with numerous punches, which forced the referee to step in and stop the fight.
