“The moolah’s gonna talk, man,” Masvidal said via his YouTube channel this week. “55 is such a battle with my weight. Once I’m at around 172 to 173 pounds, I’m at around five percent body fat already, six percent body fat. So I just don’t have a lot of room to play with and still get to 155.
“It’s a lot of water, it’s always been a lot of water. That doesn’t leave me the night of the fight in the best shape that I could possibly be, like how I compete at 170 and have that explosion, I can explode a little bit more and for longer. At ‘55 it would be a little different.
“But that’s not to say I couldn’t win one and that I couldn’t make the weight. I would just have to be rewarded so motherf**king handsomely for me to drop down to ‘55 and compete with anybody.”
Masvidal fought the first seven bouts of his UFC career in the lightweight division where he went 5-2 but it wasn’t until he transitioned to his more natural weight class of 170lbs where he saw a noticeable uptick in his performance.
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