Friday morning, the fighters of UFC 210 hit the scales to weigh in for their scheduled bouts Saturday night. The ordeal was overshadowed by UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier not only coming in 1.2 pounds overweight, but also then making weight just moments later by using the privacy towel to offset his weight and help him in weighing-in at 205 pounds without actually cutting the weight.
The move was a rather controversial one, but worked for the light heavyweight champion, who will indeed defend his belt tomorrow night against Anthony Johnson. Following the ordeal, we have compiled the best Tweets from the MMA community regarding Cormier’s weigh-in ordeal:
Pushing down on the towel can make you lose a few pounds….sneaky lol
— Cub Swanson (@CubSwanson) April 7, 2017
If you ain't cheating you ain't trying…………
— phil baroni (@philbaroni) April 7, 2017
Hands on towel lmfao oldest trick in book. Lmfao haha nice playa nice https://t.co/uY4B4RRab1
— phil baroni (@philbaroni) April 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/BrendanSchaub/status/850369515494019072
Lol! Definitely using the towel! https://t.co/SZAyCXctKe
— Matt Brown (@IamTheImmortal) April 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/Siyarized/status/850384302768566272
Lol any wrestler that knows the tricks to beating the scale can obviously see that DC use the towel to float them lbs. #vetmove #ufc210 https://t.co/XL6NFi0qPD
— Corey 'Overtime' Anderson (@CoreyA_MMA) April 7, 2017
How I feel about the #UFC210 main event weight-gate.
One question…. "How Sway?! HOW?!"#INeedSomeOfThatWeightCutJuice lol— Aljamain Sterling (@funkmasterMMA) April 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/FunkMaster_UFC/status/850424303011213313
https://twitter.com/Pendred/status/850387468562178048
Yup. The ol towel push/pull https://t.co/hSQT2zovNv
— Chris Camozzi (@ChrisCamozzi) April 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/LDV_TheSwarm/status/850377476626948097
https://twitter.com/lionheartsmith/status/850409657252360192
Oldest trick in the book everyone try it at home press on something when weighing your self and see how lighter you are on the scales https://t.co/0a3DwVDlcM
— Darren Stewart (@Darren_mma) April 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/HammerHouseMMA/status/850380416339103745
https://twitter.com/albertominaUFC/status/850409912236621824
Come on ! He was clearly pushing on the towel ahahah ! https://t.co/5TYBPTQRSh
— Olivier Aubin (@oliaubin) April 7, 2017
This article first appeared on BJPenn.com on 4/7/2017.