{"id":275244,"date":"2018-04-24T12:27:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=275244"},"modified":"2018-04-24T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:27:55","slug":"kevin-lee-explains-why-he-missed-weight-for-bout-with-edson-barboza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/kevin-lee-explains-why-he-missed-weight-for-bout-with-edson-barboza\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Lee explains why he missed weight for bout with Edson Barboza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Lee could not have looked much more impressive in his Saturday night defeat of Edson Barboza. Regrettably, there’s an ever-so-small asterisk attached to his victory, as he narrowly missed weight for the bout<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the MMA Hour<\/a> on Monday, Lee explained why he believes he missed weight. The main factor, as he said in a quick statement issued right after his weigh-in miss<\/a>, was simply a shortage of time. He just couldn’t get the remaining weight off in the time he had.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there could\u2019ve been some adjustments that I could\u2019ve made, especially on the timing,\u201d Lee said (transcribed by Shaun Al-Shatti for MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI think I just had the timing [off]. The timing was off a little bit too much, and my scale was a little bit different too. When I weighed myself on my scale upstairs, I was almost a pound-and-a-half heavier than what I thought. So it just was minor technical difficulties really when it came down to it. My body never reached a point where it was breaking down. It just became that I ran out of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee added that he was hindered by the fact that the New Jersey Athletic Commission doesn’t allow additional time to cut weight if a fighter fails their first attempt. Apparently, the fighter hotel also had inconvenient sauna hours.<\/p>\n

“I felt like I could\u2019ve still pushed,” he said. “I felt like I still I could\u2019ve went. The New Jersey athletic commission for whatever reason doesn\u2019t allow that extra hour, which I wasn\u2019t really clear on, and the hotel that we were staying at, they wouldn\u2019t even let us in to use the sauna until like 5:45, something like that, when they promised that they\u2019d let us in at 5:00.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re going to these new commissions, you don\u2019t really know the rules until you get there. When I talk about a weight cut as big as mine, it takes weeks and weeks and weeks to plan. Even if they tell me the day of, it\u2019s like, okay, well, I\u2019ve been planning for six weeks, I\u2019ve been cutting this weight to get down to a certain level, and I feel like I have it down to a very scientific spot, because I try to spend as little amount of time dehydrated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee then divulged that he’ll probably re-enlist a nutritionist for his next cut, but that he has no plans of leaving the 155-pound lightweight division.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially for the week of [the fight],\u201d Lee said when asked about bringing a nutritionist on board again. \u201cI\u2019m definitely going to need one just to get that extra little stress and that extra little load off me, and not have me doing it. A lot of the notes that I look at and things are from old weight cuts, and I\u2019m just getting bigger. So there\u2019s definitely going to be some adjustments that could be made. But 155, I\u2019m here to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think the future holds for Kevin Lee?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 4\/24\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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