{"id":278542,"date":"2018-06-14T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=278542"},"modified":"2018-10-10T20:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T03:55:20","slug":"exclusive-alan-jouban-thinks-he-knows-why-some-fighters-miss-weight-by-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-alan-jouban-thinks-he-knows-why-some-fighters-miss-weight-by-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE | Alan Jouban thinks he knows why some fighters miss weight by so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BJPENN.COM Radio Ep. 83 \/\/ Menifield | Magana | Archuleta | Nguyen | Jouban\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AaIfBP4rOYo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few weeks, there&#8217;s been a rash of fighters missing weight for high-profile UFC bouts, from Mackenzie Dern, to Darren Till, to Yoel Romero. In the opinion of UFC welterweight Alan Jouban, there&#8217;s an easy way to explain some of these weigh-in misses \u2014 particularly the more significant ones.<\/p>\n<p>In Jouban&#8217;s eyes, fighters are not missing weight in an overt effort to cheat, as <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/mackenzie-dern\/dominick-cruz-mackenzie-dern-was-basically-cheating-at-ufc-224\/\">Dominick Cruz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/chael-sonnen\/chael-sonnen-suggests-harsh-solution-for-trend-of-fighters-missing-weight\/\">Chael Sonnen<\/a> both recently claimed. Instead, he feels that oftentimes, fighters will begin cutting weight, realize they&#8217;re far too heavy to succeed, then give up rather than attempting to shed their remaining pounds. Jouban considers this cheating, but more of an unplanned, lazy kind of cheating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it was Dominick Cruz that was kind of leading the charge when Mackenzie Dern came in seven pounds grossly overweight, and he said that he thought this was premeditated,&#8221; Jouban said on a recent episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/podcasts\/bjpenn-com-radio-ep-83-alonzo-menifield-angela-magana-juan-archuleta-martin-nguyen-alan-jouban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BJPENN.COM Radio<\/a>. &#8220;[He thought] that this was a ploy. This was something she was doing. She wanted to be the heavier fighter. Obviously she&#8217;s a grappler, she wanted to be on top and be heavy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that,&#8221; Jouban said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe that some woman would premeditate missing weight in order to get an advantage, but I do believe that this is what happens when you&#8217;re cutting weight and you know you&#8217;re not gonna make it. You&#8217;re looking at the scale, and normally you have two pounds to go at this time, but you&#8217;ve still got five pounds to go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could do one of two things. You can keep pushing and try to make it to the finish line, although you probably know you&#8217;re not gonna make it, and drain yourself down and still miss weight. [You&#8217;ll] still miss weight and still pay the penalty, but you&#8217;re still gonna try to lose that extra two or three pounds to get as close as you can and weaken your body.<em> Or<\/em> you can say &#8216;you know what, I&#8217;m not gonna [make it] anyway. I&#8217;m not gonna make weight, so I&#8217;m just gonna give up, whatever. I&#8217;m gonna pay a fine, but at least I&#8217;m not gonna starve myself and deplete my body even further. And then I&#8217;ll have an advantage in the fight.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that&#8217;s what fighters are doing,&#8221; Jouban concluded. &#8220;Fighters are saying &#8216;shit, I&#8217;m not gonna make the weight anyway. Let me just stop now because there&#8217;s no point. If I&#8217;m three pounds over or I&#8217;m one pound over, I&#8217;m gonna pay the same penalty. So, I&#8217;m gonna just quit now.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So how do you stop fighters from undertaking overambitious weight-cuts and missing their marks as a result? In Alan Jouban&#8217;s opinion, you have to hit them where it hurts most: right in the bank account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mackenzie Dern [missing by] seven pounds and Darren Till [missing by] three-and-a-half pounds&#8230;&#8221; Jouban said. &#8220;Man, you gotta really hit these guys in the pocketbook.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You gotta say &#8216;look we&#8217;re taking your entire win bonus and giving it to your opponent&#8217; or whatever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alan Jouban will return to the cage on July 22, when <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/exclusive-alan-jouban-says-yair-rodriguez-situation-influenced-him-to-take-fight-in-hamburg\/\">he takes on Danny Roberts in Hamburg, Germany.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/14\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, there&#8217;s been a rash of fighters missing weight for high-profile UFC bouts, from Mackenzie Dern, to Darren Till, to Yoel Romero. In the opinion of UFC welterweight Alan Jouban, there&#8217;s an easy way to explain some of these weigh-in misses \u2014 particularly the more significant ones. 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