{"id":279280,"date":"2018-06-25T08:01:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=279280"},"modified":"2018-06-25T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:01:16","slug":"al-iaquinta-ridicules-kevin-lee-for-calling-for-165-pound-weight-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/al-iaquinta-ridicules-kevin-lee-for-calling-for-165-pound-weight-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Iaquinta ridicules Kevin Lee for calling for 165-pound weight class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight contender Kevin Lee has long been<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/video-kevin-lee-wants-to-fight-georges-st-pierre-for-the-inaugural-165-pound-title-in-november\/\"> adamant<\/a> that the UFC needs a 165-pound division, citing the fact that many fighters are too big to easily make the lightweight division&#8217;s 155-pound limit, but are also undersized for the 170-pound welterweight division. The key would be to abolish the 170-pound welterweight division, and in it&#8217;s place add 165 and 175 pound divisions.<\/p>\n<p id=\"BhOKsK\">\u201cThe 155 pound and 170 pound [divisions] are so messed up right now,\u201d Lee said in a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/sport\/mma-kevin-lee-and-gsp-to-fight-for-new-ufc-165lb-title-in-november\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Straits Times<\/a>. \u201cYou\u2019ve got three titles between the two divisions already, so they\u2019ve got to add another weight class.<\/p>\n<p id=\"wu3MQr\">\u201dI think me and Georges for the 165lb title makes the most amount of sense. You do Conor [McGregor] and Khabib [Nurmagomedov] in October, you do me and Georges in November, at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p id=\"f80pHo\">\u201dAnd maybe you do Tyron [Woodley] and Colby [Covington] to figure out the [175 pound] division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While many members of the MMA community seemed to be receptive of Kevin Lee&#8217;s proposal, Lee&#8217;s fellow lightweight contender Al Iaquinta is not. Iaquinta mocked Lee on Twitter after hearing his hopes for a 165 pound weight class.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ALIAQUINTA\/status\/1010543715969007616<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can\u2019t make 155 so instead of jumping in the 170 pool GUY thinks he deserves his own weight class and belt HA HA HA,&#8221; Iaquinta said of Kevin Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Iaquinta is not on board with Lee&#8217;s plan.<\/p>\n<p>Would be interested in seeing the UFC create a 165 pound and 175 pound division in place of its traditional 170 pound division? Join the conversation in the comments section below.<\/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\/25\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight contender Kevin Lee has long been adamant that the UFC needs a 165-pound division, citing the fact that many fighters are too big to easily make the lightweight division&#8217;s 155-pound limit, but are also undersized for the 170-pound welterweight division. The key would be to abolish the 170-pound welterweight division, and in it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":279282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10523,19995],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Al Iaquinta ridicules Kevin Lee for calling for 165-pound weight class | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Al Iaquinta is not on board with Kevin Lee&#039;s calls for a title fight with Georges St-Pierre in a potential, new 165 pound division.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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