{"id":332893,"date":"2019-11-22T07:59:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=332893"},"modified":"2019-11-22T07:59:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:59:37","slug":"sage-northcutt-to-drop-down-two-weight-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/sage-northcutt-to-drop-down-two-weight-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage Northcutt to drop down two weight classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weight classes work a little differently in ONE Championship, where extreme weight-cutting is not allowed. ONE&#8217;s welterweight division 185 lbs, not 170 lbs. It&#8217;s lightweight division is 170 lbs, not 155. And so on. This occasionally means fighters wind up in the cage with bigger opposition. Sage Northcutt certainly had that problem in his ONE debut.<\/p>\n<p>Northcutt made his ONE debut in the welterweight division \u2014 185 pounds. In this debut, he was obliterated by destructive kickboxer Cosmo Alexandre. The loss left him with significant facial damage that required intensive surgery to repair.<\/p>\n<p>As Northcutt continues to heal and prepare for his return to the ONE Championship cage, he says he intends to change weight classes.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he intends to drop down two divisions to ONE Championship&#8217;s 155-pound featherweight division. Because the promotion does not allow extreme weight-cutting, that&#8217;s going to mean a pretty intensive diet for the ripped\u00a023-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, it&#8217;s probably worthwhile if it means he doesn&#8217;t have to fight any more 185-pound monsters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not really thinking about any opponents right now, just thinking how I\u2019m going to go down two weight classes,\u201d Northcutt said (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/11\/sage-northcutt-moving-back-155-pounds-one-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cSo my previous organization I was in, I was 5-0 at 155 pounds, so I\u2019m going to go back down to featherweight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"q6nmBM\">\u201cI fought up at 185 pounds, so I was eating and drinking a lot to be able to get on some weight because I\u2019m only 23, and I\u2019m trying to put on some muscle, so now I\u2019m going to go back down. I learned my lesson about fighting a weight class too big, going back down to 155, and it\u2019ll be better for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Northcutt also added that he intends to fight smarter in this new weight class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m expecting to be a smarter version of myself,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been doing a lot of, I guess, studying up of what happened in my previous fight, watching so many fights and stuff. So smarter me, a faster version of me, because I\u2019m going back down two weight classes and a more dominant version, because I was undefeated at that weight class. I still am, and I believe I\u2019ll be dominant there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you think Sage Northcutt will rebound from his tough ONE Championship debut?<\/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 11\/22\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weight classes work a little differently in ONE Championship, where extreme weight-cutting is not allowed. ONE&#8217;s welterweight division 185 lbs, not 170 lbs. It&#8217;s lightweight division is 170 lbs, not 155. And so on. This occasionally means fighters wind up in the cage with bigger opposition. Sage Northcutt certainly had that problem in his ONE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":313946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19776,10090],"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>Sage Northcutt to drop down two weight classes | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC star &quot;Super&quot; Sage Northcutt intends to drop down two weight classes for his return to the ONE Championship cage.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/sage-northcutt-to-drop-down-two-weight-classes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sage Northcutt to drop down two weight classes | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former UFC star &quot;Super&quot; 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