{"id":461027,"date":"2022-10-21T08:33:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=461027"},"modified":"2022-10-21T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T15:33:33","slug":"alexander-volkanovski-says-ufc-contacted-him-late-last-night-about-his-weight-someone-was-struggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/alexander-volkanovski-says-ufc-contacted-him-late-last-night-about-his-weight-someone-was-struggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Volkanovski says UFC contacted him “late last night” about his weight: “Someone was struggling”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Volkanovski came all the way to Abu Dhabi to serve as a backup<\/a> for the UFC 280 lightweight fight between Islam Makhachev and Charles Oliveira. And while in the end both fighters made weight and his services don’t look like they’ll be needed, it sounds like there was a moment the night before weigh-ins that the UFC thought they might need him.<\/p>\n

Charles Oliveira weighed in at 154.5 pounds, as did Islam Makhachev. Alexander Volkanovski stepped on the scales at 155 with no problem as he’s used to getting down to 145 pounds. Immediately after weighing in he spoke to BT Sport and revealed there had been concerns someone wasn’t going to make weight.<\/p>\n

“Well, without giving too much away, we were asked pretty late last night ‘How’s Alex doing?'” Volkanovski said. “So obviously someone was struggling a bit. But I was asleep when that happened, I heard about it this morning. But, all good.”<\/p>\n

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In a poolside interview with The Mac Life a bit later in the day, Alexander Volkanovski shared some more details about what happened.<\/p>\n

“I’m pretty sure one of them \u2013 I think it’s pretty obvious who it was \u2013 might have been struggling,” Volkanovski said. “Looked like it, anyway. And we were checked up on, making sure everything was good on our end. And I’m sure they did that because there’s a chance somebody’s not making the weight. They wouldn’t check up on us for nothing, so someone was struggling.”<\/p>\n

“But they probably just did it right, got that last bit off, kept sweating, and jumped on the scale and was a little bit under,” he finished. “It could be a bad weight cut, but you get that last bit off, keep sweating, and you get to the scale and sometimes you’re a little bit under.”<\/p>\n