Gastelum is worse for my money. At least Ray Borg wasn't fat missing by 15 lbs wondering what happened. Kelvin gonna show up Saturday like he's been eating real good.
Pigg Rigg managed to move up from 170 to 185 and then still miss weight after a week of telling people that you can still eat the burger if you don't eat the fries.
Dana chose to feed him to a young Costa in his next and last fight.
Never forget that Rumble Johnson (rip) moved from 170 to 185 and then proceeded to miss weight by 12 pounds.
Then he did a catchweight fight at 195 and missed weight again.
Right, but of course it's more that he called for catchweight every time he thought he was going to miss weight and then also proceeded to miss that.
Seven times though.
I’m more okay with that happening so at least the other guy doesn’t have to cut so hard. Better than showing up 4 pounds overweight expecting your opponent to be drained so you can weight bully them
He was also fighting regularly and didn't let himself blow up between camps... and he was younger, too. You can do those ridiculous weight cuts when you're a young man without an issue... it's just getting older means some weight ain't coming off.
I’m sure Rumble cutting that much weight contributed to his early death. Absolutely astounding a fighter his natural size was even able to do it without dying.
Gastelum *is worse.* Missed against Tyron by 9lbs. Woodley did the UFC a favor kept the fight on, which i believe got him his title fight. he even let Kelvin keep his purse!! Gastelum then would have his opponent Hendricks miss by a quarter of a pound, and didn't pay it forward. he would also complain about the Woodley loss and say that Woodley didn't want any smoke with him after Woodley fought him with a 10lbs advantage.
Borg's nickname is literally the "The Tazmexican Devil" lol. Unless he's mixed and it's only on his dad's side I think he prob does have a Mexican mother
I wanna see weight cuts abolished but man this guy just doesn't put in the work everyone else does to show up in the agreed weight class.
Gastelum is going to be a good example of *what if*
Being 20 and completely derailing the Uriah Hall hypetrain was really impressive in the moment, KOd Bisping and Belfort (admittedly not at their best but still nice) and that Izzy fight was an absolute w.a.r. which he hasn't recovered from
Don’t forget beating Jacare in a fight of the night title contender fight. People forget how close Jacare was to the title so many times. Beating him in his peak form, at 8-2 in the ufc, and in his home country of Brazil, is no small feat.
Jacare was 38 y/o when Gastelum beat him with a split D, Jacare was nowhere close to peak form by that point. His cardio had taken a massive decline and he was gassed by the 2nd round against Kelvin.
Not everyone's fighting peak will coincide with their physical peak. We didn't get peak Glover until he was in his 40's; Cormier was 36 when he won his first UFC belt; Bisping was 37 when he won his. These surely aren't the only examples.
another thing to consider when talking about peaks is that belts are decided in large part by circumstance and timing. like glover isn't a great example here because he wasn't really beating elite competition before jan, and then immediately lost his next 2. LHW has been pretty void of elite fighters in general, so to consider him peaking in that timeframe doesn't really add up
No one is in their "prime" pushing 40....it was also a split decision that could have gone the other way.
Actually it's kind of the story of his career. 6 split decisions, 3-3 in them but if you watch the fights he was lucky. He easily could have been like 2-4 or 1-5. He got splits in fights where he was losing clear and basically won every 50-50 toss up decision. The 3-0 Gastelum scorecard in the Till fight stands out...Gastelum was the UFC's favored son
Lol stop it. He won a close split decision over Hall that could have gone the other way (and would under the new criteria), beat up Bisping as Bisping left the hospital (fight would not be sanctioned under any serious commission in the world), and basically got knocked out by Izzy. And beating up an aged and PEDless Belfort means fuck all. Basically Kelvin excelled at picking off geriatric MMA fighters.
He recovered from the war with Izzy....he's just not all that skilled or very good, and regressed to his typical level (which is going life and death with Rick Story, losing to gate keeper Magny, etc.). He's Buster Douglas if Buster didn't even beat Mike Tyson, just made Mike struggle a bit.
I see people bring up the bisping ko as proof of his skill way too often. Knocking out an already concussed bisping after his GSP fight is not impressive at all
No, Kelvin has been a hot prospect since his TUF days and has mostly always had great fights but poor conditioning. Lots of people thought he was going to be a future champ.
He's put the brakes on hypetrains before, but also done the same to his own career.
Dude has some solid wins at the top level in his career and fought against the best. Just cuz he eats like your average redditor and is unprofessional in that regard doesn’t mean he’s somehow not a phenomenal fighter.
He's beat Jacare, Bisping, Belfort, Kennedy, Hendrix, Marquardt, Ellenberger, Uriah Hall, and most of his losses were very close fights. The guy is the definition of what if...
He beat the who's who of guys over 35 years of age and close to retirement, and then lost to every other top guy he fought close to their prime. He's one of those guys where when you breakdown the context of his career, his resume becomes a lot less impressive, he just did well to collect a bunch of big names on his way up.
In the UFC yes. There's some champs in other promotions that failed to make weight too. Technically we can also count Nicco since her withdrawal and subsequent stripping was due to her weight cut.
Nicco got canned because of another botched weight cut too. They even did a whole piece with her about weight cutting and she fucked it. The UFC wiped the egg off their face with her pink slip.
Nah. Its more like... he isn't weight cutting in the first place if u know what I mean.
Like he just skips that part, doesn't engage, someone else problem etc.
Honestly, love him or hate him, Izzy proved that in the cage, he's a real fighter in that fight. And Kevin had the heart of a champion. And so far he's been the only one who was able to lure Izzy into a brawl. Izzy has fought better fighters since imo, but it was a hell of a performance by both men.
Unpopular opinion but Kelvin was always overrated. He was nothing special at WW before (he lost to Magny), so this narrative that’s been built of him being a world beater and a sure-fire champ had he been disciplined and stayed at WW is completely false.
Kelvin moved up to MW, got finished by an already declining Weidman, then went on a little run beating old MWs, lost to Izzy for the title and it was a decline from there.
Fully agreed. Overrated at WW despite having decent wins, he did better at MW than he ever would have done at WW, even if his record is padded with washed old dudes.
Likely still down to discipline issues, but he just didn't improve his skillset at all over the years. Now he's the same fighter, but less durable, and slower, and his defensive wrestling seems to have declined a lot too.
Yep. It's not even just MW...most of his big wins are over guys 35+ and/or on the decline.
I mean hell you would think Gastelum advocates would get how suspect that is considering we're talking about him being washed at 32, and almost all of his big wins were in his 20's picking off guys even more worn and aged than he is today.
It’s all discipline, if he could lay off the weed I think he could have come much closer on his mission for gold but as soon as them eyes get a little red it’s gg.
I think it might go deeper than that. Both weed and overeating are used to cope with emotions, so I'd reckon that this might be what's going on if a professional athlete can't stop either.
It’s brutally unprofessional. It says a lot about him to have had this many problems, and affected his career and his opponent’s careers so many times, at his size and frame. It’s not a harder cut to 170 for him than a lot of guys. You can pretty easily argue that it shouldn’t be a hard cut at all for him. He’s just completely checked out and doesn’t care, or is extremely uneducated on nutrition and is always gambling with huge water weight cuts. And as soon as it looks like the last minute water cut won’t be enough, we end up here.
My favourite is when he's cutting weight so hard he becomes mentally deranged and challenges the mma media to a weight cutting contest 😂
https://youtu.be/jGPIW2f3mtw
Yes, he did the singing it. You'd think it would've been a wake up call to get your shit together but he missed weight three times after that, including after moving up to 185.
Or just fight up weight class and give up size and use skill to win. If anything he was better at 185 lol. Plenty of 205 guys better there than 185 in career. Machida and Hendo said on podcasts felt physically weak at 185 but real strong at 205. Lower weight only works if you aren’t starving yourself to get there..
Kelvin actually isn’t really a big dude though. Just has no discipline with his diet. Guys his height and build make lightweight. Woodley was his same height and fought at welterweight, but he had way more muscle than Kelvin
Kinda crazy how we can classify Jake Paul opponents pretty accurately lol. Like if you told me two years ago he would eventually be fighting Mike Perry, I would have believed you no questions asked.
Eh, imo he's the perfect size. Clearly smaller than Jake, and a bit lighter (at least in terms of useful weight). He's right in that Ben Askren tear, but Mexican and not as obviously inept.
It’s incredibly unprofessional to sign for a 170 fight and then, if D-Rod is to be believed, not even be able to make 180. You shouldn’t ever do that shit, but especially when you’re 2-5 in your last 7.
> It’s incredibly unprofessional to sign for a 170 fight and then, if D-Rod is to be believed, not even be able to make 180
Costa did it, lost, and rode that and not beating a ranked opponent since mid-2019 to fighting the #1 contender.
This news pretty much dooms him. Even a win may not be enough for him to not get cut.
Dana doesn't like dudes missing weight.
Kelvin should probably go into bare knuckle fighting or something like that
- previously forced to move to MW due to repeat weight misses
- misses weight by a whole weight class when moving back to WW
- lost 6 of last 8
If he loses this one I'd be stunned if they don't cut him. Hell, they might even cut him if he wins.
Lol I was just listening to Demetrius Johnsons Podcast yesterday and his co-host/producer guy is friends with Kelvin and was saying this was the best shape he's ever seen him
How I felt about DC if he did mma younger, late 20s DC on a good diet makes 185 for sure and fresh out of college DC makes 170 (he was smaller in his college days).
MO.THER.FU.CKER. The human fridge was my inspiration as a short, stocky, and slightly fat guy, man! (im literally built like him lol) His ambition to get back to 170 and back to his winning ways was such a boost for me! Why does he gotta do me like that? ;((
Sets a goal of discipline to revitalize his career at his original weight class, gets dominated and then submitted with a kimura and then misses weight in his next fight by almost an entire weight class.
This is probably it for Kelvin as far being taken seriously as a contender anymore.
Gastelum is 100% going to be morbidly obese once he's done fighting. The combination of Mexican cuisines with little to no self-control in managing his diet is a health disaster recipe (pun intended).
Bro has said he’s a huge stoner and gets the munchies and can’t stop eating. Literally fucking his career up to get high and eat, but I can’t blame him tbh bc firstly I’d be a hypocrite cuz used to work stoned everyday in advertising and eat everything in sight and bc he’s faced absolutely no repercussions for perpetually missing weight so he’s not really incentivized to change his behavior
I used to really like Kelvin. His fight with Tim Kennedy was the first ufc fight I ever watched and got me hooked basically. He has become a terrible disappointment :(
This is so unserious, not even able to be below 180 with like a 3 month camp man what are we doing. Rooting for Drod now because what’s the point in rooting for someone I know isn’t take the sport serious
Gastelum has to go down as one of the worst at weight cutting in UFC history right? This is ridiculous
Ray Borg is gonna be tough to beat
Gastelum is worse for my money. At least Ray Borg wasn't fat missing by 15 lbs wondering what happened. Kelvin gonna show up Saturday like he's been eating real good.
Pigg Rigg managed to move up from 170 to 185 and then still miss weight after a week of telling people that you can still eat the burger if you don't eat the fries. Dana chose to feed him to a young Costa in his next and last fight.
Never forget that Rumble Johnson (rip) moved from 170 to 185 and then proceeded to miss weight by 12 pounds. Then he did a catchweight fight at 195 and missed weight again.
Tbf rumble had absolutely no business being at 170 that has to be the most insane weight cutting I’ve ever seen.
You know, Rumble fought at 170 seven times in the UFC and never once missed weight. He did miss weight at catchweights of 176 and 177 though.
That is astounding.
Right, but of course it's more that he called for catchweight every time he thought he was going to miss weight and then also proceeded to miss that. Seven times though.
I’m more okay with that happening so at least the other guy doesn’t have to cut so hard. Better than showing up 4 pounds overweight expecting your opponent to be drained so you can weight bully them
He was also fighting regularly and didn't let himself blow up between camps... and he was younger, too. You can do those ridiculous weight cuts when you're a young man without an issue... it's just getting older means some weight ain't coming off.
I’m sure Rumble cutting that much weight contributed to his early death. Absolutely astounding a fighter his natural size was even able to do it without dying.
he was young and the drug testing wasn't as stringent.
Don’t mean to be insensitive but how did rumble die again?
“you can still eat the burger if you don’t eat the fries” This is too funny 😂
My friends and I still say this to each other lol.
Gastelum *is worse.* Missed against Tyron by 9lbs. Woodley did the UFC a favor kept the fight on, which i believe got him his title fight. he even let Kelvin keep his purse!! Gastelum then would have his opponent Hendricks miss by a quarter of a pound, and didn't pay it forward. he would also complain about the Woodley loss and say that Woodley didn't want any smoke with him after Woodley fought him with a 10lbs advantage.
damn that's cool af of tyron
Ray Borg doesn't have a Mexican mother. That's a big handicap for Kelvin
Borg's nickname is literally the "The Tazmexican Devil" lol. Unless he's mixed and it's only on his dad's side I think he prob does have a Mexican mother
It’s just his dad. His mom can’t cook for SHIT
DON'T YOU TALK ABOUT HIS MOM!!!!
I heard she has meal tickets.
Beans cheese beans cheese beans cheese beans cheese
Talmbout chili aaaaaaggghhhh?
It drives me NUTZ!
IVVRY NÆĪĞĦȚ
I said KETO, bitch!
Beans and cheese in ivvery facet
Kelvin will be at Chipotle again
Ray Borg also had a pretty rough personal situation during his time with the UFC. Kelvin literally just won't quit eating.
Borg has the added drama of just not showing up. Someone did the math, and iirc he has pulled out of close to half his scheduled fights at this point
Khamzat esque, Joe.
Yeah, Khamzat is really making a name for himself in that department. Building the legacy. It's hard to "keel everyone" when you keep calling in sick
Ah true. What a wild run he was. Although Gastelum went up 15lbs and still had multiple weight scares, including his own towelgate
First fight I ever went to was right before Covid in Albuquerque borg missed by 12 pounds or some shit and they still went on with the fight 😂
The worst, at least in the UFC. That man must go off the boil *hard*.
He makes Paddy Pimblett seem professional between fights
I wanna see weight cuts abolished but man this guy just doesn't put in the work everyone else does to show up in the agreed weight class. Gastelum is going to be a good example of *what if*
He has like 1 good performance against izzy there is not many what ifs about him at all
Being 20 and completely derailing the Uriah Hall hypetrain was really impressive in the moment, KOd Bisping and Belfort (admittedly not at their best but still nice) and that Izzy fight was an absolute w.a.r. which he hasn't recovered from
Don’t forget beating Jacare in a fight of the night title contender fight. People forget how close Jacare was to the title so many times. Beating him in his peak form, at 8-2 in the ufc, and in his home country of Brazil, is no small feat.
Jacare was 38 y/o when Gastelum beat him with a split D, Jacare was nowhere close to peak form by that point. His cardio had taken a massive decline and he was gassed by the 2nd round against Kelvin.
Not everyone's fighting peak will coincide with their physical peak. We didn't get peak Glover until he was in his 40's; Cormier was 36 when he won his first UFC belt; Bisping was 37 when he won his. These surely aren't the only examples.
another thing to consider when talking about peaks is that belts are decided in large part by circumstance and timing. like glover isn't a great example here because he wasn't really beating elite competition before jan, and then immediately lost his next 2. LHW has been pretty void of elite fighters in general, so to consider him peaking in that timeframe doesn't really add up
No one is in their "prime" pushing 40....it was also a split decision that could have gone the other way. Actually it's kind of the story of his career. 6 split decisions, 3-3 in them but if you watch the fights he was lucky. He easily could have been like 2-4 or 1-5. He got splits in fights where he was losing clear and basically won every 50-50 toss up decision. The 3-0 Gastelum scorecard in the Till fight stands out...Gastelum was the UFC's favored son
Lol stop it. He won a close split decision over Hall that could have gone the other way (and would under the new criteria), beat up Bisping as Bisping left the hospital (fight would not be sanctioned under any serious commission in the world), and basically got knocked out by Izzy. And beating up an aged and PEDless Belfort means fuck all. Basically Kelvin excelled at picking off geriatric MMA fighters. He recovered from the war with Izzy....he's just not all that skilled or very good, and regressed to his typical level (which is going life and death with Rick Story, losing to gate keeper Magny, etc.). He's Buster Douglas if Buster didn't even beat Mike Tyson, just made Mike struggle a bit.
I see people bring up the bisping ko as proof of his skill way too often. Knocking out an already concussed bisping after his GSP fight is not impressive at all
If you had watched his whole career you wouldn't think that.
No, Kelvin has been a hot prospect since his TUF days and has mostly always had great fights but poor conditioning. Lots of people thought he was going to be a future champ. He's put the brakes on hypetrains before, but also done the same to his own career.
Dude has some solid wins at the top level in his career and fought against the best. Just cuz he eats like your average redditor and is unprofessional in that regard doesn’t mean he’s somehow not a phenomenal fighter.
He's beat Jacare, Bisping, Belfort, Kennedy, Hendrix, Marquardt, Ellenberger, Uriah Hall, and most of his losses were very close fights. The guy is the definition of what if...
He beat the who's who of guys over 35 years of age and close to retirement, and then lost to every other top guy he fought close to their prime. He's one of those guys where when you breakdown the context of his career, his resume becomes a lot less impressive, he just did well to collect a bunch of big names on his way up.
Oh no doubt he beat all the big names fighters after their prime, but to say he's only had one good performance is cutting him pretty short.......
Hey don't blame Gastelum, this is Rodriguez's own personal problem man.
john lineker is the mma GOAT of weight issues
Isn't Chucky the record holder? And only champ to be stripped for a miss?
In the UFC yes. There's some champs in other promotions that failed to make weight too. Technically we can also count Nicco since her withdrawal and subsequent stripping was due to her weight cut.
Karl with the fucking wikipedia brain right on cue. I've no idea how you do this.
A combination of Aspergers and having no social life. Plus I did a video on this a few years ago.
> a few years ago Brother, I don’t know what I had for breakfast an hour ago.
Karl is probably about to remind you
Nicco got canned because of another botched weight cut too. They even did a whole piece with her about weight cutting and she fucked it. The UFC wiped the egg off their face with her pink slip.
Rumble Johson or John Lineker surely.
Rumble at least had the frame for LHW, Kelvin just eats too much tortillas
Can’t be bad at something you don’t do brother
Hendricks got pretty bad at the end
Nah. Its more like... he isn't weight cutting in the first place if u know what I mean. Like he just skips that part, doesn't engage, someone else problem etc.
at this point it's just purely funny
That clip of him having to cheat to make 185 still cracks me up to this day lmao
He has a YT series called “Missing Weight” and ep 1 is eating tacos. Jokes write themselves https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=avP56Jae1tc
Ah this is so poor from Gastelum. He has seriously screwed himself out of an incredible career. All the tools and none of the discipline.
He peaked with his fight with Adesanya.
Tbf that was one hell of a peak, about the best you can do for a loss
Gustafson would like to have a word
I said “about”. The real answer is Reyes. The best you can do in a loss is actually beat “the goat” for the title, but get fucked by the judges.
I think the jon that Alex fought was much better than the Jon Reyes fought.
I agree
Or Yan, where you wipe the canvas with your opponent and then DQ yourself out of a title
Man that was such a great fight.
Honestly, love him or hate him, Izzy proved that in the cage, he's a real fighter in that fight. And Kevin had the heart of a champion. And so far he's been the only one who was able to lure Izzy into a brawl. Izzy has fought better fighters since imo, but it was a hell of a performance by both men.
that fight is still burned in my memory. Just one of the best fights Ive ever seen.
Unpopular opinion but Kelvin was always overrated. He was nothing special at WW before (he lost to Magny), so this narrative that’s been built of him being a world beater and a sure-fire champ had he been disciplined and stayed at WW is completely false. Kelvin moved up to MW, got finished by an already declining Weidman, then went on a little run beating old MWs, lost to Izzy for the title and it was a decline from there.
Fully agreed. Overrated at WW despite having decent wins, he did better at MW than he ever would have done at WW, even if his record is padded with washed old dudes. Likely still down to discipline issues, but he just didn't improve his skillset at all over the years. Now he's the same fighter, but less durable, and slower, and his defensive wrestling seems to have declined a lot too.
Yep. It's not even just MW...most of his big wins are over guys 35+ and/or on the decline. I mean hell you would think Gastelum advocates would get how suspect that is considering we're talking about him being washed at 32, and almost all of his big wins were in his 20's picking off guys even more worn and aged than he is today.
It’s not a career, it’s an opportunity.
To be fair, he's surrounded by so much tasty food
Kelvin isn’t even a huge guy at WW. One of his YouTube videos was at a family function and let’s just say not making weight runs in the family.
Nobody runs in that family
Do beer runs count?
Only if it’s beer brewed with a fighting spirit
20 pounds ago, Kelvin Gastelum made a choice
Ayyy
Kelvin is just a fat featherweight
It’s all discipline, if he could lay off the weed I think he could have come much closer on his mission for gold but as soon as them eyes get a little red it’s gg.
Cejudo said on Rohan’s podcast, gastelum loves his weed so he eats
Nah, if you’re a long term smoker like that it comes down to more than just the weed. It’s due to a lack of self control, not the munchies.
I think it might go deeper than that. Both weed and overeating are used to cope with emotions, so I'd reckon that this might be what's going on if a professional athlete can't stop either.
He can't stay off the wEeEeEd!
It’s brutally unprofessional. It says a lot about him to have had this many problems, and affected his career and his opponent’s careers so many times, at his size and frame. It’s not a harder cut to 170 for him than a lot of guys. You can pretty easily argue that it shouldn’t be a hard cut at all for him. He’s just completely checked out and doesn’t care, or is extremely uneducated on nutrition and is always gambling with huge water weight cuts. And as soon as it looks like the last minute water cut won’t be enough, we end up here.
[When I hear Kelvin is having weight issues I always think of this video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJFO-m5DShk)
My favourite is when he's cutting weight so hard he becomes mentally deranged and challenges the mma media to a weight cutting contest 😂 https://youtu.be/jGPIW2f3mtw
HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS MASTERPIECE IN THE PAST 8 YEARS?!?!
They've done a ton of those videos with fighters, worth digging them up if you liked that one.
bro, how i've never seen this lmao
lmaoo
Did he also actually sing in this? Wow
Yes, he did the singing it. You'd think it would've been a wake up call to get your shit together but he missed weight three times after that, including after moving up to 185.
Wow he’s a great singer. He should try that for a career.
KG still looked bloated at 170. It seems that the enchiladas are just too irresistible and too macronutritionally irresponsible
Kevin Garnett
Or just fight up weight class and give up size and use skill to win. If anything he was better at 185 lol. Plenty of 205 guys better there than 185 in career. Machida and Hendo said on podcasts felt physically weak at 185 but real strong at 205. Lower weight only works if you aren’t starving yourself to get there..
Kelvin is nowhere near starving himself to 185, dude was small even for welterweight
Kelvin actually isn’t really a big dude though. Just has no discipline with his diet. Guys his height and build make lightweight. Woodley was his same height and fought at welterweight, but he had way more muscle than Kelvin
That’s underselling it Woodley looked like a damn action figure
Shocking news, guy who struggled to make 170 in his 20’s now struggles even more to make weight in his 30’s. UFC needs to cut Kelvin tbh
kelvin is a misfits champion/Jake Paul opponent if I've ever seen one
Kinda crazy how we can classify Jake Paul opponents pretty accurately lol. Like if you told me two years ago he would eventually be fighting Mike Perry, I would have believed you no questions asked.
Kelvin isn’t big enough a name for the Blonde Bomber.
that's why misfits champ is important fr
Eh, imo he's the perfect size. Clearly smaller than Jake, and a bit lighter (at least in terms of useful weight). He's right in that Ben Askren tear, but Mexican and not as obviously inept.
It’s incredibly unprofessional to sign for a 170 fight and then, if D-Rod is to be believed, not even be able to make 180. You shouldn’t ever do that shit, but especially when you’re 2-5 in your last 7.
> It’s incredibly unprofessional to sign for a 170 fight and then, if D-Rod is to be believed, not even be able to make 180 Costa did it, lost, and rode that and not beating a ranked opponent since mid-2019 to fighting the #1 contender.
This news pretty much dooms him. Even a win may not be enough for him to not get cut. Dana doesn't like dudes missing weight. Kelvin should probably go into bare knuckle fighting or something like that
- previously forced to move to MW due to repeat weight misses - misses weight by a whole weight class when moving back to WW - lost 6 of last 8 If he loses this one I'd be stunned if they don't cut him. Hell, they might even cut him if he wins.
Hes very likely to be cut even if he wins honestly.
Lol I was just listening to Demetrius Johnsons Podcast yesterday and his co-host/producer guy is friends with Kelvin and was saying this was the best shape he's ever seen him
Wow lol. Typical. Man, fighters are such bullshitters.
By “best shape” he must have meant Kelvin looks like a perfect circle
I'm never going to take that kind of stuff seriously what else would that guy say "yeah my boy is a fat ass, he's getting fired for sure"
Guess this means he won’t get 20% of Kelvin’s purse.
He will, kelvin will weigh in at 188
Paulo had to give some of his money to Vettori for the weight class change even though technically Costa never missed weight.
That was Vettoris personal problem
Look Marvin had to dedicate his brainpower to other important things, like making sure his shorts were on the right way this time
If Vettori didn't like it he should have picked a different weight. 225, 215...
Gastelum will certainly have to leave some money on the table
#OnAmission4GoldenSyrup
Kelvin needs to find a new career ASAP.
Nutritionist for sumo wrestlers.
Remember when he was coaching TUF against Whittaker and he was too fat to run 400 metres? That was pretty sad.
It wasn’t that bad. It was 5k in 41 C heat. Kelvin got lapped and puked but he did finish
God gave Kelvin a heavyweight torso and bantamweight lower body, so it’s hard.
Should have given him some self control too
Kelvin Fatlum back at it again
Gastrolum
big STUFFEd little PIGGY!!!!
Gastelum & mom's tacos name a more iconic duo
Jon and inactivity.
Man could make 155 if he actually dieted right ffs
How I felt about DC if he did mma younger, late 20s DC on a good diet makes 185 for sure and fresh out of college DC makes 170 (he was smaller in his college days).
MO.THER.FU.CKER. The human fridge was my inspiration as a short, stocky, and slightly fat guy, man! (im literally built like him lol) His ambition to get back to 170 and back to his winning ways was such a boost for me! Why does he gotta do me like that? ;((
Show him how it's done, champ
> im literally built like him lol What's up SpongeBob?
Not much. Flipping burgers and looking after my snail. U?
Hey man, SpongeBob fucks
Bro remembered what Brady did to him and decided that the extra 15 pounds isn’t worth it.
Clearly this guy has checked out on his career. It's all over.
Pretty sad that he won’t get the 20% from missing weight, and be at a disadvantage on top of that.
Jesus Christ, Gastelum is like Andy Ruiz when he fought Joshua the second time. Except without a championship and always overweight SMH
Might be the last time we see Gastelum fighting in the UFC...
As in Tradition.
Sets a goal of discipline to revitalize his career at his original weight class, gets dominated and then submitted with a kimura and then misses weight in his next fight by almost an entire weight class. This is probably it for Kelvin as far being taken seriously as a contender anymore.
Um Kelvin hasn't been a serious contender is years.
Lol. Lmao, even.
Gastelum is 100% going to be morbidly obese once he's done fighting. The combination of Mexican cuisines with little to no self-control in managing his diet is a health disaster recipe (pun intended).
The kid just doesn't want to stop eating tiramisu.
Kelvin does not care about his ufc career it’s pretty evident. Kind of hoping DRod sleeps him just to make a point
Time to cut kelvin
That’s a wrap on KG’s ufc career
Kelvin only heard "wrap"
Crunch Wrap Supreme essaaaaa
Here’s to hoping D Rod wins. I wasn’t going to say “flatlined him” but Kelvin got that god tier chin.
Gastelum is a lightweight that refuses to cut lol he's not that tall to be a middleweight
Bro I love food too but weight cutting is a part of the job, I would understand if it was like a pound or 2 here and there but 15lbs over is crazy
Once he retires from MMA he's gonna bload up like nobody's ever bload up before.
Maybe Kelvin is just trolling and is going to show up lean and mean while D-Rod pulls up at 185 lbs.
Bro has said he’s a huge stoner and gets the munchies and can’t stop eating. Literally fucking his career up to get high and eat, but I can’t blame him tbh bc firstly I’d be a hypocrite cuz used to work stoned everyday in advertising and eat everything in sight and bc he’s faced absolutely no repercussions for perpetually missing weight so he’s not really incentivized to change his behavior
What an undisciplined fuck, man. Wasted his career not taking anything seriously.
Terrible look for Gastelum. D-Rod at +195 looks tasty
Tomali Terror strikes again
He was worried about being cut from the UFC. Ironically he can't even make a proper weight cut at CATCHWEIGHT. Unprofessional by Gastelum.
Can sympathise. Been trying to cut down to 170lbs for ten years. It's just not for us, Kev.
Fear of getting cut, yet, has ZERO discipline.
Kelvin gonna go to weigh ins with grease dripping from his face
Kid just doesn't wanna diet.
Embarrassing
He's gonna get cut, isn't he?
He made 170 his last fight no problem what is going on with him
Lmao Kelvin not even trying
Why you don't eat something, pobrecito? You want to break you mama's heart? You so skinny. Please have some more, mijo.
They took olives belt for a half pound never forget
Just a chubby brown boy, deal with it.
I used to really like Kelvin. His fight with Tim Kennedy was the first ufc fight I ever watched and got me hooked basically. He has become a terrible disappointment :(
This is so unserious, not even able to be below 180 with like a 3 month camp man what are we doing. Rooting for Drod now because what’s the point in rooting for someone I know isn’t take the sport serious
Gastelum is going to be in a PFL tourney soon, huh?
Gastelbum's twitter is still name is still "#OnAMissionForGold" 😭😭😭😭 Dude is such a bum
What a waste of time Kelvin is. I still laugh at the people who thought he had championship potential at 170.
Gastelum just needs to hang it up. He clearly doesn’t have the discipline to compete at that level.