{"id":390541,"date":"2022-06-02T19:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=390541"},"modified":"2022-06-02T19:19:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T19:19:09","slug":"he-wasnt-stumbling-around-dustin-poirier-believes-charles-oliveira-didnt-push-himself-to-make-weight-at-ufc-274-wants-digital-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/he-wasnt-stumbling-around-dustin-poirier-believes-charles-oliveira-didnt-push-himself-to-make-weight-at-ufc-274-wants-digital-scales\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He Wasn\u2019t Stumbling Around&#8217;- Dustin Poirier Believes Charles Oliveira Didn&#8217;t Push Himself to Make Weight at UFC 274; Wants Digital Scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight star Dustin Poirier appeared on \u2018The Fight with Teddy Atlas\u2019 and reflected on Charles Oliveira\u2019s weight miss that went down at UFC 274. \u2018Do Bronx\u2019 came in 0.5 pounds over the championship limit and ended up being stripped of his status as the 155-pound champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Diamond\u2019 advocated for a change in the current weighing system and talked about introducing digital scales for the fighter weigh-ins. This would negate the human error aspect that arises when the weighing scale is analog and being operated by a commission member.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira missed the 155-lb weight limit by half a pound at UFC 274 weigh-ins.<\/p>\n<p>He has less than an hour to cut the half pound for his bout vs. Justin Gaethje to remain a title fight. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kr9k9kgeOr\">pic.twitter.com\/kr9k9kgeOr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1522640316939091969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe need to be on digital scales so there\u2019s no grey area. You can\u2019t have a guy there tapping a weight-balance scale and it\u2019s kind of balancing, and he just says it\u2019s a half-pound or whatever. We need exact numbers. You get on a digital scale, it shows up on the screen, that\u2019s your actual weight. I don\u2019t like the fact that these guys are tapping this balance scale.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>\u2018He still had life in his body\u2019- Dustin Poirier on Charles Oliveira\u2019s weight miss<\/h2>\n<p>Additionally, Dustin Poirier also commented on how Charles Oliveira could have done more in order to make the 155-pound limit. Per Poirier, Oliveira was able to move about without any assistance and hence had some more energy left in the tank to shed off the remaining 0.5 pounds.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XYCndaCQ3dg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey weren\u2019t carrying him out. He wasn\u2019t stumbling around. He\u2019s always really lean, and he\u2019s long and tall, so he looks slim. He\u2019s a big guy, but he didn\u2019t look like he needed to be helped. He still had life in his body. He could have, it looked like, tried to lose more weight. It\u2019s a championship fight.\u201d<\/em> [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/dustin-poirier-believes-charles-oliveira-could-have-done-more-to-make-weight-at-ufc-274-they-werent-carrying-him-out-he-wasnt-stumbling-around\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjpenn.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/not-the-smartest-human-being-inside-that-cage-t-j-dillashaw-questions-cody-garbrandts-approach-inside-the-ufc-octagon\/\">\u2018Not the Smartest Human Being Inside that Cage\u2019- T.J Dillashaw Questions Cody Garbrandt\u2019s Approach Inside the UFC Octagon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the weight miss, Charles Oliveira is still looked at as the best lightweight fighter on the planet. Many fans believe he has what it takes to put forth a lengthy reign and even surpass Khabib Nurmagomedov\u2019s stature as the figurehead of the lightweight division.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Do Bronx\u2019 is on an 11-fight win streak and it seems like all the pieces are falling together for the Brazilian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC lightweight star Dustin Poirier appeared on \u2018The Fight with Teddy Atlas\u2019 and reflected on Charles Oliveira\u2019s weight miss that went down at UFC 274. \u2018Do Bronx\u2019 came in 0.5 pounds over the championship limit and ended up being stripped of his status as the 155-pound champion. \u2018The Diamond\u2019 advocated for a change in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":390543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}