After winning The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 17 as a middleweight, Kelvin Gastelum shed some skin to try his luck in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) welterweight division.
The weight cutting process proved to be a difficult one, and UFC President Dana White temporarily banished him from the 170-pound division, not long after Gastelum cut ties with famed diet coach Mike Dolce.
But now he's back and ready to try again -- thanks to his boss.
"Dana White called me personally and gave me the fight," Gastelum told UFC.com. "He also said that he would be paying for a nutritionist, his name is George Lockhart, so the UFC is putting a lot of interest in this fight.