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Jake Butler: Impressive win over Tatsuya Mizuno at 'Clash of Heroes' should earn me ONE Championship title shot

ONE Championship's new weight-cutting regulations are fairly straightforward. Everyone fights at their walking weight so the strawweight division is now 125 pounds, the flyweight division is now 135 pounds, the bantamweight division is now 145 pounds, etc.

The only question is what will happen to the light heavyweight division now that the middleweight limit has been moved to 205 pounds (walking weight). With six wins in his seven ONE Championship fights, Jake Butler was the most successful fighter in the division.

But he doesn't plan to stay there.

As the Princeton graduate prepares for a catchweight contest with Tatsuya Mizuno at ONE: "Clash of Heroes" this Friday night (preview), he says that his future is likely to lie at middleweight.