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Rumble Johnson won’t move to heavyweight: I only brought that up because ‘I was fat’

Anthony Johnson has always had an interesting career, fighting as low as welterweight all the way up to heavyweight. There was previous talk about him moving back up in his return to MMA, but after signing with Bellator, “Rumble” made it clear he plans to stay at 205 lbs.

“Everybody keeps talking about heavyweight cause I brought it up but everybody also has to realize I was fat whenever I was talking about fighting at heavyweight,” Johnson told MMA Fighting.

“I was fat. So I didn’t have no dreams of weighing 230 [pounds] or less again.