When Will Brooks left UFC Portland, he didn’t just take a bad loss with him. For only the second time in his career, Brooks was on the wrong end of a fight, and this time it came with a broken rib and a nasty grudge. Brooks’ opponent, Alex Oliveira missed weight by almost six pounds. The Brazilian fighter, who has bounced between welterweight and lightweight in the UFC reportedly had problems with his weight cut following the long flight from Brazil to Oregon.
But, for a notably large lightweight to end up that far off the mark raised some questions: not just as to whether he should fight at lightweight, but as to whether he was really doing all he could to make weight?