#4 Reason Behind Never Cutting Down To 205 lbs
Indeed, even as far back as his StrikeForce run, numerous fans just could not make sense of why Cormier was battling at Heavyweight. He looked enormously undersized there and scarcely cut the figure of a svelte competitor, rather donning a sizeable gut. It was not that he was rusty per say, however it was positively evident, that he had the edge to make 205lbs serenely.
However, there was a noteworthy explanation behind ‘DC’ choosing to remain at Heavyweight. Cormier’s experience as an Olympic wrestler is frequently said when examiners discuss his qualities – yet few individuals know that in actuality, his Olympic experience was really a bad dream for him.
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Athens 2004 went entirely well, as a matter of fact – he took 4th place in the 96 kg free-form competition, barely passing up a place on the podium. However, on the off chance that he anticipated that would go above and beyond at Beijing 2008 he was distressfully mixed up.
Cormier was named as group leader of the USA wrestling group that year, however wound up being pulled from the tournament because of kidney issue expedited by intemperate weight cutting. As indicated by a 2014 meeting with Cormier, he sensed that he was going to kick the bucket amid the cutting procedure – making it unmistakably reasonable why he maintained a strategic distance from weight cutting amid his MMA vocation.
Obviously, in 2014 he chose to make the dive and moved to 205lbs for the 1st time, for his profession – and fortunately he has had no perilous events around his weight cutting since, making the lower weight generally by eating less junk food as opposed to stripping water weight.
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