If you want to state that he "walks around at 170"
I don't ftr. I said he barely cuts weight to make 170. And that he's a natural lightweight.
Connor's a small lightweight which is why he can make 145. He's definitely smaller than Nate. Nate's not a huge 155er tho.
And also, not to get confused, it's definitely possible to cut from 190 down to 155. I believe RDA does that.
But yea, simply to state Nate walks around at 190 is as fact is wrong. Thats speculation. He hasn't ever stated his walk around weight, or his in-cage weight. Everything is speculation; even Chael. They don't weight fighters before they walk in. We don't know their weight in the cage.
So lets break it down logically:
Nate weighed in at 170 on 10 days notice, 2 months after a fight at 155. And this is without a fight camp. That's fact 1.
Fighters tend to weight more outside of their camp than they do in the camp. That's fact 2 - and if you are a fan of Chael and his podcast, or the JRE podcast, you will know this too. All the fighters interviewed say it. These two guys love asking fighter their weight, and they will always state what they walk around at, and what they weight in camp, and finally how much they cut in the last 1-2 weeks. You spend the fight camp reducing body fat % and getting in shape, then you cut the water during fight week.
So lets add these two facts together:
So you take an out-of-camp Nate, who 2 months prior fought at 155, give him 10 days, and he makes 170. He goes from his walk around weight to 170. Is he cutting 20 pounds in 10 days? Bit of dieting down + a water cut? Possibly, Does he weight 190 while in fight camp for a fight at 155? Extremely unlikely. Was he 190 in that cage? Very, very unlikely.
I'd estimate he's somewhere between 175-185 out of camp weight. In camp he's probably around that 170 mark, before the final week and water cutting to get to 155. After weigh-ins he probably goes back up to somewhere between 165-175 by the time he is in the cage. When fighting at 170 he's probably only around 5-10 pounds heavier in the cage.
Connor barely touches 170 while in camp. He stepped onto the scale at 168 without any sort of cutting or dieting. He can easily make 145. And since he's always 'in camp' -incredibly active fighter- I have no idea what he would weight out of camp.
Nate's bigger, but that's it. Nate's a natural lightweight. Connor is a small lightweight/big featherweight. We don't need any more narratives/speculation/nonsense outside of that. No need for revisionist history of calling Nate a 190 pound or 200 pound welterweight that tiny little featherweight Connor beat in some sort of David vs Goliath encounter.
