Are you kidding me? 4 pounds over isn’t even close, has he been working out with Carano?

What the fuc#? Alves is my guy. How do you miss by 4 pounds?

Where are those diuretics when you need them?

omg this was he’s chance to get to the next level and maybe get a title shot but he almost blew it! What an idiot

Lets watch the same guys that defended Carano bash Alves. There is no excuse for his. When it’s your job to make weight, you should make weight. Mania’s job is to post our comments, oh wait, bad example…jk lol

I have never had to cut weight like some of these guys do for every fight, so I don’t understand completely how you can fail at making weight by such a large quantity. Are these guys lazy or are they just training too heavy for their weight class?

Sounds fishy to me! Maybe he thinks the heavier weight will help but how in the world do you miss by that much? It’s not just him but he has a whole team that works with him, how can they all be off as well?

You remember the last time someone missed weight against Hughes. He killed them quickly (Riggs). I would assume the same thing is going to happen. I promise you Huhges will take this as a slap in the face.

This to me is inexcusible. On this season of TUF a contested was 17 pounds overweight that first day and they cut it and made weight. That was one days notice!! Thiago had been at a training camp for this fight so there to me is no valid reason to miss weight. None. Now if a guy has one days notice and misses, I can forgive that, but not a guy who’s had a training camp to prepare.

I like Thiago as a fighter, but I’m beginning to not like Thiago the man. First he gets suspended for a banned Diuretic and now this. I’m starting to question his professionalism.

cough “roids” cough………..

How much notice did he have for this fight? I thought it was like 5 weeks. that should be plenty of time to make weight.

he missed weight for a competitive advantage. He knows Matt Hughes isn’t going to not fight, and the UFC isn’t going to cancel the main event. All you guys that have been swinging from alves nuts now see how confident he really is! If you defended Gina for not making weight, and made every last excuse, start making them for this guy too, you can’t have it both ways. First and foremost these people are fighters, this is inexcusable and after Hughes demolishes him, not making weight will never cross his mind again!

WHY WASN’t ALVES aloud the 2 hours or whatever to shed 3 lbs?!?!?!

WOULDNt matt hughes want alves to shed weight to make him burn rather than fight at a catch weight with no guarantee of a purse reduction you guys say elite xc is bad wht the heck wasnt alves told to try and loose the 3 lbs???

The problem is most guys come in a few pounds heavy a week out and then cut the final pounds a day or two before the fight. Usually they are cutting atr least two pounds on the day of weigh ins. This is something that could easily happen if he swallowed water in the shower, cheated and drank when he was not supposed too…who knows…there are a million ways to miss your weight. Sometimes people’s bodies react differently after flights and maybe he was just trying to shed the weight and it would not come off…I have had that happen to me before.

Good job Travis Lutter.

damn that’s almost as much as gina.

i know this is totally off topic.. but does ANYONE KNOW that Affliction will be in a Cage or in a Ring.??? that being said WAR HUGHES!!!… his last loss was to GSP 2nd best P4P fighter in the world… and his loss before that was way back to BJ PEnn another MMA Legend…

This is great news. Alves just blew his chances. First he talks about how Karo is tougher than Hughes which leads me to believe he is grossly under training for Hughes. Then this weight issue comes in which solidifies my thoughts. He is going to be tired from trying to cut and it’ll affect him. That was Riggs problem, he we gassed during the fight with Hughes. Thiago is not showing the dicipline it takes to be a champ. He isn’t ready to hang with the top 5 yet.

He isn’t going to have to cut any I don’t think, it will be a catchweight fight. However, Alves was given a main event fight and he blew it. Dana wasn’t pleased when Lutter missed weight and won’t be pleased now. Even a win here for Alves and he won’t climb up the ladder to a title shot. This hurts Alves bad. What a moron! Why would he miss so badly? Maybe too much South Beach partying.

HA HA!!! Fat ass..

Well even if he does win, he won’t come anywhere near the title.

Hey is there anywhere I can watch the weigh ins? Will the weigh in videos be posted?

Alves blew his chances of climbing up the ladder. What a piece of Lutter!!! This shows lack of respect and professionalism. He must not be taking Hughes seriously, big mistake for him. It probably will not help him tomorrow as he may not have the fan base. At least he isn’t going to be cutting weight.

Hughes is going to kill him now. Not making weight by that amount is a lack of respect for yourself and your opponent. These guys are professional athletes.

Perhaps its the card that has been doomed from the start.

WAR BISPING.

http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=VideoPlayer.home&gid=11395 they will come on here soon. copy this link and keep it for other weighins as i do that.

that sounds like he didn’t even try to cut weight which is sort of fishy.It looks to me like he is trying to get an advantage ,now I really want hughes to smash him .Matt Hughes is coming in with a big disadvantage,by just having to cut the last week and thiago didn’t odviously

Bisping is 3 fights away from silva!!!! BISPING GONNA KILL A MAN TOMORROW! ITS BISPING TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn this sucks! What a bummer!

Out of my pics hughes is the one im worried about as ive had a feeling alves will ko him.

Yes it is a huge blunder upon Alves’s part, but to say it has blew his chances of climbing up the latter is going abit over board. Having had to cut weight myself, it is a very difficult thing to do. There are many things you have to consider when cutting weight. I think for Alves since they did declare the weight at a catch weight, I’m assuming that that was done before the actual weigh-in. Which could mean that cutting anymore weight for Alves could be dangerous to his health. I think he did come in shape but just that he’s on the heavy side because of the increase in muscle. It is a sign of disrespect and lack of professionalism, however, he’s human! People make mistakes, but its up to others to learn fromt he mistakes they have made.

Why can’t Alves lose 3 pounds in 1 hour? I’ve known guys that have lost more before weigh in.

2 things: Alves=WTF!!! AND Vera=205PLEASE! (Giving up 20-30 lbs per fight is retarded an he’ll always come up short against the top teer fighters at HVWT, drop to 205 dude, get tht belt, then we’ll talk about you fighting the gigantors of the industry)

Day is predicting a new submission to finish Bisping on setantasports.com

so then matt does not gain anything to fight at a catch weight then , and alves wasnts told after weighing in 4 lbs over to try to lose the weight???
WTF
dana

I was there, they put matt on the spot… dana asked him if he was happy to fight at a catch weight. He agreed instantly, hughes just won himself another fan!???that makes no sense from another reader…
danan should have foreced alves to come back in an hour after cutting he only needed to lose 3 lbs!!!!!!
DANA is a JErk and didn’t want to wait

Hypothetical: If Hughes originally came in at the four pounds over it would give him a huge advantage. Love him, or hate him, Hughes is a true fighter at heart. He is also the “anti Kimbo Slice” fighter. As a fan you gotta respect that

disappointed, i really thought thiago could really challenge hughes, now although i don’t like hughes i’m kinda pulling for him, but it’d be better for the WW division if thiago won, but do you reward him for winning but not cutting the weight, the colonic guy (rudiger?) came closer to making weight than thiago.
On a seperate note brandon vera @228 is small, can you imagine if he was matched up against lesnar, talk about a overmatch. I’d like to see vera fight wanderlei,rampage,liddell, any of those LWs, i think would be entertaining, i just don’t think vera is big enough if he had to fight the “true” heavyweights.

Man. I think Gary Shaw put the hex on UFC 85. Injury after injury after replacements…now this?!

Hughes is a game fighter. I’ll let him talk all the smack he wants. He’s a true champ. If Thiago wins, I don’t think he deserves a title shot.

And I agree with you Adam G. I’m a Brandon Vera fan. But, I think its going to take him getting beat down by a massive heavy weight for him to consider 205. Since his introduction, he’s been calling out Chuck Liddell left and right. Drop to 205 and let Joe Silva make it happen.

Well, that just changed my mind. I hope Hughes buries him now. Unacceptable.

I was at the weight ins alves was just weighted and announced as 174 he it was never said he would have 2 hours to lose the rest? Whats up with that?

Alves has not completely blown his shot, he just won’t get the automatic shot if he beats Hughes.
-Side note, A couple people here have referenced Diesel Riggs. Whatever happened to that guy? I remember Salaverry and Hughes beat him, haven’t seen or heard much of anything since then. Anyone know where he fights now?

I’ve never liked matt hughes but ever since he agreed to fight GSP when he didn’t have to, and now him agreeing to fight this fight has changed my mind about Hughes. I hope he destroys this irresponsible fool

Hope he tests clean.

This isnt the first time he has messed up. Remember he was suspended for 8months for steroids.

I’m reading alot of posts speculating the excuses Thiago may have. THERE IS NO EXCUSE. I cant wait for Hughes to punish him, he does not like to be disrespected. oh and stop blaming Dana for everything, i like the fact that this may just be the motivation Hughes needs to destroy Alves.

fatty!

Mania, why is it when I post sometimes my comment just dissapears? No “awaiting moderation” nothing. I have had this happen several times.

4 lbs!! LOL… thats cheat.

Thiago isn’t dedicated, and Hughes is probably gonna smash him.

The ROIDS probably bloated him way more than he thought lol
JOKE!
Bang out of order he should lose all the purse money and have to give it to charity. The MUG

I had more interest in the Elite XC CBS fight card than I have in this one… and they didn’t charge us $45 for it. This will be the first UFC PPV I haven’t bought in over a year.

GORANDY LOVES DANA WHITE!!!! = ) Just Kidding dude, but ease up on the guy or stop watching UFC’s cause he is eaposible for every one of those, you know, all that entertainment you enjoy. But you dont give him credit for the goods, just the bads . . . That he cant even do anything about!!!! Hate Alves!!! COME ON!

“responsible” for every one of those . . . (ERROR)

My guess is that this was more of a “choice” than an accident. He Wanted to be bigger, stronger, bulked up and 4 lbs is the price to pay. Alves doesn’t have much fat. My guess is that this presents more problems for hughes. Alves will not be dehydrated, he’ll be heavier and stronger (than he would be if he HAD to lose the extra 3lbs). I just hope he doesn’t say a WORD about how in shape he was or how he could go the “distance” with his fight with hughes because EVERYONE knows that you are not the same fighter if you have to dehydrate yourself in 1-2 days in order to lose 3 MORE pounds. I hope hughes wins.

Im not a hughes fan but i kinda feel bad for him cutting weight for nothing. He looks really drained in that pic, hopefully hughes can gather his strength because tomorrow Alves will be stepping into the octagon @ 190.
I was going for Thiago but now im going for Hughes.

Thiago…Thiago…Thiago….tisk tisk…I hope Hughes puts him in a crucifix and smashes his face in or slams him through the mat

If my wife was 4 lbs over weight i’d put her in a rear naked choke.

I can’t wait for Bisping to get exposed. Day better finish, or the judges will ‘’do him’ like Hammill.
Alves needs to go to 85

Davis vs. Swick – fight of the night

i’ve never had to cut weight so i don’t know, but does four ponds really make that big of a difference. like i can lift that weight with my dick. i know he should still weight 170 for the weigh ins but i was just wondering how much difference it makes in a fight

Hughes is a class act. Always has been. He will beat this guy bad.

Alves ought to be made to give hughes have of his salary just like Gina had to do for her opponent for coming in to heavy.

He couldn’t make weight because he was so big, just like he wanted to be from taking steroids. Come on all you have to do is look at his pecs. He’s juiced.

yes Thiago never made weight by like 4 pounds some what not like he had a busted up ankle like a fews before the fight? even so Hughes by fight time was just as heavy as thiago or heavy. Plus Thiago still had a busted ankle and about Thiago taking steroids , look at GSP just cause your in good shape doesn’t mean your “juiced”