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 Din Thomas was supposed to fight this past weekend at that Ultimate Chaos card in Mississippi but instead got pulled last second because of some retardation at the weigh-ins. What actually happens depends on who you believe. Here's Din's side of the story from the point he stepped on the scale at 146.6 pounds (interesting that he's finally dropped down to featherweight, eh?):"I'm expecting (UFC emcee) Joe Rogan to say, 'Yeah, you've got two hours to cut the weight.' But they didn't tell me at this card. I was on stage, I weighed in at 146.6 (pounds), I looked at the commission, and I said, 'Am I OK?' And they said, 'Oh, yeah. You'll be fine. Don't worry.'" Now here's his opponent Javier Vasquez giving his side of things: "Someone from the show came up to me and goes, 'Hey, he's a half-of-a-pound over; do you want him to cut?' I'm like, 'Yeah, I want him to cut.' That's as far as I went." The whole thing is a complete clusterfuck from start to finish, complete with Din turning down an opportunity to fight anyways if he agreed to give up 20% of his purse. By that point though he'd already half killed himself trying to cut weight again and his general attitude was 'fuck this, and fuck Vazquez'. There's still a lot of grey zone shit in there but it looks like this was just two guys getting wires crossed because of an incompetent commission. Rather than sit both guys down immediately to figure out a solution, they went through a bunch of retardation that ended up making both guys look stupid and unprofessional. Way to go, Mississippi!  Don't worry Mississippi.............you're still fatter than Alabama!  if din had made the weight, none of this would have happened. how you can paint vasquez in a bad light because of any of this doesnt make any sense to me. i agree that the responsibility for weight issues falls on the commission to make sense of and decide what to do- not the opposing fighter. I don't blame Din at all, the dude could have made weight in like 5 minutes if the commission would have told him he needed to cut more, but they told him it was fine and he re-hydrated and gained all that weight back. He said fuck it i'll fight and Vasquez said he wanted 20 percent. I'd be pretty pissed too if i was killing myself all day to make weight and then when i thought i was fine and started re-hydrating they told me the only way the dude would fight me is if they took 20% of my purse. Its not Thomas or Valasquez fault it was the lack of communication of the Mississippi commission for being a bunch of fucking idiots, but then again you sign a contract to fight in Mississippi you better realize your going to run into some speed bumps. Isn't the point that Thomas didn't make weight. You're a pro fighter Din..........it's your job to come in on weight the first time. I can't help but think that if these guys were to just cut the middleman out and share 5 words with each other, this could have all been avoided. Still...if you are a fighter, you get paid to make weight.  seems like Din and Mississippi are to blame... the comish should have done it's job and communicated better. Din should have tried to get a straight answer from the comish.  Yeah don't trust the comish they got their heads up their asses 9 times out of ten. He should have waited for confirmation at least before rehydrating. I still feel bad for both fighters though but less for Din. I don't feel bad for Vasquez since Thomas probably would have knocked his ass out, instead he got paid the same to demolish a dude in like 59 seconds.  Din & the Commish both fucked up. Din should have made weight (it's your job to make weight) and the commish should have told him that he needed to drop the 0.6 lb to be within the 1 lb limit. And the 20% purse cut is pretty much standard. I don't know if there's a rule for it, but we've seen it implemented numerous times when a fighter doesn't make weight. So it's Din's fault that he didn't make weight & it's his fault for not giving up 20% of his purse. If he would have won, he would have collected 80% of his purse, instead of getting nothing for his work.
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