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The fight against Jean Silva was an eye-opening experience for Charles Jourdain. | Getty/UFC
Charles Jourdain is grateful to Jean Silva for knocking some sense into him.
Jourdain made his UFC debut at lightweight in 2019, but dropped to featherweight in his next outing. After a back-and-forth run at featherweight, Jourdain dropped to bantamweight late last year. “Air” recently revealed that his most recent loss influenced his move to 135 pounds. Jourdain suffered his last loss via a brutal knockout against Jean Silva at UFC 303 last year. Following his loss to “Lord,” Jourdain realized that his size gap was too much with fellow featherweights. Jourdain claims to weigh only around 153 pounds on fight night after rehydrating.
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Jourdain Benefitted from Past Experience
“I’m not looking at my past experience at featherweight as a bad thing,” Jourdain said on “The Ariel Helwani Show.”
“I think I was forged in a different fire. So now the run at 135 will be quite different than the run at 145 and 155. It just happened when I lost to Jean Silva, who is a very strong fighter. It was the only time in my life I got TKO’d. Then I realized there’s too much of a gap. I cannot rehydrate to 152-153 pounds and fight these guys who look like 170-175-ish. So yeah, Jean knocked some sense into me of going to 135 [pounds].”
Jourdain is already a UFC veteran at 29 years of age with 16 UFC outings to his name. The Canadian has scored back-to-back guillotine submission wins since moving to bantamweight, most recently against Davey Grant at UFC 321 last weekend in Abu Dhabi.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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