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The Dutchman suffered a lopsided unanimous decision loss in a middleweight matchup against Borralho this past March, his last outing at 185 pounds. He recently revealed that he had already decided to move up to the Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight division during fight week ahead of that bout.
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De Ridder decided to leave middleweight during his weight cut before facing Caio Borralho
The former two-division One Championship titleholder recently recalled the days leading up to the defeat to Borralho. He was coming off a stoppage loss to Brendan Allen, in which he visibly gassed out, prompting a corner stoppage before the final round. “The Dutch Knight” has now revealed that the weight cut for the Borralho fight was even worse than the one that preceded the Allen bout.
“It was before the fight, during the weight cut I said, ‘This is the last time. I’m never gonna do this again,’” de Ridder told Full Send MMA. “That week was the worst fight week I’ve ever had. Everything went wrong. That fight week was the worst week I’ve ever had… Even worse than the Vancouver week. Nothing medical stuff, wasn’t a hospital, I don’t want to make up any excuses, but it wasn’t good.”
He finally moved up to 205 pounds for good against Roman Dolidze at UFC Sacramento, scoring a first-round stoppage to return to winning ways.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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