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DONALD CERRONE TO MIDDLEWEIGHT? WHY NOT?

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AnthonyBrancato
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08.04.2017 | 5:47 PM ET

How many fighters can you name who have UFC wins in three different weight classes?

Rashad Evans will try to join that club tomorrow night (Rashad's win over Brad Imes in the TUF 2 finale counts as an official fight; his fights "in the house" do not); and besides, the middleweight division in the UFC is both weak and chaotic - and I'm sure that many of you here think that Cowboy could beat Bisping! LOL

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08.04.2017 | 7:12 PM ET

Vitor has won in 3 divisions, 4 if you count Rumbleweight.

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08.04.2017 | 8:04 PM ET

Kenny Florian has won in 4 weight classes if you count his win over Chris Leben on TUF. 
Diego Sanchez has wins at 185, 170, and 155. 
Rich Franklin if you count his two wins over Wanderlei at catch weights. 
Dan Henderson if you count his wins back in the pre Zuffa UFC days when middleweight was 199 lbs.
Same for Wanderlei Silva. Who fought at 185, 199 and 205

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08.05.2017 | 1:40 AM ET

Manny Gamburyan of all people has done this.

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08.05.2017 | 4:47 AM ET

Akira Corrasani fought Dion Staring I believe at HW and obviously fights at 145 so who knows how many weight classes he's fought in (tap doesn't have weights for his early fights)
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08.05.2017 | 10:43 AM ET

I never said that Cerrone or Evans would be the only ones - but they would join a pretty small and select group if Evans wins tonight and Cerrone moves up and wins.

And Cerrone has more than enough size and reach to be competitive at middleweight.

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08.05.2017 | 10:58 AM ET

Joe Riggs went from HW to WW, that's crazy.

Yancy Medeiros is another one, went from LHW or MW down to LW.
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