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WEIGHING IN

Shavkat Removed

WEIGHING IN

John McCarthy & Josh Thomson's MMA Show

Sports

4.6531 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Shavkat removed from rankings, Bautista vs Oliveira, Horiguchi win set up FW title shot

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? As you guys can see, I've got some work going on behind me, trying to reorganize

0:04.3

my studio for the Dad Dojo, but also use it for the Wayne In podcast. And, uh, hey, man, we've got a special guest. He'll be joining us in a little bit here, but I wanted to just kind of get on a little bit early, man. I was already prepared, ready to go. Uh, you know, I saw some news that it dropped a little bit, a little while ago then we also have theavkat news we've got a lot of things to talk about but i saw that the uh brian ortega

0:26.0

pulled now i think it was probably about a week ago maybe a little bit longer than that but i guess

0:29.4

moikano at ufc three i think it's 326 is where they were supposed they were scheduled to fight at

0:33.7

um man i think at some point that's yeah that's his fight up at 155 he needs to take some

0:40.8

time he needs to take a little bit of a break he needs to get his body right and he needs to just get

0:45.0

i think just get focused on look my career the rest of my career will be spent at 155 pounds

0:52.0

and once you acknowledge that once you realize there's no going back,

0:58.0

which I think he, I think he's done that. I think he understands that, look, this is where I'm

1:02.5

going to be. There will be no going back to 145. I don't even want to attempt it. I don't want to try it.

1:08.1

And I respect that. Hopefully, hopefully that's what he's trying to do.

1:15.7

But I think once that kicks in, I think his body will start to adjust.

1:17.3

He'll start to carry the weight more properly.

1:22.4

He'll probably avoid less injuries because he's not starving himself to get down to that hundred and to get to that 145 pounds.

1:26.1

And realistically, you have a tendency to get better as a fighter because you are not focused

1:33.1

on your whole camp being about losing the weight.

1:36.8

And I'm not sure if you guys have heard this before, but I've talked about it a couple

1:40.4

times, years and years ago.

1:42.4

You know, I used to coach corner and you know i pretty much helped

1:46.8

i pretty much discovered anthony rumble johnson hitting hitting mitts at some shootbox academy down

1:51.8

on some alleyway in in la and um i was getting ready for a fight and he just so happened to be there and he

1:58.7

was i said hey man i need to I need a body to roll with.

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