“Oh yeah,” laughs the former featherweight contender, a couple weeks out from making his first UFC start at lightweight against Te Edwards on January 19. “Right now in a camp I'd probably be about maybe five pounds lighter than I am now, but really hungry.”
The way Bermudez describes it, cutting weight is the fight before the fight, and not the fun part. And while he’s been cutting practically all his life, whether as a wrestler or mixed martial artist, in recent years, getting down to 145 pounds was taking its toll.
“The weight cut is part of the fight, I think,” he said.