Casey Kenney knew Manny Bermudez would be bigger than him when they met at UFC 241, but he didn’t know to what extent.
Kenney was originally scheduled to fight Bermudez in a bantamweight contest, but it was changed to a 140-pound catchweight bout the night before weigh-ins. Kenney said he got a call from his manager Jason House around midnight asking if Kenney would be willing to give his opponent an extra five pounds.
“He was so far over — he was 143 pounds and dead to the world the night before — that they only allowed him to go to 140, the nutritionists at the [UFC Performance Institute],” Kenney told Bloody Elbow.