Thirty-three fights into his professional mixed martial arts career, Jack Hermansson is changing weight classes for the first time, as “The Joker” makes his debut in the welterweight ranks this weekend in an intriguing clash with Myktybek Orolbai on the main card of the UFC’s debut event at ABHA Arena in Doha, Qatar.
Some are bound to draw a direction connection between Hermansson’s last outing and his decision to drop a weight class and believe there is a causal relationship there, but the 37-year-old made clear on Tuesday that this isn’t a response that result as much as him finally changing things up after years of inconsistent results and those around him suggesting a drop to the 170-pound weight class.