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Renan Barao blames weight cut for past losses: ‘I couldn’t fight in my last four bouts’

Former UFC bantamweight champion Renan Barao is done cutting weight. After losing his past four fights, three of them at 135, and missing weight in two of them, the 32-year-old believes the gruelling weight cut is behind all of those defeats.

Now paired up against fellow former bantamweight moving up in Douglas Silva, Renan tells Ag Fight he expects being able to put on much better performances. He claims he was not able to fight in those bouts and should not have lost to some of the fighters he did.

“The worst thing that was going on at bantamweight was the weight cut.