Fan-favorite striker, Rafael Fiziev has been urged towards a focused featherweight division drop by former UFC title challenger, Chael Sonnen in his subsequent outing, with the latter claiming a weight class drop would “shorten” the putting star’s fight sports activities profession.
Fiziev, who returned to motion on simply weeks’ discover at UFC 313 final weekend, suffered his third consecutive loss in a back-and-forth unanimous choice loss to former interim champion, Justin Gaethje of their hotly-contested rematch in Las Vegas.
Beforehand going through off with Gaethje within the UK again in 2023, Kazakh striker, Rafael Fiziev would power a majority choice on that event towards the previous symbolic BMF gold holder, in one other contentious loss.
Nonetheless, within the days after his UFC 313 loss, Tiger Muay Thai ace, Fiziev admitted he was weighing up a stunning transfer to the featherweight restrict.
“I’m start to thinking right now about change weight divisions,” Rafael Fiziev informed Ariel Helwani for Uncrowned. “Because I really cut weight really easy this time, and this is short notice. Very easy bro. All this week, my nutritionist, Jason, he tried to gain my weight because my weight go low so fast. Yeah, right now I have to think about it.”
Rafael Fiziev warned to contemplate featherweight transfer
And warned towards such a stunning transfer, Fiziev has been informed by former middleweight and light-weight heavyweight title chaser, Sonnen, how a staggering featherweight drop from removed from a “great” concept.
“Fiziev is talking about going down to 145lbs, first off, that’s not a great idea, the years of your career and when the whole career is done, the only thing that’s real is the money and the miles,” Sonnen mentioned on his YouTube channel.
“You will shorten your career by going to 145lbs, and historically speaking you can’t find me examples of when that has worked,” Sonnen continued.
