Kenny Florian Weighs in on Massachusetts Regulations

By MMAEdition on Dec 31, 1969 with Comments 0

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UFC lightweight Kenny Florian will no doubt be an instrumental part of the organization’s promotional push when it visits Boston for UFC 118 in August, but he may already be impacting the way that event could be regulated.

Florian testified on Tuesday before the Massachusetts State Athletic Commission on the issue of double weigh-ins, which the commission approved back in March but vowed to revisit in a hearing with testimony from medical professionals and experts. One such expert, it turns out, was Florian.

“They’d heard these stories of guys coming in and weighing thirty pounds or even forty pounds over their actual weight class, so that was a big concern of theirs,” said Florian. “Since most of them come from a boxing background where a guy with a twenty-pound advantage hitting someone else in the head might be a dangerous advantage, they were concerned. So I came in and tried to give them some of my perspective on it.”