Tim Sylvia Weighs In at 310 Pounds For MMA Fight Against Ray Mercer
Former UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia weighed in at an astonishing 310.6 pounds on Friday in Birmingham, Alabama for his Adrenaline III headliner against former boxing champion Ray Mercer, who tipped the scales over 50 pounds lighter at 256.6 pounds.
Sylvia weighed 263 pounds for his most-recent bout at Affliction: Banned last July, adding nearly 50 pounds to his 6-foot 8-inch frame over the past 11 months. He’ll need to shed the additional weigh in just under two months to reach the 265-pound heavyweight limit for his Affliction: Trilogy matchup with Paul Buentello.
Sylvia and Mercer were originally scheduled for a boxing match in New Jersey, before the state declined to approve the contest, forcing it to be moved to Alabama where it was changed on Thursday to MMA rules after the boxing bout was deemed illegal.
Notables Jeremy Horn (204.8) and Rich Clementi (170.2), both UFC veterans, were on weight for their respective matchups.
[Pictured: Tim Sylvia]
(HT: MMA Weekly)
Tags: jeremy horn, Ray Mercer, Rich Clementi, Tim Sylvia
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Is this for real? Besides the Penguins have just punked the Wings. Lord Stanley give me a triple shot of brandy!!!
Clementi is supposed to headline the UCFC card in Pittsburgh the 27th. What gives?
Here is the card:
UCFC: Rumble on the Rivers
Date Sat, Jun 27, 2009
Time 7:30 PM
Doors Open 6:30 PM
Ticket Price $31.50 – $210.00
Seating WWE
TICKETS ON SALE: Saturday, May 16th @ NOON!
PARKING: For prepaid parking, please CLICK HERE
CAMERA AND VIDEO POLICY: small personal still camera (preferably disposable) equipped with 3 inch lens or smaller. Video, audio and professional camera and recording devices are strictly prohibited in the Arena.
Rich Clementi vs. Kyle Jensen
Micah Miller vs. JC Pennington
Phil Davis vs. David Baggett
Paul Bradley vs. Brandon Wolff
Carlton Haselrig vs. Alex Rozman
James Brasco vs. Matt Brown
Dave Sachs vs. Brock Kerry
Angela Magana vs. Valerie Coolbaugh
Joe Demore vs. Jason Trzewieczynski
*Fight Card Subject To Change
This is the first MMA card in Pittsburgh history, I can’t wait to be a part of it.
Good on ya man seems like fun forsure
wow just simply wow, Timmmehhhh is making a mockery of himself
Sorry back on topic. Timmy needs to find a new camp. You must evolve in this sport and it seems to me that he is just treading water with MFS.
perhaps but the thing is that he took this fight just for the money and didn’t believe that it would be a MMA bout, and really no one cares if he lost a boxing match, so he didn’t train nor cut weight and just looked for a pay day and would begin training for Paul after this piece of shhhh ended…. I hope he gets his block knocked off
310lbs!! whoa, im a good christian lad but jesus christ! haha
Thats 100lbs more than me and I thought I was big.
For the spectators sake I hope it ends in 1 because I don’t think either one put in any roadwork….
310+ pounds?!
Really?
At this rate Sylvia’s next opponent should be Bob Sapp, or Butterbean, or that giant Korean guy, fighting in some sort of super-mutant class in Japan, instead of Paul Buentello.
I guess Sylvia really is done with his self-professed pursuit of more HW MMA gold, and has decided to leverage his dwindling UFC “cred” for as many paydays as he can score before he’s blackballed or relegated to something like Bully Beatdown.
Best of luck to him, I’m sure he has bills to pay and mouths to feed.
As to the evolution comment, I would only like to add that while yes the fighters most definitely need to constantly evolve/improve to remain competitive in today’s MMA, IMO it’s at least as important for the camps who churn these fighters out to evolve as well.
Does anyone really think that much has changed in the last decade over at Pat Militech’s gym, or John Hackleman’s? Maybe they have, but it would be hard to prove by their fighter’s recent in-cage performances.
Apologies if this comes across as fighter/trainer bashing…
Jake Shields was on Bully Beatdown. Hes a top 5 WW and wasn’t “relegated” to the show.