{"id":415929,"date":"2026-07-29T01:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415929\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:04:25","slug":"reinier-de-ridder-never-going-back-to-middleweight-after-ufc-sacramento-dumbest-s-t-ive-ever-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415929\/","title":{"rendered":"Reinier de Ridder \u2018never going back\u2019 to middleweight after UFC Sacramento \u2014 \u2018Dumbest s\u2014t I\u2019ve ever done\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s why UFC fighters, including former champions<\/a>, are slowly starting to move up in weight<\/a> instead of down. That includes former middleweight contender Reinier de Ridder, who recently abandoned his post at 185 pounds for a fresh start at light heavyweight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m never going back, it\u2019s over,\u201d the 6\u20194\u201d De Ridder told MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201c205 is my home. Making 185 pounds six times in a little bit over a year is just the dumbest shit I\u2019ve ever done. I think it\u2019s time to figure something out with this whole weight cutting thing, because this limits us fighters so much toward activity. It\u2019s so weird we ended up here. Everyone cuts 10 percent of their body weight. Everybody is compromised when they fight. Why are we still doing this shit?\u201d<\/p>\n

Because safety doesn\u2019t resonate like performance, according to this expert<\/a>.<\/p>\n

De Ridder (21-4) is looking to rebound from a unanimous decision loss to Caio Borralho at UFC 326 last March<\/a>, his second straight<\/a> defeat after jumping out to a 4-0 start in UFC. As for Dolidze (15-5), he\u2019s also looking to snap a two-fight losing streak after falling to Anthony Hernandez (UFC Vegas 109<\/a>) and Christian Leroy Duncan (UFC London<\/a>).<\/p>\n

To see who else is fighting at UFC Sacramento click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That\u2019s why UFC fighters, including former champions, are slowly starting to move up in weight instead of down.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[152120,121,123,122,152122,166402,152124],"class_list":["post-415929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-weigh-ins","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}