The reason why I asked is because he was medically cleared to fight.
So if two Doctors say he is good to go. He is good to go.
Simple as that. Has nothing to do with Zuffa. If you are cleared and want to fight you fight.
Fucker missed weight by a ton, I thought maybe that is why you didn't want him to fight.
Bottom line...he was cleared to fight.
Just stumbled across this. Man less than two months ago :facepalm:
The Health of DaMarques Johnson
"Johnson last fought on August 4, where he suffered a brutal knockout loss to Mike Swick on live national television. And yet, here we are, under two months later, and Johnson is getting back in the cage again after taking a fight against Gunnar Nelson on short notice.
I have no idea how Johnson was cleared to train again so soon, much less take an actual fight. After the Swick fight, Johnson was suspended 45 days, with 30 of those being no-contact. He could be cleared for training and competition as long as he is given the OK by a neurologist.
So technically, I guess it's plausible that Johnson was badly concussed under two months ago and saw some sort of doctor who cleared him to return to the cage, where he'll likely get his brain rattled around one more time. But the fact that it's plausible doesn't make it right.
Johnson showed up for the weigh-ins on Friday at 183 pounds. He and Nelson both fight at welterweight, but they agreed to make this one a catchweight bout since Johnson was out of shape and taking the bout on short notice. We have no idea what the catchweight actually was?because the UFC is the commission when in England and they don't really put out this kind of information willingly?but I suspect it was the 175 pounds that Nelson made.
Johnson didn't even come close to making the weight, and he was given an hour to try and shed even more weight. And so on top of the neurological damage he suffered in August, Johnson is now trying to shed weight in ways that are extremely unhealthy for your body.
This is a guy who should not be fighting on Saturday night. Plain and simple, he should not be in the cage. He's clearly out of shape and is not ready for a fight with someone the calibre of Nelson.
The right thing to do here, and I hope the UFC does it, would be to thank Johnson for stepping up on short notice, pay both guys and give them tickets to watch from the stands, because that's a much better option than allowing Johnson to go in the cage on Saturday night."
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