Damon Jackson knew he couldn’t make the reduce to featherweight subsequent.
Jackson is ready to maneuver as much as light-weight to face Jim Miller at UFC 309. After Jackson stated he killed himself within the final two weight cuts, he knew he wanted to maneuver as much as light-weight.
“Oh, it feels so good. I really feel so wholesome, it’s loopy how my life has modified,” Jackson stated on Simply Scrap Radio on BJPENN.com. “Proper when my final combat was over, after I made weight, I instructed my supervisor form of half-ass, that from right here on out I wished to combat at ’55. As quickly as he missed and I made weight, and I killed myself to make weight, nobody is aware of this however in my combat in opposition to Alex Hernadnez, I handed out and busted my eye open the day earlier than the combat. I handed out from the load reduce. It’s 30lbs for me. It’s not wholesome.”
When Jackson instructed the UFC he can be shifting as much as light-weight, he wasn’t certain who he would combat. Nonetheless, when he acquired the supply to combat Jim Miller, he jumped on the likelihood.
“He texted me Jim Miller, 11/16. Inside 30 seconds I stated sure, after which the following morning I acquired the contract,” Jackson stated. “In my final two fights, the blokes missed weight and I had to return to the Apex. It’s good to get an enormous identify like Miller and to combat at MSG, I’m completely satisfied.”
