Alex Caceres Says He’s Done Cutting to Bantamweight

Alex Caceres spoke with MMAjunkie following his UFC on FOX 18 win over Masio Fullen, which was his first fight at featherweight after ten bouts at bantamweight. Check out the highlights:

On being happy at featherweight: “I say this all the time – if none of us cut weight, we’d still be fighting the same people, just at higher weight classes. So it really doesn’t make a difference. It’s just become a weird tradition – some cult tradition – where we’re all going to kill ourselves before we get in a fight. Now we’re in the fight, angry at somebody we never even met.”

On all fighters benefitting from not cutting down to other weight classes: “If you’re hungry the whole time, and you’re thinking about food the whole time – your body hurts, and you might pass out sometime – you’re not thinking about the fight whatsoever. You’re not training. You’re just focusing on getting the weight off. This whole camp, without cutting weight, I was able to just train. All I focused on was training, my techniques, and what I was going to do out there, trying to be myself out there, rather than trying to get some weight off. There was no other outside thinking other than this match, other than this art that you call martial arts. There was nothing outside of that. It was just me and him.”