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Maycee Barber Says UFC Fight Night 139 Was Her Toughest Weight Cut

November 11, 2018 | Posted by Jeremy Thomas
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Maycee Barber spoke with reporters following her win over Hannah Cifers at UFC Fight Night 139. Highlights are below per MMAjunkie:

On her weight cut: “This cut was definitely the hardest I’ve ever had. I pushed through and I was not going to step on the scale without making weight. Getting that extra hour was what I needed. I needed it all the way up until the last second and we did it. I just have to bump up my calories. I was on an extremely low-calorie diet and I never reversed out of it. That’s what we’re doing now. Now that I’ve fought in the UFC, I have however many weeks to get it figured out, and then I’ll have an easier cut next time, and my cuts will never be a problem again.”

On Cifers: “She was definitely tough. She’s absolutely the strongest person that I’ve ever fought. She’s got a different kind of strong and that was something I noticed a lot before the fight and even during the fight. I wasn’t going to lie to myself. She’s strong. I wasn’t worried about it necessarily in the power of the striking, I was more so worried about it in the clinch and the wrestling. But I knew technique is going to beat power, so we pulled it off.”

On figuring her weight cut out: “We’ll figure it out. I’m going out to the PI beginning of next week and we’re going to get it figured out and take it from there. We’ll see in terms of dates, but I definitely want to fight her. I want to fight on a big card because that’s where I belong.”