Megan Anderson Criticizes Featherweights That Want To Drop To Bantamweight

In an interview with MMA Fighting, Megan Anderson criticized women in the featherweight division, particularly those from The Ultimate Fighter, who are calling out bantamweights instead of fighters in their own division. Here are highlights:

On the future of the division: “This division is so up in the air at the moment, I’m just going fight to fight. Because who knows what’s gonna happen.”

On featherweights wanting to go to bantamweight: “It’s just one of those things that just f*cking pisses me off. I don’t know. If you want to be in the UFC at 135 pounds, just f*cking come out and say it. Don’t play this bullshit about, ‘Oh, I’ll fight at 145 if they want me.’ No, let’s be honest. You don’t want to fight at 145. That’s why instead of calling and campaigning for fights at 145 pounds, you’re now calling out people at 135 pounds. Like, if you really wanted to fight at that weight division, you’d be asking to fight at that weight division. But you’re not. So, let’s be real here. You don’t actually want to be in that weight division. So the whole point of The Ultimate Fighter for the 145-pound division was f*cking shit. Because none of you want to be there in that weight division. You just want to go down and thought it was an easy way in [to the UFC].”

On the excuse some fighters are using: “The thing that annoys me is their reasons, like ‘Oh, I can’t make weight at 135 pounds two or three times in five weeks’. Well, they didn’t actually do a bantamweight season. What are you talking about? It’s not like you went up to 145 because they’re doing a bantamweight season and you couldn’t cut weight. They weren’t doing that at all. It was specifically made to build the 145-pound division and this is what you get when you put bantamweights in a season, where they don’t really want to fight at that weight, they just want to get in the UFC at 135. To be honest, that’s what’s happening.”