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Irvin doesn't make weight, Silva looks comfy at 206
Irvin doesn't make weight, Silva looks comfy at 206
James Irvin did not make weight even in the buff. You can see UFC officials held a banner in front of Irvin as he tried to make the 205 limit. He came in at 207.5. He took roughly 45 minutes to come back and eventually weigh-in at 206. Word was that Irvin was 217 this morning. Seems like a big single-day cut. We've seen side-by-side photos of Anderson Silva at 185 and 205, he looked even ...
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Anderson Silva at 205
Fightlinker.com — ... showing Anderson Silva at 205, but none of them really give you a sense of his increased size like the one above. From a straight-on perspective, he doesn’t look that different at all from when he was a middleweight. But turn the angle a little and you realize he’s much thicker than he used to be, with bigger arms, shoulders, and lats.

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