Anthony “Rumble” Johnson will make his Middleweight debut against Vitor Belfort at UFC 142, which is set to take place on January 14, 2012 from the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Johnson, long recognized as one of the biggest welterweights in the UFC has missed the welterweight limit twice in his UFC career. In both those occasions, UFC 76 and UFC 104, Johnson fought his opponent at catchweight.
Perhaps having enough of the endless weight cutting or maybe relishing the opportunity to meet a fighter with the history of Vitor Belfort, Johnson elected to move up to 185 after defeating Charlie Brenneman in his last bout.
Johnson recently took some time to talk to Inside MMA about his move up in weight, as well as his prediction for the fight, which he summed up by proclaiming, “Somebody’s going to be carried out on a stretcher.”