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Rashad Evans moves to middleweight, wants to fight in New York but has no official opponent
- Updated: August 29, 2016
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans will be making a drop in weight class for his next UFC bout.
Evans, who built an impressive career in the UFC’s 205-pound division, seizing light heavyweight gold and competing against the best fighters in the world for many years, announced his drop to middleweight on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. The 36-year-old fighter also clarified previous reports that stated he’ll be fighting Tim Kennedy at UFC 205 in November.
“I can tell you I’m working towards that in making my cut down to middleweight,” Evans told Ariel Helwani. “As far as the opponent, nothing has been set in stone. There has been talks about a fight with Tim Kennedy, but other fights too as well, but nothing has been signed yet. I had Ali [Evans’ manager] with Joe Silva trying to set something up but nothing has been finalized yet.”
At 36 years of age, dropping 20 extra pounds to make the middleweight limit is …
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