Filed under: Featured , News , UFC PORTLAND, Ore. – John Lineker ’s longtime manager claims the Brazilian bantamweight made weight days ago for his UFC Fight Night 96 headliner opposite John Dodson. But a “stupid error” caused Lineker to regain too much weight, Alex Davis today told MMAjunkie, and he was unable to lose it again before he officially hit the scale. “What’s been happening is he’s been coming and making weight two or three days before, which happened this time,” said Davis, who’s worked with Lineker since his UFC debut in 2012. “So he’s measuring himself on his scale, he saw he was underweight, and he started consuming not to drop weight too much.” Lineker, the No. 8 fighter in the USA TODAY Sports/MMAjunkie MMA bantamweight rankings , weighed in just seconds before the cutoff for the official weigh-ins and came in at 136.5 pounds, or one half-pound over the limit for non-title fights
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