MILWAUKEE – Charles Olivera is heading into his fifth consecutive UFC fight at lightweight. He goes into it with a solid 3-1 recent record, too, after battling the scale in his previous featherweight home. Still, talking to Oliveira before or after each of his four most recent fights, you’d get the same answer about his plans: Yes, he’d say emphatically, he still wanted to go back to featherweight. So, when Oliveira (24-8 MMA, 12-8 UFC) stepped onto the scale at 152 pounds this Friday, which is four pounds less than what he needed to confirm his UFC on FOX 31 lightweight meeting with Jim Miller (29-12 MMA, 18-11 UFC), one could have seen it as yet another attempt by Oliveira to show that he belongs in the lower division. Here’s a plot twist, though. “I think I cut weight well in (the lightweight) division,” Oliveira told reporters, including MMAjunkie, in his native Portuguese
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