SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Featherweight Tywan Claxton systematically broke down Chris Lencioni to open the Paramount-televised main card of Bellator 204. But even before the cameras started rolling, Claxton was softening up his rival. When Claxton (3-0 MMA, 3-0 BMMA) refused to allow Lencioni (4-2 MMA, 1-2 BMMA) a catchweight the day prior , it was part of a strategy to make his opponent suffer. “He broke when he didn’t make weight, and so I wanted to break him more,” Claxton told reporters following a lopsided win on Friday at Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D. “I wanted to play with his mental (game) a little bit more.” Lencioni, who started his weight cut from 180 pounds just three weeks prior to the fight, couldn’t shed enough bulk to make the 146-pound limit for non-title featherweight bouts
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Bellator 204′s Tywan Claxton admits his pre-fight weight requests were mind games – MMA Junkie