MMA community reacts to Daniel Cormier’s controversial weigh-in

Friday morning, the fighters of UFC 210 hit the scales to weigh in for their scheduled bouts Saturday night. The ordeal was overshadowed by UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier not only coming in 1.2 pounds overweight, but also then making weight just moments later by using the privacy towel to offset his weight and help him in weighing-in at 205 pounds without actually cutting the weight.

The move was a rather controversial one, but worked for the light heavyweight champion, who will indeed defend his belt tomorrow night against Anthony Johnson. Following the ordeal, we have compiled the best Tweets from the MMA community regarding Cormier’s weigh-in ordeal:

Pushing down on the towel can make you lose a few pounds….sneaky lol

— Cub Swanson (@CubSwanson) April 7, 2017

If you ain't cheating you ain't trying…………

— phil baroni (@philbaroni) April 7, 2017

Hands on towel lmfao oldest trick in book. Lmfao haha nice playa nice https://t.co/uY4B4RRab1

— phil baroni (@philbaroni) April 7, 2017

https://twitter.com/BrendanSchaub/status/850369515494019072

Lol! Definitely using the towel! https://t.co/SZAyCXctKe

— Matt Brown (@IamTheImmortal) April 7, 2017

https://twitter.com/Siyarized/status/850384302768566272

Lol any wrestler that knows the tricks to beating the scale can obviously see that DC use the towel to float them lbs. #vetmove #ufc210 https://t.co/XL6NFi0qPD

— Corey 'Overtime' Anderson (@CoreyA_MMA) April 7, 2017

How I feel about the #UFC210 main event weight-gate.
One question…. "How Sway?! HOW?!"#INeedSomeOfThatWeightCutJuice lol

— Aljamain Sterling (@funkmasterMMA) April 7, 2017

https://twitter.com/FunkMaster_UFC/status/850424303011213313

https://twitter.com/Pendred/status/850387468562178048

Yup. The ol towel push/pull https://t.co/hSQT2zovNv

— Chris Camozzi (@ChrisCamozzi) April 7, 2017

https://twitter.com/LDV_TheSwarm/status/850377476626948097

https://twitter.com/lionheartsmith/status/850409657252360192

Oldest trick in the book everyone try it at home press on something when weighing your self and see how lighter you are on the scales https://t.co/0a3DwVDlcM

— Darren Stewart (@Darren_mma) April 7, 2017

@dc_mma use the old trick to loose 1.0 pounds. Just push down the towel. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Velho truque de perder 1kg, empurra a toalha para baixo. #malandro #malandroémalandro #trick #sneaky #fail

A post shared by jucao21 (@jucao21) on Apr 7, 2017 at 11:43am PDT

https://twitter.com/HammerHouseMMA/status/850380416339103745

https://twitter.com/albertominaUFC/status/850409912236621824

https://twitter.com/oliaubin/status/850423175531855874

on 4/7/2017.