{"id":30427,"date":"2026-09-29T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=30427"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:05:11","slug":"ufc-vet-cody-stamann-talks-move-to-145-pounds-says-he-was-half-dead-competing-at-bantamweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=30427","title":{"rendered":"UFC vet Cody Stamann talks move to 145-pounds, says he was \u201chalf dead\u201d competing at bantamweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3><em>Interview with Cody Stamann\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Cody Stamann discusses his Muay Thai fight against Jake Peacock at MMT11 on Nov 7. Cody also spoke about how this opportunity came together, moving back home to Michigan from Las Vegas and competing at 145-pounds going forward in his career.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe weight cut for me it killed the sport. I no longer enjoyed fighting. Every single time I had a fight coming up I had to lose 30-35 pounds. I walked around 170-pounds. I had to lose an insane amount of weight. By the time I step on the scale, I was half dead. If there was one thing I could change about what I did in MMA, that would be the number one thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCovering MMA since 2008, James Lynch is a freelance MMA journalist for MyMMANews and other notable outlets. He&#8217;s also a commentator for Rise Fighting Championships. Follow him on Twitter\/Instagram @LynchOnSports<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"screen-reader-text\">Post navigation<\/h2>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mymmanews.com\/ufc-vet-cody-stamann-talks-move-to-145-pounds-says-he-was-half-dead-competing-at-bantamweight\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ufc-vet-cody-stamann-talks-move-to-145-pounds-says-he-was-half-dead-competing-at-bantamweight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Cody Stamann\u00a0 Cody Stamann discusses his Muay Thai fight against Jake Peacock at MMT11 on Nov 7. Cody also spoke about how this opportunity came together, moving back home to Michigan from Las Vegas and competing at 145-pounds going forward in his career. \u201cThe weight cut for me it killed the sport. I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[14655,4393,3781,3439,1330,310,14654,642,42,1729],"class_list":["post-30427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fighters","tag-145pounds","tag-bantamweight","tag-cody","tag-competing","tag-dead","tag-move","tag-stamann","tag-talks","tag-ufc","tag-vet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}