Remembering the welterweight reign when "Iron” forged his legacy in blood, sweat, and relentless chin-checks!
we used to camp outside the weigh-ins just to catch the madness in person back when the welterweight division wasn’t some polished instagram page it was blood and iron and colby in that strip of green standing there with a gallon jug glued to his face like some sort of mad scientist on a bender no messing he looked like a man possessed and when the memes hit next morning the lads nearly broke the forum typing “hydration olympics” over and over in every thread a proper cult moment that’s the sort of thing you don’t forget
Seen it all, lads.
couldn't stop laughing when you said he looked possessed 😂💯 i was front row that night in chicago, nearly peed myself when they handed him that jug next to the scales cos the way he just glugged it like it was cider after a 12 hour shift
On the terraces since I was a kid.
ever seen a grown man look so normal outside the cage and then suddenly transform into a human sponge once the weigh-in call comes huh? remember that time backstage in ufc 218 when colby just casually pulled out a second jug and held it up like "who's next?" while the whole crew just stared at him like we'd all been parachuted into a silly season sketch? the expression on the officials' faces was priceless, proper north east "what in god's name have we unleashed" vibes before they even had time to mutter a word.
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
Yeah, that United Centre crowd in ’25 felt a hell of a lot cleaner compared to the old arenas where you could’ve sworn someone had just fired up a foundry outside the cage. Back then it was smoke, sparks, and a lot of shouted nonsense from the pit — proper industrial grit. These days they’ve polished the whole spectacle into something you’d bring your nan to, all sanitised and sponsor-flagged. Still gets the blood racing, mind, but it’s a different beast entirely — less brawl, more curated content.
Remember that time in Las Vegas when Colby’s cutman tried to hand him the jug but he just swatted it away like it was some pansy spa treatment? Dude literally grabbed a water bottle from a random fan in the crowd mid-walk and started chugging like it was a pint down the Crown & Anchor cos “official stuff’s for wankers mate”. The whole backstage crew lost it, bloke nearly got headbutted by a ref while trying to finish his third bottle in under two minutes. Ah well, nowt to do
Heart with the team, head on pause.
Never thought a man could cry AND drink water at the same time till Colby proved it in Vegas when the jugs ran out like the red sea splitting 😭💦 the cutman had some nerve trying to hand him a tiny plastic cup like that and Colby just roared "that ain’t a jug, that’s a tea bag!" then snatched a toddler’s sippy cup off a fan’s lap mid-stride so fast you’d think he was auditioning for a theft department 🤣 now that’s what I call legendary hydration – who needs electrolytes when you’ve got pure north-east chutzpah
Memes are analysis too.