Thiago Alves Hires Nutritionist to Solve Weighty Issues

Last week, TheGarv.com's Kalin Johnston reported that Thiago Alves intend to remain in the 170-pound class, despite his repeated problems making weight.

Today, MMAJunkie.com is reporting that Alves has hired nutritionist Mike Dolce to help him keep things built to scale:

"He's going to be taking care of all my nutrition and supplementation," Alves said. "Eight weeks out, he's going to move into my house and follow me through my whole camp. [I'm] going to fix things I need to fix at the gym and in my lifestyle."

The Brazilian fighter is not particularly jazzed about having an extra body in his house, but it's worth it in the end.

"I'll do whatever I have to do to get back on the winning track," Alves said. "I don't care."

He's sure the alternative is much worse.

"I'm too short (at middleweight)," Alves said. "That will be a big disadvantage for me to move to 185. I'm going to lose a lot of strength, also, because the guys are much, much bigger and taller than me. At 170, I'm good. I've got a good reach, and I'm sharper than most of the guys I fight.

"I want to apologize to all my fans. I've never been through this situation before. I hate it, and I'm never going to allow myself to get into this situation again."

The entire article is available here.