Longtime MMA manager Alex Davis had his hands full with two of his fighters at last week’s UFC Fight Night 96.

First, both John Lineker (28-7 MMA, 9-2 UFC) and Alex Oliveira (16-3-1 MMA, 5-2 UFC) failed to make weight for their respective bouts – Lineker being a fifth time offender and Oliveira coming in a whopping five-and-a-half pounds over his 155-pound limit for the FS1-televised event at Moda Center in Portland, Ore.

While their bouts were confirmed and they both came out victorious, Davis had yet another post-fight bomb to defuse, when “Cowboy” taunted Will Brooks with obscene gestures following his TKO win.

Speaking to MMAjunkie Radio, Davis explained that Oliveira was frustrated when, even after apologizing, obeying the commission and accepting all of Brooks’ conditions, his opponent still disrespected him and his team. Still, that doesn’t mean Oliveira got a pass.

“I told him he’s wrong, he shouldn’t have done this,” Davis said. “Two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because Will did that, doesn’t mean Cowboy should do that. Cowboy should have finished the fight, kept on respecting the guy and moved on.

“It’s easy to say – everybody has their egos and emotions and everything. But they’re pros, they have to get up there they have to respect themselves as pros and I don’t want my fighters doing that. I had a serious talk with him. And in his defense, he’s never not made weight in his life and he’s never ever disrespected another opponent in his life.”

Davis, who’d already given details on Lineker’s failed weight cut to MMAjunkie, explained that, dealing with the weight problems that he knew Oliveira was having, he didn’t see any cause for concern with Lineker.

That is, until one hour and a half before he had to jump on the scale.

“I had no clue that we were going to have problems with John, he had told me he made weight,” Davis said. “I check regularly with the guys. And he’d already told me he was on weight on Wednesday.

“With John, with all the missed weight at flyweight, he’s a bit traumatized, so he tries to make weight in the middle of the week. In the beginning, we tried to convince him not to, but it was working, so we said ‘OK, if that’s the way you want to do it, as long as you’re on weight that’s fine.’”

Davis explained that Lineker, who was using his own scale to keep tabs on the cut throughout the week, had reached the 135-pound bantamweight limit and was trying to keep it from continuing to drop – and that’s when things went sour.

As much as he can understand the promotion’s side, Davis said, he also believes it’s his job as a manager to stand by his athletes.

“Our duty is to be on weight, and if they don’t accept, then I think they’re completely right,” Davis said. “If I was in their position, I’d have the same.

“But there’s fans, there’s people, there’s everybody out there, everybody wants to know what happened that night and I have a responsibility to tell the truth and defend my guy, and that’s what I intend to do.”

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For complete coverage of UFC Fight Night 96, check out the UFC Events section of the site.

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