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09th May 2015

GIF: UFC fighter perfectly demonstrates how to defuse tension at the weigh-ins

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Ben Kiely

Sean O’Connell might just be the pound-for-pound king of weighing in.

The American light-heavyweight is scheduled to take on hometown favourite Anthony Perosh at UFC Adelaide on Saturday night.

During the normally overtly macho, and needlessly tense tradition of the pre-fight weigh-ins, O’Connell found a way to completely derail his opponent’s attempts at intimidating him.

As the two fighters were doing the obligatory stare down for the cameras, O’Connell decided that he wasn’t going to unleash his thousand yard stare to strike fear in the heart of Perosh. He took a much more lighthearted approach to the face-off.

Perosh didn’t know what to make of it.

Hat-tip to Reddit