Myles Jury Drops to UFC's Featherweight Division, Moves Camp to Power MMA

Myles Jury is making changes. 

After spending the entirety of his seven-fight UFC career in the lightweight division, the 26-year-old Jury will shed 10 pounds and test his luck at featherweight, according to a recent report on his personal website. 

In addition, Jury will move his fight camp from San Diego's Alliance MMA to Arizona's Power MMA and Fitness. Along with Jury, Alliance MMA teammates Johnny "Hollywood" Case, Michael Chandler and Luis Saldana will head east for future fight camps. 

"Myles and his main training partners ended up at Power MMA to be with the best team of coaches fully invested into their careers and (providing) something these guys had been missing," Jury's manager Ryan Hass told Bleacher Report. "So keeping their main crew and filling that gap with what we found as the best team of coaches and facility in the U.S. made sense overall."

For Jury, these changes come on the heels of his first professional loss, a January defeat via decision to current lightweight top contender Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone at UFC 182. 

In that fight, Jury found success early by taking Cerrone to the ground and securing dominant position, but Cerrone quickly reversed the maneuver and took over, outpointing and outclassing Jury everywhere the fight went. 

Still, Jury is young, he's talented and his 5'11" frame could make him a real threat at 145 pounds. 

While his striking developed quickly at Alliance MMA and became a primary tool of attack against the likes of Diego Sanchez and Takanori Gomi, Jury is a lifelong wrestler with black-belt Brazilian jiu-jitsu credentials. Combined with his physical size, this grappling talent could make a dangerous foil to the strikers—champion Jose Aldo and interim champ Conor McGregor—at the top of the featherweight division. 

According to Hass, the results of these career moves are already manifesting in Jury's game. 

"It (the move to Power MMA) has worked out to be one of the best decisions, as the team has made instant changes, making improvements that are getting better beyond belief day by day," he said. "We couldn't be happier with head coach Aaron Simpson and the team of coaches along with all the new additions of top-notch training partners." 

Stay tuned to Bleacher Report as news of Jury's first opponent at 145 pounds is announced.