DES MOINES – Size, weight, it doesn’t matter. Michael McBride will seemingly fight anyone thrown in front of him.

Just tell him when, where and what time.

The Midwest Cage Championship’s 155-pound lightweight champion agreed to mix it up with Derek “The Cedar Rapids Psycho” Loffer in the main event at Wednesday night’s MCC 61: Thanksgiving Throwdown in front of a packed house at Hy-Vee Hall, and the Webster City native added another win to his resume with a second-round tap-out.

The bout was originally scheduled to be a title fight, but was switched to a 165-pound non-title catchweight fight when Loffer informed the MCC that was the weight he could make.

Um, not so much.

Loffer actually weighed in at 177 on Tuesday and reached the middleweight limit of 185 by Wednesday evening. McBride says his opponent was probably at 190 by the time they touched gloves just a few minutes before midnight.

And yet it didn’t matter.

“It was perfect. I got some ring rust out of there and some minutes in there,” McBride said after his first fight in 13 months. “It felt real good.”

McBride tipped the scales at 165 on Tuesday. At a size disadvantage, the 29-year-old pro was still willing to mix it up with Loffer in the opening round. The two Bellator veterans traded punches and leg kicks before McBride planted Loffer on the canvas with two minutes remaining.

“He felt like he was 190,” McBride said after he won for the fourth consecutive time and upped his record to 8-1. “I couldn’t keep him on the cage, but I felt good. I knew I was hurting him with the leg kicks and body shots.”

McBride admitted Loffer got in a quality shot or two, but nothing that took him off his game.

“Most of his punches were rolling off my shoulder,” McBride said. “He threw a couple of decent kicks to the body, but I train and I make weight, so body kicks don’t hurt me as bad.”

After a devastating leg kick that wobbled Loffer early in the second round, McBride shoved him into the cage and eventually scored the takedown. A few elbows to the temple were followed by a mount, as McBride rained down punches on Loffer.

Loffer was able to reverse the position, but McBride kept him in his guard and eventually looked to lock up a triangle. McBride landed several more elbows and Loffer quickly submitted just 1:54 into Round 2.

McBride was rewarded the victory by submission, but he says it should go in the book as a technical knockout.

“I was using the elbows to set up the triangle, but it wasn’t there yet,” McBride said. “The first (elbow) wasn’t real solid, but the second one was solid and after that one he didn’t want anymore. I would be really surprised if he was choked.”

It marked just the third time in nine fights that an opponent has made it past the first round against McBride. The 6:54 cage time was his third-longest fight.

McBride’s plan is to get back into his comfort zone at lightweight, but when he’ll fight again is up in the air.

Despite staying out of the cage since October of 2014, the MCC was unable to find a suitable lightweight opponent for its champion on the biggest card of the year – a 13-fight extravaganza that lasted more than four hours.

What does that signal? McBride doesn’t know. But he’d like to take that next step up and join his friend Johnny “Hollywood” Case in the UFC. Case was in McBride’s corner on Wednesday, as was former UFC fighter Kevin Burns.

“I’m ready for whatever. Hopefully a big fight,” McBride said. “I love the MCC and I love everything they’ve done for me, but I think they know and I know I’m ready for that next step. I’m just waiting on the call.”