Scale snafus: UFC official weigh-in misses in 2024

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 234
Date: Jan. 13
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Flyweight
Last weight: 129.5
Notes: Flyweight contender Manel Kape (19-6 MMA, 4-2 UFC) got here in considerably above the non-title restrict for his co-main occasion towards Matheus Nicolau (19-4-1 MMA, 7-2 UFC). They had been the final two to return to the size within the weigh-in session, however Nicolau was heading in the right direction at 126 kilos. Kape initially was fined 25 % of his purse, however in the end the Nevada State Athletic Fee scrapped the combat.

Occasion: UFC 297
Date: Jan. 20
Location: Scotiabank Enviornment, Toronto
Division: Flyweight
Last weight: 127.5
Notes: Malcolm Gordon (14-7 MMA, 2-4 UFC) was one of many remaining two fighters to return to the size in the course of the two-hour weigh-in window in Toronto, and the look on his face when the curtain was introduced out stated all of it. Gordon was 1.5 kilos over the restrict. In Ontario, fighters do get further time – as much as an hour. However that further hour has to return within the two-hour window, and contemplating Gordon left the size with solely about 17 minutes left, the probability he was going to hit his mark was fairly low. His opponent, Jimmy Flick (16-7 MMA, 1-2 UFC), made weight early within the session at 126. Gordon made no further try and was fined 20 % of his purse.

Occasion: UFC 297
Date: Jan. 20
Location: Scotiabank Enviornment, Toronto
Division: Bantamweight
Last weight: 139.5
Notes: Ramon Taveras (9-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) badly missed the mark for his UFC debut towards fellow debutant Serhiy Sidey (10-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC). Tavares was 3.5 kilos over the non-title restrict and was fined 30 % of his purse.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 235
Date: Feb. 3
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Ladies’s flyweight
Last weight: 128
Notes: Luana Carolina (9-4 MMA, 4-3 UFC) was nicely over the restrict for her girls’s flyweight bout on the prelims towards Julija Stoliarenko (11-7-1 MMA, 2-5 UFC). She was 129 kilos on her first try, however Stoliarenko stated she wouldn’t take the combat except Carolina obtained to 128 – and the fee gave her an additional hour to get there to maintain the combat intact. In 2021, Carolina missed weight forward of a cut up resolution win over Poliana Botelho. She was fined 20 % of her purse forward of the combat that sees her opponent as the favourite for the seventh straight time.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 236
Date: Feb. 10
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Middleweight
Last weight: 187.5
Notes: Ihor Potieria (20-5 MMA, 1-3 UFC) took his combat towards Polish UFC newcomer Robert Bryczek (17-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) on solely a few week’s discover. And making issues much more tough, the combat is 20 kilos down from his regular mild heavyweight division. Potieria seemed tough sufficient on the size that fee members didn’t supply him the chance to chop further weight and requested him to begin rehydrating shortly after he left the size. He will probably be fined 20 % of his purse.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 237
Date: Feb. 24
Location: Mexico Metropolis Enviornment
Division: Flyweight
Last weight: 127
Notes: Daniel Lacerda (11-5 MMA, 0-4 UFC) got here to the size fairly early within the two-hour weigh-in window in Mexico Metropolis, and he was off by a pound at 127. He elected to cease reducing weight reasonably than take the additional time sometimes allotted. Perhaps he had some perception that his opponent, Edgar Chairez (10-5 MMA, 0-1 UFC), was going to return in considerably above the flyweight restrict (see under), so he determined to avoid wasting the hassle. In 2022, Lacerda got here in at 129 kilos for a combat towards Vinicius Salvador, and that bout was canceled due to his miss.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 237
Date: Feb. 24
Location: Mexico Metropolis Enviornment
Division: Flyweight
Last weight: 127
Notes: Like his opponent, Daniel Lacerda (11-5 MMA, 0-4 UFC) (see above), Edgar Chairez (10-5 MMA, 0-1 UFC) got here in over the restrict for flyweight. However not like Lacerda, he missed by a bunch. Chairez was 131 kilos for his rematch with Lacerda. As a result of Lacerda was 127 himself, it’s doubtless the bout will probably be reworked at a catchweight.

Occasion: UFC 299
Date: March 9
Location: Kaseya Heart
Division: Flyweight
Last weight: 127
Notes: CJ Vergara (12-4-1 MMA, 3-2 UFC) missed the flyweight restrict for the third time in six fights. His opponent, Asu Almabaev (18-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC), will get a share of his purse. In Florida. Vergara needed to weigh in throughout the first hour. He did so. The miss gave him an extra further hour, however he stayed over at 127. He missed weight by 1.4 kilos in 2021 and misplaced a call to Ode Osbourne. He missed once more lower than a 12 months later, however by 3 kilos, and was submitted by Tarsuro Taira.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 239
Date: March 16
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Light-weight
Last weight: 156.5
Notes: Natan Levy (8-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC) got here to the size in briefs and a sequence round his neck. He took each off and nonetheless was 156.5 kilos lower than an hour into the weigh-in window. He was not medically cleared to chop further weight and was fined 20 % of his purse for his bout towards Mike Davis (10-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) to shut out the preliminary card.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 239
Date: March 16
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Ladies’s bantamweight
Last weight: 137
Notes: Chelsea Chandler (5-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) was a pound over the ladies’s bantamweight restrict at 137 for her bout on the prelims. She was not medically cleared to chop further weight and was fined 20 % of her purse for her bout towards Josiane Nunes (10-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC).

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 239
Date: March 16
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Featherweight
Last weight: 148.5
Notes: Danny Silva (8-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) was off by 2.5 kilos at 148.5 for his featherweight prelim. He was not medically cleared to chop further weight and was fined 20 % of his purse for his bout towards Josh Culibao (11-2-1 MMA, 3-2-1 UFC).

Occasion: UFC on ESPN 54
Date: March 30
Location: Boardwalk Corridor, Atlantic Metropolis, N.J.
Division: Featherweight
Last weight: 147.5
Notes: Julio Arce (18-6 MMA, 5-4 UFC) missed weight for his featherweight combat towards Herbert Burns (11-4 MMA, 2-2 UFC). Surprisingly, Arce’s weight was introduced as 147 on his first try, and he was given an extra hour. When he returned, the size operator was a special fee official than his first try – and his introduced weight went up. (A fee official confirmed his official weight will stay 147, although.) He will probably be fined a share of his purse. Arce missed weight as a bantamweight in 2022, however this combat is his debut at 145 kilos.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 240
Date: April 6
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Featherweight
Last weight: 150
Notes: Alexander Hernandez (14-7 MMA, 6-6 UFC) had a significant miss for. his featherweight combat towards Damon Jackson (22-6-1 MMA, 5-4-1 UFC). He got here in at 150 kilos, a full 4 kilos over the non-title restrict. Hernandez, who has dropped three of his previous 4 fights, by no means had missed weight within the UFC till this occasion. If the combat is authorized at a catchweight, Hernandez will probably be fined a share of his purse.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 240
Date: April 6
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Ladies’s strawweight
Last weight: 119
Notes: Cynthia Calvillo (9-6-1 MMA, 6-6-1 UFC) was 3 kilos over the non-title restrict for her combat on the prelims towards Piera Rodriguez (9-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC). Calvillo got here in at 119 kilos. It was her third weight miss within the UFC, however first since 2019. If the combat is authorized at a catchweight, she will probably be fined a share of her purse. She heads into the bout with 5 straight losses.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 240
Date: April 6
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Ladies’s bantamweight
Last weight: 138
Notes: Melissa Mullins (6-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) was 138 kilos for her curtain jerker towards Nora Cornolle (7-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) … who weighed in 30 seconds later, proper on the deadline, and likewise missed weight.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 240
Date: April 6
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Ladies’s bantamweight
Last weight: 138
Notes: Nora Cornolle (7-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) was 138.5 kilos for her curtain jerker towards Melissa Mullins (6-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) … who weighed in 30 seconds prior and likewise missed weight.

Occasion: UFC on ESPN 55
Date: April 27
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Light-weight
Last weight: 156.5
Notes: Llontop (14-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) was simply over the mark for his UFC debut towards Chris Padilla (13-6 MMA, 0-0 UFC), who took the combat on lower than every week’s discover when Gabe Inexperienced dropped out. Llontop was fined 20 % of his purse.

Occasion: UFC on ESPN 55
Date: April 27
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Featherweight
Last weight: 148.5
Notes: Onama (11-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) was nicely over the featherweight restrict for his combat towards Jonathan Pearce (14-5 MMA, 5-2 UFC) and was fined 20 % of his purse.

Occasion: UFC on ESPN 56
Date: Might 11
Location: Enterprise Heart, St. Louis
Division: Welterweight
Last weight: Didn’t weight in
Notes: Gooden (23-9 MMA, 2-4 UFC), who has missed weight twice in two separate stints within the UFC, had medical points throughout his weight reduce, it was introduced by the UFC, and had his combat towards Kevin Jousset (10-2 MMA, 2-0 UFC) pulled earlier than he ever got here to the size.

Occasion: UFC 302
Date: June 1
Location: Prudential Heart, Newark, N.J.
Division: Flyweight
Last weight: 130
Notes: Lima (8-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) was over by 4 kilos for his curtain jerker towards UFC newcomer Mitch Raposo (9-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC), who took the combat on quick discover and was 125 kilos on the nostril. Lima was fined 30 % of his purse.

Occasion: UFC on ESPN 57
Date: June 8
Location: KFC Yum! Heart, Louisville, Ky.
Division: Ladies’s strawweight
Last weight: 116.5
Notes: Eduarda Moura (10-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) was a half-pound over for her girls’s strawweight combat towards Denise Gomes (8-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC), who was 116. Moura was fined 20 % of her purse. She now has missed weight for each her fights within the UFC after making weight on Dana White’s Contender Collection.

Occasion: UFC on ESPN 58
Date: June 15
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Flyweight
Last weight: 129.5
Notes: Tagir Ulanbekov (15-2 MMA, 4-1 UFC) was 3.5 kilos over for his combat towards Joshua Van (10-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) to shut out the prelims. Ulanbekov doesn’t have any prior weight misses within the UFC, although he has pulled out of six fights within the promotion in 4 years for varied causes. This weight miss led to the combat vs. Van getting the axe.

Occasion: UFC 303
Date: June 29
Location: T-Cellular Enviornment, Las Vegas
Division: Featherweight
Last weight: 147.5
Notes: Jean Silva weighed 1.5 kilos over the featherweight non-title restrict and was fined 20 % of his purse. It was the primary weight miss of his profession. It additionally price him a $50,000 bonus since he was ineligible – and all the opposite finishes on the cardboard obtained bonuses.

Occasion: UFC 304
Date: July 27
Location: Co-op Dwell, Manchester, England
Division: Bantamweight
Last weight: 137
Notes: No good deed goes unpunished for Jake Hadley (10-3 MMA, 2-3 UFC). He took his combat towards Caolan Loughran (9-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) on a few week’s discover. And due to a fluke within the broadcast schedule, the official weigh-ins had been tremendous shut in time to the ceremonials. Relatively than getting an hour to chop the extra weight, Hadley as a substitute is caught at 137 kilos and will probably be fined 20 % of his purse.

Occasion: UFC on ESPN 61
Date: Aug. 10
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Ladies’s bantamweight
Last weight: 141
Notes: Chelsea Chandler (6-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) was considerably over the ladies’s bantamweight restrict for her combat towards Yana Santos (14-8 MMA, 4-5 UFC) on the primary card. Chandler was 141 kilos; Santos made weight with out problem at 135.5. Chandler is a former featherweight who additionally missed the mark in March for her first combat at bantamweight. If the combat goes on, Chandler will forfeit a share of her purse to Santos.

Occasion: UFC on ESPN 61
Date: Aug. 10
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Welterweight
Last weight: 171.25
Notes: Danny Barlow (8-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) weighed in early for his combat towards Nikolay Veretennikov (12-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and was only a quarter-pound over at 171.25. Although he had an additional hour to make a second try, he stopped there and will probably be fined a share of his purse.

Occasion: UFC on ESPN 61
Date: Aug. 10
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Featherweight
Last weight: 149.5
Notes: Chepe Mariscal (16-6 MMA, 3-0 UFC) was nicely over the featherweight restrict for the co-main occasion towards Damon Jackson (23-6-1 MMA, 6-4-1 UFC). On the first occasion with new weigh-in guidelines in Nevada that require fighters to weigh in in the course of the first hour, Mariscal got here early for his miss. But additionally within the new guidelines, he’s not allowed to lose greater than 2 kilos after his preliminary weigh-in. He’ll forfeit a share of his purse to Jackson.

Occasion: UFC 305
Date: Aug. 17
Location: RAC Enviornment, Perth, Australia
Division: Flyweight
Last weight: 127.5
Notes: Aguilar (10-2 MMA, 2-1 UFC) got here in. heavy for his flyweight curtain jerker towards promotional newcomer Stewart Nicoll (8-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and was fined 20 % of his purse.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 242
Date: Sept. 7
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Featherweight
Last weight: 148.5
Notes: Nelson (16-5-1 MMA, 4-4-1 UFC) got here in heavy for his predominant card combat towards Steve Garcia (16-5 MMA, 5-2 UFC), who hit his mark with out problem. Nelson will probably be fined a share of his purse.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 242
Date: Sept. 7
Location: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Middleweight
Last weight: 188.5
Notes: Budka (7-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) seemed in dangerous form when he obtained on the size. He was visibly shaking and wanted assist getting off and leaving the stage with out falling. His opponent, Andre Petroski (11-4 MMA, 6-2 UFC), made weight with out problem. The fee authorized the combat to go on, and Budka was fined 20 % of his purse.

Occasion: UFC Combat Night time 243
Date: Sept.28
Location: Accor Enviornment, Paris
Division: Ladies’s bantamweight
Last weight: 136.5
Notes: Perez (10-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) was over by a half-pound for her combat towards Darya Zheleznyakova (9-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC). She was fined 20 % of her purse for the primary weigh-in miss of her UFC profession.

Ladies’s strawweight (2): Cynthia Calvillo (UFC FN 240), Eduarda Moura (UFC on ESPN 57)

Ladies’s flyweight (1): Luana Carolina (UFC FN 235)

Ladies’s bantamweight (5): Chelsea Chandler (UFC FN 239), Melissa Mullins (UFC FN 240),  Nora Cornolle (UFC FN 240), Chelsea Chandler (UFC on ESPN 61), Ailin Perez (UFC FN 243)

Ladies’s featherweight: TBD

Flyweight (8): Manel Kape (UFC FN 234), Malcolm Gordon (UFC 297), Daniel Lacerda (UFC FN 237), Edgar Chairez (UFC FN 237), CJ Vergara (UFC 299), Andre Lima (UFC 302), Tagir Ulanbekov (UFC on ESPN 58), Jesus Aguilar (UFC 305)

Bantamweight (2): Ramon Taveras (UFC 297), Jake Hadley (UFC 304)

Featherweight (7): Danny Silva (UFC FN 239), Julio Arce (UFC on ESPN 54), Alexander Hernandez (UFC FN 240), David Onama (UFC on ESPN 55), Jean Silva (UFC 303), Chepe Mariscal (UFC on ESPN 61), Kyle Nelson (UFC FN 42)

Light-weight (2): Natan Levy (UFC FN 239), James Llontop (UFC on ESPN 55)

Welterweight (2): Jared Gooden (UFC on ESPN 56), Danny Barlow (UFC on ESPN 61)

Middleweight (2): Ihor Potieria (UFC FN 236), Kyle Budka (UFC FN 242)

Gentle heavyweight: TBD

Heavyweight: TBD