
The susceptible adage is that the combat sooner than the combat in MMA is the one with the size.
Weight-reducing struggles and eventual weight misses are a standard part of the sport. All through 2023, this account would per likelihood be up to date to encompass any UFC infractions on the size – or UFC fights which might per likelihood be scrapped because of considerations with a fighter’s weight.
In an good world, by the shut of the calendar 12 months, this record would per likelihood be a quick one – nevertheless time will expose.
Fighters listed are in chronological image of their scheduled bouts.
(Guidelines up to date someday of UFC on ABC 4 weigh-ins in Charlotte, N.C., Could per likelihood perchance 12, 2023.)
Sijara Eubanks
Sijara Eubanks, UFC Struggle Evening 199
Match: UFC Struggle Evening 217
Date: Jan. 14
Quandary: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Girls folks’s flyweight
Closing weight: N/A
Notes: Sijara Eubanks didn’t weigh in for her scheduled 125-pound matchup in the direction of Priscila Cachoeira. Whereas she technically didn’t omit weight, Eubanks’ “weight administration considerations,” in accordance to the UFC, compelled the combat to be canceled. Eubanks has a historical past of weight considerations within the UFC. She was as soon as location to combat Nicco Montano within the “TUF 26” girls’s flyweight closing, nevertheless needed to be pulled from the bout for a gross weight nick in December 2017. She missed the flyweight limit in 2018, then returned to bantamweight for six fights. For a December 2021 loss to Melissa Gatto, her most most modern combat sooner than her considerations sooner than the Cachoeira combat, Eubanks moreover missed weight.
Kleydson Rodrigues
Kleydson Rodrigues
Match: UFC 284
Date: Feb. 12
Quandary: RAC Area, Perth, Australia
Division: Flyweight
Closing weight: 127
Notes: Kleydson Rodrigues weighed in a pound over the flyweight non-title limit and was as soon as fined 20 p.c of his purse. Rodrigues beat Shannon Ross with a 59-second TKO.
Zubaira Tukhugov
Zubaira Tukhugov
Match: UFC 284
Date: Feb. 12
Quandary: RAC Area, Perth, Australia
Division: Lightweight
Closing weight: 157.5
Notes: Zubaira Tukhugov weighed in 1.5 kilos over the light-weight non-title limit and was as soon as fined 30 p.c of his purse. He fought Elves Brener to open the cardboard and misplaced a break up choice.
Geoff Neal
Geoff Neal
Match: UFC 285
Date: March 4
Quandary: T-Cell Area, Las Vegas
Division: Welterweight
Closing weight: 175
Notes: Geoff Neal weighed in 4 kilos over the welterweight non-title limit and was as soon as fined 30 p.c of his purse. He was as soon as submitted by Shavkat Rakhmonov within the third spherical of their featured bout on the principle card. Most steadily, Neal can be ineligible for a put up-fight bonus because of the burden omit, nevertheless UFC president Dana White stated he was as soon as giving Neal $50,000 for his part within the Struggle of the Evening, anyway.
Mana Martinez
Match: UFC 285
Date: March 4
Quandary: T-Cell Area, Las Vegas
Division: Flyweight
Closing weight: 127
Notes: Mana Martinez weighed in 1 pound over the bantamweight non-title limit and was as soon as fined 30 p.c of his purse. He misplaced a majority strategy to Cameron Saaiman on the early prelims
Ricardo Ramos
Ricardo Ramos
Match: UFC Struggle Evening 221
Date: March 11
Quandary: The Theater at Virgin Motels, Las Vegas
Division: Featherweight
Closing weight: 154
Notes: Ricardo Ramos weighed in 8 kilos over the featherweight non-title limit. His combat in the direction of Austin Lingo was as soon as canceled.
Jared Gooden
Jared Gooden
Match: UFC Struggle Evening 221
Date: March 11
Quandary: The Theater at Virgin Motels, Las Vegas
Division: Welterweight
Closing weight: 177
Notes: Jared Gooden weighed in 6 kilos over the bantamweight non-title limit and was as soon as fined 30 p.c of his purse, nevertheless he took the combat on appropriate three days’ designate. He misplaced a unanimous strategy to Carlston Harris to open the early prelims. Gooden moreover missed weight for a welterweight bout at UFC Struggle Evening 194 in 2021.
Malcolm Gordon
Malcolm Gordon
Match: UFC 286
Date: March 18
Quandary: The O2, London
Division: Flyweight
Closing weight: 129.5
Notes: Malcolm Gordon obtained right here in properly north of the flyweight limit for his combat in the direction of the extremely touted Jake Hadley. It didn’t seize Hadley lengthy to assemble Gordon away of their combat. He wanted appropriate 61 seconds for a TKO that stemmed from a physique shot. That develop obtained him $50,000 – plus 30 p.c of Gordon’s purse for the burden infraction.
Christian Rodriguez
Christian Rodriguez
Match: UFC 287
Date: April 8
Quandary: Kaseya Heart, Miami
Division: Bantamweight
Closing weight: 137
Notes: Rodriguez weighed in at 137.5 kilos on his first attempt on the size, which obtained right here slack within the 2-hour window. He was as soon as given one hour to nick to the bantamweight non-title limit, nevertheless may per likelihood properly absolute most life like fall yet another half-pound. He was as soon as fined 20 p.c of his purse, nevertheless his combat in the direction of Raul Rosas Jr. to open the principle card stayed intact.
Joselyn Edwards
Joselyn Edwards
Match: UFC on ESPN 44
Date: April 15
Quandary: T-Cell Heart, Kansas Metropolis, Mo.
Division: Girls folks’s bantamweight
Closing weight: 136.5
Notes: Edwards tried her hand at featherweight in June 2022 with a collect over Ramona Pascual. Nevertheless appropriate seven weeks later, she returned to bantamweight in a immediate-designate combat and missed the mark sooner than her break up choice collect over Kim Ji-yeon at UFC 277 in Dallas. She was as soon as 1.5 kilos over for that combat. Nevertheless this time spherical, with out the immediate-designate obstacles, she missed once more for her second straight infraction on the size.
William Gomis
William Gomis
Match: UFC Struggle Evening 222
Date: April 22
Quandary: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Featherweight
Closing weight: 147
Notes: Gomis’ weight omit was as soon as his first within the UFC. He was as soon as fined a share of his purse, nevertheless went on to beat Francis Marshall with a break up choice.
Priscila Cachoeira
Priscila Cachoeira
Match: UFC Struggle Evening 222
Date: April 22
Quandary: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Girls folks’s flyweight
Closing weight: 130
Notes: Priscila Cachoeira won’t be any stranger to considerations on the size. At UFC Struggle Evening 222, her combat in the direction of Karine Silva was as soon as canceled when she obtained right here in 4 kilos over the women’s flyweight limit. In 2019, Cachoeira was as soon as suspended when she examined apparent for banned substances that built-in a diuretic. In October 2021, her combat in the direction of Cortney Casey was as soon as scrapped on weigh-in day this capability that of considerations on the size for Cachoeira. At UFC 269, Cachoeira missed weight by three kilos, then was as soon as submitted by Gillian Robertson. The state of affairs in the direction of Silva is one additional stain.
Irina Alekseeva
Irina Alekseeva
Match: UFC Struggle Evening 223
Date: April 29
Quandary: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Girls folks’s bantamweight
Closing weight: 140
Notes: Alekseeva missed the women’s bantamweight non-title limit of 136 by 4 kilos and was as soon as fined 30 p.c of her purse for her bout in the direction of Stephanie Egger, who was as soon as on the money at 135. Alekseeva, acknowledged because the “Russian Ronda” for her judo expertise and comparability to Ronda Rousey, was as soon as a extremely touted signing. Her combat in the direction of Egger was as soon as her UFC debut.
Hailey Cowan
Hailey Cowan
Match: UFC Struggle Evening 223
Date: April 29
Quandary: UFC Apex, Las Vegas
Division: Girls folks’s bantaweight
Closing weight: 137.5
Notes: Cowan missed the women’s bantamweight non-title limit of 136 by 1.5 kilos and was as soon as fined 20 p.c of her purse for her card opener in the direction of the debuting Jamey-Lyn Horth. It was as soon as Cowan’s first weight omit within the UFC, although when she was as soon as a flyweight, she had a combat canceled below the LFA banner this capability that of a failed weight nick.
Joseph Holmes
Joseph Holmes, UFC 288
Match: UFC 288
Date: Could per likelihood perchance 6
Quandary: Prudential Heart, Newark, N.J.
Division: Middleweight
Closing weight: 189
Notes: Holmes missed the middleweight non-title limit by 3 kilos. Earlier to his outing to the size on the authentic weigh-ins, Holmes posted on social media that he was as soon as going to fail to ascertain weight for the principle time in his career, and certainly he did. Holmes was as soon as fined 20 p.c of his first, nevertheless his bout in the direction of Claudio Ribeiro will scramble on at a catchweight.
Rafael Estevam
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – SEPTEMBER 26: Rafael Estevam of Brazil poses on the size someday of Dana White’s Contender sequence season six, week ten weigh-in at Palace Utter on September 26, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Describe by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
Match: UFC 288
Date: Could per likelihood perchance 6
Quandary: Prudential Heart, Newark, N.J.
Division: Flyweight
Closing weight: N/A
Notes: Rafael Estevam (11-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) by no means made a outing to the authentic weigh-ins scale for his scheduled flyweight combat in the direction of Zhalgas Zhumagulov (14-8 MMA, 1-5 UFC). Zhumagulov hit 125 kilos with out state of affairs, nevertheless UFC officers introduced someday of the weigh-ins that Estevam was as soon as out of the combat this capability that of weight-reducing considerations. Estevam is a worn bantamweight, nevertheless has fought at flyweight the previous few years, together with a collect on Dana White’s Contender Assortment that obtained him into the UFC.
Pete Rodriguez
Pete Rodriguez
Match: UFC on ABC 4
Date: Could per likelihood perchance 13
Quandary: Spectrum Heart, Charlotte, N.C.
Division: Lightweight
Closing weight: N/A
Notes: Pete Rodriguez (5-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) by no means made a outing to the authentic weigh-ins scale for his scheduled light-weight combat in the direction of Natan Levy (8-1 MMA, 2-1 UFC). UFC officers introduced someday of the weigh-ins that Rodriguez was as soon as out of the combat this capability that of weight-reducing considerations. Rodriguez has spent his skilled career to date at welterweight, together with two 175-pound contract weight fights to open his career. He was as soon as scheduled to combat Levy two weeks in the past, nevertheless needed to pull out with an sickness, which makes his UFC on ABC 4 cancellation two straight. He was as soon as decreasing to light-weight for the principle time.
Bryan Struggle
Bryan Struggle
Match: UFC on ABC 4
Date: Could per likelihood perchance 13
Quandary: Spectrum Heart, Charlotte, N.C.
Division: Welterweight
Closing weight: 173
Notes: With 10 minutes left within the 2-hour weigh-in window, Bryan Struggle (8-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) was as soon as two kilos heavy for his welterweight bout in the direction of Gabe Inexperienced (11-4 MMA, 2-2 UFC), who weighed in at 170.5 kilos and was as soon as the third fighter to the size.
Daniel Rodriguez
Daniel Rodriguez
Match: UFC on ABC 4
Date: Could per likelihood perchance 13
Quandary: Spectrum Heart, Charlotte, N.C.
Division: Welterweight
Closing weight: 171.5
Notes: With appropriate 5 minutes left within the 2-hour weigh-in window, Daniel Rodriguez (17-3 MMA, 7-2 UFC) was as soon as the ultimate combat to close help to the size. He wanted the curtain, nevertheless easy was as soon as a half-pound over the welterweight limit at 171.5 kilos. His opponent, the unbeaten and extremely touted Ian Machado Garry (11-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC), weighed in loads of minutes prior and was as soon as 170.5. Rodriguez’s weight omit was as soon as his first within the UFC.