Rafael Estevam and Tresean Gore missed weight badly for UFC Vegas 108.
At Friday’s official weigh-ins for Saturday’s event at UFC APEX, Estevam weighed in at 130 pounds (four pounds over the flyweight limit) and Gore weighed in at 189.5 pounds (three pounds over the middleweight limit) for their respective fights, which include the one-pound allowance for non-title bouts.
MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz confirmed that Estevam’s bout against Felipe Bunes (125) is set to proceed at a catchweight, with
Bunes forfeiting 25 percent of his purse as penalty. Estevam steps in for Felipe Lima (undisclosed injury) on less than a month’s notice.
The status of Gore’s bout against Rodolfo Vieira (185) is not yet known.
Fortunately for Saturday’s headlining bout - which already saw a late change with the undefeated Hyun Sung Park replacing Amir Albazi at the start of fight week - the main event competitors successfully made weight. Park and Tatsuro Taira both weighed in at 126 pounds, making use of the one-pound allowance for their non-title flyweight bout.
Other than Estevam and Gore, the other 22 fighters competing Saturday all successfully made weight.
Check out UFC Vegas 108 weigh-in results.
Main Card (ESPN/ESPN+ at 9 p.m. ET)
Tatsuro Taira (126) vs. Hyun Sung Park (126)
Mateusz Rebecki (155.5) vs. Chris Duncan (156)
Elves Brener (155.5) vs. Esteban Ribovics (155.5)
Karol Rosa (136) vs. Nora Cornolle (136)
Neil Magny (170.5) vs. Elizeu Zaleski (171)
Danny Silva (144.5) vs. Kevin Vallejos (146)
Preliminary Card (ESPN/ESPN+ at 6 p.m. ET)
Rinya Nakamura (136) vs. Nathan Fletcher (135.5)
Rodolfo Vieira (185) vs. Tresean Gore (189.5)*
Nick Klein (186) vs. Andrey Pulyaev (185.5)
Austin Bashi (145.5) vs. John Yannis (145.5)
Felipe Bunes (125) vs. Rafael Estevam (130)**
Piera Rodriguez (116) vs. Ketlen Souza (116)
*missed weight
**Estevam missed weight. His bout with Felipe Bunes will proceed at a catchweight with Estevam forfeiting 25 percent of his purse as penalty, per MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz
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