UFC London early weigh-ins are done and we can breathe a sigh of relief now that the main card remains intact. All twelve fighters including headliners Movsar Evloev and Lerone Murphy have successfully weighed in for their fights at the O2 Arena on March 21st.
There was one big weigh-in flub from the prelims, though, and it comes from repeat weigh-in misser Luana Carolina, who stepped on the scales in London at 144 pounds for her 136 pound limit bantamweight fight. That’s eight pounds over, and the UFC
decided to scrap her fight with U.K. fighter Melissa Mullins.
Carolina, who entered the UFC off Dana White’s Contender Series Brazil 3, not only missed weight twice when competing at flyweight but had a fight cancelled due to weight cut complications as well. That prompted the UFC to force her up to women’s bantamweight, but here we are a year later and Carolina has blown past the bantamweight limit too. Given the official reaction, we have doubts “Dread” will get another shot on UFC scales.
We’re not sure whether Mullins knew what was going on with Carolina, but she was weeping as she stepped on the scales.
“It was most definitely a harder cut than I expected!” Mullins wrote on Instagram afterward. “My opponent missed weight by 8lbs officially, and although we agreed to take the fight, the commission used by the UFC are not happy, have pulled the fight from the card!!”
“All my hard work wasted and the opportunity to fight in my home turf stolen from me! To perform on the very best platform, take in moments! Guys please make some noise and help me get back out fighting on a card!”
Here’s the rest of the weigh-in results for UFC Fight Night: Evloev vs. Murphy.
Main Card (Paramount+ at 4pm ET)
Movsar Evloev (146) vs. Lerone Murphy (145)
Luke Riley (146) vs. Michael Aswell (145)
Michael Page (171) vs. Sam Patterson (170)
Iwo Baraniewski (206) vs. Austen Lane (205)
Roman Dolidze (186) vs. Christian Leroy Duncan (186)
Danny Silva (145) vs. Kurtis Campbell (145)
Preliminary Card (Paramount+ at 1pm ET)
Mason Jones (156) vs. Axel Sola (156)
Nathaniel Wood (146) vs. Losene Keita (146)
Mario Pinto (257) vs. Felipe Franco (227)
Mantas Kondratavicius (185) vs. Antonio Trocoli (185)
Louie Sutherland (264) vs. Brando Pericic (264)
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady (156) vs. Shem Rock (156)
Shanelle Dyer (116) vs. Ravena Oliveira (TBD)
Luana Carolina (144)* vs. Melissa Mullins (136)
