Manel Kape and Kyoji Horiguchi are set for their main event rematch, though one undercard fighter slipped up at the UFC Vegas 119 official weigh-ins.
Flyweight competitor Kevin Borjas failed to make weight for his bout against Andre Lima, which is scheduled to close out Saturday’s preliminary lineup. Borjas weighed in at 129 pounds, three pounds over the limit for a non-title flyweight bout.
It was later announced that Lima vs. Borjas will proceed at a catchweight, with Borjas forfeiting 20 percent
of his purse as penalty.
The UFC Vegas 119 flyweight headliners made weight without issue, as Horiguchi was first to step to the scale, making championship weight at 125 pounds. Kape made use of the one-pound allowance for a non-title fight, registering at 126.
Horiguchi and Kape meet in a rematch nine years in the making. The two first fought at a RIZIN event in December 2017, when Horiguchi finished Kape with an arm-triangle choke submission in the third round. Now, they fight again with a UFC flyweight title shot potentially on the line.
Other than Borjas, the other 23 fighters competing Saturday all successfully made weight.
Check out UFC Vegas 119 weigh-in results below.
Main Card (Paramount+ at 8 p.m. ET)
Manel Kape (126) vs. Kyoji Horiguchi (125)
Ion Cutelaba (205.5) vs. Navajo Stirling (205)
Hyder Amil (145) vs. Christian Rodriguez (145.5)
Melsik Baghdasaryan (145.5) vs. Murtazali Magomedov (146)
Vinicius Oliveira (145.5) vs. Andre Fili (145.5)
Preliminary Card (Paramount+ at 5 p.m. ET)
Andre Lima (126) vs. Kevin Borjas (129)*
Bia Mesquita (136) vs. Melissa Mullins (135.5)
Allan Nascimento (126) vs. Mitch Raposo (125.5)
Gaston Bolanos (146) vs. Michael Aswell (146)
Leon Shahbazyan (170.5) vs. Levan Chokheli (170.5)
Karol Rosa (135.5) vs. Luana Santos (136)
Shane Collins (145.5) vs. Otari Tanzilovi (145)
*Borjas missed weight. His bout with Andre Lima proceeds at a catchweight with Borjas forfeiting 20 percent of his purse as penalty, per UFC.
