The UFC’s weigh-in woes continue.
At Friday’s official weigh-ins for UFC Vegas 113, four fighters missed weight, including a pair of fighters who came in five pounds over the limit for their division. The offending fighters were Muin Gafurov and Gianni Vazquez, who both came in at 141 pounds for separate bantamweight contests, and Wang Cong and Eduarda Moura, who are actually set to fight one another Saturday.
Gafurov, a 12-year veteran, came in heavy for the first time in his five-fight UFC career.
He previously missed weight once for an LFA bout in 2022, when he came in 0.2 pounds over the bantamweight limit and went on to defeat Herbeth Sousa via knockout.
Vazquez’s miss is more understandable, considering he stepped in on short notice this week for Said Nurmagomedov after the Russian fighter withdrew due to visa issues. Prior to getting the UFC call, Vazquez competed at 125 pounds in his most recent bout, but has fought as high as 155 pounds.
It is not yet known if Gafurov and Vazquez’s respective bouts with Jakub Wiklacz and Javid Basharat will proceed as scheduled and, if so, what percentage of the fighters’ purses will be forfeited as penalty.
Wang and Moura find themselves in a strange situation as they’re scheduled to fight, but both are over the flyweight limit. MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz has reached out to a source who confirmed the fighters did not have a predetermined agreement to modify the weight limit of their bout, so they will now negotiate a potential catchweight encounter.
It wasn’t all bad news as bantamweight headliners Mario Bautista (135.5) and Vinicius Oliveira (136) successfully made weight. Oliveira’s weight was a point of contention in the lead-up to UFC Vegas 113 as he revealed that he starts fight camps around 50 pounds over the bantamweight limit, and was 30 pounds over at the start of fight week. As of now, the bout remains on track.
Check out UFC Vegas 113 weigh-in results below.
Main Card (Paramount+ at 8 p.m. ET)
Mario Bautista (135.5) vs. Vinicius Oliveira (136)
Kyoji Horiguchi (126) vs. Amir Albazi (125.5)
Jailton Almeida (241) vs. Rizvan Kuniev (264)
Michal Oleksiejczuk (186) vs. Marc-Andre Barriault (184.5)
Farid Basharat (136) vs. Jean Matsumoto (135.5)
Dustin Jacoby (204.5) vs. Julius Walker (206)
Preliminary Card (Paramoun+ at 5 p.m. ET)
Alex Morono (170.5) vs. Daniil Donchenko (170.5)
Nikolay Veretennikov (170.5) vs. Niko Price (171)
Bruna Brasil (116) vs. Ketlen Souza (115.5)
Javid Basharat (135.5) vs. Gianni Vazquez (141)*
Eduarda Moura (127)* vs. Wang Cong (127.5)*
Jakub Wiklacz (135.5) vs. Muin Gafurov (141)*
Priscila Cachoeira (135.5) vs. Klaudia Sygula (135.5)
*missed weight
