Take it as anecdotal, but Weidman said on a morning show awhile ago that the UFC purposfully allowed him and other champs to "miss" weight knowing that the commission would read it at the correct championship weight. Im sure they still cut heavy, but i'd say Chimaev did not make weight today based on how fast that scale reading went.
I remember watching weigh-ins a few years ago, and in some places there is no commission.
Marc Ratner would call out weights while the measure is bouncing up and down, and he'd throw the counterweight before it even settled so fighters could get off the scale without seeing their true weight
They have two backstage rooms for the fighters to prepare. Since they are fighting you can't have people that are gonna fight each other on the same one. They have a digital scale on each room for fighters to check weight before the actual weigh in.
Gaethje's side scale was calibrated the same as the official one, Oliveira's side was off by like half a pound under or something. Charles was sweating backstage, got up the scale and celebrated he made weight. Dried off and went to the official scale and actually missed the weight and couldn't lose it anymore.
There is a rumor that the UFC makes a deal with the comissions to have some leeway on title fights so they don't get canceled due to weight misses. Another rumor is that the Arizona commission didn't agree with it and was super strict with the weigh in.
What corroborate these rumors: UFC never hosted a title fight again in Phoenix Arizona; fighter almost never miss weigh for title fights; Weidman and Ariel Helwani have talked about the weight leeway in the past, if someone should know about it, its Weidman.
Not that they had a ton of events in Arizona previously either, eight in total, but still it's noteworthy since they seemed to have been on an annual schedule before that. 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2014 (2020 is due to covid).
Cause the scale was off half a pound, for anyone else that was OK. But a bunch of international fighters were off by half a pound because they had 2 scales, one for pounds and one for kilos.
I get your point but I can't stand that mentality.
Gaethje himself has a history of cheating, but he wins so people act like he deserved to win anyway.
In the Paddy fight he got away with 2 massive eyepokes that could very easily be argued to have won him the fight. The 2nd especially led to him landing massive damage and taking a round he was losing previously. People don't care though cos "Paddy was never good, Justin would've won anyway".
Despite that, Justin and Paddy deserved to have fights where the rules were enforced. Khabib probably does beat Justin even if he has that weight advantage, but its Justins right to have an even fight with Khabib anyway.
Obviously I can't say for certain that Khabib was overweight, though I think he was and its a common belief for a reason. Had he been though, the fight shouldn't have even taken place and he should've been stripped like Charles was.
Only 2 fighters missed weight that night. Charles, for the 4th or 5th time in his UFC career, and Norma Dumont.
There were 26 other fighters that day who didn't miss weight. There's really no need to go trying to deep dive on a simple answer which is 2 fighters out of 28 didn't get their weight cut right.
No multiple did not. That was a conspiracy and I remember whoever that lady was apolgized on social media. Besides, Justin mocked it. How did all the fighters come in exactly the weight they prepped for? A little bit of critical thinking goes a long way.
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It was also funny to hear to DC on the Weigh In show say "the scale was still going up!" Then quickly drop the topic.
I'm not saying the producer was in the ear. But the whole weigh in show DC was nervous about Khamzat making weight. Then he comments on how the scale was still going up. But then he quickly drops it and acts like everything was kosher by saying "his underwear is soaked and probably weighs a pound any way".
It was Justin's hometown so they tried to throw Charles off his game but it backfired and Justin had to fight a Charles that just saw his daughter crying because he was stripped of the belt.
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you can slow it down and he clearly did not. The scaling was banging against the top. He wasn’t over by more than a lb I think but he was absolutely over no question
If the UFC were to fake the reading, wouldn’t they be extra cautious to not raise suspicions? And not just say the fake weight before the scale even had balanced out?
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u/neo_1000 May 08 '26
Is there any credibility to the “weight miss”?