This is the UFC 264 live blog for Irene Aldana vs. Yana Kunitskaya, a catchweight main card bout for Saturday’s fight card at UFC APEX in Las Vegas.
The bout is being contested at a catchweight of 139.5 pounds after Aldana missed weight for the bantamweight limit of 136 pounds. Aldana, No. 4 on MMA Fighting’s Global Rankings, later apologized for her miss and said her body shut down during the weight-cutting process; she paid Kunitskaya 30 percent of her show purse.
Aldana returns to the octagon after a decision loss to ex-champ Holly Holm that delayed her title aspirations.