Gabi Garcia badly missed weight for her Rizin bout, coming in 27 lbs over the limit, and leading to the fight being cancelled. During the event itself, promotion official Nobuhiko Takada stated that while it is rare for fights between healthy competitors to be scrapped in Japan, the weight mishap was too massive to let the bout push through.
Garcia was then asked to stepped inside the ring to offer an apology.
“I just say sorry about this,” an emotional Garcia said. “It’s first time this happened in my life, but (I had) problems three weeks before the fight.