UFC bantamweight Zarah Fairn dos Santos will no longer be fighting Josiane Nunes at tomorrow’s UFC Vegas 24 card.
We’ve had fights cancelled due to bad weight misses but very rarely are they as egregious as what Fairn managed.
The non-title bantamweight limit is 136 lbs. They moved this to a catchweight of 139 lbs before the weigh-ins began. Fairn came in at a whopping 147 lbs, which is 11-pounds over. Considering she’s fought at featherweight before, she’s heavy for that weight class too.
For obvious reasons, Fairn vs. Nunes is off.
This is one of the larger weight misses in UFC history but it’s not even the worst one in 2021.