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Paulo Costa on missing weight: ‘I’ll tell more after the fight’
Paulo Costa will still enter the Octagon on Saturday for his UFC Fight Night bout against Marvin Vettori, but it is no longer a middleweight bout. Just days before the fight, Costa revealed he was not going to make weight, forcing the bout to be changed to a 195-pound catchweight fight.