UFC Vegas 19 weigh-in results: Four fighters miss weight, one bout canceled
Unsurprisingly, heavyweight headliners Curtis Blaydes and Derrick Lewis had zero issues with the scale Friday.
The same could not be said for a quartet of fighters competing at Saturday’s UFC Vegas 19 event.
At Friday’s official weigh-ins, Rafael Alves set the record for the biggest weight miss in UFC history, coming in at 157.5 pounds, 11.5 pounds over the limit (including one-pound allowance) for his featherweight bout with Patrick Sabatini. The previous record was held by Anthony Johnson, who weighed in at 197 pounds for a 185-pound bout (11 pounds over, including one-pound allowance) with Vitor Belfort at UFC 142 in January 2012.
Alves’ bout with Sabatini has officially been canceled.
Three other fighters failed to beat the scale, Ketlen Vieira, Drako Rodriguez, and Jared Gordon. Vieira (138) missed weight by two pounds for her bantamweight co-main event bout with Yana Kunitskaya (135.5).
Rodriguez and Gordon both missed weight by four-plus pounds, with Rodriguez weighing in at 140.5 pounds (4.5 pounds over) for a bantamweight bout with Aiemann Zahabi, and Gordon weighing in at 150 pounds (four pounds over) for a featherweight bout with Danny Chavez.
All three bouts will proceed at catchweight, with Vieira forfeiting 20 percent of her purse to Kunitskaya, and Gordon and Rodriguez forfeiting 30 percent of their purses to their respective opponents.
Blaydes and Lewis tipped the scales at 259 pounds and 263 pounds, respectively.
See the UFC Vegas 19 weigh-in results below:
Main Card (ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)
Curtis Blaydes (259) vs. Derrick Lewis (263)
Ketlen Vieira (138)* vs. Yana Kunitskaya (135.5)
Charles Rosa (146) vs. Darrick Minner (146)
Aleksei Oleinik (240) vs. Chris Daukaus (234)
Phil Hawes (185) vs. Nassourdine Imavov (185.5)
Andrei Arlovski (249.5) vs. Tom Aspinall (244.5)
Preliminary Card (ESPN+, 5 p.m. ET)
Jared Gordon (150)** vs. Danny Chavez (145)
Drakkar Klose (156) vs. Luis Pena (155.5)
Eddie Wineland (135.5) vs. John Castaneda (136)
Nate Landwehr (146) vs. Julian Erosa (145.5)
Rafael Alves (157.5)*** vs. Patrick Sabatini (145.5)
Shana Dobson (126) vs. Casey O’Neill (125.5)
Chas Skelly (146) vs. Jamall Emmers (145.5)
Aiemann Zahabi (136) vs. Drako Rodriguez (140.5)****
Serghei Spivac (245) vs. Jared Vanderaa (265)
*Vieira missed weight. Her bout with Yana Kunitskaya will proceed as a catchweight, with Vieira forfeiting 20 percent of her purse to Kunitskaya
**Gordon missed weight. His bout with Danny Chavez will proceed as a catchweight, with Gordon forfeiting 30 percent of his purse to Chavez
***Alves missed weight and his bout with Patrick Sabatini has been canceled
****Rodriguez missed weight. His bout with Aiemann Zahabi will proceed as a catchweight, with Rodriguez forfeiting 30 percent of his purse to Zahabi