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Ultimate Fighting Championship newcomer Rafael
Alves cried before stepping on the scales, but the tears he
shed didn’t make enough of a difference as he still came in 11.5
pounds over the featherweight limit. It appears that the
UFC Fight Night 185 weigh-ins might wind up being more
drama-filled than the actual fights. The weigh-ins for the latest
UFC card saw four fighters fail to make weight. While the
headlining heavyweight bout between Curtis
Blaydes and Derrick
Lewis is intact, the fight card drops down to 14 after the
weigh-ins took place.
The fighter with the dishonorable distinction of missing weight by
more than an entire weight class was Alves, who came in at 157.5
pounds for his featherweight bout against Pat
Sabatini. Other misses were mild by comparison as Ketlen
Vieira weighed in two pounds above the bantamweight limit,
Jared
Gordon missed featherweight by four pounds and Drako
Rodriguez hit the scales 4.5 pounds over the bantamweight
limit. While Vieira was fined 20 percent of her purse and Gordon
and Rodriguez each receiving 30 percent fines as well, Alves vs.
Sabatini has been removed from the card, per the promoter.
Save for two bouts against Francis
Ngannou, Blaydes (14-2, 1 NC) has largely looked unstoppable
inside the Octagon. An impressive six-fight unbeaten streak was
snapped by his Cameroonian rival, but “Razor” has bounced back to
go on an emphatic four-fight win streak. The current stretch has
seen him finish both Shamil
Abdurakhimov and Junior dos
Santos with strikes, while also picking up decisions over
Alexander
Volkov and Justin
Willis. The Illinois native will look to keep his title hopes
alive this weekend and officially weighed 259 pounds.
Also riding an impressive win streak is “The Black Beast.” After
earning decisions over Blagoy
Ivanov and Ilir Latifi,
Lewis (24-7, 1 NC) went back to delivering incredible knockouts,
doing so recently against Alexey
Oleynik. Since 2018, Lewis’ only defeats have come against
former champions in the form of Daniel
Cormier and dos Santos. The proud Texan stepped on the scales
at 263 pounds.
UFC Fight Night 185 will stream entirely on ESPN+. The prelims
begin at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT, while the main card is scheduled for
8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
UFC Fight Night 185 Weigh-in Results:
Curtis
Blaydes (259) vs. Derrick
Lewis (263)
Ketlen
Vieira (138)* vs. Yana
Kunitskaya (135.5)
Charles
Rosa (146) vs. Darrick
Minner (146)
Alexey
Oleynik (240) vs. Chris
Daukaus (234)
Phil
Hawes (185) vs. Nassourdine
Imavov (185.5)
Andrei
Arlovski (249.5) vs. Tom
Aspinall (244.5)
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. Pat
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)****
Sergey
Spivak (245) vs. Jared
Vanderaa (265)
* Vieira missed weight by two pounds and has been fined 20
percent of her purse.
** Gordon missed weight by four pounds and has been fined 30
percent of his purse.
*** Alves missed weight by 11.5 pounds and his match has been
canceled.
**** Rodriguez missed weight by 4.5 pounds and has been fined 30
percent of his purse.
