Saturday’s UFC Vegas 90 battle card on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas was imagined to characteristic 13 fights. Following Friday’s official weigh-in, the battle card is all the way down to 12 bouts.
Girls’s strawweight Cynthia Calvillo missed weight for her bout with Piera Rodríguez by three kilos weighing in at 119 kilos. The bout was later cancelled.
It isn’t the primary time Calvillo has didn’t make weight. Twice earlier than she got here in heavy for her scheduled fights. She additionally examined constructive to marijuana metabolites following her UFC 219 loss to former two-time champion Carla Esparza. She’s additionally misplaced her final 5 fights. Rodriguez efficiently weighed in at 116 kilos.
4 fighters in complete missed weight on Saturday, together with Calvillo, Alexander Hernandez, Melissa Mullins, and Nora Cornolle. Hernandez was the furthest from his mark weighing in 4 kilos over the featherweight restrict for his principal card match in opposition to Damon Jackson. Solely the Calvillo versus Rodriguez bout was cancelled.
The occasion is headlined by a middleweight bout between sixth-ranked Brendan Allen and 14th-ranked Chris Curtis. Allen (23-5) will enter the bout driving a six-fight successful streak. 5 of these wins got here by means of submission. Curtis (31-10, 1 NC) received his final bout in opposition to Marc-André Barriault by way of break up choice.
