Competitors fighting on tomorrow nights BAMMA 5 card, the latest event for the UK based British Association of Mixed Martial Arts, took to the scales today.
According to MMAWeekly.com, fighters ran into a bit of a problem before the scheduled weigh-in time as the hotel hosting the fighters accidentally switched off the sauna, forcing fighters to find a new venue to continue cutting weight.
This could have certainly been part of the reason for three main card fighters missing weight.
Headliner Paul Daley weighed in at 172 lbs on his first attempt, and was unable to hit the 170 lb limit for the BAMMA welterweight title, finally weighing in at 170.4 lbs. He will now meet DEEP champion Yuya Shirai (169.6) in a non-title match.
Co-event headliner former UFC heavyweight champ, Ricco Rodriguez was also unable to meet his catchweight limit of 215 lbs by hitting the scales at 217 lb for his fight against James McSweeney (214.6).
Daley has had a history of missing weight for matches, failing five times out of his last eleven fights to make the proper cut. He’ll have to suffer a cut to his fight purse for failing to make weight as well as losing a shot at the BAMMA title.
The full weigh-in results, courtesy of MMAWeekly, is as follows:
Main Card
Welterweight bout: Paul Daley (170.4) vs Yuya Shirai (169.6)
Catchweight (215 lbs) bout: Ricco Rodriguez (217) vs James McSweeney (214.6)
Middleweight bout: Alex Makhonin (182.6) vs Xavier Foupa-Pokam (185.4)
Middleweight bout: Claudio Henrique Da Silva (186.5) vs Jean-Francois Lenogue (185)
Preliminary Card
Welterweight bout: Leeroy Barnes (170.6) vs Mohsen Bahari (169.6)
Welterweight bout: Rob Mills (170.2) vs Leigh Cohoon (169)
Lightweight bout: Jason Ball (155.8) vs Peter Duncan (152.4)
Welterweight bout: Paul Cook (170) vs Michael Johnson (170.6)
Lightweight bout: Tim Newman (155.2) vs Diego Vital (155)
Lightweight bout: Costas Doru (155.2) vs Liam James (155.4)
Lightweight bout: Franky Slater (154.4) vs Jeremy Petley (155.8)