UFC Vegas 103 weigh-in results: 2 fights canceled as Luana Carolina again has weight management issues
Luana Carolina has lost to the scale again. This time, she didn’t even make it to the fight.
For the third time in her UFC career, Carolina struggled with her weight cut, failing to show up at Friday’s official weigh-ins for UFC Vegas 103. Ag. Fight was first to report Carolina’s preliminary flyweight bout with Montana De La Rosa was canceled, with the news later officially announced by UFC.
A De La Rosa representative told MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck that Carolina “couldn’t even get within five pounds of 126 compared to Montana being on the correct weight, so commission won’t allow. Montana was willing to accept the fight with the girl missing weight.”
Carolina previously registered two egregious weight misses, coming in 2.5 pounds over the limit for a May 2021 bout with Poliana Botelho, and three pounds over the limit for a February 2024 bout with Julija Stoliarenko. She won both of those bouts.
The main event weigh-ins went off without a hitch, with Asu Almabayev being the first fighter to the scale and coming in at 126 pounds. He and opponent Manel Kape both made use of the one-pound allowance for a non-title fight, with Kape also weighing 126.
Kape is currently the No. 10 flyweight in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings, with Almabayev close behind at No. 13. Almabayev is 4-0 in the UFC so far and is stepping in as a replacement for an injured Brandon Royval.
Watch official weigh-in highlights above.
One other fighter missed weight, Lucas Almeida, who came in two pounds over the featherweight limit. His bout with Danny Silva proceeds at a catchweight with Almeida forfeiting 20 percent of his purse as penalty.
Shortly after the conclusion of the weigh-ins, officials announced that a 140-pound catchweight bout between Douglas Silva de Andrade and John Castaneda has also been cancelled due to medical issues on Silva de Andrade’s side.
Check out UFC Vegas 103 weigh-in results below.
Main Card (ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET)
Manel Kape (126) vs. Asu Almabayev (126)
Julian Marquez (186) vs. Cody Brundage (186)
Nasrat Haqparast (156) vs. Esteban Ribovics (156)
William Gomis (146) vs. Hyder Amil (146)
Danny Barlow (170.5) vs. Sam Patterson (170.5)
Preliminary Card (ESPN+ at 4 p.m. ET)
Austen Lane (249.5) vs. Mario Pinto (246.5)
Ricardo Ramos (146) vs. Chepe Mariscal (146)
Douglas Silva de Andrade (140) vs. John Castaneda (140) — CANCELED**
Lucas Almeida (148)* vs. Danny Silva (145.5)
Andrea Lee (126) vs. JJ Aldrich (126)
Charles Johnson (125) vs. Ramazan Temirov (125.5)
Luana Carolina vs. Montana De La Rosa — CANCELED***
*Almeida missed weight. His bout with Danny Silva proceeds at a catchweight with Almeida forfeiting 20 percent of his purse as penalty
**Silva de Andrade vs. Castaneda is off the card due to medical issues on Silva de Andrade’s side, per UFC
***Carolina vs. De La Rosa is off the card due to weight management issues on Carolina’s side