Miami — There was just a little bit of drama at Friday morning’s official UFC 314 weigh-in, enough to keep things interesting.
While the card proceeded to weigh in, one by one, in orderly fashion to start with, Diego Lopes and Alexander Volkanovski hitting the scales first, by the end of the one-hour weigh in window, two athletes had missed the mark.
Yes, that’s a one hour weigh-in window, now standard in the state of Florida, which makes the weigh-in process a bit of a scramble. When Nora Cornolle and Jean Silva both missed weight towards the end of that hour, there was little surprise. Both had called for the barrier (the box of shame if you prefer), stripping down completely in an attempt to make weight. Cornolle, looking a bit depleted but not dangerously so, was two pounds heavy for her bantamweight fight with Hailey Cowan. Silva, in the highest profile fight of his career against Bryce Mitchell, was a pound over— and rather surprisingly fired up. In Portuguese, he assured onlookers that he would shed the final pound. Forty minutes later, he’d done just that.
Cornolle was a different story. Her second weigh-in attempt, again behind the barrier roughly an hour later, again saw her heavy, at 137.5. She’d dropped just a half pound. Moments after stepping off the scale and turning her back, however, she stepped back on, requesting another weigh in. It appeared Cornolle trimmed a bit of, though not all of her hair, but it did not make any difference. She was still 137.5.
The only other item of note on Friday was Bryce Mitchell getting on and off the scale so fast that he forgot to pose for the cameras, then wound up doing so at side stage.
All fighters besides Cornolle made weight. Full results and highlights from Friday’s UFC 314 weigh-in can be found below.
UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes Weigh-In Results
Main card
Featherweight: Alexander Volkanovski (145) vs. Diego Lopes (145) – for the vacant UFC featherweight championship
Lightweight: Michael Chandler (156) vs. Paddy Pimblett (156)
Featherweight: Bryce Mitchell (146) vs. Jean Silva (146)*
Featherweight: Yair Rodríguez (146) vs. Patrício Pitbull (145)
Light Heavyweight: Nikita Krylov (206) vs. Dominick Reyes (206)
Preliminary card
Featherweight: Dan Ige (146) vs. Sean Woodson (146)
Women’s Strawweight: Yan Xiaonan (116) vs. Virna Jandiroba (116)
Lightweight: Jim Miller (156) vs. Chase Hooper (156)
Middleweight: Sedriques Dumas (185) vs. Michał Oleksiejczuk (186)
Early preliminary card
Featherweight: Darren Elkins (145) vs. Julian Erosa (146)
Flyweight: Su Mudaerji (126) vs. Mitch Raposo (126)
Middleweight: Tresean Gore (186) vs. Marco Tulio (186)
Women’s Bantamweight: Nora Cornolle (137.5)* vs. Hailey Cowan (136)
* Cornolle weighed in two pounds over the limit for her bantamweight fight with Hailey Cowan. She made a second attempt, at 137.5, stepped off the scale, then attempted a third after what appeared to be a slight hair trim, but was 137.5 again. She has been fined 20% of her purse; the fight will move forward
** Silva weighed in one pound over the limit for his featherweight fight with Bryce Mitchell. Allotted an extra hour, Silva successfully shed the final pound, weighing in at 146 roughly 40 minutes later
