{"id":145722,"date":"2025-09-15T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145722\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:06:10","slug":"robert-whittaker-scolds-kelvin-gastelum-for-noche-ufc-weigh-in-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145722\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker scolds Kelvin Gastelum for Noche UFC weigh-in miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Whittaker wasn\u2019t thrilled seeing Kelvin Gastelum miss weight again.<\/p>\n<p>Gastelum shared the Octagon with Dustin Stoltzfus on the Noche UFC card this past Saturday. One day prior to the fight, Gastelum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/kelvin-gastelum\/kelvin-gastelum-bombs-on-scale-with-massive-noche-ufc-weigh-in-miss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missed the middleweight limit by five pounds<\/a> and was fined 35 percent of his fight purse. Gastelum ended up winning the fight via unanimous decision.<\/p>\n<p>Whittaker feels fighters who miss weight gain an unfair advantage, and he criticized Gastelum. During an episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/g2acxDLYdW4?si=9FCI9ry7p0-bAJWr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cMMArcade Podcast,\u201d<\/a> Whittaker said he believes the fellow middleweight was aware of what he was doing (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/09\/15\/noche-ufc-robert-whittaker-opinion-reaction-kelvin-gastelum-knew-he-would-miss-weight\/86160580007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MMAJunkie<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like it because there\u2019s a division for a reason. There\u2019s weight limits for a reason. If we\u2019re just going to do whatever we want, then what are we doing? Kelvin knew this taking the fight in four weeks. He didn\u2019t have to take the fight in four weeks. He knew this. I feel bad for Dustin. \u2026 I think he fights with himself a lot and sometimes he wins, sometimes he loses that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gastelum has a history of scale snafus during weigh-in days. He missed weight several times to the point where he was forced to leave the welterweight division for a while. Some are wondering if Gastelum is on shaky ground with the UFC despite pulling off the win this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters don\u2019t often decline bouts if their opponent misses weight, but it has happened. The most recent example was Patricio \u201cPitbull\u201d Freire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/losene-keita\/video-losene-keita-pleads-patricio-pitbull-after-botched-weight-cut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">refusing to fight Losene Keita<\/a>, who couldn\u2019t make the contracted featherweight limit. The two were supposed to fight on the UFC Paris card.<\/p>\n<p>BJPenn.com will keep you up to speed on what\u2019s next for Kelvin Gastelum. We\u2019ll keep you posted on whether or not the UFC brass will keep the 31-fight veteran on the roster following yet another mishap during a weigh-in day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Whittaker wasn\u2019t thrilled seeing Kelvin Gastelum miss weight again. Gastelum shared the Octagon with Dustin Stoltzfus on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-145722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}