{"id":584316,"date":"2026-04-04T05:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584316\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:02:13","slug":"undefeated-standout-misses-weight-for-third-time-at-ufc-vegas-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584316\/","title":{"rendered":"Undefeated Standout Misses Weight for Third Time at UFC Vegas 115"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/rafael-estevam\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Estevam<\/a> failed to make weight for the third time in his UFC career at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmanews.com\/tag\/ufc-vegas-115\" class=\"tag-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC Vegas 115<\/a> official weigh-ins on Friday. The undefeated bantamweight came in at 136.5 pounds, half a pound over the limit for his bout against Ethyn Ewing.<\/p>\n<p>Estevam was one of three fighters who missed weight at the close of the first weigh-in window at Meta Apex. Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev weighed in at 207 pounds for his light heavyweight bout, while Darrius Flowers registered 156.5 pounds for his lightweight contest.<\/p>\n<p>Weight Miss History<\/p>\n<p>This marks Estevam&#8217;s third weight miss in the UFC. He has previously failed to make weight twice at 135 pounds and once at 125 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC announced that Estevam&#8217;s bout with Ewing will proceed as a catchweight fight. Estevam will forfeit 20 percent of his purse as a penalty. Flowers&#8217; fight with Lando Vannata will also continue at catchweight under the same financial penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime lightweight contender Renato Moicano was the first fighter to weigh in, successfully hitting the mark at 156 pounds. His opponent, Chris Duncan, later registered the same weight for Saturday&#8217;s main event.<\/p>\n<p>Strawweight contenders Virna Jandiroba (116) and Tabatha Ricci (115.5) both made weight for the co-main event without issue. Yakhyaev has been cleared to attempt a second weigh-in for his light heavyweight bout against Brendson Ribeiro.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Vegas 115 takes place Saturday at Meta Apex with the main card streaming on Paramount+ at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Estevam failed to make weight for the third time in his UFC career at the UFC Vegas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,286106,85,286107],"class_list":{"0":"post-584316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-rafael-estevam","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-vegas-115"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584316","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=584316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}