Just moments ago, former UFC Featherweight title challenger, Brian Ortega, failed to make weight for his highly-anticipated UFC Shanghai co-main event clash versus former Bantamweight kingpin Aljamain Sterling. Though officially allowed to tip the scales at 146-pounds, Ortega never actually made it to the scales sources told MMAmania. Subsequently, his planned bout versus \u201cFunkmaster\u201d has been scrapped off the UFC Shanghai card entirely.<\/p>\n
\u201cT-City\u201d has long been one of the bigger Featherweights on the roster, and he\u2019s hinted at a Lightweight move<\/a> in the past. At 34 years of age, it\u2019s likely that the extreme water cut is growing more and more difficult for Ortega, so there\u2019s a reasonably high chance this is his last attempt at making the Featherweight limit.<\/p>\n Ahead of UFC Shanghai, both Ortega and Sterling were looking to rebound from losses to Diego Lopes and Movsar Evloev respectively. The winner should have returned to Featherweight contention, but Ortega\u2019s trouble at the scale throws a wrench into those plans \u2026. and not for the first time<\/a>. In all likelihood, the match up will not be rebooked at a later date, and Sterling\u2019s would-be return to the Featherweight title mix will have to wait. One wonders if Ortega will go the way of Bryan Battle<\/a> after this latest incident.<\/p>\n Stay tuned as more details are expected to emerge on this developing story.<\/p>\n MMAmania.com<\/a> will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC Shanghai fight card on fight night, starting with the ESPN+<\/a> preliminary card bouts at 3 a.m. ET, followed by the remaining main card balance on ESPN+<\/a> at 6 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n To check out the latest and greatest UFC Shanghai news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archive here<\/a>. For the updated and finalized \u201cWalker vs. Zhang\u201d fight card and ESPN+<\/a> lineup click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just moments ago, former UFC Featherweight title challenger, Brian Ortega, failed to make weight for his highly-anticipated UFC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-86411","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-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86411","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=86411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}