{"id":123196,"date":"2025-09-06T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123196\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:46:07","slug":"i-know-i-messed-up-apologetic-ufc-newcomer-addresses-disastrous-ufc-paris-weight-miss-claims-he-offered-pitbull-entire-fight-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123196\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I know I messed up\u2019 \u2014 Apologetic UFC newcomer addresses disastrous UFC Paris weight miss, claims he offered \u2018Pitbull\u2019 entire fight purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">During Friday\u2019s early UFC Paris weigh ins (results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/latest-news\/386994\/live-ufc-paris-early-weigh-ins-results-imavov-vs-borralho-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>), Keita officially tipped the scales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/387167\/botched-weight-cut-cancels-ufc-paris-pitbull-keita\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three pounds over<\/a> the 146-pound featherweight limit and instantly put his main card bout against Patricio Pitbull in danger. In most cases, UFC matchmakers are able to work around weight misses, free up some extra purse money for the fighter who hit weight, and keep the fight scheduled as planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Unfortunately, Pitbull wanted nothing to do with a heavy Keita. The former Bellator MMA champion is just 1-1 inside of the Octagon and was already coming into this weekend as a sizeable betting underdog. Instead of trying to work of a solution to stay on Saturday\u2019s card, Pitbull took to social media to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-weigh-in-video\/387227\/fat-panther-patricio-pitbull-goes-nuts-canceled-losene-keita-down-baby-food-missing-weight-ufc-paris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">absolutely destroy \u201cFat Panther.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Later Friday, Keita took to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/keita_losene\/status\/1963939185049456929\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a> to explain why he missed weight and apologize for the incident. He also went on to reveal that he offered up his entire fight purse to stay on Saturday\u2019s card, but he believes Pitbull wanted a way out of the fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check it out below and let us know your thoughts!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFor the first time in 25 fights, I failed to make weight, and it had to happen on my UFC debut\u2026 I wanted to continue and would have given everything to make weight, but my body didn\u2019t want it. I sincerely apologize to all my fans. I will be back, like every time I fall in life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI know I messed up and I take full responsibility. I begged you, apologized many times, even offered you my purse \u2014 all just to make the fight happen. But it seemed you were happier for the fight not to happen than to give me a chance to make it right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the updated UFC Paris fight card and lineup click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/30\/24477117\/ufc-paris-fight-card-start-time-date-location-imavov-vs-borralho-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During Friday\u2019s early UFC Paris weigh ins (results HERE), Keita officially tipped the scales three pounds over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,37644,44706,702],"class_list":["post-123196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-espn-fight-night","tag-ufc-weigh-ins","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}