{"id":139216,"date":"2025-09-12T18:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139216\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:45:07","slug":"buddy-just-said-f-it-pros-react-to-kelvin-gastelums-huge-weight-miss-at-noche-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139216\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Buddy just said F it\u2019: Pros react to Kelvin Gastelum\u2019s huge weight miss at Noche UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kelvin Gastelum missed weight again, leaving the door open for plenty of criticism from fighters and fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Heading into the 25th fight of his UFC career, Gastelum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/403508\/noche-ufc-weigh-in-results-kelvin-gastelum-misses-weight-by-5-pounds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">faltered at the official weigh-ins<\/a>, coming in five pounds over the middleweight limit for a bout with Dusko Todorovic at Noche UFC. It was the fourth time Gastelum came in heavy for a UFC fight and his struggles at the scale have long been a topic of discussion even as he made the move from welterweight to middleweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Though Gastelum\u2019s bout with Todorovic is scheduled to proceed as a catchweight bout (with Gastelum paying a hefty 35 percent fine), it sounds like much of the community has had it with the one-time Ultimate Fighter winner, regardless of whether he is victorious or not Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Veteran middleweight Derek Brunson joked Gastelum should have just fought Bryan Battle, another fighter who was recently released after struggling to make weight. \u201cFive pounds, damn,\u201d Brunson added. \u201cBuddy just said F it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Check out more reactions from fighters and fans below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelvin Gastelum missed weight again, leaving the door open for plenty of criticism from fighters and fans. Heading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-139216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139216","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=139216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}