Saturday’s UFC Vegas 90 battle card on the UFC Apex in Las Vegas was speculated to characteristic 13 fights. Following Friday’s official weigh-in, the battle card is all the way down to 12 bouts.
Ladies’s strawweight Cynthia Calvillo missed weight for her bout with Piera Rodríguez by three kilos weighing in at 119 kilos. The bout was later cancelled.
It isn’t the primary time Calvillo has did not make weight. Twice earlier than she got here in heavy for her scheduled fights. She additionally examined constructive to marijuana metabolites following her UFC 219 loss to former two-time champion Carla Esparza. She’s additionally misplaced her final 5 fights. Rodriguez efficiently weighed in at 116 kilos.
4 fighters in whole missed weight on Saturday, together with Calvillo, Alexander Hernandez, Melissa Mullins, and Nora Cornolle. Hernandez was the furthest from his mark weighing in 4 kilos over the featherweight restrict for his predominant card match towards Damon Jackson. Solely the Calvillo versus Rodriguez bout was cancelled.
The occasion is headlined by a middleweight bout between sixth-ranked Brendan Allen and 14th-ranked Chris Curtis. Allen (23-5) will enter the bout using a six-fight successful streak. 5 of these wins got here by the use of submission. Curtis (31-10, 1 NC) gained his final bout towards Marc-André Barriault through cut up determination.
