Jessica Eye: 'No excuse' for missing weight by 5 pounds for UFC 245
Jessica Eye badly missed weight in her first fight since competing for a UFC title earlier this year.
Eye (14-7 MMA, 4-6 UFC) came in five pounds over the women’s flyweight limit for her scheduled bout against Viviane Araujo (8-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) on Saturday at UFC 245, stepping on the scale at 131 pounds at Friday’s official weigh-in.
As a result of the miss, Eye has been fined 30 percent of the show portion of her purse by the Nevada Athletic Commission, which sanctions the UFC 245 card at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN2 and early prelims on UFC Fight Pass/ESPN+.
Araujo accepted the terms of the fine and agreed to the fight, a UFC official told MMA Junkie.
Hours after the conclusion of weigh-in, Eye posted a statement on social media apologizing for the miss, but did not offer explanation other than chalking it up to a “bad” weight cut (via Twitter):
It’s the second time overall in her career, though. “Evil” came in 3.5 pounds over the flyweight limit for a June 2013 bout with Carina Damm, which was her last before joining the UFC.
Nevertheless, Eye will still compete at the UFC 245 and have the chance to rebound from her brutal knockout loss to 125-pound champ Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 238 in June.