Jessica Eye has missed weight for a second straight bout.
The UFC women’s flyweight contender came in at 126.25 pounds — .25 over the flyweight limit — Friday morning for her scheduled UFC Fight Night main event against Cynthia Calvillo. Calvillo weighed in successfully at 126 pounds.
When Eye got off the scale, she said she was done cutting weight and didn’t even know if she could stand up. The headliner, set for Saturday night in front of no fans at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, is expected to go on with Eye forfeiting a percentage of her purse. Eye missed weight by five pounds ahead of her December fight with Viviane Araujo.
ESPN has Eye ranked No. 6 among women’s flyweight MMA fighters. Calvillo is making her debut at flyweight after fighting at strawweight (115 pounds) previously. Eye spent most of her UFC career at bantamweight (135 pounds) before moving down to flyweight in 2018.
Eye (15-7, 1 NC) is coming off a unanimous decision win over Araujo at UFC 245 last December. The Ohio native, who lives and trains in Las Vegas, has won four of her last five fights. The lone loss for Eye, 33, during that stretch was a second-round head kick loss to flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko at UFC 238 in June 2019.
Calvillo (8-1-1) is unbeaten in her last three fights. She missed weight three times at strawweight, causing her to move up to flyweight. The California native is coming off a majority draw against Marina Rodriguez in December. Calvillo, 32, recently moved from Team Alpha Male to American Kickboxing Academy, the home of the likes of UFC luminaries Khabib Nurmagomedov and Daniel Cormier.
Karl Roberson missed weight by 4.5 pounds for the co-main event, coming in at 190.5 pounds for the scheduled middleweight (185) bout. His opponent is Marvin Vettori (186 pounds).
The two were supposed to fight May 13, but Roberson missed weight by 1.5 pounds and then withdrew when he had to go to the hospital due to a weight-cut-related illness. Vettori and Roberson had a heated argument caught on video the next day at the hotel and had to be separated.
Zarrukh Adashev also missed weight by 2.5 pounds, coming in for a bantamweight fight at 138.5 pounds. His scheduled opponent Tyson Nam weighed in at 135.5 pounds. The bout is expected to go on with Adashev forfeiting a portion of his purse.
A scheduled featherweight fight between Darrick Minner and Jordan Griffin was canceled Friday morning. Minner announced on his Twitter that he fell ill during the weight-cutting process, writing his “body couldn’t make this happen.” The card will move forward with 10 bouts.