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Aspen Ladd confident in making weight safely at UFC on ESPN 7 following ‘brutal’ cut last time out

Aspen Ladd may never love cutting weight to get down to 135 pounds, but that doesn’t mean she can’t find a healthy way to do it.

Ahead of her most recent appearance in the UFC, the 24-year-old bantamweight contender was shaky and unstable as she stepped on the scale just a day before she was scheduled to face former UFC champion Germaine de Randamie.

Ladd ended up gaining back 24 pounds between Friday’s weigh-ins and Saturday’s fight night and afterwards the California State Athletic Commission issued a temporary suspension in the state to prevent her from making the cut back down 135 pounds.