Bloody Elbow · Feb 22, 2018
Burns pulled from UFC on FOX 28 for allegedly being 31 lbs over contracted weight
Something that flies under the radar is how the UFC weighs fighters when they arrive for fight week and requests that they be within 8% of their contracted weight. So far, there hasn’t been any punishment we know of for fighters who miss that limit, but lightweight Gilbert Burns was pulled from his fight after allegedly arriving at fight week close to 20% over his contracted weight, per MMAFighting.com.
Burns’ contracted weight is 155 lbs with a one-pound allowance, but he weighed in at 186 lbs on the UFC scale, a full 30 lbs above the weight he would have to reach by Friday. While all fighters cut weight, this cut of almost 20% of his body weight is large, even by UFC standards.