UFC London’s early weigh-ins are done and we can breathe a sigh of relief now that the main card remains intact. All 12 fighters, including headliners Movsar Evloev vs. Lerone Murphy, have successfully weighed in for their fights this weekend (Sat., March 21, 2025) inside O2 Arena.
There was one big weigh-in flub from the “Prelims,” though, and it comes from repeat weigh-in misser Luana Carolina, who stepped on the scales in London at 144 pounds for her 136 pound limit bantamweight fight.
That’s eight pounds over, and UFC decided to scrap her fight with U.K. fighter, Melissa Mullins.
Carolina — who entered UFC off Dana White’s Contender Series: Brazil 3 — not only missed weight twice when competing at Flyweight, but had a fight canceled because of weight cut complications as well. That prompted UFC to force her up to women’s Bantamweight, but here we are one year later, and Carolina has blown past the bantamweight limit too.
Given the official reaction, we have doubts “Dread” will get another shot on UFC scales.
We’re not sure whether Mullins knew what was going on with Carolina, but she was weeping as she stepped on the scales.
“It was most definitely a harder cut than I expected!” Mullins wrote on Instagram afterward. “My opponent missed weight by 8lbs officially, and although we agreed to take the fight, the commission used by the UFC are not happy, have pulled the fight from the card!!”
“All my hard work wasted and the opportunity to fight in my home turf stolen from me! To perform on the very best platform, take in moments! Guys please make some noise and help me get back out fighting on a card!”
*UPDATE* Ravena Oliveira stepped on the scale last at 116.5, half a pound over the strawweight limit.
Here’s the rest of the weigh-in results for UFC London: “Evloev vs. Murphy:”
