Luana Carolina has lost weight again and is nowhere near her goal.
At Friday’s official morning weigh-in at UFC London, Carolina weighed in at 144 pounds, which is good enough for a featherweight bout; unfortunately for Carolina, she’s expected to weigh in at 135 pounds for her fight with Melissa Mullins. Even taking into account the one-pound allowance for non-title fights, “Fear” ended up losing eight pounds.
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Mullins, who had not cut weight in her previous two UFC fights, managed to get her weight down to 136 pounds, but it was later officially announced that her fight with Carolina had been canceled due to regulatory reasons.
This is the third time Carolina has missed the mark and the fourth time she’s had trouble with the scale. Her previous weight cuts were in the 125-pound weight class, by 2.5 and 3 pounds, and she also had her March 2025 flyweight bout against Montana De La Rosa canceled after failing to attend the official weigh-in. After that fight was canceled, a representative for De La Rosa’s team told MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck that Carolina “couldn’t even get within five pounds of 126 pounds.”
Carolina returned to bantamweight last September at UFC Perth, where she lost a unanimous decision to Michelle Montague. Her promotion prospects looked bleak as another fight was canceled due to weight management issues.
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Saturday’s top contenders Movsar Evloev and Lerone Murphy successfully weighed in, with Evloev competing at 146 pounds for the non-title bout and Murphy entering the fight at 145 pounds. Evloev is currently ranked No. 2 at featherweight in the MMA Fighting Global Rankings, with Murphy right behind him at No. 6. Both men came into this crucial matchup with undefeated records.
In the co-main event, rising featherweight star Luke Riley takes on Michael Aswell. The fighters successfully made weight, with Riley reaching 146 pounds and Aswell reaching 145 pounds.
See the official UFC London weigh-in results below.
Main card (Paramount+, 4 p.m. ET)
Movsar Evloev (146) vs. Laeron Murphy (145)
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Luke Riley (146) VS Michael Aswell (145)
Michael Page (171) vs. Sam Patterson (170)
Iwo Baraniewski (206) vs. Austen Lane (205)
Roman Dolizer (186) VS Christian Leroy Duncan (186)
Danny Silva (145) vs. Curtis Campbell (145)
Junior Card (Paramount+, 1 p.m. ET)
Mason Jones (156) vs. Axel Sola (156)
Nathaniel Wood(146) VS Losanne Keita(146)
Mario Pinto(257) VS Felipe Franco(227)
Mantas Kondratavicius (185) VS Antonio Trocoli (185)
Louis Sutherland (264) VS Brando Perisic (264)
Abdul Karim Selwadi (156) VS Shemrock (156)
Shanelle Dyer (116) vs Ravena Oliveira (TBD)
Luanna Carolina (144)* vs. Melissa Mullins (136)
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*Carolina dropped eight pounds for her bantamweight bout with Melissa Mullins. The match has been cancelled.
