During the UFC Shanghai official weigh-ins yesterday, three fighters failed to make weight, resulting in serious consequences for at least one of them before the fight. However, two of those three fighters have now missed out on bonuses despite scoring brutal finishes over their opponents on fight night.
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Julia Polastri and Andre Lima, who both missed weight ahead of fight night, delivered impressive finishes over their adversaries. However, they won’t be able to cash in on the bonus money since they failed to meet the weight requirements for their respective divisions.
Julia Polastri and her opponent, Xiong Jingnan, both missed weight at the weigh-ins. Polastri weighed 118.5 pounds, while Xiong came in at 117 pounds for their 116 lbs weight limit bout. Both escaped the promotion’s punishment of forfeiting a percentage of their purses since neither fighter had made weight.
During the bout, Polastri scored a stellar head-kick knockout over Xiong in the first round, a finish that could have earned her a $25,000 finishing bonus as well as a $100,000 Performance of the Night bonus. But since she missed weight, she isn’t eligible for either.
Similarly, Andre Lima, who also missed weight for the second time in the UFC, cannot collect a bonus despite submitting Namsrai Batbayar via guillotine choke in the third round. Like Polastri, Lima too failed to make the non-title flyweight limit of 126 lbs, coming in at 127 pounds. As a result, he had to forfeit 20% of his purse to Batbayar as well as his $25,000 finish bonus.
As such, at UFC Shanghai, both fighters have collectively missed out on at least $50,000 in bonuses, excluding any potential marquee Performance of the Night awards.
Another guy who lost a bonus because of the weight miss
WOW what a nasty submission by Andre Lima! #UFCShanghai
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