Given how the pre-fight post performed I doubt this'll get a lot of attention, but if you wanna discuss tonight's UFC card do it here.
Some facts:
- Co-main events are Namajunas Vs Esparza & Chandler Vs Ferguson
- Oliveira missed weight
- Cowboy Cerrone and Rua & Ovince Saint Preux are on the card as well
- After this card we may be getting Poirier Vs Chandler, at last
Illegal weigh in?
The Comission violated Arizona State law in the process. https://combatsportslaw.com/2022/05/07/arizona-has-some-explaining-to-to-after-charles-oliveira-weigh-in/
The key points: More importantly, Arizona’s Revised Statute Title 5, Chapter 2 section 225 (which the above Code says the commission must comply with) requires the weigh ins to take place “no more than twenty-four hours before the scheduled time of the event” reading as follows:
E. Weigh-ins for all contests shall not be more than twenty-four hours before the scheduled time of the event or less than three hours before the scheduled time of the event. A representative of the commission shall attend and supervise all weigh-ins. The weigh-in period shall be one hour.
UFC 274 kicks off at 5:30 Eastern time, 2:30 Pacific. Oliveira ‘missed weight’ on a questionably calibrated scale with reports covering the mishap as early as 12:27 Pacific.
The Athletic Commission has a lot of discretion of how to conduct weigh ins. They do not have the discretion to overturn a statutorily prescribed timeline.
Unless Arizona is publishing out of date statutes and regulations Oliveira has a real argument that he never missed weight because the State failed to hold a proper weigh in for everybody on the card.
Arizona has some explaining to do.