Jean Silva has been speaking rather a lot forward of his grudge match with Bryce Mitchell and that continued on the scale, regardless of lacking weight.
At Friday’s official UFC 314 weigh-ins, Silva got here in at 147 kilos, 1 pound over the restrict for a non-title bout. He was vocal on the dimensions as he stripped down and weighed in inside a field, seemingly nonetheless fired up for the Mitchell struggle.
Silva arrived on the finish of the preliminary one-hour weigh-in window and may weigh in a second time with clearance from the Florida fee. He sounded decided to take action as he spoke on the scale.
“It’s not over but,” Silva mentioned in Portuguese per MMA Preventing’s Guilherme Cruz. “Don’t you desire a journey of struggling? I’ll make weight. I’ll make this f*cking weight. Bryce Mitchell, I’ll break you. It’s not over, I’ll be again and make weight to (inaudible) you, motherf*cker.”
Additionally eligible for a second weigh-in is Nora Cornolle, who got here in at 138 kilos (two kilos over the non-title restrict) for her bantamweight bout towards Hailey Cowan.
That is the second weight miss for Silva and Cornolle. Silva weighed in at 147.5 kilos for a bout with Charles Jourdain in June 2024 and Cornolle weighed in at 138.5 kilos for a bout with Melissa Mullins in April 2024.
Ought to the bouts proceed as catchweights, it isn’t but identified what share of the offending fighters’ purses will probably be forfeited as penalty.
For the principle occasion, Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes each made 145 kilos as they compete for a vacant featherweight title.
Michael Chandler and Paddy Pimblett additionally efficiently made weight, each coming in at 156 kilos for the five-round, non-title co-main occasion.
See UFC 314 official weigh-in outcomes beneath.
Fundamental card (ESPN+ PPV at 10 p.m. ET)
Alexander Volkanovski (145) vs. Diego Lopes (145)
Michael Chandler (156) vs. Paddy Pimblett (156)
Yair Rodriguez (146) vs. Patricio Pitbull (145)
Bryce Mitchell (146) vs. Jean Silva (147)*
Nikita Krylov (206) vs. Dominick Reyes (206)
Prelims (ESPN/ESPN+/Disney+ at 8 p.m. ET)
Dan Ige (146) vs. Sean Woodson (146)
Yan Xiaonan (116) vs. Virna Jandiroba (116)
Jim Miller (156) vs. Chase Hooper (156)
Darren Elkins (145) vs. Julian Erosa (146)
Early prelims (ESPN+/Disney+ at 6 p.m. ET)
Sedriques Dumas (185) vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk (186)
Sumudaerji (126) vs. Mitch Raposo (126)
Tresean Gore (186) vs. Marco Tulio (186)
Nora Cornolle (138)* vs. Hailey Cowan (136)
*missed weight
