UFC Vegas 122 Weight Misses Require a Fresh Card Check

Three UFC Vegas 122 fighters missed their limits at Friday's official weigh ins. Ismael Bonfim weighed 163.5 pounds, which is 7.5 pounds over the 156 pound lightweight limit. Ketlen Souza weighed 117 pounds against a 116 pound strawweight limit, and Brendson Ribeiro weighed 208.5 pounds against a 206 pound light heavyweight limit [1] [2]. UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Duncan is scheduled for Saturday, October 10, at Meta APEX in Las Vegas. The prelims begin at 5 p.m. ET and the main card begins at 8 p.m. ET [1] [3]. The three misses and their official figures Souza's scale reading was one pound above the strawweight limit. Her opponent, Loopy Godinez, weighed 115.5 pounds. UFC says Souza will forfeit 20 percent of her purse to Godinez [1]. The information establishes the reading, the division limit, the opponent's weight and the UFC stated forfeiture. It does not establish a performance effect for the fight. Bonfim's 163.5 pound reading is the largest miss on the card. The relevant excess is 7.5 pounds, calculated from the 156 pound lightweight limit. Francisco Prado weighed 155 pounds, so the difference between the two fighters on the scale was 8.5 pounds. Those are separate figures and should not be treated as the same measure. UFC says Bonfim will forfeit 25 percent of his purse to Prado [1]. MMA Fighting independently reported the 7.5 pound excess on Friday [2]. Ribeiro weighed 208.5 pounds, or 2.5 pounds above the 206 pound light heavyweight limit. Felipe Franco weighed 205 pounds. UFC says Ribeiro will forfeit 20 percent of his purse to Franco [1]. Three listed forfeitures and three readings are confirmed. The reports do not turn those facts into a conclusion about how any of the bouts will unfold. Allen and Duncan cleared the main event The five round middleweight main event has no documented scale issue in the UFC report. Brendan Allen weighed 186 pounds and Christian Leroy Duncan weighed 185 pounds, with both making weight [1]. The main event is scheduled for five rounds, while the other bouts are scheduled for three rounds [1]. That distinction matters for a card review. The Allen Duncan matchup begins from a confirmed pair of successful weigh ins, while the Souza Godinez, Bonfim Prado and Ribeiro Franco matchups require readers to recognize the listed misses and forfeitures. It does not make the main event a prediction or create a comparison of competitive advantage. It simply separates the documented scale record for the headliner from the record for the three affected fights. The UFC event page lists the October 10 card in Las Vegas, and the official weigh in report still lists the affected matchups alongside the fines [1] [3]. Neither source expressly says that a commission approved a catchweight agreement. MMA Fighting reported that acceptance of the Prado Bonfim bout at catchweight had not been confirmed when its report was published [2]. A bout listing should therefore be read as a listing, not as proof of a commission decision or an agreed catchweight. A pre fight check for the affected bouts Readers tracking the card can use a simple sequence before relying on any affected bout. Check the latest UFC card listing and the relevant commission status after the official weigh ins. Then read the published rules of the operator holding a ticket if the bout details have changed. The scale report alone cannot supply a settlement outcome under a particular operator's rules. Keep the three questions separate. The first is the official scale result. The second is the current status of the bout. The third is how a specific operator's published rules handle a ticket if there is a change. Combining them can turn a confirmed weigh in fact into an unsupported claim about a commission decision or wager treatment. The sources also do not support a current price, a price change or a favorite label. The UFC event page displays figures labeled UFC odds, but it does not identify a provider or a time for those figures [3]. No price is used here. The reports also provide no diagnosis, performance measurement or result. A missed limit is relevant information for a card check, but it is not evidence of a winner or a certain competitive effect. SBA Takeaway Bonfim's 7.5 pound excess is the largest verified miss at UFC Vegas 122, while Souza and Ribeiro were one pound and 2.5 pounds over their respective limits [1] [2]. UFC states forfeitures for all three fighters and continues to list the matchups. The careful next step is to verify the live bout status and read the applicable operator rules before treating the scale results as more than they are. Allen and Duncan made weight for the five round main event, which has no reported weigh in complication [1]. Sources - [1] Official Weigh In Results | UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Duncan - [2] UFC Vegas 122 weigh in results: Fighter misses weight by over 7 pounds - [3] UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Duncan Related Reading - UFC 332: Green vs. Ribovics Reported for Catchweight After Scale Miss - UFC 332: Eleven Knockouts, Favorites Went 12-1 - DraftKings Field Test: Set Your Limits First