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A lot just happened today, and the UFC narrowly avoided total disaster for this weekend. With the weight cutting and high-profile fights dropping out, part of our big dumb sport now involves seeing the weigh-ins on mmafighting.com on Friday morning. (instead of the ceremonial weigh-in on TV thats only for show)

7 minutes till the deadline everyone weighed in except one of the strawweights on the PPV (more on her in a minute), and the main event. Both DC and Rumble were waiting to the last moment. The strawweight comes in, they bring out the hoop of shame, she hits 116 and now there's only two left.

DC comes in, with the towel, and steps on the scale with 4 minutes left: 206.2. Holy shit, disaster, the fight's probably off, and the belt can't be contested. With literally 1 minute left DC wants to try again which seems like a stupid waste of time because there's nothing else to take off.

205, everyone cheers, Rumble comes in and weighs in at the deadline 203.8, fight is on. Then they check the tape, and the media noticed that DC pulled off an old weigh-in trick and the commission missed it. DC was pushing down on the towel that was stretched in front of him, he only needed a pound so he didn't have to push hard. The guy running the weigh-ins shrugs, is clueless (or playing dumb), and says everyone made weight, and thats that.

Then the strawweight fight on the PPV card was cancelled. Why? That strawweight who weighed in at the last moment had breast implants (probably disclosed it on a medical form or something?), and New York does not allow them. The UFC is pissed, they get their doctors and lawyers together, look at the regs, and point out the stupid rule is for boxers, and their MMA rules say nothing about implants. Eventually the NYSAC caves in, and that fight is back on as well.