UFC 206: Anthony Pettis misses weight in another blow for Toronto's main card

The headline fight will be at a catchweight after Pettis came in three pounds over the 145lbs limit

Pettis will not be able to win the vacant men's featherweight title on Saturday (Getty)

If Daniel Cormier’s injury wasn’t enough to shake up UFC 206 on Friday morning, the weigh-in scale caused another major shift to the main event.

Anthony Pettis was scheduled to fight Max Holloway for the interim featherweight title after a series of events that included Conor McGregor being stripped of his 145-pound belt. For his second appearance at the featherweight limit, Pettis’ first fight of the weekend didn’t take place inside the Octagon, but rather on the scales.

The two-hour window to weigh-in began at 9.00am local time in Toronto. At around 10, with only a few fighters remaining to hit their official weight, Pettis was rumored to be coming in heavy, and would not hit the 145-pound limit for his title fight against Holloway.

At half-past, Pettis took to the scale and from the moment he stepped through the curtain you could tell something was up. Weighing in at 148-pounds, Pettis was three pounds over the limit. For title fights, there is no one-pound allowance, which causes a massive issue with the main event.

Dana White later appeared on the Canadian TV station TSN and stated that the Holloway vs Pettis fight would still go ahead, but that Holloway was the only fighter who could win the interim UFC feathereight world title. White also confirmed that all fighters that missed weight would be deducted 20 per cent of their fight purse.

Pettis wasn't the only fighter to have problems though. Women's strawweight fighter Valerie Letourneau tipped the scales, 1.5-pounds over the 115-pounds strawweight limit.

Russian lightweight, Rustam Khabilov was another to have problems as he weighed in 2.5-pounds over the 155-pounds light weight limit.

UFC 206 weigh-in results

Main card

#2 Max Holloway (145) vs. #5 Anthony Pettis (148)

#5 Donald Cerrone (170.5) vs. #14 Matt Brown (171)

#4 Cub Swanson (146) vs. #11 Dooho Choi (145.5)

#10 Tim Kennedy (186) vs. Kelvin Gastelum (185)

Jordan Mein (170) vs. Emil Meek (170.5)

Preliminaries

#8 Nikita Krylov (206) vs. #13 Misha Cirkunov (205)

Olivier Aubin-Mercier (156) vs. Drew Dober (156)

#9 Valerie Letourneau (117.5) vs. Viviane Pereira (114)

Mitch Gagnon (135.5) vs. Matthew Lopez (136)

Early preliminaries

John Makdessi (155) vs. Lando Vanatta (156)

Jason Saggo (155) vs. Rustam Khabilov (158.5)

#7 Zach Makovsky (125) vs. #11 Dustin Ortiz (125)