Two miss weight ahead of PFL regular season opener

The full fight card was made official for the PFL’s global season curtain-raiser in San Antonio, Texas, but the weigh-in session didn’t pass off without a couple of misses on the scale.

The men’s heavyweight and women’s flyweight divisions step into the spotlight for the first PFL global show of the year, and the entire main card all made weight without drama, including the heavyweight main event bout between former champion Ante Delija and former interim Bellator champion Valentin Moldavsky, who arrived on the scale at 244 and 237.4 pounds, respectively.

However, there were two notable weight misses on the preliminary card, with heavyweight Daniel James unable to get down to the maximum allowable weight for a heavyweight matchup. James tipped the scale at 267 pounds, one pound over the heavyweight limit.

Also missing the mark on the scale was women’s flyweight hopeful Shanna Young, who missed the 126-pound limit by a significant margin, coming in at 128.6 pounds for her regular season bout with Kana Watanabe.

In both cases, the fighters that missed weight forfeited 20 percent of their fight purse to their respective opponents, and also received one-point penalties to their total league points. However, they can earn league points based on the outcomes of their respective bouts.

Check out the full list of official weights below.

PFL 1: Official weigh-in results

MAIN CARD

• Ante Delija (244) vs. Valentin Moldavsky (237.4) – heavyweight season
• Denis Goltsov (245.4) vs. Linton Vassell (240.8) – heavyweight season
• Liz Carmouche (126) vs. Juliana Velasquez (125.2) – women’s flyweight season
• Dakota Ditcheva (125.) vs. Lisa Mauldin (125.8) – women’s flyweight season

PRELIMINARY CARD

• Marcelo Golm (264.4) vs. Daniel James (267*) – heavyweight season
• Blagoy Ivanov (257.2) vs. Sergey Bilostenniy (248.4) – heavyweight season
• Taila Santos (126) vs. Ilara Joanne (126) – women’s flyweight season
• Steve Mowry (257.6) vs. Oleg Popov (242.2) – heavyweight season
• Kana Watanabe (125) vs. Shanna Young (128.6*) – women’s flyweight season
• Chelsea Hackett (125.4) vs. Jena Bishop (125.6) – women’s flyweight season
• Lucas Brennan (145.5) vs. Dimitre Ivy (146) – featherweight showcase
• Bryce Meredith (135.8) vs. Ty Johnson (135.6) – bantamweight showcase