Three catchweights for tonight's UFC Vegas 122, Musumeci vacates the UFC BJJ title, and prices for UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Duncan, Saturday, Oct. 10.
Middleweight champion Sean Strickland said he will not fight or sign a contract until his pay situation is resolved, MMA Fighting reported Friday. "I will not fight or sign any contract until I get this figured out," Strickland wrote on social media. "Hopefully we get it figured out soon." MMA Fighting said he has complained about fighter pay since September amid negotiations for a title defense against Nassourdine Imavov, and that on Wednesday he wrote he was contemplating going to 205 pounds, fighting out his contract and facing Jake Paul. The UFC has not commented in anything we read and has not announced a title fight.
The UFC confirmed catchweights for three UFC Vegas 122 bouts after weigh-in misses: Ismael Bonfim (163.5) vs. Francisco Prado (155), with Bonfim forfeiting a quarter of his purse; Ketlen Souza (117) vs. Loopy Godinez (115.5) and Brendson Ribeiro (208.5) vs. Felipe Franco (205), with Souza and Ribeiro each forfeiting a fifth. MMA Fighting said it is Bonfim's third miss in his UFC run. Allen and Duncan made weight.
Mikey Musumeci has vacated the UFC BJJ bantamweight title to focus on MMA, according to his own statement carried by MMA Fighting. "I am 30 years old and have been obsessed with training MMA and want to prioritize my training for MMA," he wrote, adding that he will keep doing UFC BJJ super fights. The vacant belt will be contested in the main event of UFC BJJ 13 on Oct. 29, Jalen Fonacier vs. Kleber Barboza. Only MMA Fighting carried it in our corpus; the source is Musumeci's own statement.
Sean Strickland signed a new six-fight UFC deal before he challenged for the title at UFC 328 and earns more than a million dollars per bout, Bloody Elbow reported, citing MMA Junkie's Mike Bohn on Bohn's own channel, who named unidentified sources. Bohn also said a widely shared post claiming Strickland earns $400,000 to show and $400,000 to win is false. We searched for a second outlet and found none, and we could not open Bohn's channel. Strickland has not confirmed these terms in anything we read.
Next card: UFC Fight Night: Allen vs. Duncan, Meta APEX, Las Vegas, tonight, Saturday, Oct. 10. Prelims 10 p.m. UK Saturday on UFC Fight Pass; main card 1 a.m. UK Sunday, Oct. 11 on TNT Sports (UFC.com event page, fetched Oct. 10; early prelims time not read). Main event: Brendan Allen vs. Christian Leroy Duncan, middleweight. Co-main event: Jai Herbert vs. Matheus Camilo, lightweight.
Weigh-ins Friday: Allen (186) and Duncan (185) made weight. Ketlen Souza (117, one pound over strawweight), Brendson Ribeiro (208.5, 2.5 over light heavyweight) and Ismael Bonfim (163.5 against a 156 lightweight limit) missed. Each bout goes ahead at a catchweight; the UFC said Bonfim forfeits a quarter of his purse and Souza and Ribeiro a fifth each (MMA Fighting, Bloody Elbow). Souza vs. Godinez is on the main card.
Prices, main card, decimal with American in brackets, from BestFightOdds. Opening is the first sportsbook price our archive holds (Oct. 2, 15:53 UTC); current is the best sportsbook price in the 01:53 UTC Oct. 10 snapshot, book named. Prices only, not betting advice.
The Souza-Godinez price is unchanged from before the catchweight was announced; we did not check whether books have repriced it.
For FightIQ's read on each fight, see the UFC Fight Night Allen vs. Duncan card page.
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