Oh Carolina: Luana's 8-pound miss scraps Mullins fight at UFC London
Melissa Mullins used to struggle to make weight at flyweight. Friday, she missed bantamweight by a whopping eight pounds.
After a massive weight miss Friday, Luana Carolina might be checking her inbox for a pink slip the next few days. Carolina (11-5 MMA, 6-4 UFC) weighed in at 144 pounds for a bantamweight fight against Melissa Mullins (7-2 MMA, 2-2 UFC) that was scheduled to open the card at UFC Fight Night 270 on Saturday at The O2 in London. Mullins weighed in right before her, in tears, and was 136.
The fight was canceled by the UFC following the official weigh-ins due to the eight-pound weight discrepancy, which put it on par with some of the largest weight misses in recent memory. Carolina has a history of issues on the scale. She made the UFC through DWCS as a flyweight, but missed weight the first time in 2021 ahead of a split decision win over Poliana Botelho.
She missed the mark, again at flyweight, in 2024 before she finished Julija Stoliarenko with eight seconds left in their fight. In 2025, though, things came to a head when her fight with Montana De La Rosa was canceled due to Carolina's weight cut and inability to get to the scale. Because of that, she moved from 125 pounds to bantamweight, but had her three-fight winning streak snapped by Michelle Montague.
And with the memory of her canceled fight with De La Rosa at 125 pounds only about a year old, now she has had one canceled at 135 pounds because she weighed in near the featherweight limit, a division the UFC currently does not populate. Mullins now loses the opportunity to open up the show in front of her home fans in England. She was looking to bounce back from a decision loss to Darya Zheleznyakova this past June.