UFC 314 weigh-in results: Jean Silva makes weight after missing on 1st attempt
Jean Silva has been talking a lot ahead of his grudge match with Bryce Mitchell and that continued at the scale, despite missing weight on his first attempt.
At Friday’s official UFC 314 weigh-ins, Silva initially came in at 147 pounds, 1 pound over the limit for a non-title bout. He was vocal on the scale as he stripped down and weighed in inside a box, seemingly still fired up for the Mitchell fight.
Silva arrived at the end of the initial one-hour weigh-in window and was allowed to weigh in a second time with clearance from the Florida commission. He sounded determined to do so as he spoke at the scale.
“It’s not over yet,” Silva said in Portuguese per MMA Fighting’s Guilherme Cruz. “Don’t you want a journey of suffering? I’ll make weight. I’ll make this f*cking weight. Bryce Mitchell, I’ll break you. It’s not over, I’ll be back and make weight to (inaudible) you, motherf*cker.”
Sure enough, Silva returned 40 minutes later and successfully made weight at 146 pounds.
“Brazil, didn’t you want a story of suffering?” Silva said after his second weigh-in. “You’ll have all that. Just watch my channel.”
Nora Cornolle came in at 138 pounds (two pounds over the non-title limit) for her bantamweight bout against Hailey Cowan and was also eligible to weigh in again. However, she came in at 137.5 pounds on her second attempt, still over the limit.
The UFC later announced Cornolle vs. Cowan proceeds at a catchweight with Cornolle forfeiting 20 percent of her purse as penalty.
Weigh-in drama is nothing new for Silva and Cornolle. Silva weighed in at 147.5 pounds for a bout with Charles Jourdain in June 2024 and Cornolle weighed in at 138.5 pounds for a bout with Melissa Mullins in April 2024.
For the main event, Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes both made 145 pounds as they compete for a vacant featherweight title.
Michael Chandler and Paddy Pimblett also successfully made weight, both coming in at 156 pounds for the five-round, non-title co-main event.
See UFC 314 official weigh-in results below.
Main card (ESPN+ PPV at 10 p.m. ET)
Alexander Volkanovski (145) vs. Diego Lopes (145)
Michael Chandler (156) vs. Paddy Pimblett (156)
Yair Rodriguez (146) vs. Patricio Pitbull (145)
Bryce Mitchell (146) vs. Jean Silva (146)
Nikita Krylov (206) vs. Dominick Reyes (206)
Prelims (ESPN/ESPN+/Disney+ at 8 p.m. ET)
Dan Ige (146) vs. Sean Woodson (146)
Yan Xiaonan (116) vs. Virna Jandiroba (116)
Jim Miller (156) vs. Chase Hooper (156)
Darren Elkins (145) vs. Julian Erosa (146)
Early prelims (ESPN+/Disney+ at 6 p.m. ET)
Sedriques Dumas (185) vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk (186)
Sumudaerji (126) vs. Mitch Raposo (126)
Tresean Gore (186) vs. Marco Tulio (186)
Nora Cornolle (137.5)* vs. Hailey Cowan (136)
*Cornolle missed weight. Her bout with Hailey Cowan proceeds at a catchweight with Cornolle forfeiting 20 percent of her purse as penalty.