UFC Vegas 22: Julija Stoliarenko fainted twice on the scale bout with Julia Avila canceled


UFC Vegas 22: Julija Stoliarenko fainted twice on the scale bout with Julia Avila canceled

Julija Stoliarenko

The former Invicta FC women’s bantamweight champion Julija Stoliarenko was booked to face Julia Avila in the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 22. But this fight has been canceled after Julija Stoliarenko fainted on the weight scale.

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We’ve seen many times fighters doing brutal weight cuts and their struggle behind the scale this was one of them. Julija Stoliarenko fainted twice on the weight scale while giving weight at UFC Vegas 22’s weigh-ins.

When Stoliarenko fainted the first time she almost falls behind the scale. She came back and made the weight on the bantamweight limit but she also fainted the second time after giving the weight.

After that she has been taken out of the facility on a stretcher and the officials called off this fight.

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Julia Avila wished Julija Stoliarenko speedy recover

After this miserable event of a weight cut and fight getting canceled, Julia Avila wished her opponent a speedy recovery with her tweet which says,

“Speedy recovery fellow Julia. Your health comes first, hopefully we see each other at another date. Prayers sister.”

This isn’t the first time we have seen brutal weight cuts by the UFC fighter. Time to introduce more weight categories for women in UFC?

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