Not only did Jessica Eye take a loss at UFC Vegas 2, after the event, Cynthia Calvillo accused of her cheating at Friday’s weigh-ins.

Calvillo alleges Eye cheated on the scales

Eye faced Calvillo in the headliner of Saturday’s card, in which also marked the latter’s UFC flyweight debut. Heading into the fight, Eye opined that her size and power would be too much for Calvillo.

But, Calvillo ended up outscoring the top contender with her striking and wrestling, en route to a decision win.

On Friday, Eye tipped the scales at 126.25, so officially, she missed weight by .25 of a pound. But, while speaking to the media after her big win, Calvillo alleged the following (quotes via MMA Fighting).

“I knew she was going to be huge,” Calvillo said. “She had missed weight, and to be honest, she didn’t miss weight by .2 – she actually missed weight by a lot more, but she held on to the towel when she got on the scale.

“I know this because we received a text message from her coach letting us know she was going to miss weight by 3.5 pounds, not .2.

But when she showed up, she held the towel and got away with it. That’s why she was so proud after she weighed in, and so happy.

She’s like, ‘Oh, I only missed by .2 pounds’ – no. So she went into this fight a lot heavier than I did.

So not only did I move up a weight class, I got somebody that was a bantamweight, not fighting as a flyweight.”

So, it will be interesting to see whether Eye comments on this.

Calvillo understands she’s missed weight too

The reason Calvillo moved up to 125 from 115, is because she had repeated issues making weight in the strawweight division. So, while discussing Eye’s miss on Friday, Calvillo said this.

“I’m a fighter. I’ve missed weight before, too, and everybody accepted the fight. It’s all about how you carry yourself, too, outside when you miss weight.

When I missed weight, I locked myself in the hotel and I freakin’ cried for a few hours. I wasn’t running around f*cking smiling – sorry excuse my language – but I wasn’t like smiling and blah, blah, blah.

So it was definitely a different demeanor, but I knew I needed to put that behind me.

“At the end of the day, I like Jessica. But just the way that whole ordeal with the weight happened, it wasn’t cool. But I knew it was my job and I was going to show up.”

All the talk about weight aside, at the end of the day, Calvillo has jumped right into title content at flyweight. Heading into UFC Vegas 2, Eye was ranked #1 in the division.

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