MMA Community Trashes Paulo Costa For Revealing He Won’t Make Weight Days Before Marvin Vettori Fight

Paulo Costa and Marvin Vettori were all squared to fight in a light heavyweight main event this Saturday. But just one day before weigh in, Costa informed Vettori that he wasn’t going to be able to make weight at 186.

In an extremely bizarre video call, Vettori trolled Costa, explained to him the weigh-in process like he had never done it before, and agreed to fight him at 195.

In a joint interview with @bokamotoESPN, @BorrachinhaMMA and @MarvinVettori agreed to fight at a catchweight of 195 pounds at #UFCVegas41 pic.twitter.com/RMP9TmQedW

— ESPN MMA (@espnmma) October 21, 2021

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After agreeing to fight Marvin Vettori at 195, Paulo Costa once again failed to keep his word. This Saturday’s fight will now be at 205 simply because Costa could not lose the weight that was agreed upon when the fight was scheduled.

The MMA community was unified calling out Costa for his absurd antics.

Just spoke to Hunter Campbell at UFC. The Costa-Vettori fioght is now at 205 pounds. Both fighters have signed deals to fight at that weight. It’s getting ridiculous, but this is Paulo Costa, ladies and gentlemen. Terrible. Terrible. Terrible.

— Kevin Iole (@KevinI) October 22, 2021

Paulo Costa aka Paulo Pasta aka Eating At All Costa showed up to fight week 25lb over weight. Welcome to the Blonde Brunson Cook-Out 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/FrBrKNhvZ6

— Derek Brunson (@DerekBrunson) October 21, 2021

Nah something definitely wrong with Costa 😭 pic.twitter.com/sKHEKYiTCQ

— Full Violence ™ (@Full_Violence) October 21, 2021

Paulo Costa showing up at the weigh ins pic.twitter.com/5UvzvagP6W

— Gilbert Dorito 🇧🇷 (@GilbertDorito) October 20, 2021

I'm still not over the fact that Costa told Vettori "be a man, show up Saturday and don't make excuses" pic.twitter.com/ROuTwuLDm2

— 𝕽𝖆𝖎𝖓𝖒𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖗❂ (@EagIeSZN__) October 21, 2021

Paulo Costa on his weigh to the weigh in like: pic.twitter.com/La6nM5lAmY

— n d (@NakulDhull) October 22, 2021

Paulo Costa’s explanation for why he was unable to fight Marvin Vettori at the 186 weight made no sense. And he has now embarrassed himself throughout this entire process.

During the weigh in, Vettori made sure to throw some extra shade at Costa for his inability to come in anywhere near the agreed upon weight.

Marvin Vettori was HEATED at Paulo Costa during the final faceoff, offering the double birds and multiple curse words.#UFCVegas41 | Full story: https://t.co/VGTx4u7xfk pic.twitter.com/QILmf5JAZB

— MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) October 22, 2021

Paulo Costa and Marvin Vettori will remain the Main Event on Saturday night despite the unique circumstances.

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