Charles Oliveira Stripped of UFC Title After Missing Weight for Justin Gaethje Fight

The UFC's main event lost some of its luster after Charles Oliveira failed to make weight.

According to a UFC official, the lightweight title is now vacant and only Justin Gaethje will be eligible to win it.

The title was taken away from him after he weighed in at 155.5 pounds. He was given an extra hour to lose half-pound, but he was not able to do so.

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UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira missed the 155-lb weight limit by half a pound at UFC 274 weigh-ins.

He has less than an hour to cut the half pound for his bout vs. Justin Gaethje to remain a title fight. pic.twitter.com/kr9k9kgeOr

He was going to make weight, he said on the social networking site.

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In his mixed martial arts career, he has had weight-cutting issues. This is the fifth time the Brazilian star has been unable to make the weight.

In 2010 the UFC signed Oliveira after he went 12-0 in various promotions around the world. He went winless in his next three fights after winning his first two as a lightweight. He had a win overturned after officials determined he hit a man with an illegal knee.

Following that three-fight stretch, Oliveira moved down to the lightest weight in an attempt to revive his career. He missed weight four times in a 10-fight span from 2012-16.

The most egregious happened in November of 2016 before the fight against Lamas. The weight of the man was nine pounds over the limit.

Lamas was fined 30 percent of his purse for agreeing to go ahead with the bout. The bout was won by Lamas with a guillotine choke.

After the debacle, he moved up to lightweight. This is the first time he has missed the weight limit in this division. He has won 10 consecutive fights dating back to the beginning of the year, and he won the lightweight title for the first time in his career at UFC 262.

The championship was defended in December by Oliveira.

This is the first time since 2016 that a UFC fighter has failed to make weight. Anthony Pettis was ruled ineligible to win the interim title because he was over the weight. He was defeated by Max Holloway in the UFC 206 main event.

In the finale of The Ultimate Fighter, Nicco Montano defeated Roxanne Modafferi to win the women's flyweight title. She was stripped of the title nine months later because of weight-cutting issues that resulted in her being taken to the hospital.

The first reigning champion to miss weight before a title fight in the history of the UFC.