Report: Cyborg's weight limit depends on contract

Cris Cyborg may have caught a break in the latest of her notoriously excruciating weight cuts.

After telling Brian Stann she'd have no choice but to make 140 pounds before Saturday's main-event bout with Lina Lansberg in Brazil, Cyborg slightly backpedaled on her claim in a media scrum Thursday.

"I don’t know, we haven’t received any message saying that we could (weigh in at 141). Nobody told us before," Cyborg said, according to MMAFighting's Guilherme Cruz. "We’re waiting. If we have it, it will be welcome. Lina said in an interview that she’d fight me at 145, that she wouldn’t have any problem with that."

As per UFC custom, fighters are allowed to weigh as much as one pound over the limit for any non-title bout, but since the fight is being contested at a catchweight as a opposed to an existing weight class, Cyborg could be deemed an exception. Cristiano Sampaio, an official for the Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission, said Cyborg could weigh in at 141 pounds as long as her UFC contract did not decree otherwise.

"Maybe that’s in her contract," Sampaio said. "Since it’s a catchweight you can set that up previously. The (CABMMA) rule states that a non-title fight in a regular division has that tolerance. It’s not her case (since it’s a catchweight). For us, 141 pounds is valid until we’re told by the UFC that there’s such clause. In Curitiba (at UFC 198), there was a tolerance."

UFC Fight Night 95's official weigh-ins are scheduled for Friday morning.