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Jessica Eye never has been shy about voicing her opinions, so it shouldn’t be all that surprising she would have thoughts in a situation that involves not only her division – but someone with whom she has history.

The situation in question is Sijara Eubanks’ weight miss Friday before UFC 230.

Eubanks wasn’t the only one to miss the mark during this morning’s weigh-ins in New York, as Brian Kelleher also missed the bantamweight limit for a preliminary-card meeting with Montel Jackson. Still, given the circumstances, it was Eubanks’ 1.2-pound miss for a flyweight clash with Roxanne Modafferi that made waves.

Eubanks originally was supposed to headline Saturday’s card against Valentina Shevchenko in a bid for the vacant women’s flyweight title. When that bout was scrapped in favor of Shevchenko vs. Joanna Jedrzejczyk, “Sarj” made her disgruntled feelings known. It was an understandable position then, but it backfired this morning.

It didn’t help Eubanks’ cause that she’d had trouble with the scale before. As a finalist of “The Ultimate Fighter 26,” Eubanks was supposed to fight Nicco Montano for the division’s inaugural title, but a botched weight cut landed her in the hospital and out of the fight. Modafferi stepped in and lost to Montano, who was later stripped.

The repeat offense, along with Eubanks’ (3-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) first response to it, didn’t sit well with some of her peers. That includes Eye (13-6 MMA, 3-5 UFC), who voiced her thoughts in two separate videos posted to Twitter.

Thank goodness @BulletValentina dodged a bullet on that one. Way to go @SarJnCharge spectacular job as always making weight.😂 pic.twitter.com/zdbI85hMYs — Jessica Eye (@jessicaevileye) November 2, 2018

“All that mean-mugging really don’t mean nothing when you can’t make weight. I mean, come on, ‘Sarj.’ You couldn’t put your foot in your mouth any more than you ever have and you did today. Learn to be a professional. You’ll get the fights that you want and you feel you deserve when you make weight. Just like the rest of us.”

Making weight is hard but it is a part of the job description. I hold myself to high standard I would be disgusted with myself if I missed weight and it wasn’t a medical reason . pic.twitter.com/6RCbpDeKY5 — Jessica Eye (@jessicaevileye) November 2, 2018

“Nobody said making weight is easy, right? But we all know about the fights well ahead of time. We can talk with the UFC if it’s a short-notice fight about an agreed-upon weight. But just as you would treat yourself like a fight camp, and you have scheduled training days and you have a regimen that hopefully is going to keep you at peak performance on fight day – why wouldn’t you treat nutrition the same way? It’s up to us as an athlete to make sure our body stays fueling properly. We get that choice. “And we’re the one making the food choices. And if you’re having a hard time making those food choices, we have so many people out there available to us, to help us with nutrition. So missing weight is a matter of ignorance and just not caring, in my opinion.”

Eye was, herself, linked to a fight with Eubanks for a while. The two were reportedly supposed to meet at UFC 232 in December, until Eubanks was placed in the title meeting with Shevchenko. Eye was not happy with Eubanks and made that much crystal clear at the time.

The ways things have unfolded, though, can favor Eye.

She’s now set to meet Katlyn Chookagian at UFC 231 – which happens to be the same card in which Shevchenko and Jedrzejczyk are fighting. While an emphatic win by Eubanks over “Roxy” could have stamped her ticket to a title shot, the weight miss might have increased Eye’s own chances of fighting for a belt with a win.

UFC 230 takes place Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass.

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