Jason ”Mayhem” Miller var från början tänkt att möta Luke Barnatt under ”Venator FC 3”, men då han missade vikten med närmare 11 kilo fick han istället ta sig an Mattia Schiavolin. Detta hade Miller att säga om varför det blev som det blev, via Chael Sonnens podcast:
The truth is it happened pretty much the day of the weigh-in. The jet lag is one thing I forgot to take into account. Let me just tell the fighters out there in the world, if you’re ever having some jet lag issues and you’re trying to make weight and you’re within about seven pounds of the weight, do not buy a bunch of liters of water and leave them by your bed because you too will step on the scale grossly overweight…
I was pretty light. I was like ‘alright, we’re gonna do this!’ But yeah the jet lag and I bought a bunch of liters of water and when I woke up the next day they were all gone and I was like ’what the fuck did I do? I’m fucked. I just fucked myself’… I feel terrible about it but the truth is it’s been four damn years since I ever had to make weight so I’m not surprised.
I really cleaned up my act and got serious about life again. I just was taking ’Mayhem’ to the far extremes, the far reaches of depravity and now I’m back here into the normal human world.
”Mayhem” förlorade slutligen matchen via submission i andra ronden, något som blev hans tredje raka förlust sedan segern över Kazushi Sakuraba vid Dream 16.
