UPDATED: Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller 24 Pounds Overweight For Venator FC 3 Fight

UPDATE: According to , Jason Miller is officially out of his scheduled Venator FC 3 middleweight title bout with Luke Barnatt. Barnatt (10-3) will now face Stefan Croitoru (6-1-1) for he title. Mattia Schiavolin (12-2-2), Croitoru’s original opponent, is interested in taking the fight with Miller to stay on the card.

ORIGINAL: Venator FC took a lot of heat for booking Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller for the Venator FC 3 event, and Venator FC President and co-founder Frank Merenda actually defended the fight on social media and in interviews. Miller’s opponent Luke Barnatt never expected Miller to make the fight. Miller did arrive and make the weigh ins for the show, but did not make weight for his middleweight (185 pounds) bout, as he weighed in at 209 pounds, 24 pounds overweight. MMAjunkie’s John Morgan posted the following on Twitter..

Looks like this fight will be called off. Told there may be a replacement opponent in the wings.

— John Morgan (@MMAjunkieJohn) May 20, 2016

Seems like Barnatt's team may be willing to allow Mayhem to try and cut and make it a light heavyweight bout, but nothing agreed yet.

— John Morgan (@MMAjunkieJohn) May 20, 2016

Asked Barnatt yesterday what he’d do if Mayhem was 5 pounds over. Said he’d take half his purse, fight anyway. I didn’t set bar high enough.

— John Morgan (@MMAjunkieJohn) May 20, 2016

Barnatt offering to allow another middleweight on card to challenge for title, let opponent fight Mayhem at 205. Still up in air.

— John Morgan (@MMAjunkieJohn) May 20, 2016