UFC 251 weigh-in results: Usman, Masvidal cleared for title fight
Kamaru Usman and Jorge Masvidal made weight Friday morning ahead of their welterweight title fight in the UFC 251 main event Saturday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
The champion and challenger both tipped the scale at 170 pounds.
Also on the mark were featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and former champ Max Holloway, who will meet for the second time in the co-headliner. Both fighters weighed in at 145 pounds.
Here are the UFC 251 weigh-in results:
Main card (ESPN+ PPV at 10 p.m. ET)
Kamaru Usman (170) vs. Jorge Masvidal (170)
Alexander Volkanovski (145) vs. Max Holloway (145)
Petr Yan (135) vs. Jose Aldo (135)
Rose Namajunas (116) vs. Jessica Andrade (115)
Amanda Ribas (126) vs. Paige VanZant (126)
Preliminary card (ESPN at 8 p.m. ET)
Volkan Oezdemir (205.5) vs. Jiri Prochazka (205)
Muslim Salikhov (171) vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (171)
Makwan Amirkhani (146) vs. Danny Henry (146)
Leonardo Santos (156) vs. Roman Bogatov (155.5)
Early preliminary card (ESPN+ at 6 p.m. ET)
Marcin Tybura (252) vs. Maxim Grishin (223)
Raulian Paiva (129)* vs. Zhalgas Zhumagulov (126)
Karol Rosa (136) vs. Vanessa Melo (141)**
Martin Day (136) vs. Davey Grant (136)
*Missed flyweight limit by three pounds, fined 20% of purse, according to MMA Fighting's Guilherme Cruz
**Missed women's bantamweight limit by five pounds, fined 30% of purse, according to Cruz
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