The official weigh-in ceremony for the participants of the Bellator 297 tournament took place in Chicago, the main event of which will be the light heavyweight title fight between Vadim Nemkov and Yoel Romero.
The headliners of the event successfully coped with the procedure – the Russian showed 92.4 kg (203.8 pounds), and the Cuban managed exactly 93 kg (205 pounds).
Competitors in the second most important bout, which will be a super bantamweight title fight between reigning division champion Sergio Pettis and Bellator featherweight title holder Patricio Freire, also had no trouble hitting the championship limit, recording 60.8 kg (134 lbs) and 60.9 kg (134.2 lb), respectively.
All weighing results:
Main fights
(W) Vadim Nemkov (203.8) vs. Yoel Romero (205) – light heavyweight title fight
(W) Sergio Pettis (134) – Patricio Freire (134.2) – bantamweight title fight
Corey Anderson (205) – Phil Davis (206)
Daniel James (265) – Gokhan Sarikam (246)
Preliminaries
Vladimir Gouvea (264) — Gabriel Sayegh (261)
Kyle Crutchmer (171) vs. Bobby Nash (171)
Peter Buist (156) — Gadzhi Rabadanov (156)
Ramazan Kuramagomedov (170) vs. Jalil Willis (171)
Mike Hamil (155) — Shamil Nikaev (156)
Norbert Noveny (185) vs. Kamil Onischuk (186)
Archie Colgan (155) vs. Emmanuel Sanchez (155)
Carl Moore (205) — Alex Polizzi (204)
Timur Khizriev (145) — Richie Smullen (145)
Jordan Newman (186) vs Matthew Perry (184)
Edwin Chavez (146) – Cody Lowe (145)
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/31827-vadim-nemkov-i-joel-romero-sdelali-ves-pered-turnirom-bellator-297.html?rand=19907
