In New York, the official weigh-in ceremony for the participants of the UFC 281 tournament took place, the main events of which will be the title confrontation in the middle and first flyweight divisions.
All title fights remain in force, as their participants have successfully kept within the championship limit of their weight categories.
The only thing that made his fans nervous was Alex Pereira, who stood on the scales five minutes before the end of the procedure and made weight with a small margin using the screen.
All weighing results:
Main fights
(W) Israel Adesanya (185) vs. Alex Pereira (184.6) – middleweight title fight
(W) Carla Esparza (114.8) – Weili Zhang (114.8) – world title fight in the first flyweight division
Michael Chandler (155.8) vs. Dustin Poirier (156)
Frankie Edgar (135.6) vs. Chris Gutierrez (136)
Dan Hooker (155.8) – Claudio Puelles (155.2)
Preliminaries
Renato Moicano (155.8) vs. Brad Riddell (155.6)
Dominic Reyes (205.4) – Ryan Spann (206.6)*
Erin Blanchfield (125) – Molly McCann (125.4)
Andre Petroski (185.8) – Wellington Thurman (185.2)
Early preliminary bouts
Ottman Azeitar (155.6) – Matt Frevola (154.8)
Silvana Gomez Juarez (115.6) – Karolina Kowalkiewicz (115.6)
Sen Wu Choi (145.6) vs. Michael Trizano (147.6)**
Julio Arce (135.8) – Montel Jackson (135.8)
Nicolae Negumereanu (206) vs. Carlos Ullberg (205.2)
*Spann exceeded the light heavyweight limit by 0.6 lbs.
**Trisano exceeded the featherweight limit by 1.6 pounds
The demonstration weigh-in ceremony will take place on November 12 at 00:00 Moscow time:
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/29978-rezultaty-vzveshivaniya-k-ufc-281-perejra-v-poslednij-moment-sdelal-ves.html?rand=19907
