In London, the official weigh-in ceremony for the participants of the UFC 286 tournament took place, the main event of which will be a welterweight title fight between the current division champion Briton Leon Edwards and former belt holder Kamaru Usman representing Nigeria.
The headliners of the event had no problem reaching the championship limit of their weight category, showing exactly 170 pounds (77.1 kg). The same weight was shown by the reserve participant of the title match, the American Colby Covington, whose appearance at the weigh-in was a big surprise.
Participants in the second most important event of the event, lightweights Rafael Fiziev and Justin Gaethje, also successfully coped with the weight race, fixing 156 pounds (70.8 kg) each.
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All weighing results:
Main fights
(C) Leon Edwards (170) – Kamaru Usman (170) – welterweight title fight
Colby Covington (170) – substitute for the title fight
Rafael Fiziev (156) — Justin Gaethje (156)
Brian Barberena (171) – Gunnar Nelson (170)
Jennifer Maya (125) vs. Casey O’Neill (125)
Roman Dolidze (186) — Marvin Vettori (185.5)
Preliminaries
Makvan Amirkhani (146) vs. Jack Shore (146)
Chris Duncan (156) – Omar Morales (156)
Yanal Ashmoz (155) vs. Sam Patterson (155.5)
Zhafel Filho (125.5) — Muhammad Mokaev (126)
Early preliminary bouts
Leron Murphy (145.5) – Gabriel Santos (145.5)
Christian Duncan (185.5) vs. Dusko Todorovic (186)
Malcolm Gordon (129.5)* – Jake Hadley (126)
Luana Carolina (126) vs. Joanne Wood (126)
Jay Herbert (156) – Ludovit Klein (156)
Veronica Macedo (125.5) vs Juliana Miller (125.5)
*Gordon was three and a half pounds over the flyweight limit and will be penalized a percentage of the fee for the fight
The demonstration weigh-in ceremony will take place on March 17 at 21:00 Moscow time:
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/31055-rezultaty-vzveshivaniya-k-ufc-286-kovington-strakhuet-titulnyj-boj.html?rand=19907
