Las Vegas hosted the official weigh-in ceremony for UFC 296, the main event of which will be a welterweight title fight between Britain’s Leon Edwards and American Colby Covington.
The event headliners had no trouble hitting the championship limit of their weight class, with Edwards recording a 77.11 kg (170 lbs.) and Covington posting a 76.88 kg (169.5 lbs.).
Participants in the flyweight title fight, Allesandre Pantoja and Brandon Royval, also made weight successfully, making weight at 56.7 kg (125 lbs.) and 56.47 kg (124.5 lbs.), respectively.
All weigh-in results:
Main fights
(C) Leon Edwards (170) – Colby Covington (169.5) – welterweight title fight
(C) Alexandre Pantoja (125) – Brandon Royval (124.5) – flyweight title fight
Shavkat Rakhmonov (171) – Stephen Thompson (171)
Tony Ferguson (155.5) – Paddy Pimblett (155.5)
Josh Emmett (146) – Bryce Mitchell (145.5)
Preliminary bouts
Dustin Jacoby (204.5) – Alonzo Menifield (204.5)
Irene Aldana () – Carol Rosa (135.5)
Cody Garbrandt (136) – Brian Kelleher (136)
Ariani Lipsky (126) – Casey O’Neill (125)
Early prelim fights
Cody Durden (126) – Tagir Ulanbekov (126)
Lucas Almeida (146) – Andre Fili (145.5)
Martin Budaj (264.5) – Shamil Gaziev (259.5)
The show weigh-in ceremony will take place on December 16 at 3:00 Moscow time:
Source: https://fighttime.ru/news/item/33412-rezultaty-vzveshivaniya-k-ufc-296-edvards-i-kovington-sdelali-ves.html?rand=19907
