ABU DHABI – The wrestlers took to the scales at the host hotel on Yas Island prior to the UFC on ESPN 13 with three athletes who were unable to gain weight during an extended session before Wednesday night’s fights.
The main event was made official at the start of the session, with Calvin Kattar and Dan Ige easily weighing in for their featherweight headliner, while the main event between Ryan Benoit and Tim Elliott was also confirmed with both men reaching the mark. fly weight with no problems.
However, there were some weighty errors further down the card. Abdul Razak Alhassan lost the welterweight limit of three pounds for his first card starter against Mounir Lazzez, while Chris Fishgold came three pounds above the featherweight limit for his preliminary card fight against Jared Gordon. Both Alhassan and Fishgold are expected to give up their respective opponents a percentage of their fighting bag.
While two fighters lost their mark on the ladder, Norwegian light heavyweight UFC debut Kenneth Bergh will have to wait for his octagon debut after suffering problems during his weight cut. As a result, his first match of the fight against rookie Jorge González was removed from the card. González, for his part, made weight for the confrontation.
There was a nervous weight for the last fighter, with Welsh middleweight John Phillips taking up almost the entire two-hour window to complete his cut. But, after using the towel, “The Welsh Wrecking Machine” reached the 186-pound median weight limit with a broad smile to block his participation in the night’s preliminary bout against Russia’s Khamzat Chimaev.
Complete UFC weigh-in results on ESPN 13 include:
MAIN CARD (ESPN, ESPN +, 10 pm ET)
Calvin Kattar (146) vs. Dan Ige (145) Ryan Benoit (126) vs. Tim Elliott (125) Jimmie Rivera (145) vs. Cody Stamann (145) Molly McCann (125) vs. Taila Santos (125) Abdul Razak Alhassan (174 * ) against Mounir Lazzez (171)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN, ESPN +, 7 pm ET)
John Phillips (186) vs. Khamzat Chimaev (186) Lerone Murphy (146) vs. Ricardo Ramos (145) Modestas Bukauskas (205) vs. Andreas Michailidis (206) Chris Fishgold (149 *) vs. Jared Gordon (145) Diana Belbita (125) against Liana Jojua (126) Aaron Phillips (135) against Jack Shore (136) Kenneth Bergh (OUT) against Jorge González (205)
* The fighter lost weight and will lose a percentage of his combat bag to his opponent.
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