UFC 303 is official, following Friday morning’s official weigh-in— which did not exactly go off without a hitch.
Before the first fighter had even hit the scales, UFC play-by-play man and weigh-in host Jon Anik announced that the card’s co-main event, a planned featherweight fight between Brian Ortega and Diego Lopes, had shifted to lightweight. Lopes hit the scales early, Ortega much later in the weigh-in window, but both made weight.
In fairness, the fight was hastily cobbled together on short notice to shore up the event, in the wake of Conor McGregor withdrawing due to injury.
Jean Silva, meanwhile, was the only athlete to miss weight on Friday, coming in 1.5lbs heavy for his featherweight fight with Charles Jourdain.
Full results and highlights from Friday’s official and ceremonial weigh-ins can be found below.
UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2 Weigh-In Results
Main Card
Light Heavyweight: Alex Pereira (c) (204.5) vs. Jiří Procházka (204.5) – for the UFC light heavyweight championship
Lightweight: Brian Ortega (155) vs. Diego Lopes (155)
Light Heavyweight: Anthony Smith (206) vs. Roman Dolidze (205)
Women’s Bantamweight: Mayra Bueno Silva (136) vs. Macy Chiasson (135.5)
Welterweight: Ian Machado Garry (170) vs. Michael Page (171)
Preliminary card
Middleweight: Joe Pyfer (185.5) vs. Marc-André Barriault (185)
Featherweight: Cub Swanson (146) vs. Andre Fili (145.5)
Featherweight: Charles Jourdain (146) vs. Jean Silva (147.5)*
Bantamweight: Payton Talbott (135.5) vs. Yanis Ghemmouri (136)
Early preliminary card
Women’s Strawweight: Michelle Waterson-Gomez (115.5) vs. Gillian Robertson (116)
Heavyweight: Andrei Arlovski (245) vs. Martin Buday (264.5)
Flyweight: Rei Tsuruya (125.5) vs. Carlos Hernandez (125)
Bantamweight: Ricky Simón (136) vs. Vinicius Oliveira (136)
* Silva weighed in 1.5lbs over the featherweight non-title limit for his fight with Charles Jourdain. Silva will be fined 20% of his purse, bout moves forward at a catchweight.
