Yes, fighters in town for the event woke up to snow (or some mix of that and freezing rain), a shock to the system from anyone flying in out of Vegas, or who was at last weekend’s UFC 327 in Miami.

With nine Canadians on the card, the home “town” crew so to speak were no doubt prepared. All nine made weight easily, with Melissa Croden the last of the bunch to weigh in. The very last fighter overall to hit the scales, meanwhile, was John Castaneda. His fight with Mark Vologdin was shifted to a 139lb catchweight ahead of the morning weigh-in session, with struggles during one fighter’s weight cut the culprit, sources told Cageside Press on Friday.

Still, no official misses, though the card is down one fight after Mitch Raposo fell ill ahead of his fight with Allan Nascimento. That flyweight bout has shifted to June.

Results from Friday’s UFC Winnipeg weigh-ins plus photo and video highlights can be found below!

UFC Winnipeg: Burns vs. Malott Weigh-In Results

Main card

Welterweight: Gilbert Burns (171) vs. Mike Malott (171)
Bantamweight: Kyler Phillips (135) vs. Charles Jourdain (136)
Lightweight: Mandel Nallo (155.5) vs. Jai Herbert (155.5)
Women’s Flyweight: Jasmine Jasudavicius (125) vs. Karine Silva (125.5)
Lightweight: Thiago Moisés (156) vs. Gauge Young (155.5)
Featherweight: Dennis Buzukja (145.5) vs. Márcio Barbosa (145)

Preliminary card

Middleweight: Julien Leblanc (185.5) vs. Robert Valentin (186)
Heavyweight: Tanner Boser (244.5) vs. Gökhan Saricam (244.5)
Women’s Bantamweight: Melissa Croden (135.5) vs. Darya Zheleznyakova (136)
Women’s Flyweight: JJ Aldrich (125.5) vs. Jamey-Lyn Horth (126)
139lb Catchweight: John Castañeda (139) vs. Mark Vologdin (138.5)
Bantamweight: Jamie Siraj (136) vs. John Yannis (136)

UFC Winnipeg Official Weigh-In

UFC Winnipeg Ceremonial Weigh-In

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They are both, in essence, champion versus champion fights, with the caveat that both Makhachev and Zhang were forced to give up their existing belts to pursue opportunities in new weight classes. That’s the reality of the UFC as it heads into the Paramount+ era. It seems the promotion is done with stars holding up divisions, and as much as double-champs could be fun, it’s hard to blame them.

Still, it’s something of a surprise with these two names, given both Islam Makhachev and Weili Zhang are future Hall of Famers (not unlike Valentina Shevchenko).

Weigh-ins for UFC 322 took place on Friday, with only one miss: Beneil Dariush came in 1.2lbs heavy for his fight with Benoit Saint-Denis. Dariush did not continue to cut, and instead pays a 20% fine, but the fight moves forward at a catchweight.

Check out highlights from Friday’s weigh-in, plus results, below.

UFC 322: Maddalena vs. Makhachev Weigh-In Results

Main card

Welterweight: Jack Della Maddalena (c) (169.8) vs. Islam Makhachev (170) – for the UFC welterweight championship
Women’s Flyweight: Valentina Shevchenko (c) (124.6) vs. Weili Zhang (124.2) – for the UFC women’s strawweight championship
Welterweight: Sean Brady (169.4) vs. Michael Morales (170.6)
Welterweight: Leon Edwards (170) vs. Carlos Prates (169.6)
Lightweight: Beneil Dariush (157.2)* vs. Benoît Saint Denis (155.6)

Preliminary card 

Middleweight: Bo Nickal (185.8) vs. Rodolfo Vieira (186)
Middleweight: Roman Kopylov (185.2) vs. Gregory Rodrigues (185.8)
Women’s Flyweight: Erin Blanchfield (125.8) vs. Tracy Cortez (125.6)
Featherweight: Malcolm Wellmaker (143.6) vs. Ethyn Ewing (145.2)

Early preliminary card

Middleweight: Kyle Daukaus (186) vs. Gerald Meerschaert (185.6)
Featherweight: Pat Sabatini (145.6) vs. Chepe Mariscal (145.6)
Women’s Strawweight: Angela Hill (115.6) vs. Fatima Kline (115.4)
Middleweight: Baisangur Susurkaev (185.2) vs. Eric McConico (185.6)
Lightweight: Viacheslav Borshchev (155.8) vs. Matheus Camilo (155.8)

* Dariush weighed in 1.2lbs over the lightweight non-title limit, while stripped down, for his fight with Benoit Saint-Denis. Dariush will forfeit 20% of his fight purse, bout moves forward.

Official Weigh-Ins

Ceremonial Weigh-Ins

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The bulk of the card weighed in early in the window, including headliner Reinier de Ridder, with a few names coming shortly after the first group, including Canadian welterweight Mike Malott. “Proper” Malott features in the night’s co-headliner, taking on the #15-ranked Kevin Holland, who was first to weigh in on Friday.

By the time ten o’clock rolled around, the first hour of the two-hour weigh-in window having passed, just one fighter was outstanding, flyweight Bruno Gustavo da Silva. He hit the scales shortly past ten,

UFC Vancouver: de Ridder vs. Allen Weigh-In Results

Main card

Middleweight: Reinier de Ridder (186) vs. Brendan Allen (186)
Welterweight: Kevin Holland (170.5) vs. Mike Malott (171)
Bantamweight: Marlon Vera (136) vs. Aiemann Zahabi (135.5)
Women’s Flyweight: Manon Fiorot (125.5) vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius (125.5)
Bantamweight: Cody Gibson (136) vs. Aori Qileng (135.5)
Lightweight: Kyle Nelson (155.5) vs. Matt Frevola (155)

Preliminary card

Bantamweight: Charles Jourdain (135.5) vs. Davey Grant (136)
Flyweight: Bruno Gustavo da Silva (125.5) vs. Park Hyun-sung (126)
Middleweight: Danny Barlow (185.5) vs. Djorden Ribeiro dos Santos (185.5)
Lightweight: Kyle Prepolec (155.5) vs. Drew Dober (155.5)
Women’s Strawweight: Stephanie Luciano (116) vs. Ravena Oliveira (115.5)
Middleweight: Azamat Bekoev (185) vs. Yousri Belgaroui (185.5)
Women’s Bantamweight: Melissa Croden (136) vs. Tainara Lisboa (135.5)

Official Weigh-In Highlights

Ceremonial Weigh-In

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That was Bruno Silva, who was a pound over for his middleweight fight with Marc-Andre Barriault. Try as he might, and he did keep trying, toweling himself down to wipe off excess sweat and weighing in behind a barrier, Silva could not shake the final pound.

One fighter who did shake off a pound was Daniel Santos. “Willycat” came in at 147, but weighed in a second time, behind a barrier, after cutting additional weight. This time, he hit 146, the featherweight non-title limit.

Moments before Jose Aldo stepped on the scale, it was announced that his fight with Aiemann Zahabi had been shifted to featherweight. Reportedly, Zahabi had all of a pound left to cut when he got word that Aldo was struggling with this weight cut for what was originally a bantamweight fight. Aldo weighed in at 143, Zahabi at 142.

Welterweight champ Belal Muhammad weighed in first on Friday for UFC 315, and all four of the card’s top four competitors weighed in to start off the window. Jack Della Maddalena, Valentina Shevchenko, and Manon Fiorot all made weight.

Weigh-in results and a gallery of photo highlights & video can be found below.

UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena Weigh-In Results

Main card

Welterweight: Belal Muhammad (c) (170) vs. Jack Della Maddalena (170) – for the UFC welterweight championship
Women’s Flyweight: Valentina Shevchenko (c) (124) vs. Manon Fiorot (125) – for the UFC women’s flyweight championship
Featherweight: José Aldo (143) vs. Aiemann Zahabi (142)
Women’s Flyweight: Alexa Grasso (126) vs. Natália Silva (126)
Lightweight: Benoît Saint Denis (156) vs. Kyle Prepolec (156)

Preliminary card

Welterweight: Mike Malott (171) vs. Charles Radtke (171)
Women’s Flyweight: Jéssica Andrade (126) vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius (124)
Light Heavyweight: Modestas Bukauskas (203) vs. Ion Cuțelaba (205)
Light Heavyweight: Navajo Stirling (205) vs. Ivan Erslan (205)

Preliminary card

Middleweight: Marc-André Barriault (185) vs. Bruno Silva (187)**
Featherweight: Daniel Santos (146)* vs. Lee Jeong-yeong (146)
Bantamweight: Brad Katona (136) vs. Bekzat Almakhan (136)

Welterweight: Ian Machado Garry (168) – backup fighter

* Daniel Santos was one pound over for his fight with Lee Jeong-yeong, but made weight on his second attempt

** Bruno Silva was one pound heavy for his fight with Marc-Andre Barriault. He’ll forfeit 20% of his purse, the bout moves forward at a catchweight.

Official Weigh-in Highlights

Ceremonial Weigh-In

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While the card proceeded to weigh in, one by one, in orderly fashion to start with, Diego Lopes and Alexander Volkanovski hitting the scales first, by the end of the one-hour weigh in window, two athletes had missed the mark.

Yes, that’s a one hour weigh-in window, now standard in the state of Florida, which makes the weigh-in process a bit of a scramble. When Nora Cornolle and Jean Silva both missed weight towards the end of that hour, there was little surprise. Both had called for the barrier (the box of shame if you prefer), stripping down completely in an attempt to make weight. Cornolle, looking a bit depleted but not dangerously so, was two pounds heavy for her bantamweight fight with Hailey Cowan. Silva, in the highest profile fight of his career against Bryce Mitchell, was a pound over— and rather surprisingly fired up. In Portuguese, he assured onlookers that he would shed the final pound. Forty minutes later, he’d done just that.

Cornolle was a different story. Her second weigh-in attempt, again behind the barrier roughly an hour later, again saw her heavy, at 137.5. She’d dropped just a half pound. Moments after stepping off the scale and turning her back, however, she stepped back on, requesting another weigh in. It appeared Cornolle trimmed a bit of, though not all of her hair, but it did not make any difference. She was still 137.5.

The only other item of note on Friday was Bryce Mitchell getting on and off the scale so fast that he forgot to pose for the cameras, then wound up doing so at side stage.

All fighters besides Cornolle made weight. Full results and highlights from Friday’s UFC 314 weigh-in can be found below.

UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes Weigh-In Results

Main card

Featherweight: Alexander Volkanovski (145) vs. Diego Lopes (145) – for the vacant UFC featherweight championship
Lightweight: Michael Chandler (156) vs. Paddy Pimblett (156)
Featherweight: Bryce Mitchell (146) vs. Jean Silva (146)*
Featherweight: Yair Rodríguez (146) vs. Patrício Pitbull (145)
Light Heavyweight: Nikita Krylov (206) vs. Dominick Reyes (206)

Preliminary card

Featherweight: Dan Ige (146) vs. Sean Woodson (146)
Women’s Strawweight: Yan Xiaonan (116) vs. Virna Jandiroba (116)
Lightweight: Jim Miller (156) vs. Chase Hooper (156)
Middleweight: Sedriques Dumas (185) vs. Michał Oleksiejczuk (186)

Early preliminary card 

Featherweight: Darren Elkins (145) vs. Julian Erosa (146)
Flyweight: Su Mudaerji (126) vs. Mitch Raposo (126)
Middleweight: Tresean Gore (186) vs. Marco Tulio (186)
Women’s Bantamweight: Nora Cornolle (137.5)* vs. Hailey Cowan (136)

* Cornolle weighed in two pounds over the limit for her bantamweight fight with Hailey Cowan. She made a second attempt, at 137.5, stepped off the scale, then attempted a third after what appeared to be a slight hair trim, but was 137.5 again. She has been fined 20% of her purse; the fight will move forward
** Silva weighed in one pound over the limit for his featherweight fight with Bryce Mitchell. Allotted an extra hour, Silva successfully shed the final pound, weighing in at 146 roughly 40 minutes later

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Hitting the scales at the end of Friday’s weigh-in window, Jose Johnson and Ihor Potieria both came in north of their respective limits. Johnson, booked into a would-be flyweight fight with Felipe Bunes, was 2.5lbs over the non-title limit at 128.5. For Potieria, he was two pounds north of the middleweight limit for a fight against Marco Tulio.

Both fights take part on the event’s preliminary card. All other athletes made weight on Friday, including headliners Mackenzie Dern and Amanda Ribas. The pair, booked into a rematch (Ribas earned a decision win in their first meeting), both came in at 116lbs for the strawweight main event.

UFC Vegas 101: Dern vs. Ribas 2 Weigh-In Results

Main card

Women’s Strawweight: Mackenzie Dern (116) vs. Amanda Ribas (116)
Welterweight: Santiago Ponzinibbio (171) vs. Carlston Harris (170)
Middleweight: César Almeida (185.5) vs. Abdul Razak Alhassan (185.5)
Middleweight: Chris Curtis (185.5) vs. Roman Kopylov (185.5)
Featherweight: Christian Rodriguez (145) vs. Austin Bashi (145.5)
Welterweight: Punahele Soriano (171) vs. Uroš Medić (171)

Preliminary card

Flyweight: Jose Johnson (128.5)* vs. Felipe Bunes (126)
Middleweight: Marco Tulio (185.5) vs. Ihor Potieria (188)**
Lightweight: Thiago Moisés (155.5) vs. Trey Ogden (155.5)
Welterweight: Preston Parsons (171) vs. Jacobe Smith (170.5)
Women’s Flyweight: Ernesta Kareckaitė (126) vs. Nicolle Caliari (125.5)
Light Heavyweight: Magomed Gadzhiyasulov (205) vs. Bruno Lopes (205.5)
Women’s Strawweight: Fatima Kline (116) vs. Victoria Dudakova (116)
Lightweight: Joe Solecki (155) vs. Nurullo Aliev (155.5)

* Jose Johnson weighed in two and a half pounds over the flyweight limit for his fight with Felipe Bunes; fined 20% of his purse

** Ihor Poteira weighed in two pounds over the middleweight limit for his fight with Marco Tulio; fined 25% of his purse

UFC Vegas 101 Weigh-In Photos

Face-Offs

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On Friday, all fighters made weight for the final UFC card of 2024. It’s a makeshift, modified main event closing the show, with Colby Covington stepping in to replace Ian Machado Garry against Joaquin Buckley. That, after Garry was shifted to last week’s UFC 310 against Shavkat Rakhmonov.

Covington has not fought in a year, and has fought just once per calendar year for five years running, going 2-3 in that stretch, and 0-3 in title fights. Yet he remains a name in the division, a former interim welterweight champ who is happy to talk trash to sell a fight.

As for Buckley, “Newmansa” has done nothing but win since dropping down to welterweight. Five straight wins have earned him his first UFC main event, and while it’s not at home in St. Louis, it’s a main event in sunny Tampa with the chance for a big Christmas present should he pull off the win.

Check below for photo and video highlights from Friday’s ceremonial weigh-in, plus official weigh-in results!

UFC Tampa: Covington vs. Buckley Weigh-In Results

Main card

Welterweight: Colby Covington (171) vs. Joaquin Buckley (171)
Featherweight: Cub Swanson (146) vs. Billy Quarantillo (146)
Flyweight: Manel Kape (125) vs. Bruno Gustavo da Silva (126)
Light Heavyweight: Vitor Petrino (204.5) vs. Dustin Jacoby (205.5)
Bantamweight: Adrian Yañez (136) vs. Daniel Marcos (136)
Light Heavyweight: Navajo Stirling (206) vs. Tuco Tokkos (206)

Preliminary card

Lightweight: Michael Johnson (156) vs. Ottman Azaitar (156)
Lightweight: Joel Álvarez (156) vs. Drakkar Klose (156)
Featherweight: Sean Woodson (145.5) vs. Fernando Padilla (145.5)
Featherweight: Miles Johns (146) vs. Felipe Lima (146)
Women’s Flyweight: Miranda Maverick (126) vs. Jamey-Lyn Horth (126)
Bantamweight: Davey Grant (136) vs. Ramon Taveras (136)
Women’s Strawweight: Josefine Lindgren Knutsson (116) vs. Piera Rodriguez (116)

Ceremonial Weigh-In Highlights

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Alexandre Pantoja was the second man to hit the scales (Japanese newcomer and title challenger Kai Asakura came in much later in the window). Shavkat Rakhmonov, who faces Ian Machado Garry in a welterweight title eliminator, went first; all four men in the main and co-main events made weight without issue.

The UFC wraps up its PPV calendar in Las Vegas with Asakura granted a rare immediate title shot.

Full results and photo/video highlights from the UFC 310 weigh-ins can be found below.

UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura Weigh-In Results

Main card

Flyweight: Alexandre Pantoja (c) (124.5) vs. Kai Asakura (124.5) – for the UFC flyweight championship
Welterweight: Shavkat Rakhmonov (171) vs. Ian Machado Garry (171) – welterweight title eliminator
Heavyweight: Ciryl Gane (245.5) vs. Alexander Volkov (254.5)
Featherweight: Bryce Mitchell (146) vs. Kron Gracie (144.5)
Featherweight: Nate Landwehr (145.5) vs. Choi Doo-ho (146)

Preliminary card

Light Heavyweight: Dominick Reyes (205) vs. Anthony Smith (205.5)**
Welterweight: Vicente Luque (170.5) vs. Themba Gorimbo (171)
Featherweight: Movsar Evloev (145.5) vs. Aljamain Sterling (145.5)
Welterweight: Randy Brown (171) vs. Bryan Battle (175)*

Early preliminary card

Catchweight (195lb): Chris Weidman (194.5) vs. Eryk Anders (193)
Flyweight: Cody Durden (126) vs. Joshua Van (126)
Welterweight: Michael Chiesa (170.5) vs. Max Griffin (170)
Lightweight: Clay Guida (155) vs. Chase Hooper (155.5)
Heavyweight: Kennedy Nzechukwu (236.5) vs. Łukasz Brzeski (234)

* Battle weighed in 4lbs over the welterweight non-title limit for his fight with Randy Brown
** Smith weighed in 1.5lbs over the light heavyweight non-title limit for his fight with Dominick Reyes, hit 205.5 on his second attempt

Official Weigh-In

Ceremonial Weigh-In

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Jones vs. Miocic may be leaving Tom Aspinall, the UFC‘s interim heavyweight champion, out in the gold. There’s no question, however, that it’s a fight fans still want to see.

Neither man had any trouble hitting the heavyweight limit on Friday, though Miocic, at 248, was over 10lbs heavier than his last appearance. Jones will be the lighter man on Saturday, weighing in at 237.6.

Coming in heavy was James Llontop, a lightweight whose fight with Mauricio Ruffy was already a 165lb catchweight. Llontop had stepped up on short notice, hence the catchweight, but still missed the mark by 1.2lbs.

Full results and highlights from Friday’s UFC 309 weigh-in are below.

UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic Weigh-In Results

Main card

Official Weigh-in Highlights

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The Fight Night card, the second Canadian UFC event of 2024 following UFC 297 in Toronto this past January, is headlined by flyweights Brandon Moreno and Amir Albazi, with both returning from layoffs. In Moreno’s case, that was a self-imposed vacation from fighting, while Albazi has been struggling with injury and a heart condition over the past year and a half.

Rose Namajunas and Erin Blanchfield serve as the night’s co-headliner, with the winner potentially next in line following Manon Fiorot.

Full weigh-in results, highlights, and a gallery of images from UFC Edmonton can be found below.

UFC Edmonton: Moreno vs. Albazi Weigh-In Results

Main card

Flyweight: Brandon Moreno (125.5) vs. Amir Albazi (125.5)
Women’s Flyweight: Erin Blanchfield (125.5) vs. Rose Namajunas (125)
Heavyweight: Derrick Lewis (266) vs. Jhonata Diniz (257)
Light Heavyweight: Caio Machado (205) vs. Brendson Ribeiro (205)
Middleweight: Marc-André Barriault (185) vs. Dustin Stoltzfus (185.5)
Welterweight: Mike Malott (170.5) vs. Trevin Giles (170)

Preliminary card

Bantamweight: Aiemann Zahabi (135.5) vs. Pedro Munhoz (135)
Women’s Flyweight: Ariane da Silva (125) vs. Jasmine Jasudavicius (125)
Bantamweight: Charles Jourdain (135) vs. Victor Henry (135)
Featherweight: Jack Shore (145.5) vs. Youssef Zalal (145)
Heavyweight: Alexander Romanov (261) vs. Rodrigo Nascimento (264)
Bantamweight: Serhiy Sidey (135) vs. Garrett Armfield (135)
Bantamweight: Chad Anheliger (135) vs. Cody Gibson (135.5)
Women’s Flyweight: Jamey-Lyn Horth (126) vs. Ivana Petrović (125)

Ceremonial Weigh-In

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