One Fighter Heavy at the UFC 249 weigh-in’s

The weigh-in’s for UFC 249 took place this morning at the UFC host hotel in Jacksonville, Florida. Twenty-three of the twenty-four fighters who stepped on the scale did so without issue.Two title fight fights sit atop the 12-fight card. All four competitors vying to win a championship belt successfully made weight.  New procedures for safety where in place as staff members wore masks and the scale was continually sanitized after each fighters turn. The only fighter to miss weight was Jeremy Stephens who got on the scale 4.5 lbs. over. The UFC 249 action is scheduled to begin at 6:30 pm ET on  UFC Fight Pass for the early prelims. The regular prelims are to fallow at 8 pm ET on ESPN & ESPN+. The main car pay per view starts at 10 pm ET on ESPN+.

ESPN+ PPV Main Card

  • Interim Lightweight Title Bout: Tony Ferguson (155) vs. Justin Gaethje (155) 
  • Bantamweight Title Bout: (Champ) Henry Cejudo (135) vs. Dominick Cruz (135)
  • Heavyweight Bout: Francis Ngannou (261.5) vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik (260)
  • Featherweight Bout: Calvin Kattar (146) vs. *Jeremy Stephens (150.5)
  • Heavyweight Bout: Yorgan De Castro (262) vs. Greg Hardy (265.5)

ESPN Prelims

  • Welterweight Bout: Donald Cerrone (171) vs. Anthony Pettis (170.5)
  • Heavyweight Bout: Aleksei Oleinik (227.5) vs. Fabricio Werdum (243)
  • Women’s Strawweight Bout: Carla Esparza (115.5) vs. Michelle Waterson (115)
  • Middleweight Bout: Uriah Hall (186) vs. Ronaldo Souza (186)

UFC Fight Pass Prelims

  • Welterweight Bout: Vicente Luque (170) vs. Niko Price (170.5)
  • Featherweight Bout: Bryce Mitchell (145.5) vs. Charles Rosa (146)
  • Light-heavyweight Bout: Sam Alvey (205) vs. Ryan Spann (206)

*For missing weight Stephens was fined an undisclosed percentage of his check.

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