October 18, 2024 1:30 pm ET
LAS VEGAS – Friday’s official UFC Fight Night 245 (ESPN+) weigh-ins are within the books, and it was one other less-than-perfect scale session in “Sin Metropolis.”
For the third time in 5 fights, Joselyne Edwards (13-6 MMA, 4-4 UFC) missed her mark when she got here in at 139.5 kilos for her struggle towards Tamires Vidal (7-3 MMA, 1-2 UFC). Edwards got here again to the dimensions about 20 minutes later, stripped down and was 139 kilos, formally. Vidal was 135.5 with out problem when she stepped on the dimensions.
If the struggle is permitted by Vidal and the fee, Edwards will likely be fined a proportion of her purse – doubtless 30 p.c.
In an oddity, although Matheus Nicolau (19-5-1 MMA, 7-3 UFC) weighed in additional than 25 minutes after the one-hour window had expired, as a result of he was confirmed to be on the best way to the session in time, his weight was allowed. He was 125.5 kilos with no consequence aside from it prolonged everybody’s weigh-in work day by half-hour. In the principle occasion, middleweights Anthony Hernandez (12-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) and Michel Pereira (31-11 MMA, 9-2 UFC) every got here in at 185.5 kilos to make their struggle official.
The total UFC Battle Night time 245 weigh-in outcomes included:
MAIN CARD (ESPN+, 7 p.m. ET)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 4 p.m. ET)
*Edwards missed the ladies’s bantamweight non-title restrict on her first try. She returned and was 139, formally, on her second strive.
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