All main card fighters, including the four title competitors, successfully made weight Friday at the official UFC 317 weigh-in, however the same could not be said about the prelims.
A middleweight bout between Jackson McVey and Chris Ewert was expected to open the preliminary card Saturday in Las Vegas, however it was announced during the weigh-in broadcast that Ewert was going to miss weight by around 10 pounds.
The bout was cancelled and Ewert was subsequently cut from the UFC roster. Despite the fight being cancelled, McVey still made weight to earn his show money.
This matchup was put together on super short notice when earlier this week when McVey’s originally opponent, Sedriques Dumas, was removed from the card for undisclosed reasons.
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Ilia Topuria, Charles Oliveira, Alexandre Pantoja and Kai Kara-France were the first four fighters on the scale Friday and all were on championship weight.
There was a one-pound allowance for all non-title bouts, but the four featured competitors didn’t have that luxury.
Topuria weighed 155 pounds on the dot with Oliveira weighing 154.5 for their vacant lightweight championship main event; Pantoja and Kara-France were both an even 125 ahead of their flyweight title matchup in the co-main event.
Arman Tsarukyan also came in at 155 pounds. The No. 1-ranked lightweight contender is in Las Vegas serving as the official main event backup fighter.
Even though Topuria and Oliveira both made weight, Tsarukyan will still be present at T-Mobile Arena and be prepared to compete in the event either Topuria or Oliveira are unable to compete Saturday.
Tsarukyan missed out on a title opportunity in January when he withdrew from his scheduled fight with Islam Makhachev the morning of the official weigh-in.
Outside of Ewert’s miss, all other athletes made weight. Below are the official UFC 317 weigh-in results:
— Ilia Topuria (155) vs. Charles Oliveira (154.5)
— Alexandre Pantoja (125) vs. Kai Kara-France (125)
— Brandon Royval (125.5) vs. Joshua Van (125.5)
— Beneil Dariush (156) vs. Renato Moicano (156)
— Payton Talbott (136) vs. Felipe Lima (135.5)
*Arman Tsarukyan (155)
*official main event backup fighter
— Jack Hermansson (185.5) vs. Gregory Rodrigues (186)
— Hyder Amil (145.5) vs. Jose Delgado (145.5)
— Viviane Araujo (125.5) vs. Tracy Cortez (126)
— Terrance McKinney (156) vs. Viacheslav Borshchev (155)
— Jhonata Diniz (257.5) vs. Alvin Hines (259.5)
— Niko Price (170.5) vs. Jacobe Smith (170.5)
— Christopher Ewert (N/A) vs. Jackson McVey (185)**
**bout cancelled
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