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UFC on ESPN 51 weigh-in results: Headliners set, but two middleweights heavy in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie was on scene and reporting live from Friday’s official UFC on ESPN 51 fighter weigh-ins, where two middleweights missed their marks.

In the main event, Vicente Luque (21-9-1 MMA, 14-5 UFC) takes on former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos (32-14 MMA, 21-12 UFC) at welterweight. Luque was first to the scale and was 170.5 pounds. Ex-champ dos Anjos came much deeper in the session and was 171.

Two fighters missed weight. Middleweight Tafon Nchukwi (6-3 MMA, 2-3 UFC) was 3.5 pounds heavy for the middleweight non-title limit in his fight against AJ Dobson (6-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC). If the commission approves a new fight at a catchweight and Dobson agrees, Nchukwi will be fined a percentage of his purse. The same goes for Josh Fremd (10-4 MMA, 1-2 UFC), who came to the scale with 10 minutes left in the two-hour official window and was 3 pounds heavy for his main card opener against Jamie Pickett (13-9 MMA, 2-5 UFC).

The weigh-ins took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The same venue hosts Saturday’s event, which airs on ESPN and streams on ESPN+.

The full UFC on ESPN 51 weigh-in results included:

MAIN CARD (ESPN/ESPN+, 7 p.m. ET)

  • Vicente Luque (170.5) vs. Rafael dos Anjos (171)
  • Hakeem Dawodu (146) vs. Cub Swanson (146)
  • Chris Daukaus (205) vs. Khalil Rountree (203.5)
  • Iasmin Lucindo (116) vs. Polyana Viana (116)
  • AJ Dobson (185.5) vs. Tafon Nchukwi (189.5)*
  • Josh Fremd (189)** vs. Jamie Pickett (186)

PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN/ESPN+, 4 p.m. ET)

  • JP Buys (136) vs. Marcus McGhee (136)
  • Mike Breeden (156) vs. Terrence McKinney (156)
  • Isaac Dulgarian (145.5) vs. Francis Marshall (145.5)
  • Martin Buday (266) vs. Josh Parisian (266)
  • Jaqueline Amorim (116) vs. Montserrat Conejo (113)
  • Da’Mon Blackshear (136) vs. Jose Johnson (135.5)
  • Juliana Miller (126) vs. Luana Santos (126)

*Nchukwi missed the middleweight limit on his first attempt.
**Fremd missed the middleweight limit on his first attempt.

For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC on ESPN 51.

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