LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie is on scene and reporting live from Friday’s official UFC on ESPN 65 (ESPN, ESPN+) fighter weigh-ins at the host hotel.
Among those weighing in were Josh Emmett (19-4 MMA, 10-4 UFC) and Lerone Murphy (15-0-1 MMA, 7-0-1 UFC), who meet in the featherweight main event, and Joanderson Brito (17-4-1 MMA, 5-2 UFC) and Pat Sabatini (19-5 MMA, 6-2 UFC) who fight in the co-feature.
All of the prominent names on the card hit their marks, but that wasn’t the cage for some of the rest. Cortavious Romious was 3.5 pounds over the bantamweight limit for his matchup with ChangHo Lee on the main card, while prelim fighter Daniel Santos did not step on the scale to weigh in, resulting in his bantamweight matchup with Dave Grant being canceled.
The full UFC on ESPN 65 weigh-in results include:
MAIN CARD (ESPN2/ESPN+, 9 p.m. ET)
- Josh Emmett (146) vs. Lerone Murphy (145.5)
- Joanderson Brito (146) vs. Pat Sabatini (145.5)
- ChangHo Lee (136) vs. Cortavious Romious (139.5)*
- Gerald Meerschaert (185) vs. Brad Tavares (185.5)
- Luis Gurule (125) vs. Ode Osbourne (125.5)
- Torrez Finney (186) vs. Rob Valentin (185.5)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN2/ESPN+, 6 p.m. ET)
- Davey Grant (135.5) vs. Daniel Santos ()**
- Dione Barbosa (126) vs. Diana Belbita (125.5)
- Daniel Frunza (170.5) vs. Rhys McKee (171)
- Loma Lookboonmee (115) vs. Istela Nunes (115)
- Pedro Falcao (136) vs. Victor Henry (135.5)
- Martin Buday (266) vs. Uran Satybaldiev (222.5)
- Talita Alencar (115) vs. Vanessa Demopoulos (116)
* Ramious missed the bantamweight limit by 3.5 pounds; fined 20 percent of purse
** Santos did not weigh in due to illness and his fight vs. Davey Grant was canceled
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC on ESPN 65.
