The official weigh-in procedure for the UFC 296 tournament, which will take place on the night of December 17 at T-Mobile Arena, took place in Las Vegas.
The main event of the event will be a title fight in the welterweight division between the champion Leon Edwards and former time zone holder Colby Covington. The headliners showed almost identical weights: 170 pounds for the British and 169.5 for the American.
We present the weigh-in results for the remaining fighters:
Alexandre Pantoja (125) - Brandon Royval (124.5);
Shavkat Rakhmonov (171) - Stephen Thompson (171);
Tony Ferguson (155.5) - Paddy Pimblett (155.5);
Josh Emmett (146) - Bryce Mitchell (145.5);
Dustin Jacoby (204.5) vs. Alonzo Menifield (204.5);
Irene Aldana (136) - Carol Rosa (135.5);
Cody Garbrandt (136) - Brian Kelleher (136);
Ariani Lipsky (126) - Casey O'Neill (125);
Cody Durden (126) - Tagir Ulanbekov (126);
Lucas Almeida (146) - Andre Fili (145.5);
Martin Budai (264.5) - Shamil Gaziev (259.5).
