UFC Fight Island 5 weigh-in results: Moraes and Sandhagen both make weight

The UFC rumbles on at its Fight Island location, also known as Yas Island on the shores of Abu Dhabi, UAE. Saturday’s offering is…

By: Tim Bissell | 3 years ago
UFC Fight Island 5 weigh-in results: Moraes and Sandhagen both make weight
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The UFC rumbles on at its Fight Island location, also known as Yas Island on the shores of Abu Dhabi, UAE. Saturday’s offering is highlighted by a bantamweight clash between Marlon Moraes and Cory Sandhagen; two men desperate to carve a path to recently crowned champion Petr Yan.

The co-main event is a hastily put together match-upnin the featherweight division that sees Edson Barbosa take on Marwan Amirkhani. Also on the main card Ben Rothwell faces Marcin Tybura and Dricus du Plessis makes his promotional debut against Markus Perez.

You can watch all the weigh-ins on the live stream below, courtesy of our friends at MMA Fighting:

There will be no ceremonial weigh ins for this event.

Full results:

Main Card (ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)

Bantamweight: Marlon Moraes (136) vs. Cory Sandhagen (136)

Featherweight: Edson Barboza (145.5) vs. Makwan Amirkhani (146)

Heavyweight: Ben Rothwell (265) vs. Marcin Tybura (263)

Middleweight: Markus Perez (186) vs. Dricus Du Plessis (186)

Heavyweight: Tom Aspinall (252) vs. Alan Baudot (254)

Featherweight: Youssef Zalal (146) vs. Ilia Topuria (146)

Preliminary Card (ESPN+ 6 p.m. ET)

Middleweight: Tom Breese (186) vs. KB Bhullar (186)

Heavyweight: Chris Daukaus (227) vs. Rodrigo Nascimento (265)

Middleweight: Impa Kasanganay (185.5) vs. Joaquin Buckley (185.5)

Bantamweight: Ali Alqaisi (136) vs. Tony Kelley (135)

Featherweight: Giga Chikadze (146) vs. Omar Morales (145.5)

Bantamweight: Tracy Cortez (136) vs. Stephanie Egger (135.5)

Flyweight: Bruno Silva (125.5) vs. Tagir Ulanbekov (126)

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Tim Bissell is a writer, editor and deputy site manager for Bloody Elbow. He has covered combat sports since 2015. Tim covers news and events and has also written longform and investigative pieces. Among Tim's specialties are the intersections between crime and combat sports. Tim has also covered head trauma, concussions and CTE in great detail.

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