UFC Vegas 67 fight scrapped due to ‘weight management’ issues, Strickland and Imavov make weight

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The UFC is back in our lives with an event that has ESPN+ written all over it. UFC Vegas 67 was supposed to feature Kelvin Gastelum vs. Nassourdine Imavov in the main event. However, Gastelum pulled out a few days ago after his teeth were knocked out in the gym.

Sean Strickland has stepped in, where he will hope to be probably the only fighter to headline the last card of the year and the first card of the following year. The rest of the fight card is not exactly filled with household names. Though, Javid Basharat might be something special down the line.

The card has been overshadowed mightily by what went on in Cabo. It’s there that cameras caught UFC President Dana White slapping his wife across the face. ESPN and Endevaour would like us all to forget about that now, but let’s not (after all, that’s White’s real punishment, isn’t it?)

Fighters looking to impress on Saturday will need to hit the scales on Friday morning and here we will see who went overboard on their cheat days over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.

You can watch the weigh-ins in video below, provided by Ag. Fight. It goes live at 12 p.m. ET.

Full results:

Main card (7 p.m ET on ESPN+)

Light heavyweight: Sean Strickland (204) vs. Nassourdine Imavov (194)

Featherweight: Dan Ige (145.5) vs. Damon Jackson (145.5)

Middleweight: Punahele Soriano (185.5) vs. Roman Kopylov (185)

Bantamweight: Ketlen Vieira (136) vs. Raquel Pennington (135.5)

Bantamweight: Umar Nurmagomedov (135) vs. Raoni Barcelos (135)

Prelim card (4 p.m ET on ESPN+)

Middleweight: Abdul Razak Alhassan (185.5) vs. Claudio Ribeiro (183)

Lightweight: Mateusz Rebecki (155.5) vs. Nick Fiore (155)

Bantamweight: Mateus Mendonca (134.5) vs. Javid Basharat (136)

Flyweight: Allan Nascimento (125.5) vs. Carlos Hernandez (125)

Featherweight: Daniel Argueta vs. Nick Aguirre (145.5)

Flyweight: Jimmy Flick (126) vs. Charles Johnson (126)

Flyweight: ~~Priscilla Cachoeira (126) vs.~~ ~~Sijara Eubanks~~ *

*Cachoeira vs. Eubanks has been caneled due to ‘weight management’ issues on the part of Eubanks (per John Morgan).

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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.