UFC 297: Fights still on after two weigh-in misses

UFC 297 weigh-ins see two misses, but title fights in tact

UFC 297 is on tap for Saturday night in beautiful, but frigid, Toronto. The night’s main event is Sean Strickland vs. Dricus Du Plessis for Strickland’s recently acquired UFC middleweight title. There’s also Mayra Bueno Silva vs. Raquel Pennington for the vacant UFC women’s bantamweight title (vacated when the GOAT Amanda Nunes retired last year).

With four fighters needing to make championship weight, the weigh-ins were a little more nervy than usual. However, any fretting was for naught, with Strickland, Du Plessis, Bueno Silva and Pennington all hitting their marks perfectly.

This wasn’t the case for the entire fight card, though. Two undercard fighters struggled on the scale (one of them mightily).

Ramon Tavares had a big miss in the batanmweight division and Malcom Gordon had a slight miss at flyweight. Both will lose a big chunk of their pay (which is probably dreadful to begin with).

Veteran MMA reporter James Lynch is on the ground in TO (people my age don’t say ‘the 6ix’) with the details.

UFC 297 full weigh-in results

Main Card (ESPN+ PPV, 10 p.m. ET)

• UFC middleweight championship: Sean Strickland (184.75) vs. Dricus du Plessis (184)
• UFC bantamweight championship: Raquel Pennington (134.8) vs. Mayra Bueno Silva (135)
• Welterweight: Neil Magny (170.75) vs. Mike Malott (170.5)
• Middleweight: Chris Curtis (185.25) vs. Marc-Andre Barriault (184.5)
• Featherweight: Arnold Allen (145.5) vs. Movsar Evloev (145.75)

Preliminary Card (ESPNN/ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)

• Bantamweight: Brad Katona vs. Garrett Armfield (135.25)
• Featherweight: Charles Jourdain (145.5) vs. Sean Woodson (145.5)
• Bantamweight: Serhiy Sidey (135) vs. Ramon Taveras (139.75)*
• Strawweight: Gillian Robertson (115.75) vs. Polyana Viana (115.75)

Early Prelims (ESPN+, 6:30 p.m. ET)

• Welterweight: Yohan Lainesse (170.75) vs. Sam Patterson (169.5)
• Bantamweight: Jasmine Jasudavicius (133.0) vs. Priscila Cachoeira (133.5)
• Flyweight: Malcolm Gordon (127.5)** vs. Jimmy Flick (126)

*Ramon Taveras misses the bantamweight limit 3.75 lbs.

**Malcom Gordon misses the flyweight limit by 1.5 lbs.