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The
Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight title will be on
the line at
UFC 271 as both Israel
Adesanya and Robert
Whittaker weighed 184 pounds for the highly-anticipated
rematch.
While the headliners were professional, not every fighter on the
15-fight card managed to come in at their contracted weight or even
close to it. William
Knight embarrassingly missed the light heavyweight limit by 12
pounds and his bout against Maxim
Grishin was shifted to heavyweight as a result. Additionally,
Alex
Perez came in two pounds heavy for his flyweight bout against
Matt
Schnell.
This is the fourth attempted title defense for Adesanya (21-1), who
picked up the belt in 2019 by knocking out Whittaker (23-5). The
only defeat on the record of « The Last Stylebender » comes from a
light heavyweight bout against then-champion Jan
Blachowicz, where Adesanya dropped a decision to the much
larger fighter. The Nigerian martial artist bounced back with a
dominant win over Marvin
Vettori in June of last year.
Since losing the middleweight strap, Whittaker has bounced back
with three impressive victories. « Bobby Knuckles » won decisions
over Darren Till,
Jared
Cannonier and Kelvin
Gastelum to earn another crack at Adesanya. The Australian has
only lost once since June 2014.
UFC 271’s main card will stream on ESPN+ pay-per-view at 10 p.m.
ET/7 p.m. PT. Early prelims start at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT on UFC
Fight Pass and ESPN+, while additional preliminary bouts air on
ESPN and ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
UFC 271 Weigh-in Results:
Israel
Adesanya (184) vs. Robert
Whittaker (184)
Derrick
Lewis (266) vs. Tai Tuivasa
(265)
Derek
Brunson (185.5) vs. Jared
Cannonier (185)
Kyler
Phillips (136) vs. Marcelo
Rojo (136)
Bobby
Green (155.5) vs. Nasrat
Haqparast (156)
Andrei
Arlovski (246) vs. Jared
Vanderaa (265)
Roxanne
Modafferi (126) vs. Casey
O’Neill (125.5)
Alex
Perez (128)* vs. Matt
Schnell (126)
Maxim
Grishin (206) vs. William
Knight (218)**
Ronnie
Lawrence (136) vs. Leomana
Martinez (136)
Alexander
Hernandez (156) vs. Renato
Carneiro (156)
Fabio
Cherant (206) vs. Carlos
Ulberg (204)
A.J.
Dobson (185) vs. Jacob
Malkoun (186)
Douglas
Silva de Andrade (136) vs. Sergey
Morozov (135)
Mike
Mathetha (170) vs. Jeremiah
Wells (170.5)
*Perez missed weight by 2 pounds and has been fined a percentage
of his purse. **Knight missed weight by 12 pounds and was
fined 40 percent of his purse. The bout was moved to heavyweight as
a result.
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