LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie was on scene and reporting live from Friday’s official UFC on ESPN 51 fighter weigh-ins, where two middleweights missed their marks.
In the main event, Vicente Luque (21-9-1 MMA, 14-5 UFC) takes on former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos (32-14 MMA, 21-12 UFC) at welterweight. Luque was first to the scale and was 170.5 pounds. Ex-champ dos Anjos came much deeper in the session and was 171.
Two fighters missed weight. Middleweight Tafon Nchukwi (6-3 MMA, 2-3 UFC) was 3.5 pounds heavy for the middleweight non-title limit in his fight against AJ Dobson (6-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC). If the commission approves a new fight at a catchweight and Dobson agrees, Nchukwi will be fined a percentage of his purse. The same goes for Josh Fremd (10-4 MMA, 1-2 UFC), who came to the scale with 10 minutes left in the two-hour official window and was 3 pounds heavy for his main card opener against Jamie Pickett (13-9 MMA, 2-5 UFC).
The weigh-ins took place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. The same venue hosts Saturday’s event, which airs on ESPN and streams on ESPN+.
The full UFC on ESPN 51 weigh-in results included:
MAIN CARD (ESPN/ESPN+, 7 p.m. ET)
- Vicente Luque (170.5) vs. Rafael dos Anjos (171)
- Hakeem Dawodu (146) vs. Cub Swanson (146)
- Chris Daukaus (205) vs. Khalil Rountree (203.5)
- Iasmin Lucindo (116) vs. Polyana Viana (116)
- AJ Dobson (185.5) vs. Tafon Nchukwi (189.5)*
- Josh Fremd (189)** vs. Jamie Pickett (186)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN/ESPN+, 4 p.m. ET)
- JP Buys (136) vs. Marcus McGhee (136)
- Mike Breeden (156) vs. Terrence McKinney (156)
- Isaac Dulgarian (145.5) vs. Francis Marshall (145.5)
- Martin Buday (266) vs. Josh Parisian (266)
- Jaqueline Amorim (116) vs. Montserrat Conejo (113)
- Da’Mon Blackshear (136) vs. Jose Johnson (135.5)
- Juliana Miller (126) vs. Luana Santos (126)
*Nchukwi missed the middleweight limit on his first attempt.
**Fremd missed the middleweight limit on his first attempt.
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC on ESPN 51.