Fighters make weight; UFC 239 title bouts a go
Marc RaimondiESPN
LAS VEGAS — The 2 title fights for UFC 239 are actually official, because the rivals for the five-round championship bouts made weight Friday on the New York-New York Lodge & On line casino.
Jon Jones weighed in proper on the mark at 205 kilos for his gentle heavyweight title protection towards Thiago Santos, a battle that can act as the principle occasion for Saturday’s UFC 239 at T-Cellular Area. Santos weighed in at 204.5 kilos.
Within the co-main occasion, Amanda Nunes will defend her girls’s bantamweight title towards Holly Holm. Nunes, needing a curtained hoop to disrobe as she stepped on the dimensions, weighed 135 kilos. Holm got here in underneath weight, at 133.5 factors.
Ben Askren (171) and Jorge Masvidal (170.5) each made weight for his or her extremely anticipated welterweight contender bout.
Jones (24-1, 1 NC) is on the lookout for his 10th profitable title protection. Considered maybe one of the best pound-for-pound fighter in MMA historical past, Jones, 31, has rebounded from a 15-month suspension for a failed drug take a look at to win twice since December, most just lately defeating Anthony Smith by unanimous determination at UFC 235 in March.
Santos (21-6) has received 4 in a row, the final three by violent knockout. The 35-year-old Brazilian slugger is Three-Zero since transferring up from middleweight to gentle heavyweight and has received eight of his previous 9 fights general.
The 31-year-old Nunes (17-Four) is trying to cement herself as one of the best pound-for-pound girls’s fighter ever in MMA. The Brazilian knockout artist owns UFC’s girls’s bantamweight and featherweight belts and has received eight in a row, together with finishes of Ronda Rousey, Cris Cyborg and Miesha Tate.
Holm (12-Four) has received two of her previous three fights. The Albuquerque, New Mexico, native is greatest identified for her beautiful 2015 head-kick knockout of Rousey. Holm, 37, is a former three-division boxing champion and former UFC girls’s bantamweight champion.
Each different fighter on the UFC 239 card made weight.