After serving a two-year ban from competition for a failed USADA drug test, former UFC light-heavyweight champion Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida has made his return to action official today, by making weight at the UFC early weigh-ins ceremony, Friday morning.
UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Silva goes down live and free on FS1, this Saturday, from the Ibirapuera Gymnasium, In Sao Paulo, Brazil.
All fighters made weight.
Here’s the official results:
MAIN CARD: (FS1, 10 p.m. ET)
Lyoto Machida (185) vs. Derek Brunson (185)
Colby Covington (171) vs. Demian Maia (171)
Rob Font (136) vs. Pedro Munhoz (136)
Jim Miller (155) vs. Francisco Trinaldo (155)
Jack Hermansson (185) vs. Thiago “Marreta” Santos (186)
John Lineker (136) vs. Marlon Vera (135)
PRELIMINARY CARD: (FS2, 8 p.m. ET)
Vicente Luque (171) vs. Niko Price (171)
Antonio Carlos Junior (185) vs. Jack Marshman (186)
Hacran Dias (155) vs. Jared Gordon (156)
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (171) vs. Max Griffin (171)
PRELIMINARY CARD: (UFC Fight Pass, 7 p.m. ET)
Jarred Brooks (125) vs. Deiveson Figueiredo (126)
Christian Colombo (258) vs. Marcelo Golm (242)
