The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is back in Australia, with a middleweight interim title fight in their headlining slot.
UFC 221 goes down Saturday night, and features Luke Rockhold vs. Yoel Romero in the main event.
In the night’s co-main event, Mark Hunt returns to action against Curtis Blaydes.
UFC 221: Rockhold vs. Romero takes place from the Perth Arena, in Perth, Western Australia. The night’s main card airs live on pay-per-view.
Yoel Romero missed weight by three pounds.
UFC flyweight Jussier Formiga missed weight by 2 ounces, and will be given additional time to cut those ounces.
Each fighter has two hours to make the additional weight.
Here’s the full weigh-in results:
MAIN CARD: (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
Luke Rockhold (185) vs. Yoel Romero (188) – for interim middleweight title
Curtis Blaydes (255.5) vs. Mark Hunt (265)
Cyril Asker (243.5) vs. Tai Tuivasa (263.5)
Li Jingliang (170) vs. Jake Matthews (170.5)
Tyson Pedro (205) vs. Saparbek Safarov (204.5)
PRELIMINARY CARD: (FS1, 8 p.m. ET)
Damien Brown (156) vs. “Maestro” Dong Hyun Kim (156)
Israel Adesanya (183) vs. Rob Wilkinson (186)
Jeremy Kennedy (145) vs. Alex Volkanovski (145.5)
Jussier Formiga (126.15) vs. Ben Nguyen (125.5)
PRELIMINARY CARD: (UFC Fight Pass, 6:30 p.m. ET)
Mizuto Hirota (156) vs. Ross Pearson (156)
Teruto Ishihara (135.5) vs. Jose Quinonez (135)
Daichi Abe (170.5) vs. Luke Jumeau (170.5)
