Saturday’s UFC event in Riyadh is a go after Friday’s weigh-ins in the cultural capital of Saudi Arabia.
Both men in the main event, former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker and his short-notice opponent Ikram Aliskerov, both his the scales without incident with Whittaker taking his one-pound allowance to weigh in at 186-pounds. Aliskerov, despite taking the fight on about a week’s notice following the withdrawal of original headliner Khamzat Chimaev, came in below championship weight at 184-pounds.
The all-Russian heavyweight co-main event fight between Sergei Pavlovich and Alexander Volkov is also official after they registered 260 and 258-pounds respectively.
Kelvin Gastelum, who told the media earlier in the week that he was struggling to cut down to the non-title welterweight limit of 171-pounds for his bout with Daniel Rodriguez, weighed in at 184.5 for what is now a middleweight contest. Rodriguez came in at 184-pounds.
Elsewhere, there were no misses on the 11-fight card.
The full UFC Saudi Arabia weigh-in results are:
MAIN CARD
- Robert Whittaker (186) vs. Ikram Aliskerov (184)
- Sergei Pavlovich (260) vs. Alexander Volkov (258)
- Kelvin Gastelum (184.5) vs. Daniel Rodriguez (184)
- Shara Magomedov (185.5) vs. Antonio Trocoli (185.5)
- Volkan Oezdemir (206) vs. Johnny Walker (206)
PRELIM CARD
- Jared Gordon (156) vs. Nasrat Haqparast (156)
- Felipe Lima (145.5) vs. Muhammad Naimov (145.5)
- Nicolas Dalby (171) vs. Rinat Fakhretdinov (170.5)
- Muin Gafurov (136) vs. Kyung Ho Kang (136)
- Magomed Gadzhiyasulov (205) vs. Brendson Ribeiro (205)
- Chang Ho Lee (136) vs. Xiao Long (136)
