Making weight is never easy. Mixed martial arts MMA is different than most professional sports in the fact that the athletes are forced to make a certain weight within 24 hours of competition. Usually this process involves a weight cut and often times extreme dehyrdation,
Two fighters who are competing at UFC Vegas 113 missed weight by an astounding 5 pounds each.Gianni Vazquez weighed in at 141 and will fight Javid Basharat while Mauin Gafurov also weighed in at 141 and will fight Jakub Wiklacz. Both Wiklacz and Basharat made the bantamweight limit with both of those fighters making 135.5. Both Vazquez and Gafurov will forefit 25% of their show purse to the opponents.
The two women on the prelims Eduarda Moura and Wang COng both came in at 127 and 127,5 making their scheudled fight a catchweight. Niether fighter will forfeit any of their purse however as both fighters missed the weight by the same amount so no purse will be forfited.
The main card all made weight as the main event is Mario Bautista against Vinicius Oliveira and the CO Main event is Kyoji Horiguchi against Amir Albazi. Heavyweiht Jailton ALmeida faces Rizvan Kuniev, and Michael Oleksiejczuk faces Marc-Andre Barriault with the final two main card fights on paramount + being Farid Basharat Vs Jean Matsumoto and Dustin Jacoby against Julius Walker.
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