{"id":171828,"date":"2025-09-27T03:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171828\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T03:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T03:09:14","slug":"fight-scrubbed-before-exciting-sept-26-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171828\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight Scrubbed Before Exciting Sept. 26 Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC Perth is almost here. Saturday morning (Australia time,) the show\u2019s official weigh-in window took place in Western Australia. There\u2019s been a slight alteration to the planned schedule<\/a> of events for this weekend\u2019s show.<\/p>\n


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Two Contestants Withdraw from UFC Perth Ahead of Card<\/p>\n

Initially on tomorrow evening\u2019s main card<\/a> (10 pm ET\/ 7 pm PT, ESPN+<\/a>), Justin Tafa<\/a> was slated to have fought Louie Sutherland<\/a> in a heavyweight tilt before the former fell ill, resulting in UFC officials postponing the heavyweight contest. Sutherland, however, successfully made weight at 259 lbs.<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t the only fight to be scrubbed ahead of Saturday night\u2019s itinerary. A welterweight affair on the undercard<\/a> (7 pm ET\/ 4 pm PT, ESPN+) was scrubbed on Friday morning in the Southern Hemisphere after Oban Elliott took ill<\/a>, cancelling his planned contest versus Jonathan Micallef. As a result, UFC Perth now has 12 fights on the card.<\/p>\n

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\nUFC Perth Weigh-Ins See Tavares Narrowly Miss Target Saturday Morning<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s official weigh-ins weren\u2019t without their problems. Aside from Justin Tafa resigning from the card due to illness, a featherweight contestant just missed weighing-in on-target today.<\/p>\n

Ramon Tavares (147 lbs) exceeded the 146-lb nontitle maximum by a single pound at the scales today. His adversary, Jack Jenkins (146 lbs) made weight without issue.<\/p>\n

UFC Perth Main, Co-Main Events Locked In With Official Weigh-In Window<\/p>\n

Both the main and co-main events will proceed as planned after the Saturday morning weigh-ins. No. 3 contender Carlos Ulberg<\/a> (205 lbs) and No. 7 contender Dominick Reyes<\/a> (206 lbs) came in either slightly below or at the nontitle maximum for light heavyweights.<\/p>\n

UFC Perth\u2019s co-headliner sees more light heavyweight action taking place when Australia\u2019s Jimmy Crute<\/a> (205 lbs) meets Ivan Erslan (206 lbs.)<\/p>\n

UFC Perth Weigh-In Results:<\/p>\n

Main Card: (Tomorrow, 10 pm ET\/ 7 pm PT, ESPN+- United States Only)<\/p>\n

UFC Perth Main Event:\u00a0Carlos Ulberg (205 lbs) vs. Dominick Reyes (206 lbs)\u00a0Light Heavyweight<\/p>\n

Co-Main Event: Jimmy Crute (205 lbs) vs. Ivan Erslan (206 lbs)\u00a0Light Heavyweight<\/p>\n

Jack Jenkins (146 lbs) vs. Ramon Tavares (147 lbs)\u00a0Featherweight- Tavares exceeded 146-lb nontitle maximum.<\/p>\n

Jake Matthews (170 lbs) vs. Neil Magny (170 lbs)\u00a0Welterweight<\/p>\n

Tom Nolan (155 lbs) vs. Charlie Campbell (155 1\/2 lbs)\u00a0Lightweight<\/p>\n

Prelims: (Tomorrow, 7 pm ET\/ 4 pm PT, ESPN+- United States Only)<\/p>\n

Featured Prelim: Navajo Stirling (205 1\/2 lbs) vs. Rodolfo Bellato (205 lbs) Light Heavyweight<\/p>\n

Co-Featured Prelim: Cam Rowston (184 1\/2 lbs) vs. Andre Petroski (185 1\/2 lbs) Middleweight<\/p>\n

Jaime Mullarkey (156 lbs) vs. Rolando Bedoya (156 lbs)\u00a0Lightweight<\/p>\n

Colby Thicknesse (135 1\/2 lbs) vs. Josias Musasa (135 1\/2 lbs)\u00a0\u00a0Bantamweight<\/p>\n

Michelle Montague (134 1\/2 lbs) vs. Luana Carolina (136 lbs)\u00a0Women\u2019s Bantamweight<\/p>\n

Brando Pericic (261 lbs) vs. Elisha Ellison (236 1\/2 lbs)\u00a0Heavyweight<\/p>\n

Loma Lookboonmee (115 1\/2 lbs) vs. Alexia Thainara (115 1\/2 lbs)\u00a0Strawweight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC Perth is almost here. Saturday morning (Australia time,) the show\u2019s official weigh-in window took place in Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-171828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}