At the UFC 322 weigh-ins, all 28 fighters on Saturday\u2019s UFC fight card step on the scale Friday in New York. Watch MMA Fighting\u2019s live stream of Friday\u2019s official weigh-ins above.<\/p>\n
In the main event, Jack Della Maddalena defends his welterweight title against Islam Makhachev. The superfight materialized after Makhachev chose to vacate his lightweight title following four straight successful defenses and move up to the 170-pound division. Della Maddalena won the welterweight belt this past May with a thrilling decision win over Belal Muhammad and now looks to stop Makhachev\u2019s 15-fight win streak.<\/p>\n
The headliners can weigh no more than 170 pounds for the championship bout.<\/p>\n
The co-main event also feature an epic superfight, as Valentina Shevchenko defends her flyweight title against former strawweight champion Zhang Weili. Like Makhachev, Zhang vacated her belt following a string of successful defenses and now looks to join Amanda Nunes as the only women to win UFC titles in two divisions. Shevchenko is currently in her second reign as 125-pound champion and she seeks her ninth successful title defense in total.<\/p>\n
Shevchenko and Zhang can weigh no more than 125 pounds for the championship bout.<\/p>\n
The UFC 322 official weigh-in video starts at 9 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n
The UFC 321 ceremonial weigh-in video starts at 5 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
Main Card (ESPN+ PPV at 10 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n
Jack Della Maddalena vs. Islam Makhachev<\/p>\n
Valentina Shevchenko vs. Zhang Weili<\/p>\n
Sean Brady vs. Michael Morales<\/p>\n
Leon Edwards vs. Carlos Prates<\/p>\n
Beneil Dariush vs. Benoit Saint Denis<\/p>\n
Preliminary Card (ESPNews\/ESPN+\/Disney+\/FX at 8 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n
Bo Nickal vs. Rodolfo Vieira<\/p>\n
Roman Kopylov vs. Gregory Rodrigues<\/p>\n
Erin Blanchfield vs. Tracy Cortez<\/p>\n
Malcolm Wellmaker vs. Cody Haddon<\/p>\n
Early Prelims (ESPN+\/Disney+\/FX at 6 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n
Kyle Daukaus vs. Gerald Meerschaert<\/p>\n
Pat Sabatini vs. Chepe Mariscal<\/p>\n
Angela Hill vs. Fatima Kline<\/p>\n
Baisangur Susurkaev vs. Eric McConico<\/p>\n
Viacheslav Borshchev vs. Matheus Camilo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the UFC 322 weigh-ins, all 28 fighters on Saturday\u2019s UFC fight card step on the scale Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702,3194],"class_list":{"0":"post-282474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}