Dricus du Plessis and Khamzat Chimaev are one step closer to settling their grudge in the octagon.<\/p>\n
At Friday\u2019s official weigh-ins for UFC 319, du Plessis and Chimaev both successfully made weight for the middleweight championship main event matchup. Chimaev was the first fighter to show up at the scale and he actually came in under the title fight limit at 183 pounds. Du Plessis later hit the mark at 185 pounds to make Saturday\u2019s matchup official.<\/p>\n
Middleweight contender Caio Borralho also successfully made weight, coming in at 184 pounds to potentially serve as the backup for the UFC 319 main event.<\/p>\n
The biggest story coming out of the morning weigh-ins was Bryan Battle missing weight by four pounds for a second straight fight. Compounding the error is the fact that Battle actually moved up a division from welterweight to middleweight after his previous gaffe and still did not come close, registering at 190 pounds for a 186-pound bout (including the one-pound allowance for a non-title fight).<\/p>\n
Battle\u2019s bout with Nursulton Ruziboev is now set to proceed at a catchweight, with Battle forfeiting 30 percent of his purse as penalty.<\/p>\n
Check out UFC 319 weigh-in results below.<\/p>\n
Main Card (ESPN+ PPV at 10 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n
Dricus du Plessis (185) vs. Khamzat Chimaev (183)<\/p>\n
Main event backup: Caio Borralho (184)<\/p>\n
Lerone Murphy (146) vs. Aaron Pico (145)<\/p>\n
Geoff Neal (171) vs. Carlos Prates (170)<\/p>\n
Jared Cannonier (186) vs. Michael Page (186)<\/p>\n
Tim Elliott (126) vs. Kai Asakura (126)<\/p>\n
Preliminary Card (ESPN\/ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n
Baysangur Susurkaev (186) vs. Eric Nolan (183)<\/p>\n
Gerald Meerschaert (185) vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk (186)<\/p>\n
Jessica Andrade (116) vs. Loopy Godinez (115)<\/p>\n
Chase Hooper (155) vs. Alexander Hernandez (156)<\/p>\n
Early Prelims (ESPN+ at 6 p.m. ET)<\/p>\n
Edson Barboza (155.5) vs. Drakkar Klose (156)<\/p>\n
Bryan Battle (190)* vs. Nursulton Ruziboev (186)<\/p>\n
Karine Silva (125) vs. Dione Barbosa (125)<\/p>\n
Alibi Idris (126) vs. Joseph Morales (126)<\/p>\n
*Battle missed weight. His bout with Nursulton Ruziboev proceeds at a catchweight with Battle forfeiting 30 percent of his purse as penalty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dricus du Plessis and Khamzat Chimaev are one step closer to settling their grudge in the octagon. At…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":["post-72122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72122","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=72122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}