{"id":87723,"date":"2025-08-22T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87723\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:04:07","slug":"ufc-fight-night-257-weigh-in-results-brian-ortega-vs-aljamain-sterling-moved-to-lightweight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87723\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fight Night 257 weigh-in results: Brian Ortega vs. Aljamain Sterling moved to lightweight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official weigh-ins for <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/events\/ufc-fight-night-shanghai-august-23-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Fight Night 257;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Fight Night 257<\/a> took place Friday (late Thursday in North America), and you can get all the results here.<\/p>\n<p>The weigh-ins took place at the UFC host hotel in Shanghai. The nearby Mercedes-Benz Arena hosts Saturday&#8217;s event (<a href=\"https:\/\/go.web.plus.espn.com\/bOQO4M\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ESPN+;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ESPN+<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Among those weighing in were Johnny Walker (21-9 MMA, 7-6 UFC) and rising Chinese middleweight star Zhang Mingyang (19-6 MMA, 3-0 UFC), who will be fighting in front of his home fans in the main event.<\/p>\n<p>The scheduled co-main event between former featherweight title challenger Brian Ortega (16-4 MMA, 8-4 UFC) meets ex-bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling (24-5 MMA, 16-5 UFC) was shifted to a lightweight contest following a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexBehunin\/status\/1958722046109643000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:report that the bout had been canceled;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">report that the bout had been canceled<\/a> due to Ortega being allegedly hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>The full UFC Fight Night 257 weigh-in results include:<\/p>\n<p>MAIN CARD (ESPN+, 6 a.m. ET)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Johnny Walker (206) vs. Zhang Mingyang (205)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Brian Ortega (153) vs. Aljamain Sterling (153)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Waldo Cortes-Acosta (262) vs. Sergei Pavlovich (255.5)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kevin Borjas (126) vs. Su Mudaerji (125.5)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kiefer Crosbie (170.5) vs. Taiyilake Nueraji (170)<\/p>\n<p>PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 3 a.m. ET)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hayisaer Maheshate (155) vs. Gauge Young (155.5)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Charles Johnson (126) vs. Lone&#8217;er Kavanagh (126)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Austin Hubbard (155.5) vs. Rong Zhu (155.5)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Kyle Daukaus (185) vs. Michel Pereira (186)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yi Zha (145) vs. Westin Wilson (146)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Xiao Long (136) vs. SuYoung You (135.5)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Diyar Nurgozhay (205.5) vs. Uran Satybaldiev (204)<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/08\/21\/ufc-shanghai-weigh-in-results-brian-ortega-aljamain-sterling-moved-lightweight\/85762531007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC Shanghai weigh-in results: Ortega-Sterling moved to lightweight;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC Shanghai weigh-in results: Ortega-Sterling moved to lightweight<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Official weigh-ins for UFC Fight Night 257 took place Friday (late Thursday in North America), and you can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[28097,50460,49,48,641,51932,638,82,36996,50876],"class_list":{"0":"post-87723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-aljamain-sterling","9":"tag-brian-ortega","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-johnny-walker","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc-fight-night","17":"tag-zhang-mingyang"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87723","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=87723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}