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The Bellator 60 weigh-ins are in the books, and the organization’s first season-six event got off to a fairly rocky start.
Although Bellator featherweight champion Joe Warren (145 pounds) and fellow headliner Pat Curran (144.8) made weight, not everyone else did.
Today’s festivities took place at at Horseshoe Hammond in Hammond, Ind. The resort also plays host to Friday’s event.
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The UFC recently added flyweights to their line-up, but where does this tiny new weight class stack up against its counterparts? Using MMA Weekly’s rankings as a guide, Cagewriter ranked MMA’s weight classes. 1. Lightweight: As soon as Benson Henderson … Continue reading →
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – MMAjunkie.com was on scene and reporting live from today’s official “Strikeforce: Tate
vs. Rousey” fighter weigh-ins, where all 18 competitors successfully
made weight.
Today’s festivities took place at the Greater Columbus Convention Center
in Columbus, Ohio, in conjunction with the Arnold Sports Festival.
Strikeforce women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate (134.5 pounds) and
fellow headliner Ronda Rousey (134.5), who made the drop from
featherweight, are now cleared for their title fight.
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SYDNEY – MMAjunkie.com was on scene and reporting
live from tonight’s official UFC on FX 2 fighter
weigh-ins, where headliners Thiago Alves and Martin Kampmann made their welterweight contest official.
Additionally, Joseph Benavidez, Yasuhiro Urushitani, Demetrious Johnson
and Ian McCall weighed in at the same mark of 125.5 pounds in advance of their flyweight tourney
opening-round matchups.
Today’s weigh-ins took place at Sydney’s Allphones Arena, which also hosts Saturday’s event.
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Quinton Jackson didn’t come to Japan ready to fight and it costed him in what he hoped would be a triumphant return. The former PRIDE legend and UFC light heavyweight champ didn’t make weight on Friday. When it came time … Continue reading →
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Quinton “Rampage” Jackson said an undisclosed injury contributed to his inability to make weight for tonight’s UFC 144 event.
He also has a problem with FUEL TV guest analyst and fellow UFC fighter Rich Franklin, who questioned how seriously Jackson took his fight camp.
“Rich Franklin needs to watch his mouth before I smack him the next time I see him,” Jackson said during a FUEL TV weigh-in special.
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The rumors of Quinton Jackson having a lousy training camp appeared to have been true based on his condition when he stepped on the scales tonight in Tokyo. The former UFC light heavyweight champion missed the 205 pound limit … Continue reading →
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Former heavyweight D.J. Linderman apparently rushed his move to middleweight too quickly.
The Bellator vet and 185-pound hopeful came in 10 pounds over weight for his Legacy Fighting Championships 10 headliner, and original opponent Gerald Harris now will fight Eric Davila in the co-headliner on Friday.
Legacy promoter Mick Maynard today confirmed the card’s shakeup with MMAjunkie.com.
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Heavyweight headliners Andreas Kraniotakes (240 pounds) are Dmitry Poberezhets (236.9) have successfully made weight for Thursday’s Cage Warriors 46 event.
Today’s weigh-ins took place in Kiev, Ukraine. The city’s Stereo Plaza hosts Thursday’s event, which includes a live main-card stream on MMAjunkie.com beginning at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT) following a one-hour Facebook preliminary-card stream at 1 p.m. ET.
Not all fighters made weight, though.
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All fighters taking part in the broadcast portion of Saturday’s Cage Warriors 45 event have successfully made weight for the show.
The weigh-ins took place today in London. The city’s HMV Forum hosts Saturday’s event, which includes a main card streamed live on MMAjunkie.com (4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT) and prelims on Facebook (3 p.m. ET).
Heavyweight headliners Bobby Brents (247.2 pounds) and Rogent Lloret (236.5) both made weight without issue.
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