Bryan Battle and Anthony Smith are already down on the cards heading into UFC 310 this Saturday.
At Friday’s official weigh-ins for the final UFC pay-per-view of 2024, which takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Battle and Smith were the only two fighters to miss weight on their first attempts.
Battle came in way over the welterweight limit for his fight with Randy Brown, registering at 175 pounds, which is four pounds heavy even including a one-pound allowance for non-title fights. Smith was heavy by a smaller margin, coming in at 207.5 pounds, 1.5 pounds over the limit for his bout with Dominick Reyes.
As of this writing, it is not yet known if Battle or Smith will attempt to make use of the second hour of the weigh-in window or if their respective bouts will proceed as catchweights with the offending fighters forfeiting a percentage of their purse as penalty.
Fortunately for the UFC, the rest of the weigh-ins went off without a hitch, including flyweight title fight headliners Alexandre Pantoja and Kai Asakura both successfully stepping to the scale at 124.5 pounds. Pantoja seeks a third defense of his belt, while Asakura debuts with a championship opportunity after coming over from Japan’s RIZIN promotion, where he was a two-time bantamweight titleholder.
In the five-round co-main event, undefeated welterweights Shavkat Rakhmonov and Ian Machado Garry successfully made weight, with both coming in at 171 pounds.
See UFC 310 official weigh-in results below.
Main Card (ESPN+ PPV at 10 p.m. ET)
Alexandre Pantoja (124.5) vs. Kai Asakura (124.5)
Shavkat Rakhmonov (171) vs. Ian Machado Garry (171)
Ciryl Gane (245.5) vs. Alexander Volkov (254.5)
Bryce Mitchell (146) vs. Kron Gracie (144.5)
Nate Landwehr (145.5) vs. Doo Ho Choi (146)
Preliminary Card (ESPN+/ESPN2/FX at 8 p.m. ET)
Anthony Smith (207.5)* vs. Dominick Reyes (205)
Vicente Luque (170.5) vs. Themba Gorimbo (171)
Aljamain Sterling (145.5) vs. Movsar Evloev (145.5)
Randy Brown (171) vs. Bryan Battle (175)*
Early Prelims (ESPN+ at 6 p.m. ET)
Chris Weidman (194.5) vs. Eryk Anders (193) — 195-pound catchweight bout
Cody Durden (126) vs. Joshua Van (126)
Michael Chiesa (170.5) vs. Max Griffin (170)
Chase Hooper (155.5) vs. Clay Guida (155)
Kennedy Nzechukwu (236.5) vs. Lukasz Brzeski (234)
*missed weight
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