Middleweight champ hits the scale first
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💪@DricusDuPlessis
hits the scale at 185 pounds!
#UFC312 | Saturday 10pmET | Live on @ESPNPlus
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February 7, 2025
The
UFC 312 weigh-ins took place, finalizing the card for the
pay-per-view and seeing one fight fall through.
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The
Ultimate Fighting Championship’s return to Australia will have
one less fight than planned as a preliminary flyweight fight
between Hyun Sung
Park vs. Nyamjargal
Tumendemberel was canceled due to Tumendemberel being unable to
make weight. In more fortunate news, the middleweight title fight
rematch between Dricus Du
Plessis and Sean
Strickland will go forward, as will the co-main event
strawweight title fight pitting Weili Zhang
against Tatiana
Suarez.
Du Plessis (22-2) won the belt from Strickland via split decision
in January of last year. The South African fighter followed up the
victory with a face crank submission win over Israel
Adesanya. „Stillknocks“ rides a 10-fight win streak into his
second attempted title defense. The 31-year-old stepped on the
scale weighing 185 pounds on the dot.
Meanwhile, Strickland (29-6) bounced back from losing the title by
achieving a split decision win over Paulo
Costa. „Tarzan“ is now 4-1 in his last five fights inside the
Octagon, which saw him upset Adesanya to become an unexpected
champion. The 33-year-old will get a chance at revenge on Saturday
and to reclaim the belt he lost last year. Looking as fit as ever,
the American also weighed 185 pounds.
UFC 312 will air live on ESPN+ pay-per-view starting at 10 p.m.
ET/7 p.m. PT on Saturday. Prelims begin on ESPN+ and UFC Fight Pass
at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT before moving to ESPN+ and ESPN2 at 8 p.m.
ET/5 p.m. PT.
UFC 312 Weigh-in Results:
Dricus Du
Plessis (185) vs. Sean
Strickland (185)
Weili
Zhang (115) vs. Tatiana
Suarez (114.5)
Justin
Tafa (266) vs. Tallison
Teixeira (263)
Rodolfo
Bellato (205) vs. Jimmy Crute
(206)
Jake
Matthews (170.5) vs. Francisco
Prado (170.5)
Jack
Jenkins (146) vs. Gabriel
Santos (145.5)
Viacheslav
Borshchev (156) vs. Tom Nolan
(155.5)
Bruna
Brasil (125.5) vs. Cong Wang
(125)
Colby
Thicknesse (135.5) vs. Aleksandre
Topuria (135.5)
Kody
Steele (156) vs. Zhu Rong
(156)
Kevin
Jousset (171) vs. Jonathan
Micallef (170)
Anshul
Jubli (155.5) vs. Quillan
Salkilld (156)