All eyes on these two welterweights tomorrow
night đź‘€@VicenteLuqueMMA
vs @RDosAnjosMMA#UFCVegas78
| TOMORROW | Live on ESPN+ 📺 pic.twitter.com/51OqxN9ncj— UFC (@ufc)
August 11, 2023
Vicente
Luque can undoubtedly hear the whispers and would like nothing
more than to quiet the doubters who believe him to be on the
backside of an outstanding run in the
Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight division.
Luque tipped the scales at 170.5 pounds ahead of his
UFC on ESPN 51 main event opposite Rafael dos
Anjos (171) on Saturday at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, where he
will look to rebound from back-to-back losses for the first time in
his 31-fight career. Featherweight co-headliners Cub Swanson
(146) and Hakeem
Dawodu (146) also met their contracted weight requirements
without issue at Friday’s official weigh-in. The same could not be
said across the board, as a pair of main-card middleweights missed
the mark by multiple pounds apiece.
UFC on ESPN 51 “Luque vs. Dos Anjos”—which airs live on ESPN and
streams to ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT—also features a light
heavyweight scuffle matching Khalil
Rountree (203.5) with Chris
Daukaus (205), a women’s strawweight clash pitting Polyana
Viana (116) against Iasmin
Lucindo (116) and a pair of middleweight tilts, as Tafon
Nchukwi (189.5)* meets A.J. Dobson
(185.5) and Josh Fremd
(189)** faces Jamie
Pickett (186). The undercard can be viewed on ESPN and ESPN+ at
4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT, with a bantamweight scrap between Marcus
McGhee (136) and J.P. Buys (136)
highlighting the preliminary slate.
UFC on ESPN 51 Weigh-in Results:
Vicente
Luque (170.5) vs. Rafael dos
Anjos (171)
Cub
Swanson (146) vs. Hakeem
Dawodu (146)
Khalil
Rountree (203.5) vs. Chris
Daukaus (205)
Polyana
Viana (116) vs. Iasmin
Lucindo (116)
Tafon
Nchukwi (189.5)* vs. A.J. Dobson
(185.5)
Josh
Fremd (189)** vs. Jamie
Pickett (186)
Marcus
McGhee (136) vs. J.P. Buys
(136)
Terrance
McKinney (156) vs. Mike
Breeden (156)
Francis
Marshall (145.5) vs. Isaac
Dulgarian (145.5)
Josh
Parisian (266) vs. Martin
Buday (266)
Montserrat
Ruiz (113) vs. Jaqueline
Amorim (116)
Da’Mon
Blackshear (136) vs. Jose
Johnson (135.5)
Juliana
Miller (126) vs. Luana
Santos (126)
* Nchukwi missed weight by 3.5 pounds and has been fined a
percentage of his purse.
** Fremd missed weight by three pounds and has been fined a
percentage of his purse.