Looking to get his belt back 😤@AlexVolkanovski
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weighs-in at 145lbs!
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April 11, 2025
The
Ultimate Fighting Championship makes its return to Miami for an
exciting
UFC 314 pay-per-view card featuring 13 fights.
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The main event between Alexander
Volkanovski and Diego Lopes
for the vacant featherweight championship is now official after the
weigh-ins took place. Both men made weight for the five-round
fight. As for the rest of the card, only Nora
Cornolle failed to hit her contracted weight, as she was 1.5
pounds over the bantamweight limit. Her fight against Hailey
Cowan will continue, although Cornolle will be fined a
percentage of her purse.
Volkanovski (26-4) enters the title fight on a shocking two-fight
losing streak as he lost to lightweight champion Islam
Makhachev in his second bid at the 155-pound title and was then
knocked out by Ilia
Topuria. “The Great” will look to regain his featherweight belt
for the first time, as he had previously defended it against
Max
Holloway, Yair
Rodriguez, Brian
Ortega and Chan Sung
Jung. “The Great” stepped on the scale at 145 pounds on the
dot.
This is the biggest fight in the career of Lopes (26-6). The
Brazilian quickly went from prospect to contender with wins over
Sodiq
Yusuff, Dan Ige and
Ortega. The 30-year-old Brazilian enters the fight on a five-fight
win streak and will look to wear UFC gold for the first time. The
Lobo Gym MMA product also weighed 145 pounds.
The UFC 314 main card will air live on ESPN+ pay-per-view starting
at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m on Saturday. PT. Prelims begin at 6 p.m. ET/3
p.m. PT on ESPN+ and UFC Fight Pass before moving to ESPN+ and ESPN
at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
UFC 314 Weigh-in Results:
Alexander
Volkanovski (145) vs. Diego Lopes
(145)
Michael
Chandler (156) vs. Paddy
Pimblett (156)
Bryce
Mitchell (146) vs. Jean Silva
(146)
Patricio
Freire (145) vs. Yair
Rodriguez (146)
Nikita
Krylov (206) vs. Dominick
Reyes (206)
Dan Ige
(146) vs. Sean
Woodson (146)
Virna
Jandiroba (116) vs. Xiaonan Yan
(116)
Chase
Hooper (156) vs. Jim Miller
(156)
Darren
Elkins (145) vs. Julian
Erosa (145)
Sedriques
Dumas (185) vs. Michal
Oleksiejczuk (186)
Su
Mudaerji (126) vs. Mitch
Raposo (126)
Tresean
Gore (186) vs. Marco Tulio
(186)
Nora
Cornolle (137.5)* vs. Hailey
Cowan (136)
* Cornolle missed weight by 1.5 pounds and will be fined a
percentage of her purse.