Marcando las 204.5 libras en la @brownbearC
#UFCVegas15 pic.twitter.com/Lf9pjD3X6y— ufcespanol (@UFCEspanol)
November 27, 2020
Sign up for ESPN+ right here, and you can then stream the UFC live on
your smart TV, computer, phone, tablet or streaming device via the
ESPN app. The
Ultimate Fighting Championship is making the best of a bad
situation with a 10-fight offering, and all but one of the fighters
remaining made weight. The promotion ends its busy November with
UFC on ESPN 18. The card was set to be headlined by heavyweight
contenders Curtis
Blaydes and Derrick
Lewis. However, Blaydes
tested positive for coronavirus and the fight has been pulled
just a day before it was scheduled to take place.
As a result of the change, the light heavyweight bout between
former title challenger Anthony
Smith and Devin Clark
will serve as the new five-round main event and the card will
continue with 10 fights. That wasn’t the only drama today, though,
as former featherweight Norma
Dumont Viana came in at 139.5 pounds for her bantamweight bout.
She has been fined a percentage of her purse, and the match against
Ashlee
Evans-Smith should continue as planned.
This marks the seventh straight main event for Smith (33-16). “Lionheart” is looking to bounce back from two straight losses to
Glover
Teixeira and Aleksandar
Rakic. Meanwhile, Clark (12-4) is looking for the biggest win
of his career and is riding a two-fight win streak over Alonzo
Menifield and Dequan
Townsend. Both of the new headliners made weight, with Smith
coming in at 205 pounds while Clark hit the 204.5-pound mark.
UFC on ESPN 18 will stream in its entirety on ESPN+ and begins at 8
p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The six-fight main card will also air on ESPN2
starting at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT.
UFC on ESPN 18 Weigh-in Results:
Anthony
Smith (205) vs. Devin Clark
(204.5)
Miguel
Baeza (171) vs. Takashi
Sato (170)
Josh
Parisian (265.5) vs. Parker
Porter (263)
Bill
Algeo (146) vs. Spike
Carlyle (145.5)
Ashlee
Evans-Smith (135.5) vs. Norma
Dumont Viana (139.5)*
Kai
Kamaka III (145) vs. Jonathan
Pearce (145.5)
Martin
Day (135.5) vs. Anderson
dos Santos (135)
Rachael
Ostovich (125.5) vs. Gina Mazany
(125.5)
Su
Mudaerji (126) vs. Malcolm
Gordon (126)
Luke
Sanders (140) vs. Joseph
Nathan Maness (139.5)
* Viana missed weight by 3.5 pounds and has been fined a
percentage of her purse. 
