Coming in at 185.5
@UriahHallMMA
is all business for
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— UFC (@ufc)
July 30, 2021
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. For the third week in a row, the
Ultimate Fighting Championship will put on a card airing on
ESPN, but it lost multiple fights during its dramatic
weigh-ins.
UFC on ESPN 28 is headlined by a bout between middleweight
mainstays Uriah Hall
and Sean
Strickland and both main eventers made weight. A middleweight
with tremendous knockout potential, Hall (17-9) is always a
wildcard when he enters the Octagon. “Primetime” is on the best
streak of his career having put together four straight wins inside
the UFC. In his last time out, Chris
Weidman suffered a gruesome leg injury from the first kick at
the beginning of their bout. Prior to that, Hall knocked out
Anderson
Silva, won a decision over Antonio
Carlos Jr. and decimated Bevon Lewis
with a perfectly placed uppercut. Hall stepped on the scale at
185.5 pounds.
Also on a four-fight win streak is Strickland (23-3), and he
remains unbeaten as a middleweight in his career. The 30-year-old
most recently picked up a TKO win over Brendan
Allen at a scheduled catchweight, and won a decision over
Krzysztof
Jotko. “Tarzan” will look to dive further into contention with
a win here, and he officially weighed 185 pounds for his first UFC
main event.
Although Hall and Strickland had no problem making weight, the same
could not be said for others on the card. Nicco
Montano (143) continued to struggle to hit her proper marks,
missing weight by seven pounds, which resulted in her bantamweight
bout against Yanan Wu
(135.5) getting scrapped. Also off is a bantamweight tilt between
Trevin
Jones (135) and Ronnie
Lawrence after Lawrence did not appear at the weigh-ins and was
pulled for medical issues. Finally, Philip
Rowe (173.5) came in 2.5 pounds above the welterweight limit
for his bout against Orion Cosce
(170.5), and this match will continue with a 20 percent fine for
Rowe going to Cosce.
UFC on ESPN 28 will air in its entirety on both ESPN+ and ESPN. The
prelims should begin around 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT, while the main
card starts at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
UFC on ESPN 28 Weigh-in Results:
Uriah
Hall (185.5) vs. Sean
Strickland (185)
Kyung
Ho Kang (136) vs. Rani Yahya
(136)
Cheyanne
Buys (116) vs. Gloria de
Paula (115.5)
Jared
Gooden (171) vs. Niklas
Stolze (170.5)
Zarrukh
Adashev (125.5) vs. Ryan Benoit
(126)
Bryan
Barberena (170.5) vs. Jason Witt
(170.5)
Nicco
Montano (143)* vs. Yanan Wu
(135.5)
Collin
Anglin (146) vs. Melsik
Baghdasaryan (145.5)
Rafa
Garcia (154) vs. Chris
Gruetzemacher (156)
Danny
Chavez (145.5) vs. Kai Kamaka
III (144.5)
Jinh Yu
Frey (115.5) vs. Ashley
Yoder (116)
Trevin
Jones (135) vs. Ronnie
Lawrence (N/A)**
Orion
Cosce (170.5) vs. Philip
Rowe (173.5)***
* Montano missed weight by seven pounds and the fight has been
canceled.
** Lawrence did not weigh in and the fight has been
canceled.
*** Rowe missed weight by 2.5 pounds and has been fined 20
percent of his purse.
