Two fighters miss weight at UFC 273

Friday’s official UFC 273 fighter weigh-ins took place at the UFC host hotel in Jacksonville, Fla., and precede the ceremonial weigh-ins for the fans, which take place at 4 p.m. ET at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville.

The same venue hosts Saturday’s event. Two fighters didn’t manage to make their category limits.

Among those weighing in still were featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and “The Korean Zombie” Chan Sung Jung, who meet in the main event, and bantamweight champ Aljamain Sterling and interim titleholder and former champ Petr Yan, who meet in the co-main event rematch.

The full UFC 273 weigh-in results:

MAIN CARD

Champ Alexander Volkanovski (144.5) vs. Chan Sung Jung (144.5) – for featherweight title

Champ Aljamain Sterling (134.5) vs. interim champ Petr Yan (134) – for bantamweight title

Gilbert Burns (170) vs. Khamzat Chimaev (170)

Mackenzie Dern (115.5) vs. Tecia Torres (115.5)

Mark Madsen (155) vs. Vinc Pichel (155.5)

PRELIMINARY CARD

Ian Garry (170.5) vs. Darian Weeks (170.5)

Jairzinho Rozenstruik (252.5) vs. Marcin Tybura (253)

Aspen Ladd (136) vs. Raquel Pennington (134.5)

Mickey Gall (170.5) vs. Mike Malott (170.5)

Aleksei Oleinik (244) vs. Jared Vanderaa (266)

Josh Fremd (185.5) vs. Anthony Hernandez (186)

Kay Hansen (118.5)* vs. Piera Rodriguez (115)

Julio Arce (136.5)** vs. Daniel Santos (135.5)

* Missed strawweight limit by 2.5 pounds; fined 20 percent of purse
** Missed bantamweight limit by 0.5 pounds

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