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TOKYO – MMAjunkie was on scene and reporting live from today’s early and official UFC Fight Night 117 fighter weigh-ins, where one headliner very comfortably made weight – and one main-card fighter missed weight.
The early weigh-ins took place at the UFC host hotel in Tokyo. There are no ceremonial weigh-ins for the fans for this event.
UFC Fight Night 117 takes place Friday (Saturday morning in Japan) at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, near Tokyo. The card airs on FXX following an early prelim on UFC Fight Pass.
Among those weighing in were Yushin Okami (34-10 MMA, 13-5 UFC) and Ovince Saint Preux (20-10 MMA, 8-5), who made weight and meet in the light heavyweight main event. Strawweight co-headliners Jessica Andrade (16-6 MMA, 7-4 UFC) and Claudia Gadelha (15-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC) also made weight without issue and weighed 116 and 115, respectively.
Okami, who most recently has been fighting at welterweight, is returning to the UFC on short notice to fill in for injured Mauricio Rua. And Okami made weight without an issue. In fact, unlike most fighters, he didn’t even strip down to his underwear and instead wore regular shorts and tipped the scale at 203.5 pounds – well under the 206-pound limit. Saint Preux, meanwhile, weighed 206.
Most fighters hit the scale and successfully made weight during the first half hour of the two-hour window. In fact, the festivities would have wrapped up more than an hour early if it weren’t for Mizuto Hirota, who narrowly made the two-hour window but weighed 150 pounds – four pounds over the 146-limit for featherweights.
Hirota (18-8-2 MMA, 1-3-1 UFC), who seemed a bit dazed as he weighed in, meets Charles Rosa (11-3 MMA, 2-3 UFC), who weighed 145.5, in the main-card opener.
The bout will continue, UFC officials told MMAjunkie, and Hirota has been fined 30 percent of his purse, which goes to Rosa.
The full UFC Fight Night 117 weigh-in results included:
MAIN CARD (FXX, 10 p.m. ET)
- Yushin Okami (203.5) vs. Ovince Saint Preux (206)
- Jessica Andrade (116) vs. Claudia Gadelha (115)
- Takanori Gomi (156) vs. “Maestro” Dong Hyun Kim (156)
- Henrique da Silva (206) vs. Gokhan Saki (205)
- Rolando Dy (145) vs. Teruto Ishihara (145)
- Mizuto Hirota (150)* vs. Charles Rosa (145.5)
PRELIMINARY CARD (FXX, 8 p.m. ET)
- Alex Morono (170) vs. Keita Nakamura (170)
- Jussier Formiga (126) vs. Ulka Sasaki (125.5)
- Chan-Mi Jeon (116) vs. Syrui Kondo (116)
- Shinsho Anzai (171) vs. Luke Jumeau (170)
PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC FIGHT PASS, 7:30 p.m. ET)
- Daichi Abe (171) vs. Hyun Gyu Lim (170.5)
* – Missed weight; fined 30 percent of purse, which goes to Rosa
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