Saturday’s UFC event in Riyadh is a go after Friday’s weigh-ins in the cultural capital of Saudi Arabia.
Both men in the main event, former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker and his short-notice opponent Ikram Aliskerov, both his the scales without incident with Whittaker taking his one-pound allowance to weigh in at 186-pounds. Aliskerov, despite taking the fight on about a week’s notice following the withdrawal of original headliner Khamzat Chimaev, came in below championship weight at 184-pounds.
The all-Russian heavyweight co-main event fight between Sergei Pavlovich and Alexander Volkov is also official after they registered 260 and 258-pounds respectively.
Kelvin Gastelum, who told the media earlier in the week that he was struggling to cut down to the non-title welterweight limit of 171-pounds for his bout with Daniel Rodriguez, weighed in at 184.5 for what is now a middleweight contest. Rodriguez came in at 184-pounds.
Elsewhere, there were no misses on the 11-fight card.
The full UFC Saudi Arabia weigh-in results are:
MAIN CARD
Robert Whittaker (186) vs. Ikram Aliskerov (184)
Sergei Pavlovich (260) vs. Alexander Volkov (258)
Kelvin Gastelum (184.5) vs. Daniel Rodriguez (184)
Shara Magomedov (185.5) vs. Antonio Trocoli (185.5)
Volkan Oezdemir (206) vs. Johnny Walker (206)
PRELIM CARD
Jared Gordon (156) vs. Nasrat Haqparast (156)
Felipe Lima (145.5) vs. Muhammad Naimov (145.5)
Nicolas Dalby (171) vs. Rinat Fakhretdinov (170.5)
Muin Gafurov (136) vs. Kyung Ho Kang (136)
Magomed Gadzhiyasulov (205) vs. Brendson Ribeiro (205)
Chang Ho Lee (136) vs. Xiao Long (136)
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