The headliners of the event successfully coped with the procedure – Sterling showed 134 pounds (60.8 kg), and Cejudo kept within 135 pounds (61.2 kg).
The welterweight contenders, Gilbert Burns and Belal Muhammad, had no problem hitting the limit in their weight class, recording 171 pounds (77.6 kg) and 170 pounds (77.1 kg), respectively.
Russian participants of the tournament, featherweight Movsar Evloev and middleweight Ikram Aliskerov, like their rivals, successfully made weight.
All weighing results:
Main fights
(C) Aljamain Sterling (134) vs. Henry Cejudo (135) – bantamweight title fight
Gilbert Burns (171) – Belal Muhammad (170)
Jessica Andrade (115) vs. Xiaonan Yang (115)
Movsar Evloev (145) – Diego Lopez (146)
Kron Gracie (145) vs. Charles Jourdain (145)
Preliminaries
Drew Dober (155.5) – Matt Frevola (155)
Devin Clark (205) vs. Kennedy Nzechukwu (205)
Rolando Bedoya (170) – Chaos Williams (169)
Virna Yandiroba (115) — Marina Rodriguez (115)
Early preliminary bouts
Parker Porter (249) – Braxton Smith (262)
Ikram Aliskerov (186) — Phil Howes (185)
Rafael Estevam ()*— Zhalgas Zhumagulov (125)
Joseph Holmes (189)** – Claudio Ribeiro (185)
*Estevam did not weigh in due to problems with weight cutting, the fight with Zhumagulov was canceled
**Holmes is three pounds (1.36 kg) over the average weight limit and will be fined 20% of the fee for the fight
The demonstration weigh-in ceremony will take place at 23:00 Moscow time: