Alexander Volkanovski, Movsar Evloev, Petr Yan, and Merab Dvalishvili are set to shine at UFC 333.
All four championship fight competitors successfully made weight for Saturday’s card in Abu Dhabi, with Volkanovski weighing in at 144.5 pounds for his main event featherweight title defense against the undefeated Movsar Evloev (145), and Yan and Dvalishvili both weighing in at 135 pounds for their co-main event trilogy bout with Yan’s bantamweight title on the line.
Unfortunately for the card, it wasn’t all good news, as preliminary strawweight competitor Nicolle Caliari came in well over the 115-pound limit, even with a one-pound allowance for a non-title fight. Caliari officially registered at 120.5 pounds, 4.5 pounds heavy, and as a result her bout with Iasmin Lucindo (115) will proceed at a catchweight with Caliari forfeiting 30 percent of her purse as penalty for the egregious miss.
The rest of the weigh-ins proceeded without issue as the other 27 fighters who stepped to the scale Friday morning local time all successfully made weight.
Main Card (Paramount+ 2 p.m. ET)
Alexander Volkanovski (144.5) vs. Movsar Evloev (145)
Petr Yan (135) vs. Merab Dvalishvili (135)
Lone’er Kavanagh (125.5) vs. Ramazan Temirov (126)
Alexander Volkov (256) vs. Rizvan Kuniev (265)
Aaron Pico (145.5) vs. Losene Keita (146)
Preliminary Card (Paramount+ at 12 p.m. ET)
Azamat Murzakanov (206) vs. Dominick Reyes (205)
Nikita Krylov (206) vs. Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev (206)
Abus Magomedov (185.5) vs. Cam Rowston (185)
Grant Dawson (156) vs. Nurullo Aliev (155)
Early Prelims (Paramount+ at 10 a.m. ET)
Colby Thicknesse (135.5) vs. Asaf Chopurov (136)
Abubakar Vagaev (185.5) vs. Jacob Malkoun (186)
Bolaji Oki (146) vs. Daniel Santos (146)
Kody Steele (156) vs. Noah Gugnon (156)
Iasmin Lucindo (115) vs. Nicolle Caliari (120.5)*
*Caliari missed weight. Her bout with Iasmin Lucindo proceeds at a catchweight, with Caliari forfeiting 30 percent of her purse as penalty
