LAS VEGAS – Friday’s official UFC Fight Night 244 (ESPN+) weigh-ins are in the books, and it was far from a perfect session in “Sin City.”
Three fighters missed their marks on the scale on their first attempts. Jared Gooden (23-9 MMA, 2-4 UFC) was 172.5 pounds for his welterweight bout against Chidi Njokuani (23-10 MMA, 3-3 UFC) on the main card, but was given an additional hour to cut.
Josh Fremd (11-6 MMA, 2-4 UFC), though, will be fined a percentage of his purse if the commission and Abdul Razak Alhassan (12-6 MMA, 6-6 UFC) approve a new middleweight bout. Fremd was 3 pounds over at 189. The same goes for Dan Argueta (9-2 MMA, 1-2 UFC), who was heavy for his bantamweight prelim against Cody Haddon (7-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC).
In the main event, recent flyweight title challenger Brandon Royval (16-7 MMA, 6-3 UFC) takes on the unbeaten Tatsuro Taira (16-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC). Taira was first to the scale in the one-hour window at the UFC Apex and was 125.5 pounds. Royval was just a few minutes behind him in the queue and was 125.5, as well.
In the co-feature, JunYong Park (17-6 MMA, 7-3 UFC) and Brad Tavares (20-9 MMA, 15-9 UFC) hit their middleweight marks without issue. They weighed in consecutively and were 185.5 and 185 pounds, respectively.
The full UFC Fight Night 244 weigh-in results included:
MAIN CARD (ESPN+, 7 p.m. ET)
- Brandon Royval (125.5) vs. Tatsuro Taira (125.5)
- JunYong Park (185.5) vs. Brad Tavares (185)
- Jared Gooden (172.5)* vs. Chidi Njokuani (170.5)
- Grant Dawson (156) vs. Rafa Garcia (154.5)
- Alex Morono (170.5) vs. Daniel Rodriguez (170)
- Abdul Razak Alhassan (186) vs. Josh Fremd (189)**
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 4 p.m. ET)
- Ramazonbek Temirov (125.5) vs. CJ Vergara (126)
- Jonathan Pearce (145) vs. Pat Sabatini (145)
- Themba Gorimbo (170.5) vs. Niko Price (170.5)
- Sean Sharaf (252) vs. Junior Tafa (241)
- Cory McKenna (115) vs. Julia Polastri (115)
- Dan Argueta (138.5)*** vs. Cody Haddon (135)
- Clayton Carpenter (125.5) vs. Lucas Rocha (125.5)
*Gooden missed the welterweight limit and will be fined 20 percent of his purse.
**Fremd missed the middleweight limit. His fight with Alhassan was canceled by the commission.
***Argueta missed the bantamweight limit and will be fined 20 percent of his purse.
For more on the card, visit MMA Junkie’s event hub for UFC Fight Night 244.
