LAS VEGAS – MMA Junkie was on scene and reporting live from Friday’s official UFC on ESPN 51 fighter weigh-ins, where two middleweights missed their marks.
In the main event, Vicente Luque (21-9-1 MMA, 14-5 UFC) takes on former lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos (32-14 MMA, 21-12 UFC) at welterweight. Luque was first to the scale and was 170.5 pounds. Ex-champ dos Anjos came much deeper in the session and was 171.
Two fighters missed weight. Middleweight Tafon Nchukwi (6-3 MMA, 2-3 UFC) was 3.5 pounds heavy for the middleweight non-title limit in his fight against AJ Dobson (6-2 MMA, 0-2 UFC). If the commission approves a new fight at a catchweight and Dobson agrees, Nchukwi will be fined a percentage of his purse. The same goes for Josh Fremd (10-4 MMA, 1-2 UFC), who came to the scale with 10 minutes left in the two-hour official window and was 3 pounds heavy for his main card opener against Jamie Pickett (13-9 MMA, 2-5 UFC).
