Dos Santos-Tuivasa Official
The UFC makes its second visit to Australia in 2018, with this stop in Adelaide as former UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos takes on Australia’s own Tai Tuivasa in a five-round main event matchup at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
The two heavyweight combatants made it official on Friday morning as both reached the heavyweight limit.
Junior Dos Santos, who out-pointed UFC newcomer Blagoy Ivanov by unanimous decision back in July, weighed in at 255 pounds.
Tai Tuivasa, coming off a huge split-decision victory over former UFC heavyweight champion Andre Arlovski at UFC 225, tipped the scales at 262 pounds.
The co-main event features a heavyweight tilt between beloved Australian MMA icon Mark Hunt and rising heavyweight contender Justin Willis.
Hunt, looking for his first victory since defeating Derrick Lewis by 4th-Round TKO last year in June, weighed in at 264 pounds. Willis, seeking to improve to 4-0 in the octagon, would come in at 263.5 pounds
The official weigh-in results are below.
UFC Fight Night 142 Weigh-In Results
Junior dos Santos (255) vs. Tai Tuivasa (262)
Mark Hunt (264) vs. Justin Willis (263.5)
Mauricio Rua (206) vs Tyson Pedro (205)
Jake Matthews (171) vs. Anthony Rocco Martin (171)
Sodiq Yusuff (145) vs. Suman Mokhtarian (145)
Jim Crute (205) vs. Paul Craig (206)
Alexey Kunchenko (170) vs. Yushin Okami (170)
Wilson Reis (125.5) vs. Ben Nguyen (125.5)
Keita Nakamura (171) vs. Salim Touahri (171)
Elias Garcia (124.5) vs. Kai Kara-France (126)
Mizuto Hirota (156) vs. Christos Giagos (155)
Damir Ismagulov (155) vs. Alex Gorgees (156)
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