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Watch: UFC 302 weigh-in highlights

Saturday’s UFC 302 main event is a go after Friday’s early weigh-ins in Newark, New Jersey.

Both men in the headliner, titleholder Islam Makhachev and challenger Dustin Poirier, successfully hit championship weight of 155-pounds when the stepped on the scales hours out from their world title clash.

Elsewhere, in the co-main event former middleweight champion Sean Strickland was on the button at 185-pounds for his fight with Paulo Costa, who hit the same mark.

Similarly, every fight on the main card also passed its first hurdle without incident — with just one fighter, Andre Lima, missing weight for a flyweight prelim bout opposite Mitch Raposo.

In something of a rarity, the majority of fighters on the card all his championship weight, with only Phil Rowe taking the extra pound allowance made available for non-title fights for a welterweight fight with Jake Matthews.

The full UFC 302 weigh-in results are:

  • (c) Islam Makhachev (155) vs. Dustin Poirier (155)
  • Paulo Costa (185) vs. Sean Strickland (185)
  • Kevin Holland (185) vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk (185)
  • Alex Morono (170) vs. Niko Price (170)
  • Randy Brown (170) vs. Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (170)

PRELIM CARD 

  • Cesar Almeida (185) vs. Roman Kopylov (185)
  • Jailton Almeida (241) vs. Alexandr Romanov (265)
  • Grant Dawson (155) vs. Joe Solecki (155)
  • Jake Matthews (170) vs. Phil Rowe (171)
  • Bassil Hafez (170) vs. Mickey Gall (170)
  • Joselyne Edwards (136) vs. Ailin Perez (135)
  • Andre Lima (130) vs. Mitch Raposo (125) — Lima missed weight

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