All Four UFC 333 Title Fighters Make Weight, Caliari Misses

The UFC 333 title fights are on after Friday's official weigh-ins in Abu Dhabi, where all four title fighters made weight. The card takes place Saturday at Etihad Arena.

In the featherweight title fight, Alexander Volkanovski weighed 144.5 pounds and Movsar Evloev 145. In the bantamweight title fight, Petr Yan and Merab Dvalishvili both came in at 135 pounds.

The one miss

Strawweight Nicolle Caliari weighed 120.5 pounds for her fight with Iasmin Lucindo, 4.5 pounds over the 116-pound non-title limit. Lucindo made weight at 115. Caliari forfeits 30 percent of her purse to her opponent.

Every other fighter on the 14-fight card hit the scale on time.

The rest of the main card

Lone'er Kavanagh (125.5) and Ramazan Temirov (126) are set for the flyweight bout. At heavyweight, Alexander Volkov weighed 256 pounds and Rizvan Kuniev 265. Aaron Pico (145.5) meets Losene Keita (146) at featherweight.

On the preliminary card, Azamat Murzakanov (206) faces Dominick Reyes (205), Nikita Krylov (206) meets Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev (206), Abus Magomedov (185.5) fights Cam Rowston (185), and Grant Dawson (156) is matched with Nurullo Aliev (155).

The early preliminaries open the day at 10 a.m. ET with Colby Thicknesse (135.5) against Asaf Chopurov (136), Abubakar Vagaev (185.5) against Jacob Malkoun (186), Bolaji Oki and Daniel Santos (both 146), Kody Steele and Noah Gugnon (both 156), and the Caliari-Lucindo bout. The preliminary card follows at 12 p.m. ET and the main card at 2 p.m. ET, all on Paramount+.

Source: Uncrowned