With 14 bouts on the schedule for Wednesday’s UFC Fight Island 8 card in Abu Dhabi, all 28 featured fighters successfully made weight Tuesday morning, including welterweight headliners Michael Chiesa (170.5) and Neil Magny (171)
The co-main event also features a pair of welterweights, veteran Warlley Alves (171) and former Brave CF and UAE Warriors standout Mounir Lazzez (171).
Other notable names successfully making weight included: Roxanne Modafferi (126), who competes in her 43rd pro bout; Tyson Nam (126), who returns to the flyweight division for a fight with Matt Schnell (126); Francisco Figueiredo (126) and Umar Nurmagomedov (136), the brother of Deiveson Figueiredo and the cousin of Khabib Nurmagomedov, respectively.
See the full UFC Fight Island 8 weigh-in results below:
Main Card (ESPN, ESPN+, 9:00 a.m. ET)
Michael Chiesa (170.5) vs. Neil Magny (171)
Warlley Alves (171) vs. Mounir Lazzez (171)
Ike Villanueva (206) vs. Vinicius Moreira (206)
Roxanne Modafferi (126) v.s Viviane Araujo (126)
Matt Schnell (126) vs. Tyson Nam (126)
Lerone Murphy (146) vs. Douglas Silva de Andrade (145)
Preliminary Card (ESPN, ESPN+, 12:00 p.m. ET)
Omari Akhmedov (186) vs. Tom Breese (186)
Ricky Simon (136) vs. Gaetano Pirrello (136)
Su Mudaerji (126) vs. Zarrukh Adashev (126)
Dalcha Lungiambula (186) vs. Markus Perez (186)
Francisco Figueiredo (126) vs. Jerome Rivera (126)
Mike Davis (154.5) vs. Mason Jones (156)
Umar Nurmagomedov (136) vs. Sergey Morozov (135)
Victoria Leonardo (125.5) vs. Manon Fiorot (126)
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