UFC 325 is down a fight after one contender who has yet to even officially sign with the company tried to trick the scale.
Flyweight Aaron Tau was due to face Namsrai Batbayar in the finals of Road to UFC, which doubled as a prelim for tomorrow’s event in Sydney. And he almost got away with an old veteran’s move made famous by the legendary Daniel Cormier.
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Dan Hooker’s fights against Dustin Poirier, Jalin Turner, Paul Felder, and Mateusz Gamrot in the UFC. Credit: Jeff Bottari/Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images
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Unfortunately, such a risky move didn’t pay off as he leaned on the curtain that is used to allow fighters to weigh in naked, and took too much pressure off his elbows. As a result, he ended up coming in considerably underweight, and was forced to weigh-in again where he showed up way over the limit.
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UFC 325 fight cancelled as fighter fails to trick commission with weigh-in scheme
As a result of Saturday night’s fight being in Sydney, UFC 325 weigh-ins were held on Friday morning local time, which meant essentially overnight for American viewers. Headliners Alexander Volkanovski and Diego Lopes made weight early, and with 25 minutes to go there was just one man…
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