{"id":325790,"date":"2019-09-20T08:18:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=325790"},"modified":"2019-09-20T08:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:22:58","slug":"ufc-mexico-weigh-in-results-headliners-on-point-one-fighter-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-mexico-weigh-in-results-headliners-on-point-one-fighter-misses\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC Mexico weigh-in results: Headliners on point, one fighter misses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the UFC will return to our screens with the under-the-radar UFC Mexico card.<\/p>\n<p>The card will be topped by a dynamite featherweight matchup between proven finishers Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens. In this fight, Rodriguez will look to build on the momentum of a 2018 Knockout of the Year contender: a last second, elbow-induced knockout of &#8220;The Korean Zombie&#8221; Chan Sung Jung. Stephens, on the other hand, will be looking to rebound from a pair of losses to Jose Aldo and Zabit Magomedsharipov.<\/p>\n<p>UFC Mexico will be co-headlined by a strawweight fight between inaugural champ Carla Esparza and long-time contender Alexa Grasso. Other highlights of the card include appearances from fighters like Irene Aldana, Brandon Moreno, Marco Polo Reyes, Sergio Pettis, Paul Craig, and many others.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, the 24 fighters on the 12-fight UFC Mexico bill stepped onto the scales to weigh in for battle. While the headliners and co-headliners hit their marks, main card fighter Vanessa Melo missed weight by a significant four pounds. She will be fined 30 percent of her purse for this blunder.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the full UFC Mexico weigh-in results (via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/09\/ufc-on-espn-plus-17-mexico-city-yair-rodriguez-jeremy-stephens-weigh-in-results-live-video-stream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>UFC Mexico Weigh-In Results:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4>Main Card | 8:00 pm ET on ESPN+<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Yair Rodriguez (145) vs. Jeremy Stephens (145)<\/li>\n<li>Carla Esparza (115) vs. Alexa Grasso (116)<\/li>\n<li>Askar Askarov (125) vs. Brandon Moreno (124)<\/li>\n<li>Irene Aldana (135) vs. Vanessa Melo (140)*<\/li>\n<li>Martin Bravo (144) vs. Steven Peterson (146)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Prelims | 5:00 pm ET on ESPN +<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Carlos Huachin (136) vs. Jose Quinonez (134)<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Nelson (146) vs. Marco Polo Reyes (145)<\/li>\n<li>Ariane Carnelossi (112) vs. Angela Hill (115)<\/li>\n<li>Tyson Nam (126) vs. Sergio Pettis (124)<\/li>\n<li>Paul Craig (206) vs. Vinicius Moreira (206)<\/li>\n<li>Bethe Correia (136) vs. Sijara Eubanks (135)<\/li>\n<li>Marcos Mariano (154) vs. Claudio Puelles (155)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*Melo missed weight and will be fined 30 percent of her fight purse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Learn how to watch this UFC card <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/how-to-watch-ufc\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 9\/20\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the UFC will return to our screens with the under-the-radar UFC Mexico card. The card will be topped by a dynamite featherweight matchup between proven finishers Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens. In this fight, Rodriguez will look to build on the momentum of a 2018 Knockout of the Year contender: a last second, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":290505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10086],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UFC Mexico weigh-in results: Headliners on point, one fighter misses | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On Friday morning, the 24 fighters on the 12-fight UFC Mexico bill stepped onto the scales to weigh in for battle.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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