Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just over 24 hours away from its upcoming UFC Vegas 35 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, headlined by a featherweight showdown between Edson Barboza and Giga Chikadze this Sat. night (Aug. 28, 2021) on ESPN and ESPN+ from inside APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sat., Aug. 28, 2021, with a striking fans’ dream fight, as No. 9-ranked Featherweight contender, Edson Barboza, clashes with No. 10-seeded Giga Chikadze. UFC Vegas 35 will also see The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 29 Middleweight and Bantamweight tournament winners get crowned in “Sin City.”
Before the televised action gets underway this weekend in “Sin City,” which features the bantamweight and middleweight finals for The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 29, all 24 fighters must hit the scale to prove themselves worthy.
The UFC Vegas 35 weigh ins will stream LIVE in the embedded video player above beginning at Noon ET (9 a.m. PT). We’ll also have real-time text updates for the “Barboza vs. Chikadze” weigh ins listed below, updated as they happen.
Complete UFC Vegas 35 weigh-in text results below:
UFC Vegas 35 Main Card on ESPN/ESPN+:
145 lbs.: Edson Barboza (145) vs. Giga Chikadze (145.5)
185 lbs.: Bryan Battle (185.5) vs. Gilbert Urbina ()
135 lbs.: Ricky Turcios (135) vs. Brady Hiestand (135.5)
170 lbs.: Kevin Lee (170.5) vs. Daniel Rodriguez ()
185 lbs.: Andre Petroski (185.5) vs. Micheal Gillmore (184)
185 lbs.: Makhmud Muradov (184.5) vs. Gerald Meerschaert (185)UFC Vegas 35 ‘Prelims’ Card On ESPN+:
185 lbs.: Abdul Razak Alhassan (185.5) vs. Alessio Di Chirico (185.5)
185 lbs.: Sam Alvey (185.5) vs. Wellington Turman (185.5)
205 lbs.: Dustin Jacoby () vs. Darren Stewart (204.5)
125 lbs.: JJ Aldrich () vs. Vanessa Demopoulos ()
145 lbs.: Jamall Emmers () vs. Pat Sabatini (145.5)
135 lbs.: Guido Cannetti (135.5) vs. Mana Martinez (140*)*Missed weight, fined 20-percent of purse
MMAmania.com will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC Vegas 35 fight card RIGHT HERE, starting with the ESPN+ preliminary card bouts at 7 p.m. ET, followed by the ESPN/ESPN+ main card start time at 10 p.m. ET.
To check out the latest and greatest UFC Vegas 35 news and notes be sure to hit up our comprehensive event archives here and here. For an in-depth look at our TUF 29 coverage go here and to see the finalized “Barboza vs. Chikadze” fight card and ESPN/ESPN+ lineup click here.