UFC 159 Weigh-in Results: Only One Misses Mark

By BJPENN.COM News - April 26, 2013

UFC 159 takes place tomorrow night from Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center.


Today the official weigh-ins ceremony took place and each of tomorrow nights participants hit the scales to make their bouts official.

All but one fighter missed the mark for tomorrow’s pay-per-view event and as such has been fined 20%of his fight purse. That fighter was UFC welterweight Nick Catone.

The full UFC 159 Weigh-in results are as follows:

MAIN CARD: (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)
Champ Jon Jones (205) vs. Chael Sonnen (205) – for light-heavyweight title
Alan Belcher (185) vs. Michael Bisping (186)
Cheick Kongo (237) vs. Roy Nelson (258)
Phil Davis (205) vs. Vinny Magalhaes (205.5)
Pat Healy (155.5) vs. Jim Miller (155)

PRELIMINARY CARD: (FX, 8 p.m. ET)
Rustam Khabilov (156) vs. Yancy Medeiros (155.5)
Ovince St. Preux (206) vs. Gian Villante (206)
Sheila Gaff (133) vs. Sara McMann (134)
Johnny Bedford (136) vs. Bryan Caraway (136)

PRELIMINARY CARD: (Facebook, 6:30 p.m. ET)
Leonard Garcia (145) vs. Cody McKenzie (145)
Nick Catone (173) vs. James Head (170.25)
Kurt Holobaugh (145) vs. Steven Siler (145.25)


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