Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is just over 24 hours away from its upcoming UFC Vegas 72 mixed martial arts (MMA) event, headlined by a 135-pound showdown between Top 10 bantamweight contenders Yadong Song and Ricky Simon. The action gets underway this Sat. night (April 29, 2023) on ESPN+ from inside the promotion’s APEX facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, and also features a middleweight co-headliner between Brazilian bruiser Caio Borralho and Polish power puncher Michal Oleksiejczuk.
Before the ESPN+ live stream gets underway this weekend in “Sin City,” which also includes the heavyweight showdown between Waldo Cortes-Acosta and Marcos Rogerio de Lima, all 22 fighters must hit the scale to prove themselves worthy. Note: Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) affords a one-pound allowance in non-title fights.
The UFC Vegas 72 weigh ins will stream LIVE in the embedded video player above beginning promptly at 12 p.m. ET (9 a.m. PT). We’ll also have real-time text updates for the “Song vs. Simon” weigh ins listed below, updated as they happen. Remember too that staredowns will commence at the conclusion of today’s weigh ins (roughly 2 p.m. ET).
Complete UFC Vegas 72 weigh ins text results below:
UFC Vegas 72 Main Card on ESPN+:
135 lbs.: Yadong Song (136) vs. Ricky Simon (136)
185 lbs.: Caio Borralho (185.5) vs. Michal Oleksiejczuk (185.5)
185 lbs.: Cody Brundage () vs. Rodolfo Vieira (186)
265 lbs.: Waldo Cortes-Acosta (258) vs. Marcos Rogerio de Lima ()
145 lbs.: Julian Erosa (145.5) vs. Fernando Padilla (145.5)
UFC Vegas 72 Prelims Card On ESPN2/ESPN+:
170 lbs.: Josh Quinlan (169) vs. Trey Waters (171)
265 lbs.: Martin Buday (265) vs. Jake Collier (265.5)
125 lbs.: Cody Durden (126) vs. Charles Johnson ()
135 lbs.: Irina Alekseeva (140*) vs. Stephanie Egger (135)
140 lbs.: Journey Newson () vs. Marcus McGhee (140)
135 lbs.: Hailey Cowan (137.5*) vs. Jamey-Lyn Horth (135.5)
*Missed weight
MMAmania.com will deliver LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the entire UFC Vegas 72 fight card RIGHT HERE, starting with the ESPN+ preliminary card bouts at 4:30 p.m. ET, followed by the ESPN+ main card start time at 7 p.m. ET.
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