Wanderlei Silva (L) and Brian Stann (R) staredown at the UFC on FUEL TV 8 weigh-ins – Image via Facebook.com/UFC
The official weigh-ins for this weekends UFC on FUEL TV 8 event took place late Friday night, Saturday afternoon locally, for the television event.
The weigh-ins went down at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan the same host for the live event.
Maine event competitors, Wanderlei Silva (204) and Brian Stann (206) were both on the mark for their light heavyweight bout, as well as co-main event heavyweights Stefan Struve (260) and Mark Hunt (266).
One fighter failed to make weight as the ‘Dream’ Diego Sanchez hit the scales at 158-lbs for his lightweight match with local favorite Takanori Gomi (156). Sanchez has opted to forfeit 20% of his fight purse to ‘The Fireball Kid’ instead of attempting a further cut down to the 156-lbs limit.
Check out the full weigh-in results for UFC on FUEL TV: Silva vs. Stann below:
Main Card (Fuel TV @ 10pm EST)
Light Heavyweight bout: Wanderlei Silva (204) vs. Brian Stann (206)
Heavyweight bout: Mark Hunt (266) vs. Stefan Struve (260)
Lightweight bout: Takanori Gomi (156) vs. Diego Sanchez (158)*
Middleweight bout: Hector Lombard (186) vs. Yushin Okami (185)
Featherweight bout: Mizuto Hirota (146) vs. Rani Yahya (146)
Welterweight bout: Siyar Bahadurzada (171) vs. Dong Hyun Kim (171)
Preliminary Card (Facebook @ 7:30pm EST)
Middleweight bout: Riki Fukuda (186) vs. Brad Tavares (185)
Bantamweight bout: Bryan Caraway (135) vs. Takeya Mizugaki (136)
Lightweight bout: Cristiano Marcello (156) vs. Kazuki Tokudome (155)
Bantamweight bout: Alex Caceres (136) vs. Kyung Ho Kang (135)
Welterweight bout: Marcelo Guimaraes (171) vs. Hyun Gyu Lim (171)
* Sanchez missed weight and will forfeit 20 percent of his fight purse.