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UFC Adelaide Weigh-in Results: Hunt & Willis Involved In Backstage Altercation

The UFC Adelaide weigh-in results are in. Tomorrow night (Dec. 1), UFC Adelaide will take place inside the Adelaide Entertainment Center in Adelaide, Australia. In the main event, former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos will clash with Tai Tu…

The UFC Adelaide weigh-in results are in. Tomorrow night (Dec. 1), UFC Adelaide will take place inside the Adelaide Entertainment Center in Adelaide, Australia. In the main event, former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos will clash with Tai Tuivasa. Tipping the scales at 255 pounds was dos Santos, while Tuivasa made weight at 262 pounds. UFC Adelaide Weigh-in Results They […]

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Mark Hunt & Justin Willis Involved In Heated Incident After Staredown

Mark Hunt & Justin Willis were involved in a heated incident that boiled over backstage after taking the scales to weigh-in.

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Mark Hunt & Justin Willis were involved in an intense staredown that boiled over backstage after taking the scales to weigh-in. Hunt vs. Willis in a heavyweight bout is expected to take place on the main card of the upcoming UFC Adelaide (also known as UFC Fight Night 142) event.

Both fighters took the scales on Friday and successfully made weight. However, when staring off, they exchanged some words. This led to an incident backstage according to Submission Radio. Tai Tuivasa declared, “I’ll fuckin’ smash both of you” in reaction to the incident.

The Scenes

This led to Tyson Pedro, who fights Shogun Rua in the co-headliner, describing Willis’ behavior as “disrespectful.”

““It’s disrespectful,” said Pedro (H/T to MMAFighting). “I know you’ve got pump up yourself, but it’s like me with ‘Shogun’—‘Shogun’ is a legend and Mark is a legend, they’re from the same time. And I don’t know if [Willis] knows he’s in Australia and that there’s no rules outside of where we are. I think he’s trying to pump himself up more than he’s trying to pump Mark up, and you don’t want a pumped up Mark. If anything that’s the worst thing you can do.”

This event is set to take place on Saturday, December 1, 2018 at Adelaide Entertainment Centre in Adelaide, South Australia. Pedro would continue by describing what exactly happened backstage that led to the intense moment.

““I’ve gone back and they’re trying to stop the fight, but you can’t disrespect our lead horse. We’re not promoting fighting outside of the Octagon, but don’t go and say that to our lead horse and then come out and say something about our team,” said Pedro. “I’m pretty sure he went at Mark and Tai was just there,” he added. “Don’t go at our team; we’re all here and we’re in Australia so it’s probably not a good idea.”

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UFC Adelaide Weigh-In Results: Main Event Is Official

Fighters have hit the scales to officially weigh-in.

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UFC Adelaide weigh-in results have been released as the fighters took the stage to get ready for battle inside of the Octagon under the promotion banner.

UFC Adelaide (also known as UFC Fight Night 142) is set to take place on Saturday, December 1, 2018 at Adelaide Entertainment Centre in Adelaide, South Australia.The main card will air on FOX Sports 1 at while the preliminary card will be split broadcasted on FOX Sports 1 at and the promotion’s streaming service, UFC Fight Pass, at 7 p.m. ET.

Junior Dos Santos vs. Tai Tuivasa in a heavyweight bout will serve as the headliner. Tyson Pedro vs. Mauricio Rua in a light heavyweight will co-main event this show.

Rounding out the six bout main card is Mark Hunt vs. Justin Willis in a heavyweight bout, Tony Martin vs. Jake Matthews in a welterweight bout. Also, Suman Mokhtarian vs. Sodiq Yusuff in a featherweight bout, and Paul Craig vs. Jim Crute in a light heavyweight bout.

UFC officials held the weigh-ins for UFC Adelaide on Friday and here are the weigh-in results:

MAIN CARD (FS1, 10 p.m. ET)

Junior Dos Santos (255) vs. Tai Tuivasa (262)

Tyson Pedro (205) vs. Mauricio Rua (206)

Mark Hunt (264) vs. Justin Willis (263.5)

Tony Martin (170) vs. Jake Matthews (171)

Suman Mokhtarian (145) vs. Sodiq Yusuff (145)

Paul Craig (206) vs. Jim Crute (205)

PRELIMINARY CARD (FS1, 8 p.m. ET)

Alexey Kunchenko (170) vs. Yushin Okami (170)

Ben Nguyen (125.5) vs. Wilson Reis (125.5)

Keita Nakamura (171) vs. Salim Touahri (171)

Kai Kara France (126) vs. Elias Garcia (124.5)

PRELIMINARY CARD (UFC Fight Pass, 7 p.m. ET)

Christos Giagos (155) vs. Mizuto Hirota (156)

Alex Gorgees (156) vs. Damir Ismagulov (155)

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Mark Hunt Opens Up On Fighting Out His UFC Contract

Mark Hunt opens up his decision to fight out his current contract with the UFC this Saturday at UFC Adelaide.

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Mark Hunt opens up on fighting out his current contract with the UFC as he only has one fight left on that deal. Hunt will head to his native Australia for his farewell fight. The respected knockout slugger will take on Justin Willis at the upcoming UFC Adelaide event.

There has been a major issue between Hunt and the UFC, which dates back to his fight against Brock Lesnar. As seen in the fight, Lesnar won a unanimous decision that night which was subsequently overturned when it was revealed he failed two USADA-issued drug tests before the bout.

Hunt’s Decision

This led to Hunt filing a civil suit against Lesnar and the UFC to settle his grievances. He opened up in a recent interview about his decision to depart from the UFC.

“It’s my last one, so I’m happy about that,” Hunt told MMAjunkie. “I’m glad that the UFC has allowed me to do this. It’s great. S now I get to share the stage with Tai and Tyson again and all the Aussie boys, which is great. I just wanted to complete my contract. That’s basically the bottom line. I’m happy where I’m at. I’m at peace with everything, and things are good.”

UFC Adelaide (also known as UFC Fight Night 142) is set to take place on Saturday, December 1, 2018, at Adelaide Entertainment Centre in Adelaide, South Australia.

The longtime MMA star continued by stating that he plans to end his career under a different banner than the UFC. This is even if the UFC attempts to change his mind.

“I don’t think so, to be honest,” Hunt said. “Looking at trying to do some other things next year. I want to compete five more times, at least. Because I still have the fire inside of me to do it and go from there. We’ll see what happens.”

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UFC Adelaide’s Anthony Rocco Martin Talks Name Change, Jake Matthews & Winning Big On Himself (Exclusive)

UFC welterweight Anthony Rocco Martin doesn’t want to be known as Tony Martin anymore. Perhaps all the changes for Martin over the last year including a new weight class, training in Florida at American Top Team has prompted this new persona. For…

UFC welterweight Anthony Rocco Martin doesn’t want to be known as Tony Martin anymore. Perhaps all the changes for Martin over the last year including a new weight class, training in Florida at American Top Team has prompted this new persona. For Martin, he revealed the name just stuck and he’s running with it. “Actually […]

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Ross Pearson Out Of UFC Adelaide Fight With Joseph Duffy

It looks like Ross Pearson will have to wait a bit longer before making his Octagon return. We initially learned Pearson would fight Joseph Duffy at UFC Adelaide on December 1st. Unfortunately, it looks like an injury to Pearson will be preventing that…

It looks like Ross Pearson will have to wait a bit longer before making his Octagon return. We initially learned Pearson would fight Joseph Duffy at UFC Adelaide on December 1st. Unfortunately, it looks like an injury to Pearson will be preventing that from happening. Pearson took to Twitter to announce that he recently underwent […]

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