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Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC At the UFC Orlando weigh-ins, all 30 fighters on Saturday’s fight card in Orlando, Fla., will step on the scale Friday, and MMA Fighting has a live stream of the official weigh-ins. The UFC Orlando weigh-ins will begin at 9 a.m. ET. In the main event, welterweights Stephen Thompson and Kevin Holland can weigh no more than 171 pounds, the maximum allowed for their non-title welterweight fight. Check out UFC Orlando weigh-in results below. Main Card (ESPN/ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET) Stephen Thompson (170) vs. Kevin Holland (170.5) Rafael dos Anjos

Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC Maycee Barber dealt with some scary outside factors early in her MMA career. For her first six fights as a pro, Barber, 24, fought as a strawweight amassing a perfect record that trailed into her start with the UFC. The current No. 12-ranked contender in the official UFC flyweight rankings hasn’t had consistent weight troubles in her career, but she has missed weight on two occasions in her 13 total bouts. The first of those two misses came in just her second career outing in an LFA clash with Mallory Martin. Weighing in at 123.4 pounds for the scheduled 115-pound matchup, Barber reveals that she wasn’t in the most comfortable of

Esther Lin, MMA Fighting Watch Stephen Thompson vs. Vicente Luque full fight video to see “Wonderboy” show off his famous striking skills at UFC 244 on Nov. 2, 2019 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Coming off of a shocking knockout loss to Anthony Pettis, Thompson had a lot to prove and a hungry fighter coming to take the number next to his name. Vicente Luque was one of the hottest names in the 170-pound division heading into UFC 244, with six straight wins including five by knockout or submission. Would Wonderboy be the signature win that Luque needed to vault himself to a title shot? It wasn’t to be for Luque as he was

Amanda Ribas | Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC Amanda Ribas wants to return to strawweight at some point in 2023, but the main reason why she’s still “taking risks” and asking for fights at flyweight is to be ready for quick turnaround bouts. After facing Tracy Cortez in a flyweight bout at Saturday’s UFC Orlando, for example, the Brazilian talent would love to be part of UFC 283 in Rio de Janeiro on Jan. 21. “I can win nicely against her and still move down because I still want to fight at 115,” Ribas said on this week’s episode of Trocação Franca. “I feel strong at strawweight, so I want to fight there at least once

Dana White The Nevada Athletic Commission has released version 1.01 of its regulations for the recently approved slap-fighting league headed by UFC President Dana White. The commission voted unanimously to regulate the league this past October and in this month presented the initial rules for slap fighting, which add finer detail to the requirements of slap competitors and the officials who oversee the contest. Those include multiple referees, corners, and “catchers” to “use efforts to limit the impact of a participant’s head to the Power Slap Stage where feasible and to protect the participants from falling off the Power Slap Stage,” according to the text. At a meeting earlier this month to approve the regulations, NAC