Tomorrow night the UFC will have a new champion as the first women's 115lb UFC champion will be crowned. Folllowing on from the current series of The Ultimate Fighter where 16 of the best strawweights on the planet battled it out to get the opportunity to fight in the inaugural strawweight title fight we are now left with just two. Will it be Carla Esparza or Rose Namajunas?
If Carla wins she will effectively be replacing her Invicta title and swapping it for the UFC belt. It will also make her the first Invicta strawweight champion and the first UFC strawweight champion. However, if Rose wins she will not only become the first UFC women's 115lb champion she will also become the youngest UFC champion in the process.
Today all of the fighters weighed in and both women fighting for the belt made weight, making the title fight official. The only fighters to miss weight were Aisling Daly, who missed weight by two pounds and Charles Oliveira, who missed by one pound. Both of these fighters have an additional hour to make lose the final bit of weight or they will forfeit some of their fight purse.
Official Weigh In Results:
Main Card (BT Sport 1) 2am
Carla Esparza (115 lbs) vs. Rose Namajunas (115 lbs)#10 Jeremy Stephens (146 lbs) vs. #14 Charles Oliveira (147 lbs**)
K.J. Noons (156 lbs) vs. Daron Cruickshank (156 lbs)
Joe Proctor (156 lbs) vs. Yancy Medeiros (155.5 lbs)
Jessica Penne (115.5 lbs) vs. Randa Markos (116 lbs)
Preliminary card (BT Sport 1) 12am
Felice Herrig (115 lbs) vs. Lisa Ellis (115 lbs)Bec Rawlings (116 lbs) vs. Heather Jo Clark (115.5 lbs)
Joanne Calderwood (116 lbs) vs. Seo Hee Ham (114.5 lbs)
Tecia Torres (115.5 lbs) vs. Angela Magana (115.5 lbs)
Preliminary card (UFC Fight Pass) 11pm
Aisling Daly (118 lbs*) vs. Alex Chambers (114.5 lbs)Emily Kagan (116 lbs) vs. Angela Hill (115.5 lbs)
*Daly has one hour to lose the final two pounds to make weight.
**Oliveira has one hour to lose the final pound to make weight.
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