Headliners Patricio Freire and Emmanuel Sanchez both successfully made championship weight for Friday’s headliner, which also serves as the semi-finals of the Bellator World Featherweight Grand Prix and a rematch of their Bellator 209 in which Freire defended his title with a unanimous decision win over Sanchez.
Whoever wins the Bellator 255 main event becomes the new champion and goes on to face the unbeaten A.J. McKee in the tournament finals.
Co-main event welterweights Neiman Gracie and Jason Jackson also successfully made weight, as did the debuting Usman Nurmagomedov, who enters Friday’s card with an unblemished 11-0 record and former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov in his corner.
Three fighters failed to make weight at Friday’s official weigh-ins: Welterweights Mukhamed Berkhamov and Roman Faraldo, and middleweight Fabio Aguiar. It is not yet known if their respective opponents will accept the bouts at a catchweight and if so, what percentage of their purses Berkhamov, Faraldo, and Aguiar may have to forfeit.
See the full Bellator 255 weigh-in results below (courtesy of Bellator):
Main Card (Showtime, MMA Fighting, 9 p.m. ET)
Patricio Pitbull (144.1) vs. Emmanuel Sanchez (144.5)
Neiman Gracie (170) vs. Jason Jackson (170.9)
Tyrell Fortune (251.2) vs. Jack May (264.3)
Usman Nurmagomedov (155.2) vs. Mike Hamel (155)
Preliminary Card (MMA Fighting, 6 p.m. ET)
Alejandra Lara (124.2) vs. Kana Watanabe (124.8)
Magomed Magomedov (135) vs. Cee Jay Hamilton (134.4)
Mukhamed Berkhamov (173.8)* vs. Herman Terrado (169.5)
Mandel Nallo (154.9) vs. Ricardo Seixas (154.9)
Fabio Aguiar (187.7)* vs. Khalid Murtazaliev (183.6)
Roger Huerta (159.4) vs. Chris Gonzalez (159.2) — 160-pound catchweight bout
Jose Augusto (203.2) vs. Jonathan Wilson (204.2)
Roman Faraldo (171.1)* vs. Trevor Gudde (170)
Jordan Newman (185.1) vs. Branko Busick (183.8)
*missed weight
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