The Octagon heads South of the Border to Mexico City for UFC on ESPN+ 17 tomorrow night in Mexico City with a main event, that has title implications headlining tcard as as Yair Rodriguez faces Jeremy Stephens in what should be an exciting featherweight clash. Both fighters hit championship weight of 145lbs on the nose for this non-title tilt.
Also, a quick reminder to those looking for the ceremonial weigh-in show later this evening, stop, there will be no ceremonial weigh-in/faceoffs this evening.
The full UFC on ESPN+ 17 weigh-in results included:
MAIN CARD (ESPN+, 8 p.m. ET)
- Yair Rodriguez (145) vs. Jeremy Stephens (145)
- Carla Esparza (115) vs. Alexa Grasso (116)
- Askar Askarov (125) vs. Brandon Moreno (124)
- Irene Aldana (135) vs. Vanessa Melo (140)*
- Martin Bravo (144) vs. Steven Peterson (146)
PRELIMINARY CARD (ESPN+, 5 p.m. ET)
- Carlos Huachin (136) vs. Jose Quinonez (134)
- Kyle Nelson (146) vs. Marco Polo Reyes (145)
- Ariane Carnelossi (112) vs. Angela Hill (115)
- Tyson Nam (126) vs. Sergio Pettis (124)
- Paul Craig (206) vs. Vinicius Moreira (206)
- Bethe Correia (136) vs. Sijara Eubanks (135)
- Marcos Mariano (154) vs. Claudio Puelles (155)
* Vanessa Melo missed weight and will be fined 30 percent of her fight purse.

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