Kiwi UFC competitor James Te Huna has dropped the required weight for his UFC Fight Night 43 main event middleweight bout. Photo / File.
Kiwi UFC competitor James Te Huna has dropped the required weight for his UFC Fight Night 43 main event middleweight bout with Nate Marquardt at Vector Arena in Auckland tomorrow.
Te Huna (16-7) has moved down from light heavyweight for this fight and needed to weigh in at 185 pounds
(84kg) and tipped the scales at 186 pounds; given non-title bouts offer one pound of leniency, Te Huna was fine.
Marquardt, who has a career record of 35-13-2 and is a former middleweight title contender, weighed 186 pounds too.
Auckland's Dan Hooker, who is competing at featherweight against England's Ian Entwistle, despite normally fighting at lightweight, also made weight as he was on the dot at 145 pounds (66kg).
No fighter missed weight at the weigh-ins, held at Vector Arena this afternoon, although American Neil Magny did have to strip right down and have a towel held in front of him to ensure he weighed 171 pounds for his welterweight scrap with Brazilian Rodrigo de Lima. Welterweights have a limit of 170 pounds (77kg).
