The
Ultimate Fighting Championship
returns to ESPN airwaves with a
middleweight main event.

Headling
UFC on ESPN 48
is a five-round fight between Sean
Strickland
and Abusupiyan
Magomedov
. Both men successfully made weight for the main
event, as did the rest of the fighters on the 12-fight card.

Strickland (26-5) bounced back from a two-fight skid by defeating
Nassourdine
Imavov
in his last outing. The win came after back-to-back
defeats to Jared
Cannonier
and Alex
Pereira
. Prior to the setbacks, “Tarzan” had won six straight
fights inside the Octagon. Strickland officially weighed 186 pounds
on the dot.

This marks the first UFC main event for Magomedov (25-4-1). “Abus”
won his debut in just 19 seconds, delivering a front kick that
knocked out Dustin
Stoltzfus
. The Russian officially stepped on the scale at 186
pounds.

UFC on ESPN 48 prelims will begin at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT on ESPN
and ESPN+. The main card then kicks off at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

UFC on ESPN 48 Weigh-in Results:

Sean
Strickland
(186) vs. Abusupiyan
Magomedov
(186)
Grant
Dawson
(156) vs. Damir
Ismagulov
(156)
Max
Griffin
(170.5) vs. Michael
Morales
(170.5)
Melissa
Gatto
(125.5) vs. Ariane
Lipski
(126)
Ismael
Bonfim
(156) vs. Benoit St.
Denis
(156)
Brunno
Ferreira
(185) vs. Nursulton
Ruziboev
(183.5)
Rinat
Fakhretdinov
(171) vs. Kevin Lee
(171)
Joanderson
Brito
(145.5) vs. Westin
Wilson
(146)
Karol
Rosa
(146) vs. Yana Santos
(144.5)
Elves
Brener
(155) vs. Guram
Kutateladze
(155)
Luana
Carolina
(126) vs. Ivana
Siric Petrovic
(125.5)
Blagoy
Ivanov
(259) vs. Alexander
Romanov
(264)





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UFC on ESPN 48 Weigh-in Results: All Fighters Make Weight