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Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal officially weighed in on Friday ahead of their rematch.  Diaz weighed in at 175.6 pounds while “Gamebred” tipped the scales at 175.2.  

The two fought for the inaugural “BMF” belt at UFC 244 in November 2019. Masvidal won via doctor stoppage due to a cut at the concluding of the third round. The stoppage didn’t sit well with Diaz.  They’ll run it back on Saturday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.  

Masvidal in 1-0 is a professional boxer but hasn’t had a boxing match since June 2005. Diaz made his professional boxing debut last August, losing to Jake Paul via unanimous decision.

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Main card  (On Fanmio, ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET)

Nate Diaz (175.6) vs. Jorge Masvidal (175.2)

Daniel Jacobs (169.2) vs. Shane Mosley Jr. (167.6)

Chris Avila (175.6) vs. Anthony Pettis (175.3)

Amado Vargas (134.1) vs. Sean Garcia (138.1)

Devin Cushing (131.9) vs. Manny Correa (131.2)

Nikolai Buzolin (137.7) vs. Curmel Moton (133.5)

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Jon Jones is on the road back to the Octagon and looks to be in great shape after squatting 525 pounds earlier this week.

Fight fans were hoping to see more of Jones at the heavyweight level, but after defeating Ciryl Gane at UFC 285 to win the title “Bones” suffered a torn pectoral and has been sidelined ever since. While it’s been more than a year since Jones competed inside of the Octagon fight fans won’t have to wait much longer.

With rumors swirling that Jones will return to action sometime this fall he has begun to amp up his training. This includes some deadlifting and squats that have already turned Jones from a skinny light heavyweight champion to a strong heavyweight fighter. Despite his recent pectoral injury it seems Jones’ strength is returning to normal.

“Today we worked on the top part of my squat,” wrote Jones via Instagram (shown above). “I finished up at 525 pounds for a set of three. It’s awesome to feel my strength coming back, while shredding pounds at the same time. I got 18 weeks and three days to improve, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do. Progress equals happiness, sacrifice today, smile tomorrow. Find your personal love for self improvement. That’s a @youngla T-shirt by the way.”

Jones, 36, has never really fell victim to lengthy layoffs in his career outside of the three years he took off to move from 205 pounds to heavyweight. For the most part, “Bones” has remained healthy. It has yet to be seen if this recent setback will change anything inside of the cage, but Jones appears to be back in full health leading up to his return.

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Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal have nothing left to say to each other.

On Friday, Diaz and Masvidal both successfully made weight for their 10-round light heavyweight boxing match that goes down this Saturday at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., coming in at 175.6 and 175.2 pounds respectively.

While the fighters made weight earlier Friday morning, they participated in a ceremonial weigh-in Friday afternoon and then shared a final face off before the big event, with host Jimmy Lennon Jr. declaring “We’re going to have our fighters face off with security ready and necessary.”

Lennon’s words did not prove prescient though as Diaz and Masvidal stayed well clear of each other, standing several feet away before giving their final interviews, with Diaz peeling back the curtain on the ceremonial event.

“Yo, this whole shit’s cap. I already weighed in this morning,” Diaz said before smiling, flashing the peace sign and walking off stage.

Masvidal, in contrast, had a more traditional message ahead of the fight on Saturday.

“Just one more sleep,” Masvidal said. “I get to bring all this work I’ve been doing since January to fruition. I thank my lord and savior Jesus Christ for every moment, every thing. I’m going to put on an ass-whooping tomorrow, whether you guys like that or not. I’m here to do my job, I’m going to kill somebody tomorrow. All the shit-talking is over, now we get to fight, and either my camp was the right one or his camp was the right one, but we get to find out tomorrow. See y’all there.”

The Last Man Standing: Nate Diaz vs. Jorge Masvidal card takes place this Saturday, with the main card starting at 9 p.m. ET and is available for pay-per-view purchase on Fanmio, DAZN, and UFC Fight Pass. You can check out the rest of the weigh-in results here.

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The learning curve once a fighter joins the UFC roster roster can often be a steep one. Many fighters take some time to find their feet and work their way toward chasing a spot inside the rankings, and dreams of fighting for a title often have to be put on hold while they settle into the big leagues and slowly carve out a name for themselves.

Not so for Steve Erceg.

The Australian flyweight, who is set to face Kai Kara-France at UFC 305 later this summer, only made his debut inside the Octagon in June 2023 when he beat David Dvořák by unanimous decision in Canada at UFC 289. He followed that up with another win at UFC 295 against Alessandro Costa, before picking up a highlight reel knockout of Matt Schnell in March of this year.

In a surprising turn of events, the 28-year-old was drafted in to fight Alexandre Pantoja for the flyweight title in the main event of UFC 301 in Rio De Janeiro just two months later. While the fight didn’t go his way, “AstroBoy” believes the experience will stand him in good stead going forward.

“I feel like more people know who I am now,” Erceg said during an interview with Submission Radio this week. “That’s obviously good for getting big fights and opportunities, so that’s great, and I found out that I can hang at that level.

“He’s beat a lot of contenders, basically everybody in the division, so the fact that I was able to hang there for five rounds, and I felt that I was the one coming over the top at the end…that was awesome. It just obviously sucks that I have to look at his record now with my name associated with it, but whatever.”

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Erceg was also asked whether he thinks a rematch could be on the cards, and if he believes Pantoja will still be the one holding the belt by the time he’s able to work his way back into title contention.

“I really hope he’s still the champion because I don’t know what I’m gonna do if some other guy can beat him and I f**kin’ couldn’t. … I don’t like to swear, but…yeah, so I’d prefer if it was him at the top still. We’ll sort it out.”

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Once Payton Talbott made weight for his UFC 303 matchup, the eating commenced.

The rising bantamweight prospect remained undefeated with an impressive 19-second knockout of Yanis Ghemmouri on the prelims of UFC’s International Fight Week event. Talbott revealed following his win that he was much heavier than the 135.5 pounds he weighed on the morning before the event.

“I was like 161 with clothes on,” Talbott said on The MMA Hour. “I had quite a bit of clothes on, so I don’t know.”

When asked why he put on so much weight, the 25-year-old answered honestly, putting over seafood as a wonderful tool for packing weight back on before a fight.

“I was just stuffing myself,” Talbott said. “I went to [an] oyster bar in Vegas … and then we went to sushi, I had whatever the UFC gave me — a bunch of pasta, I had pudding cake, just so much stuff.”

Talbott improved to 9-0 as a pro with the win, which includes finishes in all but his victory on Contender Series this past August. Since inking a contract, Talbott is 3-0 inside the octagon.

As he continues to find success, Talbott is starting to see that having a low profile is going to be much more difficult.

“I get a feeling for what the future is going to be like,” Talbott explained. “I can just internally feel the way things are going to go, and it’s a little scary and intimidating — but it’s also exciting. … I just don’t like having the spotlight on me, honestly. It’s just what people watch and it’s like, ‘What’s next, what’s next?’

“Sometimes it makes me a little uncomfortable, a little uneasy when people are watching too hard. I just desire to be watched and not seen.”

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Former UFC welterweights Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal have unfinished business and the two will rematch inside the boxing ring at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. on July 6.

The two fought for the inaugural “BMF” belt at UFC 244 in November 2019. Masvidal won via doctor stoppage due to a cut at the concluding of the third round. The stoppage didn’t sit well with Diaz.

Masvidal in 1-0 is a professional boxer but hasn’t had a boxing match since June 2005. Diaz made his professional boxing debut last August, losing to Jake Paul via unanimous decision.

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