RIO DE JANEIRO – MMAjunkie was on scene and reporting live from today’s early and official UFC 224 fighter weigh-ins, where all but one fighter on Saturday’s card hit their marks. The main event women’s bantamweight title fight is set. Champion Amanda Nunes (15-4 MMA, 8-1 UFC) and heavy underdog challenger Raquel Pennington (9-5 MMA, 6-2 UFC) each came in at 135 pounds for the headliner. Nunes is roughly a 10-1 favorite in the fight in her home country. About 40 minutes into the two-hour weigh-ins window, Mackenzie Dern (6-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) stepped on the scale for her strawweight bout against Amanda Cooper (3-3 MMA, 2-2 UFC) on the main card. Dern, who has struggled to make 115 pounds in the past, came in closer to flyweight than strawweight at 123 pounds, seven pounds over the non-title limit for the weight class.
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