Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) recently tied a ribbon around its UFC Vegas 118 weigh ins event (get full results and video here), with 23 fighters coming in on (or under) weight and one missing. That includes Welterweight headliners Belal Muhammad and Gabriel Bonfim, as well as co-headliners Brendan Allen and Edmen Shahbazyan. Following today’s scale-tipping festivities, all four fighters came face-to-face to make it official for this Sat. night (June 6) at Meta Apex in Las Vegas.
Here’s the
main event face-off between Muhammad and Bonfim:
As well as the co-headlining face-off between Allen and Shahbazyan:
Nothing left to do now except fight.
“He is a young, hungry guy that’s looking to take my spot – he just picked the wrong guy to do it with,” Muhammad told reporters during UFC Vegas 118 media day. “Any fight is your biggest fight. People always ask: ‘What does this fight mean to you?’ It’s the Super Bowl, it’s the NBA Finals. Your next fight is always your biggest fight, no matter what it’s for. Saturday night, that’s my moment. It doesn’t matter who is he, where he’s from or what he’s trying to take. It’s not going to be with me.”
“I’ve fought many guys like him,” Muhammad continued. “He’s got a beatable style. With me, I’ve got an awkward style, I’ve got a different type of style, and I’m a different type of fighter than he’s ever fought. I think Saturday, he gets broken.”
For the finalized UFC Vegas 118 fight card and Paramount+ lineup click here.
