Aldo struggles with weight; bout vs. Zahabi moved to featherweight

MONTREAL — A bantamweight contest between former UFC champion José Aldo and Aiemann Zahabi will now be contested at featherweight after Aldo had bother making the lighter weight class a day earlier than the bout.

Aldo (32-9) weighed in at 143 kilos Friday, and appeared depleted in doing so. Zahabi (12-2) appeared comfy moments later at 142 kilos. The 2 are paired to battle at UFC 315.

Zahabi later revealed that the UFC alerted him that Aldo’s weight reduce wasn’t going properly. He additionally posted a video of himself reducing all the way down to an early 136 kilos earlier than rehydrating again to 142.

The now-featherweight bout remains to be on, and it is unclear whether or not this may lead to Aldo reconsidering weight class transferring ahead. He fought nearly all of his profession at 145 kilos, earlier than dropping to 135 in 2019.

UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad will make his first title protection in opposition to Jack Della Maddalena in the primary occasion Saturday night time, whereas girls’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko places her belt on the road in opposition to Manon Fiorot within the co-main occasion on the Bell Centre in Montreal.