Jose Aldo (left) squared off with Chad Mendes Friday at the UFC 142 weigh-ins at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro.

RIO DE JANEIRO – In addition to streaming today’s UFC 142 weigh-ins LIVE on ProMMAnow.com (www.prommanow.com) starting at 4 p.m. ET (1 p.m. PT), we will also be posting the weigh-in results for each fighter LIVE as they step off the scale.

Today’s UFC 142 weigh-ins took place at at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, the same location hosting Saturday’s fight card featuring 145 pound champ Jose Aldo vs. Chad Mendes in a featherweight title fight main event.

All fighters except one made weight. Co-headliner Anthony “Rumble” Johnson, who was known to occasionally have issues making welterweight, started out his first weigh-in at middleweight weighing in at a whopping 197 pounds, which is 11 pounds over the middleweight non-title fight limit of 186 pounds.

In order for the bout to still take place it was announced that Johnson must weigh no more than 205 pounds on fight day.  As a fighter who generally walks around well over 200 pounds, that could be a tall order for the Blackzilian. Johnson’s co-main event opponent, Vitor Belfort, came in at 186 pounds and will receive 20 percent of Johnson’s fight purse.

UFC President Dana White commented:

“As a fighter, you are a professional. You are contracted to come in at a certain weight. This is not the first time this has happened with Johnson. He moved up to 185 pound so this wouldn’t happen, and here we are in the same position again. Vitor was bummed out and he feels the same way I do. Vitor Belfort has to cut this weight too and he’s older than “Rumble” Johnson is. He came in, like a professional, on weight, and Anthony Johnson comes in totally unprofessional and way overweight.”

Headliners Aldo and Mendes were both on point with Aldo weighing in at the featherweight title limit of 145 pounds, while Mendes came in a pound under at 144.

The official UFC 142 weigh-in results are as follows:

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)

  • Champ Jose Aldo (145) vs. Chad Mendes (144)
  • Vitor Belfort (186) vs. Anthony Johnson (197)*
  • Mike Massenzio (184) vs. Rousimar Palhares (186)
  • Carlo Prater (170) vs. Erick Silva (169)
  • Edson Barboza (154) vs. Terry Etim (155)

PRELIMINARY CARD (FX)

  • Sam Stout (155) vs. Thiago Tavares (155)
  • Gabriel Gonzaga (250) vs. Ednaldo Oliveira (229)
  • Yuri Alcantara (145) vs. Michihiro Omigawa (146)
  • Ricardo Funch (170) vs. Mike Pyle (171)

PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)

  • Felipe Arantes (145) vs. Antonio “Pato” Carvalho (144)
*Johnson came in 11 pounds overweight. Joe Rogan announced that Johnson must weigh lighter than 205 pounds by tomorrow or the bout can not take place.

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