UFC Belgrade: All 28 Fighters Make Weight, No Misses
The official weigh-in at a downtown Belgrade hotel produced nothing to fix. Uros Medic and Daniel Rodriguez both hit 171 pounds ahead of Saturday's card at Belgrade Arena.
Friday morning in a Belgrade hotel, and the only number in the building that mattered was the one on the scale. The official weigh-in for UFC Belgrade opened at 3 a.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. local time, and ran for two hours. All 28 fighters from the 14-bout card stepped on.
Not one of them missed a contracted limit.
Which also settles a list of things that will not happen: no purse deductions, no last-minute catchweight negotiations, no bout pulled from the running order the day before the show. The card that was announced is the card that walks to the cage on Saturday.
Four fighters, two numbers, top of the bill
Uros Medic weighed 171 pounds, roughly 77.6 kilograms. Daniel Rodriguez, his opponent in the five-round main event, came in at the same 171. The non-title welterweight ceiling is exactly 171, so both men landed on the line with nothing to spare.
The co-main was just as tidy. Jan Blachowicz and Navajo Stirling each hit 205 pounds, about 93 kilograms, right on the light heavyweight limit.
The widest gaps are at heavyweight
Heavyweight has no floor, only a ceiling, which is why the division produces spreads the rest of the card never sees. Two bouts in Belgrade illustrate it.
- Aleksandar Rakic 237.5 pounds, about 107.7 kilograms, Marcin Tybura 254 pounds, about 115.2 kilograms
- Jovan Leka 262.5 pounds, about 119.1 kilograms, Alexander Poppeck 215 pounds, about 97.5 kilograms
Leka arrives 47.5 pounds heavier than Poppeck, roughly 21.6 kilograms, the biggest gap anywhere on the show. Rakic gives up 16.5 pounds to Tybura, about 7.5 kilograms.
Middleweight supplied the one figure that read as a risk until it was confirmed. Vlasto Cepo weighed exactly 186 pounds, the non-title middleweight ceiling, not a tenth over. Gilbert Urbina was 185.5. Dusko Todorovic hit 185, Robert Valentin 185.5.
The Serbian contingent and the rest of the prelims
Milos Janicic weighed 156 pounds, about 70.8 kilograms, with Noah Gugnon at 155. Borislav Nikolic came in at 136, Mark Vologdin at 135.5. Nina Milosevic made 134.5, Hailey Cowan 136. Marina Spasic weighed 115.5, Stephanie Luciano 115.
The rest of the prelims: Ludovit Klein and Tofiq Musayev both 155.5; Oban Elliott 170 and Michael Oliveira 171; Dennis Buzukja 146 and Bogdan Grad 145.5; Mateusz Rebecki 155.5 and Kyle Prepolec 155.
Why does a clean scale count as news?
Because everything about UFC Belgrade until now has been an announcement. We covered the 14-fight card and Medic getting a five-round main event, but a card before the weigh-in is a proposal rather than a schedule.
One miss can push a bout to a catchweight, cost a fighter a slice of his purse, or scrap the fight outright, and then the whole running order gets rebuilt inside the final 24 hours. Nothing moved this time.
What comes next
The show runs Saturday, August 1, 2026, at Belgrade Arena. Prelims start at 10 a.m. Eastern and the main card at 1 p.m., which is 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Belgrade.
The UFC listed the ceremonial weigh-in as a separate slot on the same day and posted it in the video section of its own site. As this piece was being prepared, no detailed report from that session had appeared in Serbian media. It is the one item on Friday’s schedule still open.
