The UFC 325 weigh-ins saw one fight cancellation after a scale controversy highlighted this morning’s event.
Aaron Tau, out of City Kickboxing, is off the Sydney, Australia card after weighing 129 pounds and appearing to manipulate the scale on his first attempt.
Tau was the last to weigh in and required the box to step onto the scale, and surprisingly, fell under the flyweight limit at 122.5 pounds. The fighter was asked to place their shorts on and step back on the scale, where they weighed 129 pounds.
Aaron Tau just tried pulling the DC towel trick at the weigh-ins and failed 😬
He first stepped on the scale at 122 lbs, and then later weighed in at 129 lbs 😭 #UFC325 pic.twitter.com/4uDupaYbED
— Championship Rounds (@ChampRDS) January 30, 2026
During the UFC weigh-in show, analyst Chris Weidman was openly questioning if his elbows were manipulating the towel, a technique popularized when Daniel Cormier utilized the trick to make weight for his fight with Anthony Johnson at UFC 210.
The fight between Tau and Namsrai Batbayar has been canceled for Saturday’s card, where the two were set to meet in the flyweight final of Road to UFC Season 4.
All other fighters made weight for UFC 325, which streams live on Saturday night from the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney.
Main Card:
- UFC Featherweight Championship: Alexander Volkanovski (144.5) vs. Diego Lopes (145)
- Dan Hooker (155.75) vs. Benoît Saint Denis (155.75)
- Mauricio Ruffy (155.25) vs. Rafael Fiziev (155.5)
- Tai Tuivasa (265.5) vs. Tallison Teixeira (259)
- Quillan Salkilld (155.5) vs. Jamie Mullarkey (155.5)
Preliminary Card:
- Junior Tafa (205.25) vs. Billy Elekana (204)
- Cody Brundage (184.75) vs. Cameron Rowston (184.5)
- Jacob Malkoun (185.75) vs. Torrez Finney (185.75)
- Oban Elliott (169.75) vs. Jonathan Micallef (170.5)
Early Prelims:
- Kaan Ofli (145.25) vs. Yizha (145.5)
- Road to the UFC – Lightweight final: Sangwook Kim (155.75) vs. Dom Mar Fan (154.75)
- Road to the UFC – Featherweight final: Sebastian Szalay (145.75) vs. Keiichiro Nakamura (145.25)
- Road to the UFC – Bantamweight final: Sulangrangbo (135.75) vs. Lawrence Lui (135.25)
