Tai Tuivasa hopes to save lots of his UFC profession when he fights for the primary time in 18 months.
The previous heavyweight contender is riding a five-fight losing streak into UFC 325.
Tai Tuivasa hasn’t fought since suffering a split decision defeat against Jairzinho Rozenstruik in August 2024.
6ft 7in knockout artist Tallison Teixeira will look to make it six defeats in a row on the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia
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Will Tai Tuivasa return to the win column at UFC 325?
The previous heavyweight contender will face Tallison Teixeira this weekend.
Tai Tuivasa loses 65lbs for UFC 325
Tai Tuivasa ballooned as much as 330lbs during his lengthy spell on the sidelines.
On Friday, the 32-year-old accomplished a 65lb body transformation to make the 266lb heavyweight limit.
Tuivasa tipped the scales at 265.5lbs, but looked like he had a last-minute cut to make it occur.
Relatively than specializing in his epic weight reduction, fans bashed ‘Bam Bam’ for a way he looked on the size.
“Bro looks so drained cutting to heavyweight,” one fan said. While one other added: “I hope this isn’t real, he looks awful. Why is there so little muscle?”
The toughest cut in UFC history,” another person commented.
“Gonna rehydrate back to 300,” one other X user predicted.
“Yeah, he ain’t looking great, man,” a disillusioned fan admitted.
“This guys getting ko’d,” a sixth person insisted.
UFC 325 weigh-in results
UFC 325 lost a fight after someone tried to cheat on the scales like Daniel Cormier.
Aaron Tau was attributable to face Namsrai Batbayar within the finals of Road to UFC, which doubled as a prelim for tomorrow’s event in Sydney.
The flyweight leaned on the curtain used to permit fighters to weigh in naked, and took an excessive amount of pressure off his elbows. Consequently, he ended up coming in considerably underweight, so he was forced to weigh in again.
Eventually, Tau weighed in at 129lbs, and his fight with Batbayar was pulled from the second card of 2026.
- Alexander Volkanovski (145) vs. Diego Lopes (145) – for featherweight title
- Dan Hooker (155) vs. Benoit Saint Denis (155.75)
- Rafael Fiziev (155.5) vs. Mauricio Ruffy (155.25)
- Tallison Teixeira (259) vs. Tai Tuivasa (265.5)
- Jamie Mullarkey (155.5) vs. Quillan Salkilld (155.5)
- Billy Elekana (204) vs. Junior Tafa (205.25)
- Cody Brundage (184.75) vs. Cam Rowston (184.5)
- Torrez Finney (185.75) vs. Jacob Malkoun (185.75)
- Oban Elliott (169.75) vs. Jonathan Micallef (170.25)
- Kaan Ofli (145.25) vs. Yi Zha (145.5)
- Dom Mar Fan (154.75) vs. Sung Wook Kim (155.75) – Road to UFC lightweight final
- Keiichiro Nakamura (145.25) vs. Sebastian Szalay (145.75) – Road to UFC featherweight final
- Lawrence Lui (135.25) vs. Sulang Rangbo (135.75) – Road to UFC bantamweight final
- Namsrai Batbayar (126) vs. Aaron Tau (129*) – Road to UFC flyweight final
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