Song Yadong seemingly looked to send a message to Deiveson Figueiredo ahead of their main event clash.
At the start of the year, Yadong lost a decision to Sean O’Malley when trying to secure the biggest win of his career to date.
The bantamweight contender now has the opportunity to bounce back in front of his home fans when he takes on another former UFC champion.
Before Yadong faces Figueiredo in the main event of UFC Macau, the two men shared one final face-off after both of them made weight.
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Song Yadong gets held back during final face-off with Deiveson Figueiredo
In his last fight, Deiveson Figueiredo missed weight before being convincingly beaten by Umar Nurmagomedov in Las Vegas.
While the former flyweight titleholder successfully hit the bantamweight mark this time around, his next opponent seemingly wanted to send him a message.
Song Yadong made it clear what kind of night Figueiredo is in for by walking directly at him to invade his personal space before being held back by UFC matchmaker Mick Maynard in the final face-offs.
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Due to this event taking place at local time, the weigh-ins and face-offs were completed much earlier than most MMA fans are used to.
If Figueiredo had encountered weight cut issues again, he would’ve been the only fighter competing on May 30 to not hit the mark.
All 26 members of the roster who will make the walk at the Galaxy Arena in Macau on Saturday successfully made weight.
See the full list of UFC Macau weigh-in results below:
Main card:
- Song Yadong (136) vs. Deiveson Figueiredo (135.5)
- Alonzo Menifield (206) vs. Zhang Mingyang (205)
- Sergei Pavlovich (257) vs. Tallison Teixeira (250)
- Kai Asakura (135.5) vs. Cameron Smotherman (135.5)
- Carlson Harris (170.5) vs. Jake Matthews (170)
- Su Mudaerji (126) vs. Alex Perez (125.5)
Prelims:
- Luis Felipe (184.5) vs. Yi Sak Lee (185)
- Meng Ding (170.5) vs. Jose Henrique (170.5)
- Cody Haddon (135) vs. Aori Qileng (135)
- Luis Gurule (135) vs. Rei Tsuruya (135)
- Angela Hill (115) vs. Xiong Jing Nan (115.5)
- Rodrigo Vera (145) vs. Kangjie Zhu (145)
- Jaqueline Amorim (115.5) vs. Loma Lookboonmee (115)