All fighters competing at Saturday's Bellator 51 event today made weight for the show.
Today's weigh-ins took place at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The nearby Canton Memorial Civic Center hosts Saturday's event.
The night's main card, which features all eight fighters in Bellator's season-five bantamweight tournament, airs on MTV2. The prelims stream on Spike.com.
The proceedings got off to a briefly delayed start because of issues with the digital scale. And though a handful of fighters had to strip naked before weighing, all fighters eventually made weight.
The tournament, which crowns Bellator's first-ever 135-pound champion, provided some fireworks, though they weren't from headliners Joe Warren and Alexis Vila, who have bickered and boasted in the media in recent days. Instead, fellow tourney fighters Luiz Nogueira and Ed West had to be separated after an intense staredown nearly became physical.
Warren and Vila, meanwhile, were all business and even shook hands before their photographs.
"Tomorrow I'm bringing some fury to the cage," Warren said.
"I'm ready to start the fight right now," Vila said.
The full weigh-in results included:
MAIN CARD (MTV2) Alexis Vila (134.5) vs. Joe Warren (135) Eduardo Dantas (134.5) vs. Wilson Reis (135.5) Chase Beebe (135) vs. Marcos Galvao (135) Luiz Nogueira (134) vs. Ed West (134) PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike.com) Jessica Eye (125) vs. Casey Noland (127.5)* Frank Caraballo (142.5) vs. Dustin Kempf (143.5) Jesse Riggleman (134.5) vs. Farkhad Sharipov (135) Dane Bonnigson (203) vs. Dan Spohn (201.5) John Hawk (204) vs. Allan Weickert (200) Joey Holt (153.5) vs. Clint Musser (154.5) * - Fight to be contested at catchweight
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