When the UFC wants to be sure that a fight makes it to the cage, the beam scale is one of the best friends they could ever have. Who really needs to know if the champion is off by .02 lbs or not heading into a massive PPV title unification bout? Give the makeshift commission a tippy set of bars and weights to slide around and as long as a deft-handed lackey can make it all look just about right, then there’s no reason the champ can’t hide an ounce or two.
Not to say that that’s what happened with Khabib Nurmagomedov’s weigh in for UFC 254 at the Flash Forum in Abu Dhabi, just that the video can speak for itself.