Overview
- UFC 317 headlines tonight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas with Ilia Topuria facing Charles Oliveira for the vacant lightweight championship
- Topuria weighed in at the 155-pound limit after ditching the severe featherweight cut and appeared leaner and more muscular at the official scale session
- Oliveira also cleared weight despite public concern over his dehydration tactics voiced by featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski
- Topuria arrives undefeated at 16-0 with knockout wins over former champions Alexander Volkanovski and Max Holloway and seeks to become a two-division titleholder
- Oliveira brings a UFC-record 16 submissions and 20 finishes as he aims to reclaim the 155-pound belt he held from 2021 to 2022 and become the first undisputed lightweight champion twice