Kayla Harrison and Amanda Nunes both make 135 lbs for UFC 334 main event

Kayla Harrison and Amanda Nunes both made weight for the UFC 334 main event, each recording exactly 61.23 kilograms (135 pounds) at Friday's weigh-ins. With both fighters on the mark, the headliner remains in place for Saturday, November 14.

Harrison, 35, arrives from the United States with a 16-1 record. Her numbers show a fighter who lives on the mat: she averages 22.5 takedowns per 15 minutes, an extraordinary rate, while landing 3.81 significant strikes per minute at 73.02 percent accuracy. She has no submission attempts per 15 minutes in her recorded stats, which points to control and positional dominance as her main tools.

Nunes, 38, of Brazil, holds a 23-5 record and fights out of Lioness Studio. The orthodox striker lands 4.55 significant strikes per minute at 51 percent accuracy, and she also averages 2.73 takedowns and 0.7 submission attempts per 15 minutes. Her most recent recorded fight was a unanimous-decision win over Irene Aldana in a title bout at UFC 289 on June 10, 2023. That followed another unanimous-decision title win, a rematch against Julianna Pena at UFC 277 on July 30, 2022, which avenged her second-round submission loss to Pena at UFC 269 in December 2021.

Why it matters

• Age and size: Nunes is three years older than Harrison, but both stand five-foot-eight, or 173 cm. Nunes holds a two-inch reach advantage, 69 inches (175 cm) to 66 inches (168 cm).
• Style contrast: Harrison's takedown rate of 22.5 per 15 minutes is more than eight times Nunes' 2.73, while Nunes has the higher striking output, 4.55 landed per minute to Harrison's 3.81.
• Accuracy versus volume: Harrison's 73.02 percent striking accuracy is more than 22 points higher than Nunes' 51 percent, though Nunes throws and lands at a greater pace.

The identical scale readings leave no weight-related questions hanging over the card's top bout, so attention now turns fully to how the grappling and striking contrast plays out.