UFC 107 : Penn vs Sanchez
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happy to see fitch again...really respect the guy`s toughness...he has some real hard bark on him...
pierce is no gimme....
pierce is no gimme....
Just took a bean and a half out on KOngo. don't want to chance Weasel knocking this line down with his loot.
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Press Conference LIVE now:
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/12/10/1194694/ufc-107-penn-vs-sanchez-pre-fight
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/12/10/1194694/ufc-107-penn-vs-sanchez-pre-fight
Everyone is missing weight and then my video died a quick death. something is wrong with that scale.
kick when i was watching it nobody was making weight. mine cut out when Hendricks was two pounds over. Rogan even said the fans were chanting "fix the scale":142smilie
MEMPHIS | Fighters hit the scale Friday for Saturday?s UFC 107 event at the FedEx Forum in downtown Memphis. And the weigh-ins wound up being one of the odder ones of all time.
In all, 14 of the 22 fighters on Saturday?s card came in over weight ? prompting shouts of ?Fix the scales!? from the audience, jokes from emcee Joe Rogan about what the fighters have been eating in a great barbecue city like Memphis and several side conversations between UFC president Dana White and Jeff Mullen, the executive director of the Tennessee Athletic Commission.
Of the 14, six had to make weight on second or third attempts. The eight others were within their one-pound-over allowance. Still, seeing that number of fighters above had many questioning the accuracy of the scale.
In non-title fights, fighters are allowed to be one pound over the weight limit. In championship bouts, there is no overage allowance.
After the weigh-in event, Mullen told a small group of assembled media that the scale was balanced and had even been re-calibrated before the weigh-ins for the main event.
UFC 107 features a main-event lightweight championship fight between champion BJ Penn, from Hawaii, and Mexican-American fighter Diego Sanchez. Sanchez weighed 156 on his first attempt ? and normally he would have removed his shorts there to try to hit 155 immediately. But there seemed to be some confusion, and Sanchez?s second attempt came after the proceedings came to an official close. At that time, he removed his shorts and the scale read 154.5 on his second attempt. He was not wearing fight shorts on his first attempt, just lycra biker-style boxers. Penn weighed 155 pounds in his first attempt. After facing off, Penn and Sanchez talked back and forth at each other while their cornermen pulled them apart.
In the co-main event, former heavyweight champion Frank Mir takes on French fighter Cheick Kongo, who trains at the Wolfslair Academy in England with Quinton Jackson and Michael Bisping. Mir will come in with about a 25-pound weight advantage after weighing in a half-pound under the heavyweight limit of 265. Kongo was 239. There has been some bad blood between the two of late, with Kongo saying Mir is nothing but ?a big kid? and Mir saying he wants to break Kongo?s arm to show UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar what he?s capable of. When it came time for their staredown, Kongo turned away from Mir and would not face him.
While most of the other staredowns between the fighters were civil, lightweights Matt Wiman and Shane Nelson were in each other?s faces and had to be separated by White after a quick shoving match threatened to break out.
Also on the card, Fort Wayne native and Purdue product Jon Fitch, who now fights out of the renowned American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Calif., takes on Mike Pierce. For Fitch, who was always attached to the UFC 107 card, it?s his third opponent after Paulo Thiago and Thiago Alves both had to pull out with injuries. Pierce is coming off an upset win over Brock Larson at UFC 103 in Dallas in September. Fitch came out throwing shirts and gear into the crowd, then hit the scales at 171 ? same as Pierce.
And Chicago-area fighter Clay Guida, a Round Lake, Ill., native, takes on Kenny Florian. Both lightweights are coming off losses ? Florian was submitted by Penn in a title fight at UFC 101 in August and Guida lost to Sanchez by split decision in June in a bout that is on virtually every Fight of the Year list. Guida spent his training time between Midwest Training Center in Schaumburg and Gilbert Grappling in Tinley Park until moving his camp to the elite Greg Jackson school in Albuquerque, N.M., earlier this year. Guida came out his usual jacked-up self and weighed 156, as did Florian.
Official weigh-in results:
170: TJ Grant (171) vs. Kevin Burns (171)
170: Edgar Garcia (171)(a) vs. DaMarques Johnson (171)(b)
185: Lucio Linhares (185) vs. Rousimar Palhares (186)
170: Ricardo Funch (171)(c) vs. Johny Hendricks (171)(d)
155: Shane Nelson (156) vs. Matt Wiman (156)
185: Wilson Gouveia (193) vs. Alan Belcher (195)(f)
170: Mike Pierce (171) vs. Jon Fitch (171)
Hwt: Stefan Struve (247) vs. Paul Buentello (255)
155: Clay Guida (156) vs. Kenny Florian (156)
Hwt: Cheick Kongo (239) vs. Frank Mir (264.5)
155: Diego Sanchez (154.5)(g) vs. BJ Penn (155)
(a) Initially weighed 173; after the weigh-ins were over he hit 171 on second attempt
(b) Initially weighed 171.5; removed shorts to hit 171 on second attempt
(c) Initially weighed 171.5; removed shorts to hit 171 on second attempt
(d) Initially weighed 172; removed shorts to hit 171.5 on second attempt; stripped fully to hit 171 on third attempt
(e) Initially weighed 156.5; removed shorts to hit 156 on second attempt
(f) Gouveia-Belcher is being fought at an agreed-upon catch weight of 195 pounds
(g) Initially weighed 156, one pound over the limit in a title fight; removed shorts after the weigh-ins and was 154.5 on second attempt
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In all, 14 of the 22 fighters on Saturday?s card came in over weight ? prompting shouts of ?Fix the scales!? from the audience, jokes from emcee Joe Rogan about what the fighters have been eating in a great barbecue city like Memphis and several side conversations between UFC president Dana White and Jeff Mullen, the executive director of the Tennessee Athletic Commission.
Of the 14, six had to make weight on second or third attempts. The eight others were within their one-pound-over allowance. Still, seeing that number of fighters above had many questioning the accuracy of the scale.
In non-title fights, fighters are allowed to be one pound over the weight limit. In championship bouts, there is no overage allowance.
After the weigh-in event, Mullen told a small group of assembled media that the scale was balanced and had even been re-calibrated before the weigh-ins for the main event.
UFC 107 features a main-event lightweight championship fight between champion BJ Penn, from Hawaii, and Mexican-American fighter Diego Sanchez. Sanchez weighed 156 on his first attempt ? and normally he would have removed his shorts there to try to hit 155 immediately. But there seemed to be some confusion, and Sanchez?s second attempt came after the proceedings came to an official close. At that time, he removed his shorts and the scale read 154.5 on his second attempt. He was not wearing fight shorts on his first attempt, just lycra biker-style boxers. Penn weighed 155 pounds in his first attempt. After facing off, Penn and Sanchez talked back and forth at each other while their cornermen pulled them apart.
In the co-main event, former heavyweight champion Frank Mir takes on French fighter Cheick Kongo, who trains at the Wolfslair Academy in England with Quinton Jackson and Michael Bisping. Mir will come in with about a 25-pound weight advantage after weighing in a half-pound under the heavyweight limit of 265. Kongo was 239. There has been some bad blood between the two of late, with Kongo saying Mir is nothing but ?a big kid? and Mir saying he wants to break Kongo?s arm to show UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar what he?s capable of. When it came time for their staredown, Kongo turned away from Mir and would not face him.
While most of the other staredowns between the fighters were civil, lightweights Matt Wiman and Shane Nelson were in each other?s faces and had to be separated by White after a quick shoving match threatened to break out.
Also on the card, Fort Wayne native and Purdue product Jon Fitch, who now fights out of the renowned American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, Calif., takes on Mike Pierce. For Fitch, who was always attached to the UFC 107 card, it?s his third opponent after Paulo Thiago and Thiago Alves both had to pull out with injuries. Pierce is coming off an upset win over Brock Larson at UFC 103 in Dallas in September. Fitch came out throwing shirts and gear into the crowd, then hit the scales at 171 ? same as Pierce.
And Chicago-area fighter Clay Guida, a Round Lake, Ill., native, takes on Kenny Florian. Both lightweights are coming off losses ? Florian was submitted by Penn in a title fight at UFC 101 in August and Guida lost to Sanchez by split decision in June in a bout that is on virtually every Fight of the Year list. Guida spent his training time between Midwest Training Center in Schaumburg and Gilbert Grappling in Tinley Park until moving his camp to the elite Greg Jackson school in Albuquerque, N.M., earlier this year. Guida came out his usual jacked-up self and weighed 156, as did Florian.
Official weigh-in results:
170: TJ Grant (171) vs. Kevin Burns (171)
170: Edgar Garcia (171)(a) vs. DaMarques Johnson (171)(b)
185: Lucio Linhares (185) vs. Rousimar Palhares (186)
170: Ricardo Funch (171)(c) vs. Johny Hendricks (171)(d)
155: Shane Nelson (156) vs. Matt Wiman (156)
185: Wilson Gouveia (193) vs. Alan Belcher (195)(f)
170: Mike Pierce (171) vs. Jon Fitch (171)
Hwt: Stefan Struve (247) vs. Paul Buentello (255)
155: Clay Guida (156) vs. Kenny Florian (156)
Hwt: Cheick Kongo (239) vs. Frank Mir (264.5)
155: Diego Sanchez (154.5)(g) vs. BJ Penn (155)
(a) Initially weighed 173; after the weigh-ins were over he hit 171 on second attempt
(b) Initially weighed 171.5; removed shorts to hit 171 on second attempt
(c) Initially weighed 171.5; removed shorts to hit 171 on second attempt
(d) Initially weighed 172; removed shorts to hit 171.5 on second attempt; stripped fully to hit 171 on third attempt
(e) Initially weighed 156.5; removed shorts to hit 156 on second attempt
(f) Gouveia-Belcher is being fought at an agreed-upon catch weight of 195 pounds
(g) Initially weighed 156, one pound over the limit in a title fight; removed shorts after the weigh-ins and was 154.5 on second attempt
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