RIO DE JANEIRO – MMAjunkie.com was on scene in Brazil and reporting live from today’s official UFC 142
fighter weigh-ins, where co-headliner Anthony Johnson was the start of
the festivities – for all the wrong reasons.
Johnson, a former welterweight making his middleweight debut, badly
missed weight and weighed 197 pounds for his bout with Vitor Belfort.
Today’s festivities took place at at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, the same venue that hosts Saturday’s pay-per-view event.