The weigh-ins for UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson went down Friday night at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
This in anticipation of Saturday’s event which features a twelve bout card with one match streaming live on Facebook/Youtube, then four televised bouts on FX, and finally a four hour, seven bout pay-per-view card.
Main event headliners, UFC lightweight champ Frankie Edgar (154) and title challenger, Ben Hendersion (154), were both on weight for their match. While co-main event fighter Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson was overweight by six pounds (211), while his opponent Ryan Bader (205) hit the scale right on weight.
Main Card (Pay-per-view)
Lightweight Championship bout: Frankie Edgar (c) (154) vs. Ben Henderson (154)
Light Heavyweight bout: Ryan Bader (205) vs. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (211)*
Heavyweight bout: Cheick Kongo (229) vs. Mark Hunt (254)
Welterweight bout: Yoshihiro Akiyama (169) vs. Jake Shields (170)
Middleweight bout: Tim Boetsch (186) vs. Yushin Okami (185)
Featherweight bout: Hatsu Hioki (145) and Bart Palaszewski (146)
Lightweight bout: Joe Lauzon (156) vs. Anthony Pettis (155)
Preliminary Card (FX)
Lightweight bout: Takanori Gomi (155) vs. Eiji Mitsuoka (154)
Bantamweight bout: Vaughan Lee (135) vs. Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto (136)
Middleweight bout: Steve Cantwell (185) vs. Riki Fukuda (185)
Bantamweight bout: Chris Cariaso (136) vs. Takeya Mizugaki (135)
Preliminary Card (Facebook/Youtube)
Featherweight bout: Issei Tamura (145) vs. Tiequan Zhang (146)
* ‘Rampage’ Jackson overweight and will sacrifice 20% of his purse to Ryan Bader