Author: MMAjunkie.com Staff [mmajunkie-staff]

Fans are invited to pre-event festivities for the next major UFC event, UFC on FOX 5.

The network-televised event takes place Dec. 8 at Seattle’s KeyArena.

Fans are invited to the traditional pre-event open workouts, press conference and weigh-ins throughout fight week. All of the events are free.

As a reminder, submissions for the upcoming edition of “The Sunday Junkie” are due by Sunday at 10 a.m. ET.

All topics – including this week’s flurry of fight bookings and all upcoming events – are open for discussion. The person who sends in the submission we deem the best (based on timeliness of subject, clarity and overall persuasiveness) is the winner.

Each winner receives a free year’s subscription to “Fighters Only,” the world’s leading MMA and lifestyle magazine.

As a reminder, submissions for the upcoming edition of “The Sunday Junkie” are due by Sunday at 10 a.m. ET.

All topics – including this week’s flurry of fight bookings and all upcoming events – are open for discussion. The person who sends in the submission we deem the best (based on timeliness of subject, clarity and overall persuasiveness) is the winner.

Each winner receives a free year’s subscription to “Fighters Only,” the world’s leading MMA and lifestyle magazine.

As a reminder, submissions for the upcoming edition of “The Sunday Junkie” are due by Sunday at 10 a.m. ET.

All topics – including this week’s flurry of fight bookings and all upcoming events – are open for discussion. The person who sends in the submission we deem the best (based on timeliness of subject, clarity and overall persuasiveness) is the winner.

Each winner receives a free year’s subscription to “Fighters Only,” the world’s leading MMA and lifestyle magazine.

As a reminder, submissions for the upcoming edition of “The Sunday Junkie” are due by Sunday at 10 a.m. ET.

All topics – including this week’s flurry of fight bookings and all upcoming events – are open for discussion. The person who sends in the submission we deem the best (based on timeliness of subject, clarity and overall persuasiveness) is the winner.

Each winner receives a free year’s subscription to “Fighters Only,” the world’s leading MMA and lifestyle magazine.

Strikeforce took a gamble by loaning out Jordan Mein, one of its top welterweight prospects, for Friday’s Score Fighting Series 7 headliner.

Against UFC vet Forrest Petz, he faced a heavy-handed fighter with proven knockout power.

Yet, quickly in the main-event fight, it looked like anything but a risky proposition.