'Rampage' Jackson vs. Ryan Bader staredown – Photo via UFC Twitter
Former UFC light heavyweight champion and former PRIDE middleweight champ, Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson came in five-pounds overweight for his UFC 144 co-main event bout versus Ryan Bader. Jackson hit the scales at 211-lbs and will sacrifice 20% of his purse to Bader. Weigh-ins for the event took place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan on Saturday (local time) with the live event taking place Sunday morning in the “Land of the Rising Sun.”
Fans in North America can catch the live event Saturday night, with one prelim bout streaming live on Facebook, four more on television on FX, and the seven bout main card airing on pay-per-view.