UFC 134 weigh-ins took place earlier today with all 22 fighters stepping on the scale and successfully making weight. UFC middleweight champion and pound-for-pound king Anderson Silva and Yushin Okami each made the 185-pound limit. Mauricio “Shog…
UFC 134 weigh-ins took place earlier today with all 22 fighters stepping on the scale and successfully making weight.
UFC middleweight champion and pound-for-pound king Anderson Silva and Yushin Okami each made the 185-pound limit.
Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Forrest Griffin appeared in tremendous shape for the rematch, which will be the night’s co-main event.
Additionally, the six remaining main card fighters looked sharp and charged up for the organizations return to Brazil.
Who were the biggest winners and losers at weigh-ins? Follow inside to learn who has the edge heading into tomorrow night’s action.
RIO DE JANEIRO — MMA legend Royce Gracie and heavyweight contender Junior dos Santos visited the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio on Thursday, and MMA Fighting tagged along with the popular Brazilian fighters. Dos Santos, who was visiting the statue for the first time, and Gracie were mobbed by tourists and locals atop the mountain and talked about what it’s like to have the UFC in town for UFC 134.
RIO DE JANEIRO — MMA legend Royce Gracie and heavyweight contender Junior dos Santos visited the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio on Thursday, and MMA Fighting tagged along with the popular Brazilian fighters. Dos Santos, who was visiting the statue for the first time, and Gracie were mobbed by tourists and locals atop the mountain and talked about what it’s like to have the UFC in town for UFC 134.
UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva is the greatest Mixed Martial Artist ever, bar none, according to many in the MMA world—including UFC President Dana White—and even with the many Mixed Martial Artists that you could arg…
UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva is the greatest Mixed Martial Artist ever, bar none, according to many in the MMA world—including UFC President Dana White—and even with the many Mixed Martial Artists that you could argue for in retaliation to Silva being pound-for-pound best fighter in the sport, the argument for “The Spider” is a difficult one to ignore.
He made a name for himself in the UFC by facing Chris Leben at the fifth UFC Fight Night event, and the shockingly thorough destruction of The Crippler is where it really all began for him.
From there, The Brazilian Ballet of Violence dethroned Rich Franklin at UFC 64, and the majority of us know the road he’s traveled to get to the HSBC Arena as he return home to Brazil for his UFC 134 vie for vengeance against Yushin “Thuder” Okami in Rio.
This rematch from Rumble On The Rock 8 has all the tools needed for another possible Fight of The Year candidate from The Spider, who hopes to go 9-0 in his UFC Middleweight title run while maintaining an unblemished 13-0 UFC record and improving to 31-4 in his MMA career, but Okami has other plans.
Speaking of other plans, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champions Forrest Griffin and Mauricio “Shogun” Rua have plans for the other, as Forrest wants to defeat the critics that chalked up his UFC 76 win over Rua to Rua’s notorious knee injuries, while Rua wants to avenge the loss in front of his countrymen in what might be one of the most enthralling co-headliners of the UFC’s 2011.
Also on this card is arguably one of the UFC’s top Heavyweight prospects taking on one of MMA’s most revered Heavyweights.
Antonio “Minotauro” Nogueira knows that Brendan “The Hybrid” Schaub claimed a common foe at UFC 128 in Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, and Schaub wants to score the biggest win of his young career in Rio de Janeiro with a knockout of Nogueira.
However, only Frank Mir and Cain Velasquez have found success in doing so, and Nogueira has no intent in allowing Schaub to be the third man to knock him out.
In addition, Edson Barboza’s undefeated tenure faces its hardest-hitting test to date in TUF 9 Winner Ross Pearson in a battle of fast-rising Lightweight standouts that is sure to electrify, and Luis Cane looks to carry the momentum of a crushing UFC 128 win over Eliot Marshall over in a successful taking of the “0” of undefeated 11-0 Bulgarian grappling wizard Stanislav Nedkov.
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Arianny Celeste and Chandella Powell don the colors of the Brazilian flag in their UFC Rio Ring Girl bikinis. And now… I’m thirsty for a can of Sprite.
Arianny Celeste and Chandella Powell don the colors of the Brazilian flag in their UFC Rio Ring Girl bikinis. And now… I’m thirsty for a can of Sprite.
RIO DE JANEIRO — The UFC 134 weigh-ins took place Friday afternoon at the HSBC Arena. All 24 fighters successfully made weight. Full results here. Highlights below.
RIO DE JANEIRO — The UFC 134 weigh-ins took place Friday afternoon at the HSBC Arena. All 24 fighters successfully made weight. Full results here. Highlights below.
Here we go folks! It’s time for the main event.
Can Yushin Okami pull off one of the biggest upsets in MMA history?
Without Chael Sonnen, Yushin Okami comes out, and he gets more boos than any fighter yet. He weighs in at an extremely lean 183-pounds.
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Here we go folks! It’s time for the main event.
Can Yushin Okami pull off one of the biggest upsets in MMA history?
Without Chael Sonnen, Yushin Okami comes out, and he gets more boos than any fighter yet. He weighs in at an extremely lean 183-pounds.
UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva comes out with his son, and as expected, he’s a major crowd favorite. It looks like he left his white mask at home for this bout.
“I’m going to do my best, and I’m going to take home the belt,” contender Yushin Okami told UFC commentator Mike Goldberg at the weigh-ins. “Don’t miss it. I’m going to be here with my all, and I’m going to win.”
Goldberg makes his way over to Silva, and the champ seems confident and thankful for the opportunity to fight in his native land.
“Thank you everyone for coming. I hope everyone comes here and watches this great event because it’s Brazil versus the rest of the world.”
UFC Middleweight Champion Anderson “The Spider” Silva is the greatest Mixed Martial Artist ever, bar none, according to many in the 
