UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson [Feb 25, 2012]

Subject: UFC 144: Edgar vs. Henderson [Feb 25, 2012] Sun Jan 29, 2012 1:54 am

February 25, 2012
Saitama Super Arena
Saitama, Japan

Main card

Frankie Edgar (c) vs. Ben Henderson
Quinton Jackson vs. Ryan Bader
Mark Hunt vs. Cheick Kongo
Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Jake Shields
Anthony Pettis vs. Joe Lauzon

Preliminary card (FX)

Yushin Okami vs. Tim Boetsch
Hatsu Hioki vs. Bart Palaszewski
Norifumi Yamamoto vs. Vaughan Lee
Riki Fukuda vs. Steve Cantwell
Takeya Mizugaki vs. Chris Cariaso
Tiequan Zhang vs. Leonard Garcia

Now this is a card I cannot wait for! Stacked!

Btw, love that poster!!

Agreed, this card looks epic; lets all cross our fingers and hope it stays that way;

Mark Hunt and Cheick, someone is getting KTFO imo.
The title fight will be unreal, and Rampage - Bader.

Sweet!

Looks like Rampage missed weight by about 6 pounds according to BJPenn.com

Quote :: “I wasn’t going to say anything. I thought I was going to make weight. I got injured in my camp and it kind of hindered me from doing a lot running. I didn’t want to miss this fight, this fight was important to me and I fought so hard to get it so I said forget it I’m just going to man up and still make the fight.

I kept training in other ways but I just couldn’t get the road work in, then I healed up and starting get road work in but it was a little bit too late. I started cutting weight but I had a lot of weight to cut. I cut 21 pounds I just couldn’t get the last six. It’s kind of difficult you got to weigh-in earlier and I kind of underestimated the time. I woke up at three o’clock this morning to cut weight. I cut everything I had.

I’m not going to say [what the injury is] because I don’t want Ryan Bader to find out and go for it. I’m pretty much healed up right now.

I had to cut a lot of weight, I’m not comfortable with saying how much weight I had to cut but it’s the most weight I’ve ever had to cut in my life and when I got off the airplane I knew that I retained a lot of water and I really didn’t eat that much on the airplane, just a few snacks that I brought with me and I was even more surprised that I gained more weight on the airplane. I was like ‘Whoa, what is going on?’, it kind of surprised me. By now I can run so I was running on the treadmill and stuff and I was trying to get it off, I didn’t know I wasn’t going to make weight until a couple of hours ago.”

Why are the PPVs 4 hours long tonight for the same number of live fights? Is there really going to be that much BS commentary between fights?

Prelims are free right now on FX, SPortsnet in Canada.

1 big upset imo so far.

Some really good fights so far on the free-lims.

Gomi up next!

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