UFC 89 Weigh-In Results

by Luke Thomas on Oct 17, 2008 11:55 AM EDT in News Comment 24 comments

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185 lbs.: Michael Bisping (185) vs. Chris Leben (186)
205 lbs.: Brandon Vera (203) vs. Keith Jardine (205)
205 lbs.: Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (205) vs. Luis Cane (206)
170 lbs.: Chris Lytle (170) vs. Paul Taylor (170)
170 lbs.: Marcus Davis (169) vs. Paul Kelly (169)
170 lbs.: Akihiro Gono (171) vs. Dan Hardy (169)
265 lbs.: Shane Carwin (264) vs. Neil Wain (254)
155 lbs.: Jess Liaudin (155) vs. David Bielkheden (156)
155 lbs.: Sam Stout (155) vs. Terry Etim (155)
155 lbs.: Jim Miller (155) vs. David Baron (155)
155 lbs.: Samy Schiavo (156) vs. Per Eklund (156)

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I'm surprised Vera weighed a smallish 203, especially for a cutting HW.

Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.

by P Brady on Oct 17, 2008 12:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Believe it or not, Vera says he is walking around at 202 – 203 lbs right now.

http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=14923

by ilostmydog on Oct 17, 2008 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Guess he has cut the body fat as rumored, good news for me, then.

Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.

by P Brady on Oct 17, 2008 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So now he’s a middleweight?

by Simco on Oct 17, 2008 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Mike Easton told me that during the training camp Rhadi Ferguson and Vera both agreed it was possible for Vera to make 185lbs.

by Luke Thomas on Oct 17, 2008 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can and should in this case are worlds apart. I a for guys cutting as much weight as possible, but middleweight for Vera would take a lot. If he were really good at cutting and maybe had some college wrestling type dedication to cutting then I might be for it, but it just seems like he is one of those guys that has an ideal fighting weight that is between the weight classes.

by szucconi on Oct 17, 2008 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If he’s walking around at 202 lbs, then I don’t think cutting to MW would be that much of a cut.

by ilostmydog on Oct 17, 2008 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think he is overdoing the dieting to prevent the same thing that happend in the Andy fight. I do think he needs to bulk up and cut to LHW.

by szucconi on Oct 17, 2008 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I imagine Rhadi’s method of determining what weight class someone should fight in involves him picking him up and seeing how many times he can throw him over his head.

by Simco on Oct 17, 2008 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Way too many pronouns. Deal with it.

by Simco on Oct 17, 2008 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was all himmy

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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 17, 2008 7:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Vera...

that’s good news and should free some of you gamblers to go ahead and lay a little money on him.

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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 17, 2008 12:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I’m really interested in the Vera/Jardine fight. I think Jardine is overlooked a lot even before he was knocked out by Wand. This could be a good one.

by Cannon Jacques on Oct 17, 2008 12:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Is it just me or is this card stacked with great matchups? Theres a lot of underrated fighters on the undercard, I wish I could see the Gono v Hardy and Baron v Miller fights.

by Buddha Brown on Oct 17, 2008 1:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree, hard to find a bad fight on the card. Top to bottom, seems to be a solid card.

by LiuLang on Oct 17, 2008 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

This card is very much stacked. I love any fight card with Marcus Davis and Chris Lytle – they are both excellent fighters.

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by lovingmma25 on Oct 17, 2008 1:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It may lack a true main event (though I am very intrigued by Bisping/Leben) but theres a lot of new comers on this card that I’ve been dying to see make their UFC debut. Its got everything you’d want from a night of fights, some pretty interesting UFC debut’s, excellent LW and WW matchups that should provide fireworks, KO artists matched up against each other, and not to mention Bisping/Leben and Jardine/Vera. I cannot wait.

by Buddha Brown on Oct 17, 2008 1:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yep, this should be a very entertaining card…and I want to see Gono/Hardy damn it!

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by Tha Realness on Oct 17, 2008 1:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Pix or it's fake

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by jemaleddin on Oct 17, 2008 1:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Vera looked a lot lighter at the weigh-in than even 203 - Proof

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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 17, 2008 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That’s truly funny.

by Cannon Jacques on Oct 17, 2008 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Jeez – he lost weight AND put on muscle!

But seriously: half the people who read this site do it for the hot man-on-man face-offs, so let’s get with the pic-posting people. asa’s not gonna be happy if he shows up to the weigh-in thread and there are no shirtless men. ;-)

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by jemaleddin on Oct 17, 2008 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

When are the pics gonna be available? I wanna see how Carwin looks (he weighed in 12 pounds over his last fight) and exactly how short and fat Wain is.

by Michaelthebox on Oct 17, 2008 1:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs