Friday, August 07, 2009

All fighers make weight for UFC 101

All 22 mixed martial artists scheduled to fight at "UFC 101: Declaration" Saturday at the Wachovia center successfully made weight at today's official fighter weigh-ins at the Big House.

UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn and his challenger Kenny Florian each weighed in at the 155-pound limit.

UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva, who is moving up to the light heavyweight division for a non-title fight with Forrest Griffin, weighed in at 205 pounds. Griffin also weighed in right on the light heavyweight limit.

The full weigh-in results included:

MAIN CARD
  • Champ B.J. Penn (155) vs. Kenny Florian (155)
  • Champ Anderson Silva (205) vs. Forrest Griffin (205)
  • Ricardo Almeida (185) vs. Kendall Grove (185.5)
  • Josh Neer (155.5) vs. Kurt Pellegrino (154.5)
  • Johny Hendricks (171) vs. Amir Sadollah (166.5)
PRELIMINARY CARD
  • Shane Nelson (156) vs. Aaron Riley (154)
  • John Howard (169.5) vs. Tamdan McCrory (170)
  • Thales Leites (185) vs. Alessio Sakara (185.5)
  • Dan Cramer (169.5) vs. Matthew Riddle (170)
  • George Roop (154) vs. George Sotiropoulos (155)
  • Jesse Lennox (171) vs. Danillo Villefort (170.25)

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