UFC 127 thread

Main card
Welterweight bout: B.J. Penn vs. Jon Fitch
Middleweight bout: Michael Bisping vs. Jorge Rivera
Lightweight bout: George Sotiropoulos vs. Dennis Siver
Welterweight bout: Chris Lytle vs. Brian Ebersole
Middleweight bout: Kyle Noke vs. Chris Camozzi
Preliminary card (Ion TV) & ESPN UK
Lightweight bout: Ross Pearson vs. Spencer Fisher
Light Heavyweight bout: James Te-Huna vs. Alexander Gustafsson
Preliminary card (Facebook)
Light Heavyweight bout: Anthony Perosh vs. Tom Blackledge
Featherweight bout: Zhang Tie Quan vs. Jason Reinhardt
Preliminary card
Middleweight bout: Nick Ring vs. Riki Fukuda
Heavyweight bout: Mark Hunt vs. Chris Tuchscherer
Lightweight bout: Maciej Jewtuszko vs. Curt Warburton


lets make this *THE* UFC 127 thread

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"Actually, you know what, more than the win, Matt Hughes came down to train with me in Hawaii. That really helped my confidence a lot actually. You know, us fighting two or three times, I still didn't really get to feel his strength and feel myself going five rounds or going a bunch of rounds with him and stuff. So, him coming down, him doing a lot of techniques with me and getting to work with him; we had some playful days, we had some technique days, some hard training days and all in all that really, I think, definitely boosted me to another level. You get a lot of training partners around but not at that caliber who have done the things that he has done."

BJ

Pearson vs. Fisher should be an awesome fight.

http://www.mmamania.com/2011/2/22/2007787/ufc-127-prelims-video-to-air-on-facebook-and-ion-television-on-feb-26
UFC 127 'Prelims' to air on Facebook and ION Television on Feb. 26
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is giving fight fans a chance to catch a handful of preliminary bouts from its upcoming UFC 127: "Penn vs. Fitch" undercard beginning with Zhang Tie Quan vs. Jason Reinhardt and Anthony Perosh vs. Tom Blackledge.

Both contests will air live on Facebook.com/UFC on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, at 8 p.m. ET.

In addition, fans can head over to the ION Television network following the Facebook festivities to watch two more "Prelims," featuring Ross Pearson vs. Spencer Fisher and James Te Huna vs. Alexander Gustafsson live via ION at 9 p.m. ET.

get at it fuckers!
http://www.ninjasplace.com/t11598-ufc-127-penn-vs-fitch-feb-26th

im waiting till the last second to make picks for this event, dont like the undercard

killerofchicken wrote:

im waiting till the last second to make picks for this event, dont like the undercard

don't be scared, you can always change it.

Hey cory, you bolded both Rivera and Bisping by mistake.

errr nevermind, you fixed it lol

lol

UFC 127 headliner B.J. Penn: Welterweight division better on the mind and body

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Until a pair of losses to current UFC champion Frankie Edgar, B.J. Penn was king of the lightweights.

In fact, if the sport ended today, you could make a strong case that the former titleholder is the greatest 155-pounder in MMA history.

But as Penn fights in the welterweight division for Saturday's UFC 127 headliner against perennial contender Jon Fitch, he said both his mind and body are in a better place thanks to the heavier weight class.

Penn (16-7-1 MMA, 12-6-1 UFC) and Fitch (23-3 MMA, 13-1 UFC) meet at Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia. The event takes place on a Sunday, but due to the time difference, it airs live in North America in its normal Saturday-night timeslot.

For Penn, who was made irrelevant in the UFC lightweight title picture following his decision losses to Edgar, the bout gives him a second life at a championship; UFC president Dana White recently said the winner gets a title shot (though it could be for an interim championship if Georges St-Pierre defeats Jake Shields at UFC 129 and follows through with a planned move to middleweight).

Penn is proud of his accomplishments at lightweight. At welterweight, though, it's been a mixed bag with little recent success. Until a stunning 21-second knockout of former welterweight champ Matt Hughes at UFC 121, the Hawaiian was 0-3 in his three fights at 170 pounds since a 2004 win over Duane Ludwig.

Despite those results, Penn sees the silver lining in the heavier weight class.

"I feel that I'm a happy person right now," Penn said during a recent media call. "I feel that I'm in a great mindset.

"When it came to 155 pounds, I didn't even like cutting the weight to make that weight."

A big part of the happiness is due to his diet. Or more specifically, his lack of a truly restricting one. Granted, Penn never had trouble making 155 pounds on fight week; it's just that his training camp was made all the tougher.

"It's not a tough cut for me," Penn said of lightweight. "I'd probably cut about three or four pounds on the day of the weigh-in. But, you know, you've got to cut down food, and you've got to cut your water down. And I don't know if that's a healthy thing."

Cutting out food and water as he prepares for a fight just seems counterintuitive. Penn believe he should be getting stronger, not weaker, as fight night approaches.

"I don't see how that can help you and make you the stronger person," he said of drastic weight-cutting and diet restrictions. "I see people (using) IV (replenishment) and doing all these things. I never thought about playing those games and sticking needles in my arm or doing stuff like that.

"But, you know, I come from a whole different mindset. I believe you get as healthy as you can and you go out and you fight the best way possible."

At 32 years old and with 10 years of professional fight experience, Penn's weight cut only is going to get tougher.

But that doesn't mean he's closing the door on a possible return to lightweight.

"I don't think Dana would ever let that happen," he joked.

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http://www.ninjasplace.com/t12035-bj-thinks-not-cutting-weight-will-be-his-advantage?highlight=cutting

i was hoping we get our threads organized a little

heres what im thinking, for every event we have a thread like the one i made, and what ever news comes out concerning set event, we put it in here... but that might be too much to keep track of lol

killerofchicken wrote:

i was hoping we get our threads organized a little

heres what im thinking, for every event we have a thread like the one i made, and what ever news comes out concerning set event, we put it in here... but that might be too much to keep track of lol

Yeah I dunno about that, some subjects are worthy of new threads and some aren't. I always look for related threads before posting, or if I find something that went with something from before I bring it back up.

Siver says he's confident that he can submit George

i dont know much about Sivers ground game but im pretty confidant that its not on Georges lvl!

UFC is Ion again?

i guess for the prelims yes, theyve been announcing it. i think theyre also doing some facebook action! how about that son?

Im praying that BJ can get the win over Fitch but I really want to see George vs Siver.

Presser pics
Penn and Fitch





Rivera vs Bisping

i guess there was a heated staredown between bisping and rivera, but you cant tell from those pics

timthebim wrote:

Im praying that BJ can get the win over Fitch but I really want to see George vs Siver.

You and me both, but I feel confident that he will.

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"I know I can beat B.J. (Penn). I mean I can beat anybody. I'll fight GSP, I'll fight Anderson Silva. I can beat anybody. Anywhere I want, I have that much confidence in myself."