The stare downs were intense at the UFC 127 weigh-ins tonight in Sidney, Australia. The building was packed to the rafters as UFC fans in the Land Down Under cheered as their favorite fighters took to the scales. The roars crowd got even louder as the participants in the main event and co-main event stared one another down intensely.
Main eventers B.J. Penn and Jon Fitch came in at weight but then came toe-to-toe and forehead to forehead after weighing in.
Fitch then commented, “I’m pumped to be fighting B.J. Penn. He’s a legend. I respect him, but I’ve got to beat him. He has what I want.”
Penn simply replied, “This is huge. I’ll do my talking in the ring tomorrow.”
The most intense incident of the weigh-ins came after Michael Bisping and Jorge Rivera weighed in. The two have been trash talking for weeks and it came to a head tonight as Bisping pointed and shouted at Rivera and Rivera replied with the same.
Only one fighter did not make weight tonight, Dennis Siver. He weighed in at 156.9 lbs, over the allowed weight limit. It is not known if Siver will be allowed to weigh in again before the fight.
Here are the complete weigh-in results:
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Jon Fitch (77.2k/170lbs) vs. B.J. Penn (76k/167lbs)
Michael Bisping (84.2k/185lbs) vs. Jorge Rivera (84k/185lbs)
Dennis Siver (71.2k/156.9lbs) vs. George Sotiropoulos (70.8k/156lbs)
Chris Lytle (77.2k/170lbs) vs. Brian Ebersole (77.2k/170lbs)
Kyle Noke (83.6k/184lbs) vs. Chris Camozzi (84.2k/185lbs)
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Ross Pearson (70.6k/155lbs) vs. Spencer Fisher (70.2k/154lbs)
James Te Huna (93k/205lbs) vs. Alexander Gustafsson (93.2k/205lbs)
Riki Fukada (84k/185lbs) vs. Nick Ring (84k/185lbs)
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Anthony Perosh (93k/205lbs) vs. Tom Blackledge (93.2k/205lbs)
Jason Reinhardt (66k/145lbs) vs. Tiequan Zhang (66.2k/145.1lbs)
NON-TELEVISED BOUTS
Chris Tuchscherer (118.6k/261lbs) vs. Mark Hunt (119.2k/262lbs)
Maciej Jewtuszko (70.2k/154.1lbs) vs. Curt Warburton (70.8k/156lbs)
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