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Champion Penn, challenger Florian and others make weight for UFC 101
PHILADELPHIA - Official weigh-ins for “UFC 101: Declaration” went off without a hitch today as all 22 competitors, including UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn (13-5-1) and fellow headliner Kenny Florian (11-3), made weight for the show.
UFC 101 takes place Saturday, Aug. 8, at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia and airs on pay-per-view (10 p.m.).
The event, expected to sell out, has already produced the largest live gate of any combat sport in Pennsylvania history. More than 14,000 tickets worth more than $3 million had already been sold a month ago.
The state only recently began regulating mixed martial arts, but Pennsylvania has hosted some truly epic boxing events, including a 1927 Jack Dempsey vs. Gene Tunney bout that drew a staggering live attendance of 120,557, which still stands as a combat-sports record.
On the heels of its milestone UFC 100 show last month, the UFC now pits Penn, the Brazilian jiu-jitsu prodigy, against Florian, the well-rounded Muay Thai fighter who’s been one of the sport’s most improved fighters since appearing on the first season of the UFC’s reality series, “The Ultimate Fighter.”
The top-heavy card also features an intriguing non-title bout between middleweight champ Anderson Silva (24-4) and challenger Forrest Griffin (16-5). With Silva decimating the 185-pound division, UFC officials booked the seemingly invincible fighter in a non-title fight in the light-heavyweight division. Griffin is a nearly four-to-one underdog, according to the oddsmakers, but his size and strength and willingness to engage could present Silva his first legit challenge since his two bouts with former champ Rich Franklin a couple years ago.
We’ll have live updates from those two fights and the rest of the UFC 101 card here on DaytonDailyNews.com beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.
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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