View Full Version : Some pics from my trip to UFC 101 Weigh Ins
GroundSt.Pound 08-14-2009, 08:20 PM I went to the UFC 101 Weigh Ins (not the event) last weekend but never bothered to post the pictures here. If you ever get a chance to go to the weigh-ins GO! They are free and open to the public meet some fighters, get autographs etc. It's a really good time.
Me with Matt Serra
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Frank Trigg
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Nick Catone
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Jon Jones (I'm not sure what's with my face in this pic. I look stupid but whatever
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GroundSt.Pound 08-14-2009, 08:21 PM Me and Dana White after the Q&A. People get the impression that Dana is an all around douchebag. He's a ruthless businessman, but he's a really, really cool guy.
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Sorry for the quality of some of these. My camera is pretty old
Forrest Griffin
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Anderson Silva
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BJ and Kenny
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I was planning on going to the Official UFC Hotel where all the fighters stay after the weigh-ins, but the Philles were having a game and I didn't feel like sitting in traffic, plus my battery had died. Which pissed me off because I really wanted to meet Georges St. Pierre who I heard was staying there as well.
Anyways enjoy. Again if you get opportunity to go, GO!
jakkups 08-14-2009, 09:14 PM What no Arianny, Logan or Natasha? You disappoint me Wand lol j/k. Cool pics man, Cantone looks like he can't decide between pulling a mean face or smiling.
GroundSt.Pound 08-14-2009, 09:44 PM What no Arianny, Logan or Natasha? You disappoint me Wand lol j/k. Cool pics man, Cantone looks like he can't decide between pulling a mean face or smiling.
Actually after I got a picture with Dana I saw the octagon girls behind the curtain right before the weigh in's started, but I was shoved up the stairs by security when I tried to get a picture. :grr:
This was the only shot I got of them after I was shoved up the stairs
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Catone looked like he had just got done partying doing lines off strippers asses. He looked like he really didn't want to be there
th4l3pr3ch4un 08-14-2009, 09:59 PM good **** man, was that all like backstage like all access type stuff or was meeting serra and jones pretty much open for the public???
vinnie7731 08-14-2009, 10:07 PM cool pics.
i met dana twice and he was cool and down to earth both times and took the time to speak with me and take pics.
GroundSt.Pound 08-14-2009, 10:07 PM good **** man, was that all like backstage like all access type stuff or was meeting serra and jones pretty much open for the public???
No it was open to the public. There was Catone, Trigg, Serra and Jones at a table and they just singed autographs on pictures of them they had on the table, handed them to you and if you wanted a picture you could get one. Didn't cost anything.
They also had a little UFC.store set up in a booth where you could buy UFC and Pride merchandise but I didn't have enough money for anything.
However the Q&A session with Dana was for fight club members. I had one of my friends give me his fight club pass for the event because he didn't want to go.
Weigh-Ins are right after the Q&A session. The stage where they do the weigh-ins, behind the curtain is where the fighters line up to get on the scale and the octagon is behind the stage.
It's a great experience if you go. I brought my own food and drinks and I didn't pay a cent.
I have some more pictures. I'll post them in a minute
GroundSt.Pound 08-14-2009, 10:11 PM The Autograph Table
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Lines for the Fighter Autographs
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The UFC Store
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GroundSt.Pound 08-14-2009, 10:16 PM Frank Trigg from the Autograph Table
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Dana Answering Questions at the Q&A
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Joe Rogan introducing the octagon girls, Dana, Buffer, Joe Silva before the start of the weigh-ins
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Aaron Riley and Greg Jackson
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villa04 08-14-2009, 10:54 PM really cool pics, hey so ufc 103 is in my hometown but unforuntantly im not going because of the marquez mayweather fight so where could i go to find out where the weigh in and autograph sessions are gona be
GroundSt.Pound 08-14-2009, 11:08 PM really cool pics, hey so ufc 103 is in my hometown but unforuntantly im not going because of the marquez mayweather fight so where could i go to find out where the weigh in and autograph sessions are gona be
Usually it's at the arena where the event is being held. So in this case it's the American Airlines Arena in Dallas.
For example these are the details for UFC 102
If you will be in Portland, Oregon on Friday, August 28th, please join us at Rose Garden Arena at for the WEIGH IN:
1:00 pm: UFC® Fight Club™ Check-In
2:00 pm: UFC® Fight Club™ Q&A
3:00 pm: Doors open for the public for UFC® 102 weigh-in
4:00 pm: Live weigh-in (4pm PT / 7pm ET / midnight BST)
Sometime soon on the UFC page there should be details as to where it is what time to be there.
Keep checking this link http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=event.FullSchd
there should be a place on there sometime soon that says UFC 103 weigh ins live. Click on the link and you'll get all the info you need
Santo Domingo 08-15-2009, 06:31 PM I went to the UFC 101 Weigh Ins (not the event) last weekend but never bothered to post the pictures here. If you ever get a chance to go to the weigh-ins GO! They are free and open to the public meet some fighters, get autographs etc. It's a really good time.
Me with Matt Serra
http://i29.tinypic.com/bfqhbq.jpg
Frank Trigg
http://i30.tinypic.com/jrz9cw.jpg
Nick Catone
http://i31.tinypic.com/wundjk.jpg
Jon Jones (I'm not sure what's with my face in this pic. I look stupid but whatever
http://i32.tinypic.com/2dvohhy.jpg
Wan,
Thanks much for the pics.
1) Are you an MMA insider?
2) Serra always seemed like a dick to me - how is he?
3) Will you be working on your own appearance?
GroundSt.Pound 08-16-2009, 01:59 AM Wan,
Thanks much for the pics.
1) Are you an MMA insider?
2) Serra always seemed like a dick to me - how is he?
3) Will you be working on your own appearance?
I'm not sure what you mean with questions 1 and 3.
But as for #2 Serra is actually really cool and funny. He put the guy in front of me in a headlock for his picture he was just really cool and friendly to everybody.
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