UFC 132, Thursday day before weigh ins

June 30, 2011

This morning started of with George doing two telephone interviews. After the telephone interviews George head down to the UFC offices where he did another interview for the UFC photo shoot that will be air on the website.

Once George was done with all his interviews it was back to the training room where we did our last work out. George did a 30min boxing workout with me, then a wrestling workout with Alex Bubb and lastly his jiu jitsu workout with Eric Jetton.
Team Sotiropoulos, Alex Bubb, Eric Jetton, George Sotiropoulos and Leonard Gabriel Jr.

After the workout we all headed to lunch. The walk was a little taxing for George since he is dropping weight and just got done working out but like always he took the time to stop sign autographs and pose for pictures for all the fans. It seemed that George stopped every 50 feet for the fans but always had a smile and a kind word for all of the fans.

We are now up in the room and will stay in the rest of the night since George will be cutting weight tomorrow, then off to the weigh ins. Be sure to check out the weigh ins on line as well as back here where I'll post backstage photos.

UFC 132, First day workouts

June 29, 2011

We arrived yesterday in Vegas everything went pretty normal. We got picked up at the airport by Chris one of the UFC driver's. At the airport we did meet another Washington fighter making his UFC debut, John Hougland and manager Jeff Bourgeois.

Once at the hotel, we headed down to the UFC offices where George did all his paper work then it was up to the room where we had an early night.

Today we were up at 7am. We headed down to Starbucks where I had a coffee and George had his oatmeal and a tea. After breakfast it was straight down to the training room. This morning George started off with his warm ups then we worked mitts. After our work out we headed to the arena where George did his sprints.



George sprinting and shadow boxing.

George has been working hard this camp and it really showed this morning. Even though he's starting to drop weight, his intensity, power and speed are at a high level. After working out for about 40min George went and did two interviews. One was for Yahoo!, Sports which can be seen on line and the other was for the UFC website.



George on how he feels.

From the interviews we headed to lunch and back up to the room where we spent most of the day. I ran down to the pool for a quick dip while George rested.

At about 6pm Alex Bubb, a friend and training parter of George, came into town and we headed back down to the training room where George drilled his wrestling. George's wrestling looks as crisp as his stand up. Seeing George look this good is getting me excited for this fight.


Although none of us want a loss for George, I think his last fight really made him a much better fighter. We were able to analyze certain holes in his game and hopefully plug them as well as sharpen up his already existing and dangerous arsenal.

UFC 132, MGM Grand Arena , July 2nd

Rafael Dos Anjos and George Sotiropoulos

George will meet the tough Rafael Dos Anjos July 2nd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The fight will be the first fight that will be air on Spike TV that night. Check back often to see daily videos and pictures from the day we arrive in Vegas until the morning we leave.