UFC 123, Nov 17, 2010, Second Day- Pres Confrence

Today started off with us getting up at 8am and eating a little breakfast at the hotel lobby. While I had the breakfast buffet, George had his oatmeal and protein. After planning out our day we headed out to the parking lot to do some sprints. Let me just suggest that if you are ever in Detroit in November do not and Ill repeat this DO NOT go out and time someone doing sprints outside in a hoodie, shorts and slippers!!

Once our sprints were over George just had enough time to shower while I tried to thaw out then meet the rest of the fighter in the lobby for our ride to the press conference. On the way to the press conference Matt Hughes and his camp as well as Lyoto Machida and his brother and father rode down with us. When we got to the venue they put us in a back room until it was ready for the fighters to go onstage.


George and I, Matt Huges and his trainer in the back room before the press conference.

While in the back room we were provided with drinks, fruit and a very good lunch buffet. Although George and the rest of the fighter could not take full advantage of the buffet it didn't stop me from having three plates while we waited. Well maybe three and a half plates but I really didn't want the food to go to waste!!

A short time later George and the other fighters were called on stage for the press conference. The press conference went well and for the first time since I have been with George (this being the 5th UFC together) no one really did any trash talking at the press conference. The press conference can be seen on sherdog or the UFC website.

Once back at the Hotel George had to do his Photo shoot and Pre UFC interview for UFC. When that was all done we headed back to our room for a rest and waited for Eddie Bravo to arrive and hit our evening workout.

When Eddie Bravo arrived we headed down to a very crowed workout room. Already in there was Robbie Lawler, Brian Foster, Matt Hughes and a first time fighter to UFC whose name I cant remember at this time and all of their camps.

George first warmed up with a little jump rope then we did our boxing workout followed by Eddie Bravo working with George on his Jiu Jitsu. I was cool to see that when George and Eddie was working all of the other fighters kinda watched them for a little bit and was very interested in what they were work on.

Once the workout was done we headed back to the room showered and headed out for dinner. A short time later the last of Team Sotiropoulos arrived, Eric Jetton. Now that Eric is here the team is complete and we headed to bed. Tomorrow will be our open workout for the media.