UFC 123, Nov.16 First day in Detroit

The day started off with a early morning flight on Horizon Air to Seattle. After walking half of the airport from gate "A" to gate "S" we made it just in time to walk right onto our connecting flight to Detroit. On the same flight with us was Dennis Hallman and Matt Brown both who are also fighting on UFC 123.

The flight was uneventful with the exception of George standing over me dripping water on my head while I was sleeping. George and a few nearby passengers couldn't stop laughing while I didnt think it was that amusing and went back to sleep!!!!

Once at the airport we were picked up by the UFC drivers and taken to our hotel about 45 minutes out Detroit in Auburn Hills. At the hotel George and the fighters (Dennis Hallman, Gerald Harris and Matt Brown) that were in our van was taken to the scale for pre weigh in. That was followed by the normal paper work and poster signing that the fighters have to do on arrival to every UFC event.

From there we headed up to our room but not before a small crowd of UFC fans stopped George and had him sign a few pictures and posters.

Once all our bags were unpacked we headed across the parking lot to a Italian restaurant where I ate with Adam ( a Australia Sports reporter shadowing George for this fight and doing a documentary on him for Australia TV) and George sat with us to go over his schedule for the following days.

Then we headed to the UFC workout room to get a workout. When we got there Tyson Griffin and Matt Hughes were already working out. George warmed up by jumping rope then he Shadow boxed and hit mitts for about 40minutes. George is looking better then ever, he is always improving with every fight. George has surprised me with how relaxed he is able to stay while working out. This has also been very apparent during recent sparring session at home before we left.

Anyway we are now back in the room and headed to bed. We have a early morning workout planned before George has to be at a 1130am press conference. The press conference can be seen on UFC or sherdog if anyone is interested.