UFC 123, Weigh ins, Day before the fight

Today we got up early and George had a really light workout. He looks good and is on point with his weight. At 400pm we met down stairs with the UFC staff to get our wrist bands for the weight ins and to have our rules meeting for the event tomorrow night.

Once the meeting is over we headed out to the vans that drove us over to the arena. We rode over with Gerald Harris and his corner man. When we got to the arena, UFC behind the scenes crew asked me to do a interview. Once my interview was done George was called to do his paper work with UFC.


Team Sotiropoulos: Eddie Bravo, George Sotiropoulos, Leonard Gabriel, Eric Jetton and Michael Chapman backstage at the weigh-ins.

A short time later all the fighters and one corner man was called to line up in the order of the fights so the weigh ins can start. Joe Lauzon and his corner man got in line before us so we stood behind him. This is the first time I saw the shirts that Lauzon made for this fight. It was funny to say the least. It said something to the effect that according to the Australian Wildlife 100 people a year have been killed by an adult Joey. You have been warned! As you can guess George didn't think that was to funny.

A short time later we were up and Lauzon was called up first he weighed 155lbs. Then George was up 155lbs on the dot. Then came the stare down. Ill let the picture of the stare down do the talking!!

Once the weigh in was over it was back to the room so George could rest for tomorrow night!!