UFC 94: GSP vs. Penn

Here’s the video of the UFC 94 weigh ins:

Here’s a preview of the excellent semi-final match at UFC 94 between Thiago Silva and Lyoto Machida. After reading that Machida likes to celebrate his victories by dining at In-n-Out Burger he’s become a SAVSCI favorite for that reason alone:

FEG has posted a big Helio Gracie tribute on the DREAM Official website. Even if you can’t read Japanese you can see the respect for Helio through their choice of pictures:
DREAM tribute to Helio Gracie @ DREAM Official website (in Japanese)

Here’s some footage of Helio Gracie’s most famous fight–basically the Royce v. Sakuraba #1 of its day–as he takes on Japanese judo legend Masahiko Kimura. Rorion Gracie narrates:

Hard to add anything to this tribute to Helio Gracie from his son Royce:
Today my father, Helio, at the age of 95 passed on. I am honored to be the son of such a great man! He was an inspiration to me throughout my life. As a Grandmaster of Jiu-Jitsu and the father of “Vale [...]

Gracie family patriarch and BJJ/MMA pioneer Helio Gracie died peacefully in his sleep on Thursday night at the age of 95. Here’s a link to the SAVSCI’s tribute to a man who trod the path on which today’s MMA superstars now walk, as well as some amazing footage of Gracie’s 1951 battle with Japanese [...]

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Ingemar Johansson died earlier tonight in Kungsbacka, Sweden at the age of 76. We’ll have a tribute to Johansson posted within the hour, but for now here’s the third installment of his championship trilogy with Floyd Patterson and a link to the SAVSCI tribute to Johansson.
Ingemar Johansson: 1932–2009 [...]

All fighters make weight for UFC 94–all in all a fairly uneventful weigh in. Crowd reaction live was pretty evenly split between GSP and Penn, though my take is that was the crowd was being respectful to both fighters. Fans let Penn hear it every time his promo video was shown on the [...]

Bobby Lashley has suffered a training injury and has been forced to withdraw from his February 6 Palace Fighting Championship bout against Michael Hayes (not *that* Michael Hayes, but a MMA fighter of the same name). We’ll get you more details on the nature and severity of his injury as soon as we hear [...]