Check out a photo gallery from Friday’s Strikeforce Challengers 5 event, including Tyron Woodley’s main event win over Rudy Bears and Kerry Vera’s TKO of Kim Couture, after the jump…

Tyron Woodley submitted Rudy Bears in the first round of their matchup on Friday with arm triangle to maintain his undefeated record in the main event of Strikeforce Challengers 5, which took place at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas.

Also on the Showtime televised main card, Strikeforce newcomer Kerry Vera earned a first round TKO victory over Kim Couture, Bobby Voekler weathered an early storm to defeat Erik Apple with a second round TKO, Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante bounced back from his previous loss, defeating Aaron Rosa via second round TKO, and Kevin Casey submitted Chad Vance in the opening round.

Headliners Tito Ortiz and Forrest Griffin successfully made weight at Friday’s UFC 106 weigh-ins, as did the rest of the fighters who are set to compete at tomorrow’s event, which takes place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

Welterweight veterans Matt Serra and Frank Trigg will square off at UFC 109 on February 6 in Las Vegas, as The Fight Network today confirmed the long-rumored bout with Serra.

The former welterweight champ Serra is coming off back-to-back losses to Georges St-Pierre and Matt Hughes, while Trigg had won four-straight before losing to Josh Koscheck in September in his return to the Octagon.

The Nevada State Athletic Commission has issued medical suspensions to 7 of the 20 fighters who were in action at Wednesday’s WEC 44 event, which took place at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas.

Headliner Mike Brown, the former WEC featherweight champ who suffered a second-round knockout to Jose Aldo in the WEC 44 main event, was suspended until January 3 due to facial lacerations, while Diego Nunes, Cub Swanson, and Antonio Banuelos could be out of action until May after suffering fractures in their fights.

Main card winners Manny Gamburyan and Jose Aldo topped the $236,500 payroll for Wednesday’s WEC 44 event, which took place at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas and aired live on Versus.

Gamburyan earned $36,000 for his decision win over fellow featherweight contender Leonard Garcia in the WEC 44 co-main event, while Aldo scored $26,000 (and the featherweight title) for his second-round knockout of champ Mike Brown in the event’s headliner.

Strikeforce announced on Thursday that 145-pound women’s champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos and newcomer Herschel Walker will both compete at a January 30 Showtime-televised event at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida.

All 20 fighters scheduled to be in action tomorrow at UFC 106 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas will hit the scale today at 7pm ET to weigh-in for their bouts.

Watch the weigh-ins live on MMAFrenzy.com beginning at 7pm ET by clicking here or visiting MMAFrenzy.com/ufc-video/ and stop back to MMAFrenzy.com later today for the official UFC 106 weigh-in results.

A welterweight matchup between Paulo Thiago and newcomer Jacob Volkmann, previously scheduled for the non-televised UFC 106 preliminary card, has been shifted to the event’s pay-per-view main card after a bout between Karo Parisyan and Dustin Hazelett was scratched from the card on Thursday.

Strikeforce Challengers 5: Woodley vs. Bears, headlined by a matchup between welterweights Tyron Woodley and Rudy Bears and also featuring a 135-pound women’s bout between notables Kerry Vera and Kim Couture, takes place tomorrow at the Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas and airs live on Showtime at 11pm ET (delayed on west coast).

Check out a photo gallery from today’s weigh-ins after the jump…