UFC 98 Weigh-In Results: All Fighters Make Weight
Posted by Kris Karkoski on May 22, 2009 at 8:41 pm ET16 Comments
All 22 fighters, including UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans and challenger Lyoto Machida, rivals Matt Hughes and Matt Serra, and late-replacement Mike Pyle, successfully made weight on Friday in Las Vegas for UFC 98.
The official weigh-in results were:
- Lyoto Machida (204) vs. Rashad Evans (c) (205)
UFC Light Heavyweight Championship - Matt Serra (171) vs. Matt Hughes (170)
- Drew McFedries (185) vs. Xavier Foupa-Pokam (186)
- Dan Miller (185) vs. Chael Sonnen (186)
- Frank Edgar (155) vs. Sean Sherk (156)
- Mike Pyle (172*) vs. Brock Larson (171)
- Tim Hague (263) vs. Pat Barry (237)
- Kyle Bradley (156) vs. Phillipe Nover (156)
- Andre Gusmao (206) vs. Krzysztof Soszynski (206)
- Brandon Wolff (170) vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida (171)
- George Roop (154) vs. Dave Kaplan (156)
*Due to the late notice replacement of Chris Wilson by Pyle, Pyle was allowed an extra pound at the weigh-in.
[Pictured: Rashad Evans (left) and Lyoto Machida]
Tags: Andre Gusmao, Brandon Wolff, Brock Larson, Chael Sonnen, Dan Miller, Dave Kaplan, Drew McFedries, Frankie Edgar, George Roop, Krzysztof Soszynski, kyle bradley, Lyoto Machida, Matt Hughes, Matt Serra, Mike Pyle, Pat Berry, Phillipe Nover, Rashad Evans, Sean Sherk, Tim Hague, Xavier Foupa-Pokam, Yoshiyuki Yoshida
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Rashad Evans looked to be in great shape. Even so Lyoto still looked bigger.
Hughes looked in great shape as well.
Shierk looked smaller than normal……
sherk must have changed his diet, probably just taking vitamins and supplements instead of roids
this is a pretty good card . here are my picks:
Lyoto Machida by Tko round 4
Matt Hughes By Knock out late round 3. His dream so i hope he retires with it BTW my Favorite fighter. (KO of the night)
Drew McFedries By UD
Chael Sonnen by Tko round 2
Sean Sherk by UD (fight of the night)
Brock Larson by UD
Pat Barry by UD
Phillipe Nover by Rear naked choke early round 1
Krzysztof Soszynski by Kimura round 2 (submission of the night)
Yoshiyuki Yoshida by UD
George Roop by UD
Like your picks….especially the hughes one. My favorite fighter too. I agree with pretty much all of them except the Larson fight. I have a strange feeling Pyle will crank out a guilliotine midway through the first. However i wouldnt be suprised with your outcome. These are almost the exact same picks i have for my UFC Fantasy.
Hughes by KO?! I usually dont do this but . . . . . LOL!
Tw@
i said hughes by ko because i want him to retire after getting what he has always wanted to do and even better on serra i think he might be looking for since he knows he is retiring win or lose.
Wow, I didn’t realize just how many fights on this card I’m interested in, sure there’s not that much “star power” attached to this card, but top to bottom there are fights I want to see. I will post my picks in a bit.
My Picks:
Machida TKO 3/4
Hughes TKO 2/4
Foupa-Pokam TKO 2/5
Miller UD 3/5
Sherk UD 3/5
Larson Choke 2/2
Barry TKO 1/3
Soszynski arm 1/3
Yoshida choke 2/3
Roop UD
Justin, I think your picks sound more legit. But I am hoping to see Rashad win, cause I want to see some more “Black On Black Crime!”
Doesn’t look like Dana Made weight this time.
Hello all I’m still in this god forsaken blast furnace..FR I may actually get to see the fights!!! I’m so stoked!
It’s good to hear from you, mate. How much longer do you have in the big sandbox?
I’m really looking forward to the fights tonight. Machida is favored to win, but I’d really like to see Rashad Evans come out victorius once again. If he can stop The Dragon early, there must be a case made for him being one of the pound-for pound best fighters in MMA. Let’s not forget, at five feet, eleven inches in stature, he is consistently giving away three to five inches in height and two to three inches in reach. Yet he looks better with each performance. I’ve been reading comments for months, and I can’t understand why so many MMA enthusiasts refuse to embrace such a dynamic, disciplined, and driven fighter. He seems to be pillaged for actions that, when done by other fighters, are either recieved favorably by the public or garners no consternation at all (Iceman’s cute double-bird in Wandy’s face in the presser before their contest comes to mind–completely unwarranted). Besides, if Anderson Silva is going to continue his foray into the 205 division, everyone should be rooting for Evans to find the solution to the Lyoto question. The bond between Lyoto and Anderson would prevent Spider from attempting to capture a historic concurrent title, plus rob us of an epic matchup between (possibly) between Spider and Sugar Rashad.
On another note, I’m hoping Phillipe Nover can get a win tongiht, and would love to see Mr. Serra vanquish the holier-than-thou Matt Hughes once and for all.
This was my charter comment here. Thanks to everyone for the time.
I have to disagree with you about the epic fight frantzfanon, I think a better fight would be rampage-anderson. I also think rampage has a better chance of beating machida than rashad has of beating machida. however rampage seems to have a weakness against brazilians, his only weakness IMO. he doesnt fare well against them. I know he ko’d wandy recently, but what about his two losses to wandy and loss to shogun where combined they threw about 300 knees to rampage. I agree with justin that the card may be lacking star power that 100 has, this card has more solid matchups that may all be really exciting, entertaining fights.
We all have a suffer a weakness toward Brazillians!!! Brazillian women that is!!!!
This fight doesn’t lack star power. Matt Hughes is a big name, Rashad Evans is the LHW champ. Lyoto is a big name, Sheirk is a big name Serra is some what of a name. It really boils down to “if your a fan of these particular guys”
Of course it’s not gonna be as stacked as 100 that UFC is the big one.
Attn: Nightmare
Chael Sonnen by tko over Dan Miller??? I mean, i understand anything can happen but the percentage of a miracle like happening that can’t be too high,lol. That prediction just got me looking forward to that fight tonight just to see how it plays out. Im not gonna google it bc i could care less about Chael Sonnen but has he ever tko’d anybody? Just sayin cuz Dan Miller is a tough scrappy bastard. Props if u get that one right but i say Miller takes it. And I cant even begin to think of how the main event will actually play out….but I have a gut feeling something crazy is gonna happen out of nowhere. Pulling for Lyoto tho!! How can you bet against a guy whose never lost a round? Not to mention i’ve seen his fights pre UFC. Just look at the names on that list
I would say that string of unanswered shots and him having Rashad out on his feet before finally putting him to sleep was pretty crazy.