UFC 107 Weigh-In Results: Headliners BJ Penn, Diego Sanchez Make Weight
UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn and challenger Diego Sanchez successfully make weight on Friday for their UFC 107 matchup, which headlines Saturday’s pay-per-view event in Memphis, Tennessee.
Penn weighed-in right at the 155-pound division limit on his first attempt, while Sanchez initially weighed in one pound heavy but ultimately made weight, tipping the scale at 154.5 on a second try.
Co-headlining heavyweights Frank Mir (264.5) and Cheick Kongo (239) and featured lightweights Kenny Florian (156) and Clay Guida (156) also made weight, as did the rest of the 11-bout card, though Edgar Garcia required additional time to shed an extra 2 pounds, while a number of fighters had to strip down and take advantage of the one-pound allowance to make weight.
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The official weigh-in results for UFC 107 were:
MAIN CARD
- 155: BJ Penn (c) (155) vs. Diego Sanchez (154.5)^
UFC Lightweight Championship - 265: Cheick Kongo (239) vs. Frank Mir (264.5)
- 155: Kenny Florian (156) vs. Clay Guida (156)
- 265: Paul Buentello (255) vs. Stefan Struve (247)
- 170: Jon Fitch (171) vs. Mike Pierce (171)
PRELIMINARY CARD
- 195: Alan Belcher (195) vs. Wilson Gouveia (193)
- 155: Shane Nelson (156) vs. Matt Wiman (156)
- 170: Ricardo Funch (171) vs. Johny Hendricks (171)
- 185: Lucio Linhares (185) vs. Rousimar Palhares (186)
- 170: Edgar Garcia (171)* vs. DaMarques Johnson (171)
- 170: Kevin Burns (171) vs. T.J. Grant (171)
^ Sanchez initially weighed-in at 156 pounds, but weighed-in at 154.5 on a second attempt.
* Garcia weighed two pounds over the 171-pound limit on his initial try, but later made weight.
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Pictured: BJ Penn
Tags: Alan Belcher, BJ Penn, Cheick Kongo, Clay Guida, DaMarques Johnson, Diego Sanchez, Edgar Garcia, Frank Mir, Johny Hendricks, Jon Fitch, Kenny Florian, Kevin Burns, Lucio Linhares, Matt Wiman, Mike Pierce, Paul Buentello, Ricardo Funch, rousimar palhares, Shane Nelson, Stefan Struve, TJ Grant, Wilson Gouveia
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Mir is huge, he put on almost twenty pounds since July. I guess he was serious when he said he was working on getting bigger after losing to Brock. I guess we’ll see how the extra weight affects him tomorrow night.
Gonna try to find out what’s up with Belcher being at 195.
I personally think Belcher could be a bit big for 185. I know there are other big fighters that make the cut like Silva, Marquardt and Franklin. But some guys dont lose the weight as well as others.
Just a thought, or maybe he had a minor injury that kept him from training at 100%
Gouveia reportedly asked for it to be made at a catchweight of 190 this afternoon, and Belcher countered offered to just have it at 195, “stating he was already at 195 pounds and didn’t see the use in cutting extra weight.” [MMAWeekly]
I assume Belcher’s stance was, “If it’s going to be at a catchweight anyways, I’m not cutting anymore weight.”
I wonder how much of an effect the weight cut will have on Diego since he came up short at first. He must not have done enough “YES Cartwheels.”
he said in his video blog that he was the closet to weight he had ever been before a fight. Maybe he thought he had cut enough and realized that he hadn’t and ran a few miles to cut the rest of the weight.
Maybe he said “YES” to too many donuts…
With all these catchweights at 195lbs I hope that the UFC opens up that as a weight class. 185-205 is a pretty big jump, and a number of fighters are right in the middle. You could easily see Franklin, Houston Alexander, Rashad Evans, Belcher, Hammill all go to that weight fairly easily.
Just a thought.
MAIN CARD
Bj Penn vs. Diego Sanchez
-Diego Sanchez via ref stoppage
Frank Mir vs. Cheick kongo
-Cheick Kongo via ko or tko
Kenny Florian vs. Clay Guida
-Clay Guida via decision
Paul Buentello vs. Stefan Struve
-Paul Buentello via ko or tko
Jon Fitch vs. Mike Pierce
-Jon Fitch via decision
PRELIMINARY CARD
Alan Belcher vs. Wilson Gouveia
Alan Belcher via tko or decision
Shane Nelson vs. Matt Wiman
Matt Wiman via tko or decision
Ricardo Funch vs. Johny Hendricks
Ricardo Fuch via decision
Lucio Linhares vs. Rousimar Palhares
Rousimar Palhares via submission
Edgar Garcia vs. DaMarques Johnson
Edgar Garcia via ko in the 1st
Kevin Burns vs. T.J. Grant
T.J. Grant via decision
Fight Of The Night:
-Bj Penn vs. Diego Sanchez
Submission Of The Night:
-Rousimar Palhares
Knockout Of The Night:
-Cheick Kongo
I’ve most of the main events the opposite of you jazzy.
i got the same picks dude! looking for the diego upset!
I’m wondering if kongo turning around was a “f*** you” to frank mir or if mir got in kongo’s head. It’s hard to tell if kongo is pumped, nervous, or having some doubts maybe?
Either way, hope kongo can stop any takedowns/subs and knock frank mir the f*** out. Frank mir talks too much dude and from what it looks like, brock was unable to teach him a lesson cuz he’s still doing what he does.
BJ will take Sanchez to ground and that’s the end of the story. Like Guida controlled sanchez on the ground.
is it just me or was everybody looking at thoughs scale funny. ya know the same way my wife looks at the scales if there a bit on the high side.
Crazy thought here but as i always expect the unexpected i’m wondering if Mir might surprise with a KO or TKO.
I don’t see Big Frank losing this as he can take a pretty good shot and is more well rounded for sure, but often when i look for the obvious result in a fight i get surprised …enjoy everyone!!
Yeah, I was confused by Cheick’s standoff pic. I just figured i missed something. Still not sure what that was all about.
As far as the main event goes, I am yet again a victim of the hype, because I have no idea how this thing will go down. And what I mean by that is when GSP fought Jon Fitch or The Pitbull, or when BJ fought Florian, there was a huge hype machine that said those fights were going to be wars. But what really ended up happening was a lopsided whooping on each of those occaisions courtesy of the titleholder. And I am starting to lean towards BJ treating Diego in the same fashion, in that there is a #1 contender and he is shown that he is still leaps ‘n bounds from the current champ. BJ showed that to Kenny and GSP showed that to BJ, and I think BJ is about to show that to Diego.
and as soon as I think I have all that mystique figured out, Diego ends up thumping BJ, so what do I know
Mir, as usual, was talking lots of smack in the pre-fight build up, and Cheick didn’t like it so he refused to face off with him.
Did you think it was pre-fight smack? Coz i just thought it was more stating the obvious!
ah, that makes sense.
This was a good weigh-in to watch. I like how Rogan practices his stand-up during the weigh-ins.
Anyone else think Linhares was disapointed when Palhares came in clean-cut? Looked like he wanted a beard-off.
After seeing Funch’s hair do, can we safely nickname him “The d0uchebag”? I’m just sayin’ that’s all.
Holy Sh!t Mir is huge. I know during the countdown they said he put on 20-30 pounds, but I didn’t think they meant 20-30 POUNDS. I guess he figured if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. 245 at UFC 100 and now he’s cutting to 265. Let’s see his cardio.
I had to do a double-take at Mir’s weight…wow. That’s a move that may backfire. I mean he completely disses Kongo ground game, but Ju-Jitsu requires so much cardio; if Mir can’t sustain, then the fight stays on its feet.
That could play into Kongo’s hands.
I’d like to se Sanchez and Guida win, but the smart money says otherwise. We shall see….