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Dana White Is My Bitch, Reljic Feisty, and Photos From the UFC 84 Weigh-In

Posted On: May 23, 2008 at 10:41pm

Fighters.com was live Friday at the UFC 84 weigh-ins at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Fighters.com’s seventh-ranked lightweight “KenFlo” Kenny Florian (9-3), former UFC Middleweight Champion Evan Tanner (32-7), and “Hammer” Mark Coleman (15-8) signed autographs and third-ranked lightweight “JZ” Gesias Calvancanti (14-2-1) was in the crowd with his smokin’ hot girlfriend.

Tanner stayed long after the weigh-in was over to sign autographs.

Calvancante with his smokin' hot girlfriend.

Coleman looks like he's been on vacation, not training.

First up to the scale was debuting UFC heavyweight Shane Carwin (8-0) weighing in at 253 pounds. Carwin fights “Hungarian Nightmare” Christian Wellisch (9-3), who weighed 230 pounds.

Wellisch said, “He’s not as big as he looked on video.”

Carwin weight 253 pounds.Wellisch weighed 230 pounds

Next to the scale was DEEP vet, UFC debuting Dong Hyun Kim (9-1-1) weighing 171 pounds and his opponent, 170-pound Liverpudlian Jason Tan (5-2).

Kim weighed 171 poundsTan weighed 170 pounds.

Another UFC first-timer, tenth-ranked welterweight “Zenko” Yoshiyuki Yoshida (9-2) weighed 170 pounds, the same as his opponent, “War Machine” Jon Koppenhaver (5-1).

Yoshida weighed 170 poundsKoppenhaver weighed 170 pounds.

Antoher Liverpudlian pugilist Terry Etim (10-1) weighed 155 pounds to match his UFC 84 opponent, “No Love” Rich Clementi (31-12-1).

Etime weighed 155 poundsClementi weighed 170 pounds.

“Kaz” Kazurhiro Nakamura (11-7) weighed a pound over light heavyweight at 206 pounds (“Without the Easter basket,” UFC broadcaster Joe Rogan commented). His UFC 84 opponent, seventh-ranked “African Assassin” Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (4-2), weighed in a pound under at 204 pounds.

Nakamura weighed 206 pounds

Sokoudjou weighed 204 pounds

Brazilian Top Team’s “Toquinho” Rousimar Palhares (7-1) looked large at 185 pounds, which matched his Speedo-clad foe Ivan Salaverry (12-6).

Palhares weighed 185 pounds.Salaverry weighed 185 pounds

UFC debuting “Samuray” Antonio Mendes (14-2) weighed two pounds under the light heavyweight limit at 203 pounds. His opponent, Thiago Silva (12-0), met the 205-pound limit. Mendes looked about as big around as one of Silva’s thighs.

Mendes weighed 203 pounds.Silva weighed 205 pounds.

Ninth-ranked “Huntington Beach Bad Boy” Tito Ortiz (15-5-1) wore a shirt that read “Dana White Is My Bitch” and weighed 205 pounds. His opponent, third-ranked “Dragon” Lyoto Machida (12-0), shook his hand at the face-off, after matching his weight.

Ortiz weighed 205 pounds.Machida weighed 205 pounds.

UFC debuting Goran Reljic (7-0) nudged his opponent Wilson Gouveia (10-4) at the face-off; but, American Top Team’s Gouveia didn’t flinch. They both weighed 205 pounds.

Reljic weighed 205 pounds.Gouveia weighed 205 pounds.

Tenth-ranked “Axe Murderer” Wanderlei Silva (31-8-1) and fourth-ranked “Dean of Mean” Keith Jardine (13-3-1) both weighed 205 pounds.

Silva weighed 205 poundsJardine weighed 205 pounds

Fifth-ranked “Muscle Shark” Sean Sherk (32-2-1) and fourth-ranked “Prodigy” B.J. Penn (12-4-1) both weighed 155 pounds for the UFC 84 main event title fight.

Sherk weighed 155 pounds.Penn weighed 155 pounds.

These girls didn’t weigh in; and, I didn’t think it polite to ask.

Bud Light GirlsUFC Octagon Girl Edith Labelle

Comments

  1. mma_videos
    Comment by mma_videos
    05/24/2008 at 12:56 am | #1

    Seriously need a picture of Tito wearing that shirt.

    Love to hear what Dana will have to say about that, lol.

  2. Chad Edward
    Comment by Chad Edward
    05/24/2008 at 1:50 am | #2

    Unfortunately, Ortiz was wearing the shirt on the opposite side of the stage from where I was sitting.

  3. TheBorg
    Comment by TheBorg
    05/24/2008 at 2:39 am | #3

    Hehe, Tito has balls to say at least :)

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