Fighters competing on the UFC 79: “Nemesis” card — including Matt Hughes, Georges St. Pierre, Chuck Liddell, Wanderlei Silva and more — will all tip the scales this Friday, December 28 at 7 p.m. ET for the official weigh-in.
The special event at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, is free to attend [...]

Here’s Chuck:

And “The Axe Murderer:”

T-minus three days!

 
I’ve watched his (Sanchez) fights and he’s tough, but everyone wants to win and no one wants to lose, so at the end of the day, we’ll see because I’m not training to lose. I want the belt, that’s why I’ve come to the best team, Team Quest, and I think they can get me [...]

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Will the celebration be something like this or this? More than likely depends on how things go inside the Octagon against Wanderlei Silva on December 29.

More pics of “Rush” getting prepared for Hughes this upcoming Saturday here. For more on his preparation for the rubbermatch read this.

Believe it or not UFC 79: “Nemesis” is less than one week away on Saturday, December 29, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This is the last show of 2007 … and it appears on paper that it could be one amazing night of mixed martial arts action.
The main card pay-per-view (PPV) [...]

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Quoteworthy:
“I watched Forrest beat (Mauricio) ‘Shogun’ Rua (at UFC 76 in September), and I got right on the phone and told my people that the UFC is where I wanted to be. I mean, no disrespect to Forrest, but Shogun is Shogun. I wasn’t expecting Forrest to win. But when I saw how strong [...]

“I need to win this fight, it’s a very important fight to me and for this I wake up in the morning every day with this fight in my mind. It’s a great motivator for me because this time I’m training very, very hard for to give my best condition for this fight…. This is [...]

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Quoteworthy:
“A long time ago before my career went to another level and I got serious, I was a bouncer in a club. I was working at Fuzzy Brossard every Thursday night, hip-hop night, which is probably the worst night. They had a lot of problems with gangs and stuff like that, so I always [...]

“The Ultimate Fighter is no joke. If you would pay me $100,000 I still wouldn’t go back in that house again. The experience messed with my head. When I left the show I thought I was psycho. You don’t want to be in that house. It’s nuts.”
The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 5 runner-up Manny Gamburyan (5-2) [...]