The poster for upcoming event UFC 127 from Sydney, Australia. Headlining the card are two top p4p fighters, “The Prodigy” BJ Penn and Jon Fitch. The card also features a host of British talent, including the co-main event bout – Micheal “The Count” Bisping, taking on Jorge Rivera, Tom Blackledge and Curt Warburton.
Video highlights of the UFC 123 post fight press conference. The post fight presser brought together winners BJ Penn and Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson. Thanks to MMAFighting.
Video highlights of the UFC 123 weigh ins. The main card sees a top lightheavyweight bout between Lyoto Machida & Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson and the Rubber Match between BJ Penn & Matt Hughes.
BJ Penn speaks to Ariel Helwani before his upcoming UFC 123 bout versus Matt Hughes. BJ’s Lookin good….
The Prodigy, BJ Penn speaks ahead of his upcoming welterweight bout against UFC veteran Matt Hughes. Penn comes into the fight on the back of a 2 fight losing streak and says he has a score to settle with Hughes in what will be the 3rd bout between the pair at UFC 123.
UFC middleweight Chael Sonnen talks BJ Penn.
Fighters only interview: Former UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn reflects on his brace of losses to Frankie Edgar, looks forward to fight with Matt Hughes and the future.
Reports that MFC Lightweight Champion Antonio Mckee has signed a deal to fight for the UFC. Mckee speaks on the deal & potential matchups in the UFC’s LW division including Frankie Edgar, BJ Penn & Gray Maynard. Mckee say that he was made to feel very welcome by the UFC.
UFC 123: Rampage vs Machida in Detroit has had it’s official poster released. The card looks to have some cracking fights lined up including main event Rampage/Machida and also the Trilogy of BJ Penn & Matt Hughes at Welterweight – a fight revealed by MMAFriedRice.com earlier in the week.
Rumoured fight card includes:
Darren Elkins vs. Edson Barboza
Gabe Ruediger vs. Paul Kelly
Gerald Harris vs Maiquel Falcao
Dennis Hallman vs. Karo Parisyan
Rory MacDonald vs Matt Brown
Mark Munoz vs. Aaron Simpson
Nik Lentz vs. Tyson Griffin
Tim Boetsch vs. Phil Davis
Joe Lauzon vs George Sotiropoulos
Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn
Quinton “Rampage” Jackson vs. Lyoto Machida
Hughes vs Penn
As suggested by MMAFriedRice on Twitter on September 10 2010, the fight between Matt Hughes and BJ Penn looks to go ahead at UFC 123 headlined by UFC Light Heavyweight standouts Lyoto Machida and Rampage Jackson. This will be their third meeting and with score currently 1 victory each with the most recent going to Matt Hughes via tko at UFC 63.
With Penn looking two rebound from back to back losses to current UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie Edgar, this will be Penn’s first return to the Welterweight Division since his failed attempt at re capturing the Welterweight Belt at UFC 94 against GSP. A victory for either fighter could propel them into the Welterweight Title mix. A loss for BJ could drastically affect Penn’s chance of going down as a future Hall of Famer and cause him to rethink his career. Hughes on the other hand is riding a 3 fight win streak with wins coming over Serra, Renzo Grazie and Ricardo Almeida.
Other notable fighters scheduled for the card include Joe Lauzon vs George Sotiropoulos, Nik Lentz vs Tyson Griffin and the return of Kario Parisyan vs Dennis Hallman who holds two submission victories over Matt Hughes.
