Las Vegas, NV (USA) – Twenty four hours away from the highly anticipated welterweight showdown between former two-division UFC® champion BJ Penn and the unpredictable Nick Diaz, the main event stars came together at today’s weigh-in from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. To no one’s surprise, things quickly got explosive.
The UFC 137 fighters will take to the scale at the Mandalay Bay Event Center today in anticipation of Saturday's stacked event. Headlining the card will be a lightweight showdown between "The Prodigy" BJ Penn and Nick Diaz. The fight card will be co-headlined by Matt Mitrione vs. Cheick Kongo.
Today, UFC President Dana White along with the majority of the main card fighters from UFC 137 gathered at The New York New York Bridge on the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada for the UFC 137 Pre-Fight Press Conference. The ever changing card is still as stacked as ever with the main event pitting BJ Penn against Nick Diaz. The co-main event is a heavyweight showdown between Matt Mitrione and Cheick Kongo.
Today (Thursday October 27) the UFC will hold their Pre-Fight Press Conference for UFC 137. The press conference is expected to begin at 1pm PT/4pm ET. Expected to be in attendance are main card fighters BJ Penn, (Maybe) Nick Diaz, Matt Mitrione and Cheick Kongo.
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Nick Diaz still gets to be in the main event but not in the fight he originally wanted to be in.
With UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St.Pierre out due to a knee injury, the Nick Diaz (25-7 MMA, 6-4 UFC) vs BJ Penn (16-7-2 MMA, 12-6-2 UFC) has now been upgraded to the main event of UFC 137.
June 26th of this year will be a day that Charlie Brenneman will never forget. He was supposed to fight TJ Grant on the UFC on Versus 4 card in Pittsburgh and Grant had to bow out due to injury. Brenneman was without an opponent, but stayed on weight just in case a fighter pulled out. Then, the Nate Marquardt situation happened and Brenneman was back in the ballgame. The day before the card, the UFC offered Brenneman the fight with Rick Story and Brenneman jumped on it.
He went out and put on a great performance as he defeated Rick Story via unanimous decision and his life changed after that. With more people recognizing him, Brenneman(14-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) kicked his training into high gear as he faces Anthony Johnson(9-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) tomorrow night at UFC Live On Versus 6.
For 24 hours Nick Diaz was out of UFC 137.
Now, he is back on the card, but not with his original opponent.
UFC President Dana White announced via Twitter that Diaz (25-7, 1 NC) will be facing former UFC Lightweight and Welterweight Champion BJ Penn (16-7-2) at UFC 137 in Las Vegas.
More than likely BJ Penn vs Carlos Condit will be penned in as the co-main event of UFC 137. Speaking of penning in, BJ Penn signed the contract to fight Carlos Condit in his latest video blog.
