UFC 101 & 102 Starting to Take Shape

[SinCitysmallGUY]

UFC 101 has added two more fights according to MMA Junkie:

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has learned that Amir Sadollah will meet undefeated WEC import Johny Hendricks (5-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) at UFC 101. Verbal agreements have been made, and bout agreements are in the process of being finalized.
UFC welterweights Tamdan McCrory (11-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC) and John Howard (11-4 MMA, 1-0 UFC) have agreed to meet in August in the latest addition to the quickly filling UFC 101 card.

So far, the UFC 101 card rumored for August 8th in Philadelphia is looking like this:

UFC Lightweight Championship Bout
B.J. Penn vs. Kenny Florian

Televised Card
Forrest Griffin vs. Thiago Silva
Matt Hamill vs. Brandon Vera
Josh Neer vs. Kurt Pelligrino
Johnny Hendricks vs. Amir Sadollah

Preliminary Card
Alessio Sakara vs. Rousimar Palhares
John Howard vs. Tamdan McCory
Dan Cramer vs. Matt Riddle
Jesse Lennox vs. Danillo Villefort

UFC 102 also is beginning to shape up according to MMA Junkie, with a middleweight matchup just added:

A middleweight bout between veteran UFC middleweight Chris Leben (18-5 MMA, 8-4 UFC) and recent WEC transplant Jake Rosholt (5-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC) will take place in August at UFC 102.

Also tentatively scheduled for this card is the long-delayed dream fight between Randy Couture and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.

[gracie bjj]

im getting phsyched up for the august ufc, its a 40 minute car ride for me and not the usuall 3 and a half hour rides from north jersey to ac or a 4 and a half hour ride to mohegan sun. thanks for the update sincity,your the man

[Geo]

philly will be a pretty crazy venue for a UFC card that's for damned sure

[coltrane]

Really pulling for Kenny on this card...  you guys think he can beat bj?

[SinCitysmallGUY]

Really pulling for Kenny on this card...  you guys think he can beat bj?

Depends I think stand up wise it could go either way. Kenny nor BJ are on my top 5 best stand up, but the ground will be interesting if BJ controls it he will take it, but if Kenny gets mounts and throws the elbows to Penns face I see a doctor stoppage and BJ crying about something.. (BJ is my top 5 fav of all time)

[gracie bjj]

Depends I think stand up wise it could go either way. Kenny nor BJ are on my top 5 best stand up, but the ground will be interesting if BJ controls it he will take it, but if Kenny gets mounts and throws the elbows to Penns face I see a doctor stoppage and BJ crying about something.. (BJ is my top 5 fav of all time)

i agree, i think also that it depends how bj,s training went and more importantly where his heads at in this fight. if hes still traumitized over the gsp fight with the greasegate thing by having to quit he might have some sort of post battle sydrome and be gun shy and not let his hands go, ive heard of it happening to fighters after a loss where they got dominated and are used to dominating, the fighter starts to slightly doubt himself and thats enough at thier level to mean the difference between winning and losing. we are either gonna see 2 bj,s, a hungry and pissed off bj that wants to get back in thier and kick ass like usuall, or a hesitant bj thats gonna look slow and gun shy and against kenflo that could spell disaster for bj. im not gonna lie i still am a bj fan even though i was slightly dissappointed in his cry baby routine over greasy george, i think bj will dominate and keep his title as long as he wants providing he trains hard and keeps his head together, and stops fighting guys that outweigh him naturally by 30 + lbs,lol. bj walks around at 165-170 lbs between fights and a guy like gsp walks around at 200+lbs before he starts cutting his 30+lbs to make weight, thats just to much of a difference especially when a guy is super skilled liked gsp.thats why tito and hughes dominated for awhile,ofcoarse they where very skilled guys but they are masters at weight cutting, something  most wrestlers are masters at from thier highschool/college days cutting weight for wrestling meets.tito told me himself that he gets up to 230 at times between fights,mat hughes used to go up to 200+ between fights. that makes a huge difference when a guy like tito who faces someone who is just barely making 205, a guy like serra walks around at 175 tops from what he told me,hughes walks at 200+. i always believed the weigh ins should be done the mornings of the fights to even things out alittle, i know that would be to hard for the promotors of a huge event like the wec/ufc. i remember afew fighters talking about how they go back to thier hotel rooms after the weigh ins and go on a intraveanus needle thats feeding sugers and electrolytes into thier bodies,they said it works great for them,i was suprised when i heard that. alot of guys,myself included believed tito should have been fighting hw, i was the biggest tito fan ever imo and even ill admit that the more i thought about him fighting hw the more i realized he wouldnt be as dominant. he would be getting a taste of his own medicine from guys like coleman and kerr and some other animals that tito couldnt use his weight and strength to overpower them, i know im always getting off the subject which should be ufc 101/102/bj vs kenflo but once i get going its hard to stop,lol.