FanHouse UFC 92 Videos

Here's what UFC President Dana White did on the day of his organization's biggest event of the year, UFC 92:

Basically, he spent the day seeing how many people he could shock with his trick pen

As soon as Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira took his shirt off at the UFC 92 weigh in, I thought he looked a little thicker than usual:

Sure enough, Nogueira tipped the scales at 246 pounds, which is heavier than he's been in the past. In his last fight, against Tim Sylvia at UFC 81, he weighed 237. In his previous fight, against Heath Herring at UFC 73, he weighed 240.5.

In this hype video for UFC 92, Forrest Griffin makes an interesting comment about his upcoming light heavyweight title fight against Rashad Evans:

"Winning the belt is one thing," Griffin said. "But you're not really a champion until you defend it."

I don't really agree with that, but I do think that even as the champion of the UFC's most stacked weight class, Griffin hasn't yet been accepted as one of the truly elite fighters in MMA. Until he defends his belt, maybe a couple of times, Griffin is still going to seem (in the eyes of many fans, anyway) more like an ordinary guy who won The Ultimate Fighter than like a true champion. But that says more about the way we've underrated Griffin than it says about Griffin himself.

In this video, produced by UFC and DirecTV, Frank Mir talks about what his routine is like in the 24 hours leading up to a fight:

Mir, who will fight interim heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in the co-main event at UFC 92, says he goes through every possibility the night before a fight: "You start going through the what-ifs. ... I'm going to jab, he'll throw a right hand, I'll slip back and tag him with a right hand. If he changes levels I'll sprawl. He counters with a swing single I'm going to hit a guillotine. If he counters the guillotine I'm going with a neck crank. If he counters the neck crank I'm going with a sweep. If he counters the sweep I'm going to stand up and knee him in the face."

And that's what goes through the mind of a fighter the night before a fight.

Rampage Jackson talks about his fight with Wanderlei Silva at UFC 92:

Although Rampage lost to Silva twice in Pride, he says, "I want to show Wanderlei that ain't nobody scared of him. He's not in Pride anymore."

"This fight is not for a belt, it's not for a tournament champion," Jackson adds. "This fight is for honor. ... This is going to be the fight of the year."