Well, I drove 5.5 hours from South Eastern Minnesota to Chicago, IL in order to see the fight. I got to stay at a friend's house so that saved me a lot of cash, but any ways to the show.
Weigh-ins line was big and I showed up around 3:50 PM, but the doors didn't open until about 4:30 PM (although they were scheduled to open up at 4 PM). While waiting in line, Shinya Aoki showed up with two friends holding cameras. They filmed the crowd waiting to see the weigh ins, I had no idea it was him until my friend pointed out his pink, green and purple tennis shoes.
As soon as we got in, King Mo was waiting by the entrance.
Then I walked around with my friend and we saw the t-shirts on sale and Brett Rogers was signing autographs for fans. He was behind this barricade they put up though, so I couldn't get any pics with him. Luckily though, Big Black (from Rob N' Big) was snooping around behind the crowds. No one else seemed to notice him, but I asked him for a quick pic and he was like "Alright brotha". He was in a hurry and looking for someone, but cool enough to take a pic.
Afterwards we were waiting for the weigh-ins to start when Henderson popped up. Very generous and relaxed guy, I asked him if he signed with UFC or Strikeforce yet and he said, "Don't know yet". Had my eyes closed but oh well, I still like the pic haha.
The weigh-ins were cool and Fedor got the biggest pop by far. My view wasn't the greatest, so I didn't bother snapping any pics. If you get a fan video of his weigh-in you can clearly hear me say, "YEAH FEDOR!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!"
I don't know how to embed YouTube videos, but at 1:30 of the video you can clearly hear my enthusiasm for Fedor.
YouTube - StrikeForce, At the Fedor vs Rogers weigh in
I also screamed out "You can do it, Mousasi!" in my best Rob Schneider impersonation during his weigh in but no luck in finding a video of it.
After the weigh-ins were done, my friend and I stuck around and we're glad we did. We saw Big John McCarthy passing by and he was nice enough to let us snap a quick photo.
To be honest, I thought Big John was going to be A LOT bigger than he actually was. He looked more like a 205er than the jacked up heavyweight ref I'm used to seeing on the TV.
Once the weigh ins were done, we went over the Inside MMA taping and walked around. During this time, Scott Coker was checking out the area and this crazy fan with a huge scroll showed up. He asked Mr. Coker for just a moment of his time and then revealed an awesome Fedor painting he did.
