Today’s festivities took place at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif., which
also hosts Saturday’s Showtime- and Showtime Extreme-televised event.

Headlining the event are heavyweight grand prix finalists Josh Barnett
(248 pounds) and Daniel Cormier (238), who each weighed in comfortably
under the heavyweight limit.

The event takes place at L’Auberge du Lac Casino Resort in Lake Charles, La. The event includes the season-six middleweight-tournament finale and a welterweight-tourney semifinal.

Prelim bouts include the likes of Mark Holata vs. Abe Wagner, Booker Arthur vs. Shanon Slack, and Andrey Koreshkov vs. Derrick Krantz.

The event kicks off at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT) from L’Auberge du Lac Casino Resort in Lake Charles, La.

Stay tuned for a full recap of the event, which includes an MTV2 main card with a season-six middleweight-tournament finale of Maiquel Falcao vs. Andreas Spang, as well as a welterweight-tourney semifinal of Karl Amoussou vs. David Rickels.

This serves as tonight’s discussion thread for the double-fight episode, in which the tournament’s quarterfinal round continues.

Follow along with tonight’s episode and live elimination fight on FX,
and discuss it in the comments section of this thread. We’ll then have
an episode recap posted at the show’s conclusion.

Jason "Mayhem" Miller turned in a lackluster performance in his UFC debut last December when his gas tank ran dry and he took a beating from Michael Bisping and on May 26th he'll look to redeem himself after nearly losing his job when he takes on CB Dollaway at UFC 146.<Br><Br>

Mayhem has already vowed to quit MMA if he loses to the former TUF contestant and spoke to UFC.com about why he feels he's going to come out the victor next week:<Br><Br>

"I just look at who he’s fought in the past, and I look at — you know — I look at who he’s fought in the past, and how I match up with them, and I know that… this should be an easy night for me. On top of that, I trained my ass off. I’m not gonna make this a personal thing with the guy, but at the same time, I’m not gonna pretend to respect him. There’s a stark contrast between me and him. You can see that I’m mentally tough, and I’m a bit of a masochist, so I’ll take the abuse, and go through it. When the going gets tough, this guy quits, and I’m gonna make him quit. I’m going to knock his fart-face off, and I’m going to send him packing. There’s no way around it."<br><br>

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