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UFC on Versus 5: Weigh in Results and Video for Hardy vs Lytle Fight Card

Weigh-in’s for Sunday’s UFC on Versus 5 fight card took place on Saturday and while there were a couple close calls, all fighters eventually made their designated weights.As is the norm, UFC commentator Joe Rogan was on hand to MC the weigh-ins and see…

Weigh-in’s for Sunday’s UFC on Versus 5 fight card took place on Saturday and while there were a couple close calls, all fighters eventually made their designated weights.

As is the norm, UFC commentator Joe Rogan was on hand to MC the weigh-ins and seemed to be in an especially loose mood, perhaps warning up for his Saturday night comedy show at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater.

Official weigh-in results:

Main Card: Versus Network at 9:00 p.m. ET

Dan Hardy (170) vs. Chris Lytle (170.5) – Hardy missed weight on first try, made weight on second attempt

Ben Henderson (156) vs. Jim Miller (155.5)

Donald Cerrone (156) vs. Charles Oliveira (155)

Duane Ludwig (170.5) vs. Amir Sadollah (170)

Preliminary card: UFC Facebook stream at 5:45 p.m. ET

C.B. Dollaway (186) vs. Jared Hamman (185)

Joseph Benavidez (135.5) vs. Eddie Wineland (136)

Ed Herman (186) vs. Kyle Noke (185)

Ronny Markes (205) vs. Karlos Vemola (205.5)

Alex Caceres (146) vs. Jim Hettes (145.5)

Cole Miller (155) vs. T.J. O’Brien (155.5)

Danny Castillo (156) vs. Jacob Volkmann (156)

Edwin Figueroa (136) vs. Jason Reinhardt (135)

Chris Lytle to Retire Following UFC on Versus 5 Bout Against Dan Hardy

When Chris Lytle faces Dan Hardy on Sunday, August 14 it will be the last time he sets foot in the Octagon, as Lytle has announced that he will retire following the UFC on Versus 5 fight card.Both fighters have intimated that they plan to deliver a cro…

When Chris Lytle faces Dan Hardy on Sunday, August 14 it will be the last time he sets foot in the Octagon, as Lytle has announced that he will retire following the UFC on Versus 5 fight card.

Both fighters have intimated that they plan to deliver a crowd-pleasing style of a fight when they meet in Sunday’s main event.

NBCSports.com broke the news of Lytle’s retirement. “I’ve been fighting since ’98, fighting forever, a lot of it is just that I’m not doing my responsibilities like I need to at home,” Lytle told NBCSports.com. “I feel like I’m not being the type of dad I want to. I got four kids and lots of times I feel just an immense sense of guilt for not being there in times when I should.”

Since making his professional debut in 1999, Lytle has amassed an overall MMA record of 30-18-5. Of those 18 losses, zero have come by way of knockout and only two were due to stoppages—both of which came via doctor stoppage.

During his long career, Lytle never fought for a UFC championship but his entertaining style made him a crowd favorite.

That style also paid dividends in other ways as he has received a record eight UFC “fight of the night” bonuses for his efforts in the Octagon—a record he shares with Joe Lauzon and UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva.

Lytle toyed with the idea of retirement after his last fight, a unanimous decision loss to Brian Ebersole at UFC 127, but ultimately decided the time was not right and agreed to the fight with Hardy.

Lytle has also expressed interest in a possible run for the Indiana state senate in the past but did not address the matter in his talk with NBC Sports.

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Watch UFC on Versus 5 Weigh-In Video and Chris Lytle/Dan Hardy Staredown

The UFC goes to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for its fifth Versus show and it’s bringing a main event with two fighters in Chris Lytle and Dan Hardy who will be looking to pick up much-needed victories.All fighters weighed-in today and were all on weight. Har…

The UFC goes to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for its fifth Versus show and it’s bringing a main event with two fighters in Chris Lytle and Dan Hardy who will be looking to pick up much-needed victories.

All fighters weighed-in today and were all on weight. Hardy initially missed the 170-pound limit on his first attempt but made weight on his second attempt.

Currently riding a three-fight losing streak, Hardy (23-9) takes on MMA veteran Lytle (30-18-5) in a welterweight bout.

This is one of the few fights that doesn’t promise a knockout because of the two competitors’ chins, but it does promise to be non-stop action.

Lytle has never been finished in a career of more than 50 fights while Hardy has only been knocked out once in 30-plus bouts, which includes a five-round championship bout with UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre.

The fights begin at 9 p.m. ET on Versus. The preliminary bouts will be available on Facebook at 4:45 p.m. ET.

Complete Weigh-in Results:

MAIN CARD (Versus)

Dan Hardy (170) vs. Chris Lytle (170.5)

Ben Henderson (156) vs. Jim Miller (155.5)

Donald Cerrone (156) vs. Charles Oliveira (155)

Duane Ludwig (170.5) vs. Amir Sadollah (170)

PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)

C.B. Dollaway (186) vs. Jared Hamman (185)

Joseph Benavidez (135.5) vs. Eddie Wineland (136)

Ed Herman (186) vs. Kyle Noke (185)

Ronny Markes (205) vs. Karlos Vemola (205.5)

Alex Caceres (146) vs. Jim Hettes (145.5)

Cole Miller (155) vs. T.J. O’Brien (155.5)

Danny Castillo (156) vs. Jacob Volkmann (156)

Edwin Figueroa (136) vs. Jason Reinhardt (135)

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UFC on Versus 5: Does UFC Need the Outlaw to Win?

Back in 2009, if you’d have asked any hardcore MMA fan to name the fighter who would have the best chance at knocking Georges St. Pierre from his perch atop the UFC’s welterweight mountain, they probably would’ve told that you Dan “The Outlaw” Hardy wa…

Riding high on a four-fight win streak heading into his collision with St. Pierre in the spring of 2010, fans would’ve been hard pressed to name another mixed martial artist who had a better chance of stopping “Rush” than Hardy would.

Obviously, that’s not quite the way it happened. Instead of becoming the man who finally bested St. Pierre, Hardy would simply go on to join the rather long list of fighters who have come up short in their quest for welterweight gold.

In what has become Georges St. Pierre’s calling card, the champion would simply grind his way to a five-round unanimous decision over “The Outlaw.”

Having lost two fights since the title bout with St. Pierre, Hardy has gone from title contention all the way to now running the very real risk of being cut if he cannot put together a winning effort against Chris Lytle tomorrow night at UFC Live.

No matter how you look at this turn of events, however, one thing is certain: The UFC wants Dan Hardy to win this fight. Wait, let me rephrase that. The UFC needs Dan Hardy to win this fight.

Don’t believe me? Read on.

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UFC Live: Hardy vs. Lytle; Is Charles Oliveira the UFC’s Best-Kept Secret?

Throughout history, humanity has been fascinated with secret weapons. The McGraw-Hill Science and Technology Dictionary defines a secret weapon as a weapon closely guarded or kept under concealment so as to be used before countermeasures can be t…

The British government had exploding rats and time bombs made to look like Chianti bottles in World War 2. Nikola Tesla proclaimed to have the technical know-how to invent a secret death ray in the 1930’s.

The United States of America deployed a super secret weapon of nightmarish proportions in Iraq capable of firing concentrated doses of invisible frequencies that could wither opposing soldiers and civilians into a primordial soup of human splatter in milliseconds. So what or who is the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s secret weapon?

Look no further than Charles Oliveira. Assembled on Oct. 17, 1989, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oliveira may be the UFC’s best-kept secret. With a total of 16 fights under his belt, the 5-foot-10 Brazilian Jiu Jitsu/Muay Thai practitioner has left a trail of destruction in his wake.

If Quentin Tarantino rewrote the American crime classic Pulp Fiction with an MMA twist, he’d probably cast Dana White as Marsellus Wallace, Stephan Bonnar as Vincent Vega, and Jon Bones Jones as Jules Winnfield.

White’s character would send Bonnar and Jones to retrieve the UFC’s secret weapon-a mysterious silver briefcase with a transcendental glimmer that revealed the source of Charles Oliveira’s fighting spirit.

Somewhere in between all of this, chance would have Bonnar and Bones dining in a crowded restaurant where Rashad Evans was staging an outlandish robbery and coupe de grace.

Evans would make his way to Bones and Bonnar’s table, attempt to steal the briefcase along with Bones’s wallet, and live to regret his not so serendipitous showdown with the UFC light heavyweight champion.

The movie would end as the briefcase arrived safely in Milwaukee, Wisc. on the eve of Charles Oliveira’s lightweight showdown with Donald Cerrone.

Is Charles Oliveira really the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s best-kept secret? We’ll let you decide!

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UFC on Versus 5 Weigh-in Results: Dan Hardy Needs Three Tries to Make Limit

Filed under: UFC, NewsMILWAUKEE – Dan Hardy got perhaps the loudest ovation at Saturday’s UFC weigh-ins – even though he wore Chicago Bears orange in green-and-gold Packers country. (OK, maybe it was meant to be Harley-Davidson orange.)

But Hardy, spo…

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MILWAUKEE – Dan Hardy got perhaps the loudest ovation at Saturday’s UFC weigh-ins – even though he wore Chicago Bears orange in green-and-gold Packers country. (OK, maybe it was meant to be Harley-Davidson orange.)

But Hardy, sporting bright orange for his signature mohawk, missed weight for his welterweight bout against Midwesterner Chris Lytle, weighing in at 171.5 pounds even after dropping four pairs of trunks that he wore for show. Lytle weighed in at 170.5 for the main event of Sunday’s UFC on Versus 5 card.

After the official weigh-in event concluded, Hardy was able to make not just 171 pounds, but 170, the UFC confirmed. Hardy took to his Twitter feed, saying, “Not sure what happend there, I was on weight when I left the hotel!”

All 22 of the other fighters on the card successfully hit their marks at the weigh-ins, which took place outside the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.

Hardy is looking to snap a three-fight losing streak that started with a welterweight title fight loss to Georges St-Pierre last year. Lytle is coming off his first loss in five fights, a decision setback to Brian Ebersole in February. Both men have said they want to put a Fight of the Night-type performance on, promising to stand in the pocket and trade.

Jim Miller and Ben Henderson fight in the co-main event, an important bout that might determine the next top contender in the lightweight division. Miller comes in on a seven-fight winning streak, tops in the UFC outside champions St-Pierre and Anderson Silva. A win is likely to assure him a shot at the Frankie Edgar–Gray Maynard rematch winner in October. Henderson, the former lightweight champ in the WEC, won his UFC debut in April against Mark Bocek. And while an upset of Miller wouldn’t likely get him a title shot, it would throw a wrench into the division. Though for the second straight fight, Henderson had to strip down to make his mark, he eventually weighed in at 156. Miller came in at 155.5.

Also on the main card, Donald Cerrone and Charles Oliveira had one of the afternoon’s more intense staredowns after leaving the scale, though they did shake hands. Cerrone said Friday he finds his opponent to be cocky thanks to a smirk he gave him earlier in the week. Cerrone has won four straight in the lightweight division – two to close out his WEC career and his first two as part of the UFC. The former WEC star won five Fight of the Night bonuses with that promotion, and a third straight UFC win would likely elevate his name into future title talk. Cerrone was 156; Oliveira weighed 155.

The complete weigh-in results are below:

Main Card
Dan Hardy (170*) vs. Chris Lytle (170.5)
Jim Miller (155.5) vs. Ben Henderson (156)
Charles Oliveira (155) vs. Donald Cerrone (156)
Amir Sadollah (170) vs. Duane Ludwig (170.5)
Preliminary Card
C.B. Dollaway (186) vs. Jared Hamman (185)
Joseph Benavidez (135.5) vs. Eddie Wineland (136)
Ed Herman (186) vs. Kyle Noke (185)
Karlos Vemola (205.5) vs. Ronny Markes (205)
Alex Caceres (146) vs. Jim Hettes (145.5)
Cole Miller (155.5) vs. T.J. O’Brien (155.5)
Jacob Volkmann (156) vs. Danny Castillo (156)
Edwin Figueroa (136) vs. Jason Reinhardt (135)

* Hardy missed weight on his first try. After removing his trunks, he was still 171.5. On his third try, after the official weigh-in event, he made 170.

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