Minute for Minute - UFC 73 Weigh Ins

My Minute by Minute analysis of the UFC 73 Weigh Ins.

5:52PM CST: Watching it from the UFC feed, we got a huge mess, including some random guy yelling at the fighters to get in line and whatnot. If I hear him yell Rashad's name one more time I'm probably going to vomit.

5:53PM CST: Showing Marquardt & Silva backstage together. I never knew how close the fighters were when they were waiting to go on stage. Doesn't seem to be much hostility between the two fighters at all. Silva is now messin' around with someone who I'm not familiar with. Looks like it's just one of his trainers. Silva shows his best impression of how he hopes the fight goes down tomorrow, by getting his trainer in a headlock and faking some punches to his head.

5:55PM CST: Joe Rogan is on. He's being his usually charismatic self.

5:56PM CST: Bocek & Edgar are weighing in.. Edgar gets a pretty decent cheer from the fans. They don't seem to know Bocek at all. Both fighters make weight.

5:58PM CST: Joe Rogan agrees with the fans in booing ESPN for having "us timed out." Lytle & Gilliam come out. Gilliam gets little to no response. Lytle gets a good response. They looked pretty happy and pumped, both fighters make weight.

5:59PM CST: Apparently the UFC continues it's great nicknames by giving Diego Saraiva the nickname of the "Octopus". Gurgel looks absolutely ripped, I think he's going to kill Diego tomorrow.

6:01PM CST: This should be on ESPNEWS now, but it's not yet. Great, here comes Nickels and Bonnar. What a joke, the only thing Nickels has going for him is his 100 tattoos. Bonnar gets a good reception from the crowd, not exactly sure why. Bonnar looks more ripped than usual, probably juiced up again.

6:02PM CST: Rogan announces we have two minutes until the main card. The music cuts off the stream.. Oops, unfortunately it's back, and we get a view of the TapouT Crew. I'm sorry, I know a lot of people don't like them, but Mask's laugh is hilarious.

6:04PM CST: Ok, I'm watching it on ESPNEWS now. Alvin Robinson & Kenny Florian are on their way out. "Ken-Flo" gets a decent reception from the crowd. Florian always looks so awkward. Yikes, I know I picked Florian to win, but Robinson looks huge compared to him. Could be an upset.

6:06PM CST: Here comes Heath herring, camouflage cowboy hat in tact. Monotauro Nogueira is on his way out, he looks good, and he gets a good reception from the crowd. "Minotauro" looks a little bulkier than he has in the past in my opinion. You gotta' think Herring is getting a little tired of seeing this guy, if he loses again, he has lost three times in a row to him.

6:07PM CST: Here comes Rashad Evans, crowd is giving him some mixed reactions. I can hear some boos, but I hear the cheers as well. Tito gets even louder mixed reactions from the crowd. Now the crowd is echoing out in a small "Tito" chant.

6:09PM CST: One lady is yelling louder than everyone else in the crowd for Tito. I wonder if it's Jenna Jammison. Tito runs right up into Rashad's face. They got some serious mouthing off going. Dana has to separate them.

6:10PM CST: Rolling a clip of Rashad & Tito highlights. Rashad calls Tito an "entertainer", & himself a "fighter". Tito claims after the fight is over, everyone will be saying, "Rashad Who?".

6:11PM CST: Continuous trash talking back in forth on the video package. I feel like Tito says the same thing in almost every interview.

6:12PM CST: Apparently ESPN decided to take a commercial break right when Sean Sherk & Hermes Franca were about to come out.

6:13PM CST: After a delay, we get Sean Sherk & Franca. Franca looks happy as hell, and has a big smile on his face.

6:14PM CST: Sean Sherk is wearing the ever played out Affliction shirt. He flexes, and I'm rather impressed in a very heterosexual manner.

6:15PM CST: Nate Marquardt doesn't get the response I thought he would. The fans probably confused him with one of the other hundreds of people in the arena with an Affliction shirt on. Silva doesn't get much of a response either.

6:16PM CST: Anderson Silva gets right in Marquardt's face for a good stare down to close out the Weigh Ins.