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What a great weekend it was
My friends and I touched down in London thursday afternoon. Unfortunately we were a bit late, so we weren’t able to attend the press-conference.
Instead we went out for dinner and grabbed some cold beers in a traditional British pub afterwards
We spoke to some local guys and also talked about combat sports, and after my friends told them I trained with Overeem while showing the training-photo, one big English dude asked me for a pic, lol
The next day we went to the ceremonial weigh-ins, but moments before we entered the O2 I met fellow Sherdogger @Buff, who brought a kind gift for me
Check out @Buff ’s legendary thread for more pics from our meeting and the full story:
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...-weigh-in-shoop-dat-buff-and-maurits.4283274/
Later that night we went to a pub
… which happened to have an underground kinda techno-music blasting basement, below the cozy pub upstairs
All of a sudden some English bloke came in, who grabbed the mic and started rapping some random hard lines out of nowhere, really impressive and cool, check it out
https://share.icloud.com/photos/09dQLmUCUjaNxGEL7ZBoCVdsQ
Then it was saturday, the big day with UFC 286 around the corner!
We moved our asses to the O2 in time for the UFC fan-experience.
When we arrived we heard about the queue for the fighter meet&greet. We got told it was hella long, like almost 2 hours, so my two mates went for something else.
I decided to try and take a look at the queue, which indeed was insanely long. I wasn’t going to waste 2 hours of my time so I walked back, and that’s when I saw three guys with Italian flags. I approached them and talked to them about Vettori and some other MMA-related stuff. I was in a conversation with those guys for about a few minutes when I realized they were only 30 minutes away from the end of the queue, so I kindly asked them if they wouldn’t mind if I stayed with them (which saved me a lot of time)
Grazie, fratelli!
Then I met Joanna (again)
And Tom Aspinall
I also practiced my walkout in case somebody had to pull out (Colby only was there as a second back-up fighter, in case I got injured)
And I did a promotional photoshoot with the belt
Then we went inside the Arena and enjoyed a total of 15 fights
What a weekend! Cheers Sherbro’s
I went to UFC London 1.0:
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/i-went-to-ufc-london-and-had-a-blast.4248630/
My friends and I touched down in London thursday afternoon. Unfortunately we were a bit late, so we weren’t able to attend the press-conference.
Instead we went out for dinner and grabbed some cold beers in a traditional British pub afterwards
We spoke to some local guys and also talked about combat sports, and after my friends told them I trained with Overeem while showing the training-photo, one big English dude asked me for a pic, lol
The next day we went to the ceremonial weigh-ins, but moments before we entered the O2 I met fellow Sherdogger @Buff, who brought a kind gift for me
Check out @Buff ’s legendary thread for more pics from our meeting and the full story:
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...-weigh-in-shoop-dat-buff-and-maurits.4283274/
Later that night we went to a pub
… which happened to have an underground kinda techno-music blasting basement, below the cozy pub upstairs
All of a sudden some English bloke came in, who grabbed the mic and started rapping some random hard lines out of nowhere, really impressive and cool, check it out
https://share.icloud.com/photos/09dQLmUCUjaNxGEL7ZBoCVdsQ
Then it was saturday, the big day with UFC 286 around the corner!
We moved our asses to the O2 in time for the UFC fan-experience.
When we arrived we heard about the queue for the fighter meet&greet. We got told it was hella long, like almost 2 hours, so my two mates went for something else.
I decided to try and take a look at the queue, which indeed was insanely long. I wasn’t going to waste 2 hours of my time so I walked back, and that’s when I saw three guys with Italian flags. I approached them and talked to them about Vettori and some other MMA-related stuff. I was in a conversation with those guys for about a few minutes when I realized they were only 30 minutes away from the end of the queue, so I kindly asked them if they wouldn’t mind if I stayed with them
(which saved me a lot of time)Grazie, fratelli!
Then I met Joanna (again)
And Tom Aspinall
I also practiced my walkout in case somebody had to pull out (Colby only was there as a second back-up fighter, in case I got injured)
And I did a promotional photoshoot with the belt
Then we went inside the Arena and enjoyed a total of 15 fights
What a weekend! Cheers Sherbro’s
I went to UFC London 1.0:
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/i-went-to-ufc-london-and-had-a-blast.4248630/
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