June 12-15 Mega Cologne Post #6 UFC99! and After Party

So near the end of the night Saviya turns around and up in the 200 section behind us is Justin Buchholtz who fought earlier in the night sitting with two of his crew.

The saw us looking at them and were laughing. We went up and said hi. Justin was icing his face up after being submitted by Terry Etim. So next to him I look twice his size...oh ya he's 155 and I'm twice his size...

He was really cool. I asked if he thought about dropping down to WEC..He said happy to be fighting in the UFC. I told him lots of good fights for him in WEC, but he again said the UFC still had a place for him. (On another video blog, Dana White says he will get another fights- Good!).

So after the fights were done we were walking around and bumped into the UFC cutmen "Stitch' Duran and Leon 'House'. They were lost, we pointed them to their hotel. (pictures of that later, on another blog). So we went home and dropped off some things and than went back out to the Hyatt in Cologne where the fighters were staying. In the lobby during the next 3 hours more than 1/2 the fighters came through and greeted the fans, took pictures signatures etc.

So maybe one of the nicest fighters we met was England's 'Relentless' Paul Taylor. Hes had a rocky time in the UFC, but had a great win tonight!. Here he is with Saviya

Here again so you can see the shiner and the stitches.

His pretty girl was standing next to him all night being nice while his attention was on us the fans. Really genuine guy.

Cain Velasquez came a bit later. He was the co main event with Cheick Kongo. He snuck out a win. Here he is with Saviya

And with Colin

Looking beat up despite the win.

And her is Japan's Caol Uno and his crew.

Here Cheick Kongo is sitting next to Saviya while talking to random people from his crew.

And than my camera died. Not a good one with Saviya and Kongo, one of her favorites.

We met Mario Yamasaki, and some other local ref that we didnt know his name. Later Rich Franklin came to the hotel. He stayed outside taking pics and signing things for 45 mins. Super funny and nice. Pulled out a nice win so he was in a good mood. While other people were getting pics done, i yelled "Smile for Springfield OH", than "Everyone from Miamisburg loves you Rich"..He than looked over at me and said 'dude where you from?'. I told him Seattle, but my company was from Ohio. He came over to Saviya and I and started talking. He trains in Seattle (Kirkland Area) so for a few mins we talked OH, Seattle, and massages. Than Saviya told him she didnt want a picture with him, that she wanted a hug. He said "Sure!" all excited and they gave a nice big hug to each other. We also met Stephan Struve from the Netherlands. He had a nice 3 inch gash freshly stitched up...but he won! We saw Dan Hardy but didnt talk to him. Also Mustapha al Turk...Probably others but we were tired and out of camera power...so to bed we went. (4am!)