Tomorrow’s the big day: UFC 145 kicks off at 7PM/10PM PST/EST, and With Leather gets two special guests to help us live blog the festivities — UFC veteran and current UFC.com writer Daniel “Danny Boy” Downes and kingsh*t UPROXX UFC expert/FilmDrunk maestro Vince Mancini. It’s going to be a great time, and if you’re the kind of person who likes sports and jokes, you need to be there. And if you aren’t … what the hell are you doing here?

We’ve got a counter at the top of the page as a reminder, and the best advice I can give you is to sit still and stare at it until it ends. The live-blog itself goes live at midnight tonight, so you can spend all day making your predictions, laughing about how quickly the dudes get knocked out in the Facebook fights and earning our first ever MMA-themed commenting badge. We’re keeping that one under wraps for now.

So bookmark the page (which is just a placeholder for now) and be back tomorrow for the most fun you can have watching two guys beat the hell out of each other.

With Leather coverage tends to veer toward the faker sports (WWE, LeBron James’ reaction to being touched during basketball games, busty co-eds incorrectly asking out Jeremy Lin for YouTube hits) but we’re doing it big for this weekend’s UFC 145 pay-per-view event.

Starting at 7PM/10PM PST/EST this Saturday, April 21, With Leather will be enlisting the help of FilmDrunk editor and UPROXX resident UFC expert Vince Mancini to live-blog the event. Not only that, but we’ll have UFC vet and current UFC.com writer Daniel “Danny Boy” Downes in the house to give his professional perspective.

It’s gonna be a grand time, and if you miss it I will personally come to your house and kick you in the gut until you get diverticulitis. Bookmark THIS LINK. Nothing’s there yet, but that’s where it’ll be.

Full UFC 145 card is after the jump.

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I'm finishing the day with thousands of British fans singing the annoyingly catchy "Hatton Wonderland," just because it's going to be a while before we hear anything about Ricky Hatton again.  And also because I like to do mean things to my readers.

At least it's not his entrance music, though.  "Blue Moon"?  Seriously?  He may as well enter the ring lip-syncing "Summer Nights" from Grease.  And not Travolta's part, either.  The chicks' part.  The back-up chicks.  Tell me more, tell me more!  Like does he have a car? 

Ummm… not that I know that song or anything.  GRRR BOXING!!!