The UFC: Jose Aldo vs Frankie Edgar staredown pic from UFC 156 media day in Las Vegas and more

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) held its first-ever "media day" this afternoon (Jan. 31, 2013) at Mandalay Bay Events Center Concourse, which is in the same building it will stage is "super" pay-per-view (PPV) mixed martial arts (MMA) event this weekend (Sat., Feb. 2, 2013), UFC 156: "Aldo vs. Edgar."

It wasn't the traditional press conference on a dais, but rather the main card fighters sat in individual booths as reporters roamed and asked questions and snapped photographs. At the conclusion of the event, however, UFC President Dana White arrived to square uf the combatants for official UFC 156 staredown photos.

UFC 156 will feature a "super" 145-pound title bout between Featherweight champion Jose Aldo and former Lightweight kingpin, Frankie Edgar, cutting 10 pounds and attempting to join Randy Couture and B.J. Penn as a two-division winner. Former Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans was also in attendance, going nose-to-nose with Antonio Rogerio Nogueira prior to their pivotal 205-pound clash.

Heavyweight monsters Alistair Overeem and Antonio Silva got a little too close for comfort, needing to be separated before fireworks sparked prematurely.

Huzzah ...

MMAmania.com will provide LIVE round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of the UFC 156 PPV main card action, which is slated to start promptly at 10 p.m. ET. Up-to-the-minute updates and fight-by-fight coverage will begin to flow earlier than that, however, around 6:30 p.m. ET with the "Prelims" bouts on Facebook and FX.

For more on this weekend's event in "Sin City" be sure to check out our complete UFC 156: "Aldo vs. Edgar" archive right here. And to see what it looked like when "Suga" and "Lil' Nog," as well as "Demolition Man" and "Bigfoot," stared each other down check out the photos by Esther Lin for MMAFighting.com below.