Things have been quiet around the Road to UFC 100 blog lately, but that doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been some exciting news regarding the UFC’s centennial event set to take place on July 11, 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Here are some the things that you NEED to know:

Book Your Hotel!

If you haven’t booked your hotel yet, then what the hell are you waiting for?!?  A while back, we put together a list of some of the best hotel deals going on for the weekend of “100″.  Check out the list, and check in with the hotels to see if you can still take advantage of some great deals.

Buy Your Tickets!

OK, so tickets aren’t on sale yet.  But you’re gonna want to put these dates on your calendar so you’re not left out:

General Public: tickets go on sale on April 11, 2009 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT

UFC.com Newsletter Subscribers: tickets go on sale April 10, 2009 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.  Don’t subscribe yet?  Sign up here, and be entered into a UFC drawing for a free Fight Club membership.

UFC Fight Club Members: tickets go on sale April 9, 2009 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT.  What’s the deal with Fight Club? It costs $74.95 to join for one year, and you’ll get a crack at pre-sale tickets for UFC events (like “100″), an exclusive UFC Fight Club t-shirt, 10% off UFC goodies at the online store, and some other cool stuff.

Don’t believe us on ticket info?  UFC 100 Tickets.

Get There Early!

Brand new for UFC 100 is the UFC Fan Expo.  Taking place on July 10-11 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino will be everything MMA, featuring over 100 vendors.  There aren’t any details yet, but you should be able to score some good autographs at this event, too.

Watch the Fights!

Of course!  The fights!  Nothing has been formally announced by the UFC, but here’s what we’re most likely looking at:

UFC Heavyweight Championship (Unification)

Brock Lesnar (3-1) vs. Frank Mir (12-3)

UFC Welterweight Championship

Georges St-Pierre (18-2) vs. Thiago Alves (16-3)

Middleweight Bout

Michael Bisping (18-1) vs. Dan Henderson (24-7)

Light Heavyweight Bout

Stephan Bonnar (11-5) vs. Mark Coleman (15-9)

Welterweight Bout

Jon Fitch (18-3) vs. Paulo Thiago (11-0)

Middleweight Bout

Alan Belcher (14-5) vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama (12-1)

Light Heavyweight Bout

Jon Jones (8-0) vs. Jake O’Brien (11-2)

Middleweight Bout

C.B. Dollaway (8-1) vs. Tom Lawlor (5-1)

Welterweight Bout

Dong Hyun Kim (11-0) vs. Jonathan Goulet (22-10)

Lightweight Bout

Matt Grice (9-2) vs. Shannon Gugerty (11-3)

In case you were wondering, there are 237 combined MMA victories among all the fighters expected on this card.  I don’t have the time nor the patience to add up the combined victories of past events, but I’m pretty damned sure this has to be one of the winningest cards in recent (if not all of) UFC history.