Georges St. Pierre will get another chance to kick Matt Hughes in the balls on December 29th when he steps in for Welterweight Champion Matt Serra in the main event of UFC 79: Nemesis.
Serra herniated a disc in his back during training last week and was forced to withdraw from the fight. Kudos to the UFC for putting in a viable contender in his place.
This fight will be for the Interim Welterweight Championship. One can only assume that Serra will fight the winner to unify the titles once he has recovered from his injury.
Hughes and GSP have fought twice before, each owning one victory.
Last night TUF 2 Champ Rashad Evans defeated TUF 3 Champ Michael Bisping in the headlining bout of what was a predictably average event.
Rashad dominated the opening round, but looked very tired through the final 10 minutes and relied on his wrestling to squeak out a split decision victory over his season 3 counterpart.
Thiago Silva exposed Houston Alexander’s lack of a ground game with a TKO stoppage over the rising star. In what was likely the evening’s biggest upset, The Chute Box Academy fighter was able to control Alexander on the ground with ease and land heavy shots from the mount to force the referee to intervene at 3:25 of the opening round.
The hotly anticipated debut of former Pride star Ryo Chonan turned out to be a complete snoozefest as he and Karo Parisyan negated each other’s offense through 3 rounds. Although Karo was able to control “The Piranha” and take him down at will, the Armenian Judoka was unable to cause any real damage and struggled to maintain dominant position. The bout ended in a unanimous decision in favor of Parisyan, all but ending my hopes of seeing Chonan rematch Anderson Silva anytime soon.
In a middleweight rematch, Ed Herman was able to score the first knockout of his career over Canadian journeyman Joe “El-Dirte” Doerksen. Doerksen, who was a late replacement for the injured Dave Terrell almost replicated his earlier victory over Herman with a very tight triangle choke/armbar at the end of the 2nd round. But it was not to be as the round ended, likely saving Herman. If anything, this fight highlighted Herman’s weak submission defense, something the Washington native will have to work on should he want to move up the middleweight ladder.
Frankie Edgar took home what looked to be an easy victory over Spencer Fisher in the opening bout. “The Answer” bullied Fisher around The Octagon for the full 15 minutes to earn the unanimous decision. Though Edgar shows excellent promise, he shares the fault of many ex wrestlers in that he has trouble putting away opponents. Edgar would likely benefit from spending some time with American Top Team or Greg Jackson.
That’s a wrap on what I would call a pretty dull card. Thank God for UFC 79!
Here’s a brief overview of last night’s Elite XC card from Texas:
In the opening contest, Antonio Silva hammer fisted the hell outta Johnathan Wiezorek before finishing the fight with a rear naked choke.
Aussie standout fighter Kyle Noke looked to have some slick Jiu-Jitsu in his victory over Seth “The Doctor” Kleinbeck. It was a real doctor however, who called a stop to the fight when Noke opened up a vagina sized gash over Kleinbeck’s left eye.
Up and coming welterweight Jake Shields looked sloppy in the opening minutes of his contest with Mike Pyle but managed to catch Pyle with a rear naked choke to end the fight.
Street fighting and Youtube legend Kevin Ferguson AKA. Kimbo Slice made short work of Bo Cantrell in his MMA debut. In what initially appeared to be a possible work, Slice threw only 1 body shot and a glancing elbow to elicit a tap out from Cantrell at the 0:19 second mark. Once Cantrell got to his feet however, it was clear he was caught by something the camera apparently missed as his entire face was swelling up in the shape of one of Kimbo’s giant ham hocks.
In the main event of the evening, Karl James Noons dominated Nick Diaz with beautiful hand combinations to capture the vacant 160 pound championship. KJ caught Diaz with a hard body shot early in the first which seemed to suck the life out of the Ralph Macchio look a like. The fight was another doctor stoppage after the first round as Diaz’s left eye had completely swollen shut. Diaz vehemently protested the stoppage but as Noons said in his post fight interview “How many times did I knock him down? I would have finished him soon if the doctor didn’t stop it.”
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Lesnar’s foray into MMA gets a serious upgrade as the former WWE pretend wrestler steps into the octagon against former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir. Mir has had limited succsess in his comeback to the UFC since he almost lost his leg in a motorcycle accident.
Regardless, Lesnar is in it deep this time around, Mir might not be as good as he once was but this is no tomato can for Brock.
I always wondered if Tito was just blowing smoke up his own ass, well, take “Douchebag” out of the equation and put in a Smart, articulate, humble, straight up individual and guess what? The UFC are STILL ASSHATS!
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