Wow. UFC79 Nemesis… This one is probably going to go down as a HUGE PPV buy for the UFC. The biggest fight of the year was definitely the last fight of the year and as a spectator of the Wanderlei Silva Vs. Chuck Liddell fight, I was NOT disappointed!
UFC79 was a class event apart from Melvin Guillard being an idiot, but whatever, if you read the results below you’ll understand that justice was served :) Matt Hughes was dominated by Georges St. Pierre and the final fight, the rubber went to the mat and GSP pulled a result which was not as expected, regardless, he is the interim UFC middle weight champion and will fight Matt Serra for the belt.
| Winner |
Loser |
Method |
Round - Time |
| Mark Bocek |
Douglas Evans |
Decision (Unanimous) |
3 - 5:00 |
| Roan Carneiro |
Tony DeSouza |
TKO (Strikes) |
2 - 3:33 |
| Dean Lister |
Jordan Radev |
Decision (Unanimous) |
3 - 5:00 |
| Manny Gamburyan |
Nate Mohr |
Submission (Ankle lock) |
1 - 1:31 |
| James Irvin |
Luis Arthur Cane |
DQ (Knee downed fighter) |
1 - 1:51 |
| Rich Clementi |
Melvin Guillard |
Submission (RNC) |
1 - 4:40 |
| Lyoto Machida |
Rameau Sokoudjou |
Submission (Arm-Triangle) |
2 - 4:20 |
| Eddie Sanchez |
Soa Palelei |
TKO (Eye injury) |
3 - 3:24 |
| Chuck Liddell |
Wanderlei Silva |
Decision (Unanimous) |
3 -5:00 |
| Georges St. Pierre |
Matt Hughes |
Verbal Submission (Armbar) |
2 - 4:54 |
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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!
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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.”
That’s a wrap!
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I turned up pretty late for the fight, maybe three or four fights to go and got to see some very predictable match ups. They really should have called this UFC77: “Predictable”. The main fight went just like the last one, everyone was cheering Silva and I was the only one hoping Franklin would find a way through and hurt Silva.
Tim Sylvia “won” his fight in the most unbelievably lackluster way. He pressed Brandon Vera against the cage and used his 35llb and 5 inch height to his advantage. In the few moments when he wasn’t man hugging Vera there were a few exchanges (literally a few though) were Sylvia did hit home and win the points. Ultimately it went to a points decision for Tim who’ll fight for the title in his next fight. Unbelievable. I have a great few rants coming up about what the hell is going on in the UFC.
the highlight fight of the night was the Alvin Robinson Vs. Jorge Gurgel. Robinson, a BJJ brown belt was supposed to have lost that fight to Gurgel, a BJJ black belt. On paper that is… The end result was an amazing ground and pound game by Robinson that resulted in Gurgel’s face looking like… well, let’s say the elephant man, but in reality it was worse like when Tito ground Shamrock’s face into mince meat.
The rest will come later, I’ll admit I have a little bit of a beer hangover.
| Winner |
Loser |
Method |
Round - Time |
| Matt Grice |
Jason Black |
Decision |
3 - 5:00 |
| Josh Burkman |
Forrest Petz |
Decision (Split) |
3 - 5:00 |
| Demian Maia |
Ryan Jensen |
Submission (RNC) |
1 - 2:40 |
| Yushin Okami |
Jason MacDonald |
Decision (Unanimous) |
3 - 5:00 |
| Alan Belcher |
Kalib Starnes |
TKO (Stoppage - Cut) |
2 - 1:39 |
| Stephan Bonnar |
Eric Schafer |
TKO (Strikes) |
2 - 2:47 |
| Alvin Robinson |
Jorge Gurgel |
Decision (Unanimous) |
3 - 5:00 |
| Tim Sylvia |
Brandon Vera |
Decision (Unanimous) |
3 - 5:00 |
| Anderson Silva |
Rich Franklin |
TKO (Strikes) |
2 - 1:07 |
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Well pish posh and tally-ho friends!
Looks like UFC80 is headin back to merry old England…again. Newcastle in fact.
Who’s likely to be fighting? PLEASE not Cro Cop again.
Actually, it looks like its going to be Hamil vs Bisping 2, and feature Marcus Davies, Terry Etim, Jason Tan and maaaaybe Cheik Congo. Not against each other, they’re just probably on the card.
It looks like this is going to go down sometime near the end of January .
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