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Notes From Cincinnati

Published by C Mac on October 22, 2007 in Fight Cards, Fight News, Fighters and UFC77. 21 Comments

UFC-Fights.com was on hand in Cincinnati for UFC 77 for all the action, right from the weigh-ins to the end of the event. Here’s what you didn’t see:

  • Houston Alexander was signing autographs and posing for pictures with fans on weigh-in day. Not many people seemed to know who he was.
  • Joe Rogan got the biggest laugh by falling up the stairs when he was making his entrance to MC the weigh-ins.
  • Wanderlei Silva, Keith Jardine, Matt Hammill and Sean Sherk all attended the weigh-ins and stuck around to sign autographs afterward.
  • Shonie Carter was siging autographs and meeting fans outside US Bank arena on fight night. UFC-Fights.com got an exclusive interview with “Mr. International” which will be posted later in the week.
  • Several vignettes were played before the event began. Randy Couture was strangely absent from every one.
  • During the opening bout, Jason Black vs. Matt Grice. A fat redneck screamed “Stand ‘em up!” approximately 3 seconds after the fight went to the mat.
  • As Kalib Starnes was exiting the cage after his fight with Alan Belcher was stopped due to a nasty gash on Starnes forehead, someone in the crowd was objecting to the stoppage. Kalib replied “The Doctor said he could see my skull.”
  • Yushin Okami was introduced with his new nickname: “Thunder”. Yes, it’s lame….
  • When they showed Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira on the big screen, the crowd went into a confused silence. Besides the Brazilian guys sitting in front of us, no one in the building had a clue as to who he was. The UFC needs to educate the fans a little better on how good he is if they are hoping to pull in any kind of crowd for his Heavyweight Title match.
  • Andrei Arlovski, Matt Hughes and Keith Jardine were also in the crowd.
  • Despite Dana’s claims: “There won’t be anyone cheering for Anderson Silva in Cincinnati”, there were quite a few cheers during his introduction. After the fight was over, Silva received a standing ovation.

All in all, the Cincinnati fans showed a lot of class and the event was a complete success.

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UFC77 Results

Published by botizzle on October 21, 2007 in Fight Results and UFC77. 22 Comments

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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UFC77 Weigh-in Results

Published by D-Man on October 20, 2007 in Fight News, Fight Previews, Fight Updates, Fighters and UFC77. 15 Comments

The only drama from the weigh-ins was that Josh Burkman didn’t make weight his first time around but eventually made weight, here are all the numbers:

  • Anderson Silva (184.5) vs Rich Franklin (184)
  • Tim Sylvia (260.5) vs Brandon Vera (225.5)
  • Stephan Bonnar (204) vs Eric Schafer (203)
  • Kalib Starnes (186) vs Alan Belcher (186)
  • Jorge Gurgel (155) vs Alvin Robinson (155.5)
  • Jason MacDonald (184.5) vs Yushin Okami (186)
  • Ryan Jensen (185.5) vs Demian Maia (185)
  • Josh Burkman (171) vs Forrest Petz (170)
  • Jason Black (156) vs Matt Grice (155)

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UFC77 Fight Predictions

Published by botizzle on October 19, 2007 in Fight Predictions, Fight Previews and UFC77. 3 Comments

Jason MacDonald vs Yushin Okami

Okami is the fav to win here but you know what? I have some balls - it’s not like I’m sticking my neck out BUT, I’m gonna call the win by my fearless Ginga Ninja warrior a win by submission. Jason MacDonald via RNC, we’ll see, maybe he’ll even snap Okami’s arm off in an armbar.

Kalib Starnes vs Alan Belcher

Starnes is slight favorite and I’ll stick with that. He’s coming off awin by decision against Chris Leben and a TKO loss to the Japanese dude above (Okami).

Brandon Vera vs Tim Sylvia

Big Tim had his back surgery done but I think Vera’s gonna mash him up like potatoes, last fight for Sylvia, he should retire after Vera KO’s him, watch, you’ll see. Now let me put my crystal ball away…

Anderson Silva vs Rich Franklin

Ok, so this is the highlight fight and I put my crystal ball away. Oh no, what am I going to do, this fight is going to be so close I can’t decide, I need my crystal ball… NOT! Rich Franklin was absolutely OBLITERATED, ANIHILATED *AND* DESTROYED by Superman Silva last time, why is this going to be different? Home crowd advatage? All of America rooting for him, nah, Silva’s going to KO him this time and his face is gonna look even more messed up. Good luck Rich, you’ll need it.

Now stop being pussies, gimmie some commentary and make some predictions!

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UFC-Fights on BetUS Radio - LIVE at UFC77

Published by D-Man on October 19, 2007 in Fight Cards, Fight News, Fighters, UFC77 and Uncategorized. 1 Comment

Our Fearless globetrotter C-Mac has found himself in the middle of the mayhem At UFC77 in Cincinnati, and stumbled across our homey’s from BetUS Sports Radio…well guess what came next?

Thats right, C-Mac got on the show LIVE from the weigh-ins!

Click HERE to Check him out!

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