UFC Thread

[Wildmatt]

So UFC 136 happened last weekend, here were the results:

Preliminary card (Facebook)

Middleweight bout: Steve Cantwell vs. Mike Massenzio
Massenzio defeated Cantwell via unanimous decision (29–28, 30–27, 29–28). This bout aired last on the PPV broadcast following the Beltran vs. Miocic fight.

Middleweight bout: Aaron Simpson vs. Eric Schafer
Simpson defeated Schafer via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Featherweight bout: Zhang Tie Quan vs. Darren Elkins
Elkins defeated Zhang via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–26).

Heavyweight bout: Joey Beltran vs. Stipe Miocic
Miocic defeated Beltran via unanimous decision (29–28, 30–27, 29–28). This bout aired on the PPV broadcast following the Edgar vs. Maynard fight.

Preliminary card (televised)

Lightweight bout: Anthony Pettis vs. Jeremy Stephens
Pettis defeated Stephens via split decision (29–28, 28–29, 29–28).

Middleweight bout: Demian Maia vs. Jorge Santiago
Maia defeated Santiago via unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–27).

Main card (PPV)

Lightweight bout: Melvin Guillard vs. Joe Lauzon
Lauzon defeated Guillard via submission (rear naked choke) at 0:47 of round 1.

Featherweight bout: Leonard Garcia vs. Nam Phan
Phan defeated Garcia via unanimous decision (29–28, 29–28, 29–28).

Middleweight bout: Chael Sonnen vs. Brian Stann
Sonnen defeated Stann via submission (arm triangle choke) at 3:51 of round 2.

Featherweight Championship bout: José Aldo (c) vs. Kenny Florian
Aldo defeated Florian via unanimous decision (49–46, 49–46, 49–46) to retain UFC Featherweight Championship.

Lightweight Championship bout: Frankie Edgar (c) vs. Gray Maynard
Edgar defeated Maynard via TKO (punches) at 3:54 of round 4 to retain UFC Lightweight Championship.

End of results

I thought the event was all around excellent. The main event was as good, if not better than their last fight. Edgar was down and out in that first round and to win it the way he did, just solidified him as the champ even more. I hope he holds the title for a good long time.

My highlight however was how dominant Chael Sonnen was. I was expecting a little bit more out of Brian Stann, but Sonnen just completely steam-rolled over him. After the fight Sonnen just ripped on Anderson which you can watch below.

Post-Fight


Post-fight interview with Ariel

[Slime]

Few days old, but Joe Son has apparently killed a prison inmate.

He is just clearly the most awesome guy in the history of man kind.

[Wildmatt]

GSP announced a knee injury on his facebook yesterday, the GSP vs Condit fight is not happening, unfortunate...

[Wildmatt]

I'm watching Bellator 55 right now, Efrain Escudaro fought I think, maybe he got bumped to the main card? I'm not sure. Either way I think after the UFC moves to FOX, it could be a good opportunity for Bellator to move to Spike instead of MTV2. I actually hope that happens.

[Techcore]

Mwahaha. Diaz.


That's all.

[Wildmatt]

Alot of upcoming cards are shaping up to be great! UFC 138 might not be great on paper, but I could see some fights ending spectacularly. The Cain vs Dos Santos FOX event should be great, everything is free to watch that night and that's amazing! UFC 139: Shogun vs. Henderson, not only has a main event that'll probably end in a killer KO, but has a pretty good main card. The Mayhem vs Bisping fight on the TUF finale is gonna be great, I want Mayhem to wreck Bisping's face. Funny how Bisping made fun of someone getting KO'd when he has one of the greatest getting KO'd moments of all-time! The 2nd UFC in Toronto has another really great card! Jones vs Machida should be good, althoguh I don't think Machida can do much to Jones, especially if it goes to the ground. Great Canadians being featured in great match-ups too. Then to round out 2011 we have Alistair vs Lesnar at UFC 141, which features other great matches such as Donald Cerrone vs. Nate Diaz and Jon Fitch vs. Johny Hendricks. Looking forward to pretty much every card from here to the end of the year. Then in 2012, you get a card in Rio, and another one in Japan, which UFC hasn't been there in forever, but most importantly we have GSP vs Nick Diaz, which will be awesome! Lots of great stuff to look forward to!

[jest]

Saturday marks the first official Fox broadcast UFC event and I couldn't be more annoyed! A newer detail in the deal was released recently stating that UFC will no longer broadcast the undercard on Facebook.. and now will broadcast the undercard fights on Fuel TV (which means I have to pay for a f*cking sports package now grrrr), then the fights traditionally aired for free on Spike just before a PPV will now be aired on FX.

Old Process: Facebook, Spike, PPV
New Process: Fuel TV, FX, PPV

Laaaaaaame.

[Wildmatt]

The Facebook part annoys the shit out of me, but the FX part I could care less because I'm not in the USA. So that's fine, I'll still get it on Sportsnet here, but yeah Facebook card only on TV now... That sucks!

[jest]

My info might actually be wrong on that one. They aired last nights undercard on both Facebook and on Foxsports.com then Henderson v. Guida was on Fuel (and Fox Sports in Spanish for some reason) then the Main Event on the normal Fox network.

Could be last night's setup was a one time thing though. We'll have to see when that stuff kicks off next year.

But if they continue to air the undercard on the Fox Sports Espanol channel out here then I guess I'm going to get some Spanish lessons because I sure as hell ain't paying an extra $9 on top of my regular bill for 1 channel.

[Wildmatt]

TUF finale was great I thought. It was a shame about Miller though, really disappointing performance. But the 2 6 figure contract fights were great, I thought the John Dodson stoppage was A LITTLE early, sure he could get up, and his legs were wobbly (Joe pointed that out like 20 times). But how many times have we seen a fighter be like that and survive it. Seriously, if that wasn't a short stoppage, I dunno what is...

That Dennis Bermudez vs Diego Brandao was amazing, holy shit man! That was easily fight of the night, it was a hard fought battle for both guys!

[Wildmatt]

Tonight's UFC on Fox has been pretty ridiculous! The under card was great, that Dodson/Elliot fight was awesome and the first 2 main card fight have been amazing! I lost my predictions so far, but I don't mind when they end that violently.