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I feel bad for chuck as well he trained so hard but rich is the real deal. Sad to see chuck go no matter what. Glad to see cro cop win he gets all suicidal when he loses and hes a legend. This was the best card of the year so far
i feel bad for chuck, he appeared to work very hard for this fight.
I feel bad for chuck as well he trained so hard but rich is the real deal. Sad to see chuck go no matter what. Glad to see cro cop win he gets all suicidal when he loses and hes a legend. This was the best card of the year so far
http://twitter.com/ oortizI'm kind of waiting for o to say "Awww, too bad about Rich retiring Chuck. I really wanted to fight him after I've recovered. So who's next?"
More interesting fights at 205, but probably not as much success. Shogun/Machida/Rampage/Evans/Jones...maybe Forest/Lil Nog are in his future? I think he has more success at 185. I've been bothered by that Vitor KO for awhile, it was too freakish considering he took some nasty hits from Chuck tonight and kept going.
Franklin knocks out Liddell at UFC 115
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The career of former Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight leholder Chuck Liddell likely came to an end with only seconds left in the first round of his fight with Rich Franklin in the main event of UFC 115 on Saturday at General Motors Place.
Liddell missed a shot and Franklin came in quickly with a counter right hook that landed on the chin. Liddell, who was doing well, fell flat on his back after the hook landed. Franklin landed a powerful shot while Liddell was down, but it wasn’t necessary.
Franklin’s left arm was grotesquely swollen and appeared it may be broken after he blocked a kick from Liddell.
But Franklin, the former middleweight champ, didn’t seem to mind, beaming after knocking out one of the UFC’s legendary stars.
Liddell hadn’t fought since being knocked out by Mauricio “Shogun” Rua 14 months ago in Montreal at UFC 97. It was the third time he had been knocked out, and Liddell took the time off to allow himself to recuperate.
He was scoring well on Saturday and dictating the pace of the fight. He likely would have won the first round on the judges’ cards if the round finished, and he looked to apply some late damage when he was caught.
On the undercard, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic won his heavyweight battle with Pat Barry, who made no secret of his admiration for the PRIDE veteran. Filipovic forced a submission with a rear naked choke with 30 seconds left in the fight.
Barry made many fans before the fight by admitting his admiration for Filipovic, but in the first round he went after his idol and knocked him down twice and was in control of the fight.
But Barry’s conditioning seemed to fail him and Filipovic picked up the pace in the second, stopping Barry’s onslaught and forcing him into a defensive mode.
In the third, Filipovic took over and was catching Barry with fast combinations, forcing Barry to retreat. With about a minute left, a combination from Filipovic knocked Barry down. Filipovic landed a series of hard punches on the ground and referee Yves Lavigne seemed on the verge of stopping it.
But Barry turned away from Filipovic, who took advantage and slapped the fight-ending choke on Barry.
Canadian Rory MacDonald, at 20 years old the UFC’s youngest fighter, got a hero’s welcome from the raucous GM Place crowd and then performed brilliantly through the first two rounds against former World Extreme Cagefighting welterweight champion Carlos Condit.
But Condit took over in the third round and began to rock MacDonald with hard punches. In the final seconds of the fight, MacDonald was on his back and Condit was pounding him with blows. With just 10 seconds left in the fight, referee Kevin Dornan jumped in to stop it.
Two of the judges had MacDonald up 20-18 at the time of the stop. The third had it a draw, 19-19. If the judges would have scored the fight 10-8 for Condit, as it appeared they might, the fight would have wound up a majority draw.
MacDonald didn’t complain about the stoppage.
“I was confused,” he said. “I was taking some good shots. I was lost. I just couldn’t find my rhythm.”
Ben Rothwell managed to control Gilbert Yvel in most of all three rounds and won a unanimous decision over the Dutchman in an entertaining heavyweight bout.
Martin Kampmann moved closer to a bout for the No. 1 contender position in the UFC’s welterweight division with a solid victory over Paulo Thiago. Kampmann was brilliant in neutralizing Thiago’s punching power and controlling him on the ground.
Curse you, Pat Barry, curse you. You had him down, you could have gone in for the end, but you looked him in the eye... he was your idol. You couldn't take a victory from him to better yourself. I commend you as a human and condemn you as a fighter.
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Ok I'm trying not to read anything about these fights yet since I've just now watched the first fight but WTF WHY DO YOU STOP IT THERE WITH 9 SECONDS LEFT. Holy I hate that stoppage. I mean you let the kid suffer through that and end it with 9 ing seconds left? WOW.
I'm a huge new McDonald fan. Dude is going to be a star.
LOL chuck got ktfo. I don't like that dude one bit. Franklin though, pretty cool guy.
Found the off button pretty well there.
Holy with a broken arm? These fights were actually pretty good. As bad as everyone thought the card was it turned out to be decent.
Turned out to be very good indeed. I bashed the card and it was way better than UFC 114.. I've always loved Ace but did not think the fight with Chuck would be good at all, mainly because Chuck looked so bad of late but it was a of a fight.. Never much of a Chuck fan but he made his mark in the sport. One of the first super-stars and dominant main-stream champs.
As for Rich like i said earlier one of the most under-appreciated legends of MMA. Probably because he is laid back and just a hard working nice guy. Maybe if he had a mo-hawk and a drinking problem like Chuck he would have been bigger... Chuck certainly was never big for his personality since he basically doesn't have one...
Anyway good event and War Rich Ace Franklin..
UFC NEWS: Rich Franklin heading to Las Vegas for surgery on broken arm
Rich Franklin suffered a broken ulna in his left arm in his first round knockout victory over Chuck Liddell on Saturday night in Vancouver at UFC 115, and the former Middleweight Champion is now headed to Las Vegas to undergo surgery on the injury, according to a report from MMAJunkie.com.
As MMAJunkie explains, the ulna bone "runs the length of the forearm and is parallel to the radius bone. The bone gets thinner in diameter as it gets closer to the wrist, which makes it vulnerable to hard kicks."
Franklin blocked a kick a couple of minutes into the round, and the blow from Liddell caused the break. Franklin fought through the injury for the remainder of the round, however, and managed to find Liddell's chin with a right hand with only seconds remaining in the fight.
He'll now see an orthopedic surgeon in Las Vegas to repair the damage caused by Liddell's kick. The injury is actually similar to one suffered by Randy Couture at UFC 74 against Gabriel Gonzaga.
Franklin told Joe Rogan in the post fight interview he had no intention of quitting, though admitted at the night's post fight press conference he wasn't sure what would have happened had he went into the second and third rounds of the fight.
"I definitely wasn't going to quit – I've broken bones before and continued fighting – but there was part of me that was wondering what kind of strategy I was going to use to win the fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds."
Luckily for Franklin, his right hand found the mark and he finished the fight before the he needed to figure that out.
http://www.mmatorch.com/artman2/publ...cle_5746.shtml
4 out of 5 aint bad...
It was horrible. Somebody wanted Condit to win that fight. Everybody knew damn well MacDonald was going to get that decision and somebody didn't want that to happen. My guess would be Dana White, since he actually defended the stoppage after the event.
Rich was King of the World until Anderson Silva came along. Then suddenly he was some high B-level fighter who became champ by beating cans. The fans are fickle and under-appreciative of talent and hard work.
Now I'm cursing myself for picking Thiago over Kampmann. My gut told me to go with Martin and I ignored it. Stupid!
There was absolutely nothing fair about the stoppage. He was getting his ass kicked, there is no doubt, but the beating he was taking at that particular moment was far less than what it was earlier and he was still defending himself with only nine seconds left (7 actually according to the official result). Someone should be knocked the out to stop it at that point in the match. Just not right.
Rich Franklin and McDonald both made me fans last night. Looking forward to their next fights.
There's a pic out now of Pat Barry being pushed through the airport in a wheelchair. Apparently he broke both his right hand and right foot in the fight against Crocop.
5 out of 5 es..
kampmann surprised me, I thought Thiago will impose his will against him, but Martins strategy was good and he kept doing his stuff.
Funny that CroCop got submission of the night. This choke was not that great I think Barry was more devastated by the punches.
First time in a long time Mirko let it go and flow. i wonder his next opponent.
Fights were great but refs and judges sucked. How come dunham had a split?
Anyway I had a dream where I saw a Brock Carwin fight. Fight with many exchanges and some wrestling. Carwin had advantage on the ground but then Brock rolled but then Carwin was able to keep Brock under.
In exchanges Carwin had an advantage of power but Brock was more accutrate.
And I was unable to see the end of first round, i just saw from the long distance that both hit each other and ref was stopping the fight or what. Anyway next thing was Brocks interview that he is number one and he could go next round [like he wanted to silence some kind of controversy]
Then I had a walk with Dana White and we were talking about next opponent - who it will be. Then I recognize that Cain is next in line. So we were discussing. Actually Dana asked me when would be the best time to make this fight and I think we settled it for Boston. I said Boston has NBA champs and it still will be early in the season or offseason so it will sell nice.
Then there was few injured people and Dana was helping them and assured they will get some medical help. Kinda The End
HAHA! Quite a dream there Poland, even going so far as telling Dana to go to Boston cuz the Celts take the Championship xD
Here is Pat Barry's broken foot, geeeeez...
Cro Cop was his hero going in and he sure left an impression on poor Pat..HAHA! Quite a dream there Poland, even going so far as telling Dana to go to Boston cuz the Celts take the Championship xD
Here is Pat Barry's broken foot, geeeeez...
Toe to Toe with Mirko for 15 min, and that's what you get..
I really want to see Rich vs Rashad..
Congrats
as a reward you can update the standings..
HAH! Son of a pranked us all. It's come out now he faked that picHAHA! Quite a dream there Poland, even going so far as telling Dana to go to Boston cuz the Celts take the Championship xD
Here is Pat Barry's broken foot, geeeeez...
http://www.fightofthenight.com/news/...breaking-foot/
I take back every word of the condemnation of him I wrote earlier. After thinking about it for a few days it was a bit harsh. Besides, it's impossible to stay mad at that guy for very long.
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