Mauricio Rua
Jon Jones
Urijah Faber
Eddie Winland
Jim Miller
Kamal Shalorus
Yoshihiro Akiyama
Nate Marquardt
Mirko Cro Cop
Brendan Schaub
Edson Barboza
Anthony Njokuani
Ricardo Almeida
Mike Pyle
Rampage
Arona
Overeem
Liddell
Machida
Shoji
Cap
Jones is athletically more superior than Shogun, but he's definitely a lot more inexperienced. Skillwise, Shogun is heads and shoulders better than Jones, so I would pick him to win the fight.
my sports book has
Jones -210
Rua +165
hmmm...
Babalu
Forrest Griffin
Lil' Nog
AND he is coming off of this (re-injures knee)
Just saying he has been broken and defeated, remember that.
Jones is going to DESTROY Shogun!
LOL astros, ok..
1.he got clipped one time in the nogueira fight. shogun beat the out of nog
2.the babalu fight.. bro that was EIGHT YEARS AGO lol he was like 21,22 years old?
3. the forrest fight is really irrelevant imo, off injury, first fight in the ufc, obviously out of shape and was in the coleman fight too... not even the same fighter. shogun destroys forrest if they fight right now
but your right, in all honesty tho what fighter with any experience hasn't been beaten
Interesting P4P Hit/Miss for both guys.
The "miss" for shogun is interesting, Jones' is obvious.
Lots of tickets left for this event.. UFC better give em away..
Calling Shogun overrated because of Machida's loss to Rampage is unfair since it's a draw in my book. Rampage hasn't looked as ferocious since he's been back in the octagon - we'll see if he's still a wrecker in the Hamill fight.
My big question for the fight is always how comfortable Shogun is after surgery. If he's good, then he'll chop Jones down like a tree and won't just try to counter or out strength him like everyone else who has failed. Jones has to be worn down before Shogun can attack him full on, and I think the 6 week camp after Jones' last fight will work to his detriment.
So the Machida win is overrated cause he lost a close decision to Rampage? That's getting pretty damn nit picky. Before he lost to Shogun (twice in my opinion) he was up there with GSP and Anderson as p4p in a lot of people's eyes.
soooo...Shogun's overrated cause he beat Machida who's overrated cause he lost to an overrated Rampage
gtfo with that
What he said.
Holy , I can't believe I'm doing this -- especially after the I've been talking on Dallas... But I'm changing my pick: Shogun via 1st round TKO.
Yoshihiro Akiyama out at UFC 128; Dan Miller now faces Nate Marquardt
http://mmajunkie.com/news/22803/yosh...-marquardt.mma
so everyone needs to update their predictions:
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
* Champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Jon Jones (for light-heavyweight le)
* Urijah Faber vs. Eddie Wineland
* Jim Miller vs. Kamal Shalorus
* Nate Marquardt vs. Dan Miller
* Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Brendan Schaub
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
* Champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Jon Jones (for light-heavyweight le)
* Urijah Faber vs. Eddie Wineland
* Jim Miller vs. Kamal Shalorus
* Nate Marquardt vs. Dan Miller
* Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Brendan Schaub
■Champ Mauricio “Shogun” Rua vs. Jon Jones
■Urijah Faber vs. Eddie Wineland
■Jim Miller vs. Kamal Shalorus
■Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Nate Marquardt
■Mirko Cro Cop vs. Brendan Schaub
Jones by 1st round submission.
7 foot reach?! Rua doesn't know what he's in for.
IF the fight ends early you favor Jones. Longer it goes the edge is with Shogun..
To me it's a equal fight to pick a winner.
But my feeling is that Bones is an absolute, and his wrestling and power can overcome anything that Shogun can throw at Bones.
Jones can easily take Shogun down, and with jackson gameplan he can avoid damage doing it. He is quick and his control is superb.
Wow of a fight !
the only chance i give shogun is if he swarms him, or chops his legs down
Wow, so lame, Akiyama always comes to fight. I think Marquardt is a horrible matchup for Miller, should be one-sided imo.
Anyways, I didn't realize Kamal & Jim were fighting on this card, really like what both of them bring. Darkhorse FOTN.
BONES JONES
FABER
MILLER
NATE
MIRKO
Evans sounds big time Jealous of Jones
Lets wait and see if he wins first..
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cag...?urn=mma-wp199
Evans and Jones beef getting serious
By Steve Cofield
Rashad Evans waited a long time to get his shot at the UFC light heavyweight belt against Mauricio Rua. Then he suffered an injury that would keep him out 6-8 weeks. Evans was hoping the fight would be delayed, but the UFC's troubles were averted when Jon Jones stepped in on short notice. One problem, Jones is a teammate of Evans and now the former UFC 205-pound champ is peeved at "Bones."
"When he joined the team, he joined the team on the premise that he wouldn't fight none of us because that's…with Greg Jackson, that's one of his policies. Greg brought him on the team and he said he was like, you know what? Jon's on this team, he'll be a good addition to the team. He's got a good style and he's an up and coming kid and he'll never fight you or never challenge you or nothing like that," Evans told Larry Pepe. "There's nothing you need to worry about. He brought him onto the team with that intro."
Jones didn't get the memo and jumped at the opportunity to take on Rua at UFC 128. He's clearly aware that Evans isn't happy and snapped off during last week's prefight teleconference.
"I absolutely hate when people mention Rashad Evans, especially throughout this training camp….for people to even be mentioning Rashad Evans right now…I think it's ludicrous. Rashad is not in my mind, he's not in my being, he has absolutely zero to do with my heart and who I am right now," Jones said. "This guy has nothing to do with Shogun and from here on out, I don't think I'll answer a question about Rashad. I have a lot of people outside of Rashad who I can draw energy and power from and they'll all be with me."
Evans got the message and said Jones is speaking out of inexperience.
"That does sound a little bit cold-blooded. Jon's a young guy and when you're a young guy sometimes you talk a little too fast for your brain to keep up. I don't think it's acceptable at all. I don't think it's something I'd say. It sounds like he wants to fight, huh? Those sound like fighting words," Jones told Pepe. ".[...] Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you're afraid of more than anything. I don't know why he has such an adverse response like that to me. I've never challenged him or made him feel like he should do that sort of thing. It sounds to me — if I was out of the situation — that he was feeling insecure about me. You can't just expect to not talk about a situation where you stepped in for a friend and training partner in a le fight who was injured. You can't take it personal… That sounds like a baby."
If Jones wins the le, Evans has to consider taking the fight and more significantly leaving the only training he's known in Albuquerque under Greg Jackson.
"It's something I gotta talk to Greg [Jackson] about it and I gotta talk to Jon [Jones] about. That's how I believe things should be done. We entered into an agreement together and if things are gonna go another way, I don't think he should have to find out from TV. He should find out from my mouth before I tell anybody. That's just how I do it as a man.I just have to sit down and decide on whats its going to be, because whatever it is going to be, there is no going back. There is no making it better. There is no going back to the team after it is done. If we agree to fight, if we say we are going to fight, it's over," Evans said. "[...] I would need to divorce myself from the situation and just start over, and come with something new. I would divorce myself from the crew from Jackson's. Trevor [Whittman] would be separate because he is at Grudge. Jon trains in Albuquerque, so I just would divorce myself from Albuquerque and from training with Greg."
Dana White is pretty clear on his thoughts about friendship being a roadblock anywhere in the fight game. He's happy that Evans is finally seeing the light.
"It makes sense [that they fight each other if Jones wins the le]. There's been a lot of stuff [said by] Rashad. Rashad thinks that I'm hatin' him or whatever the deal is. I don't. The reality is — I said it on your show the last time I talked to you — he hasn't known Jon Jones that long. To call him a brother and this and that…I really believe that…and Rashad didn't tell me this. Jon Jones didn't tell me this. This is just something that I came up with in my head. This has to be coming from the camp," White told MMAFighting.com. "[...] The reality is, this isn't a team sport, man. You look throughout the history of boxing, guys used to have to spar with each other all the time and the guys who came in as sparring partners eventually became world champions some day. You have to train with other people. You have to train with the best. It's a fact. You just don't become such "close friends" that you don't want to fight each other. It's [expletive]."
Evans should straight out call for the winner regardless of training camps and "friendships."
"If I was Rashad, I would say whoever wins this fight I wanna fight," White said. "The guy got injured; he was next in line for the fight. I'd wanna fight him too. But now he's gotta sit around, he's gotta wait and see what happens with these two, he's gotta wait to see who wins — do they come out 100 percent or are they injured and have to wait a little while or do they want to fight again? He's put himself into a bad position and that's what I was saying about him: He's boxed himself into this corner."
Evans is right in some aspects, but wow. I would not expect that even though Evans is a guy that can piss you off
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