Junior Dos Santos vs. Shane Carwin - I think JDS has had an easier road to this spot than Carwin, and Carwin is going to butt the loud mouth Brazilian nugget. Kenny Florian vs. Diego Nunes - I'm not a huge Florian fan, but he is fun to watch. (just kidding, I'm only picking him to get on Des' good side.)
Jon Olav Einemo vs. Dave Herman - WHO???
Demian Maia vs. Mark Munoz - The ways of Submissions are going the way of US Mail. Sure, we still use the usps, but it's so much easier to email/knock out. Expect the Wrecking Machine to do just that, wreck the sub-specialist. Donald Cerrone vs. Vagner Rocha - YES, I love Cowboy. FOTN.
PRELIMINARY CARD ( e TV)
Yves Edwards vs. Sam Stout - Stout underwhelmed me in his last fight. Jesse Bongfeldt vs. Chris Weidman - Only because he has Bong in his name. (for you, Dallas)
Heavyweight bout: Junior dos Santos vs. Shane Carwin
Close fight and should be a good one. I think if Carwin is not too rusty and is healthy he can win this VIA GNP TKO or KO on the feet. JDS has fast hands and great counters so he better fight smart. The clinch is where Carwin is deadly.. In close dirty boxing. We may see that here..
Featherweight bout: Kenny Florian vs. Diego Nunes[1]
Kenny should win this VIA UD but this is a desperate move on his part to be a UFC champ. His window officially closed with the loss to Grey Maynard on winning a le..
Middleweight bout: Demian Maia vs. Mark Muñoz
Munoz sucks. Maia better find a way to sub him..
Heavyweight bout: Jon Olav Einemo vs. Dave Herman
Meh fight..
It does not calculate to me on any area I can think of that Carwin will win.
JDS is faster and quicker. Shanes stand up is stiff, Juniors is technical and with more combinations and he can counter a lot. Santos TDD is also good and it will be tough for carwin to get close enogh to take Junior down.
I don't know how the can I pick Carwin to win this fight. Esp. after watching him fade in Brock fight.
Funny thing is that I believe even before he fought Lesnar I said that he is too heavy and his weight should be about 250-255 to be the most effective Shane Carwin. Now he is around that weight.
Let's see if this gonna be a standup war and crazy fight.
Kenny Florian vs. Diego Nunes
If this fight will not bring the best of Kenflo I don't know if he will not needs to reevaluate his goals.
Jon Olav Einemo vs. Dave Herman
Demian Maia vs. Mark Munoz
Hopefully Munoz can be submitted. But it seems to be the fight that's gonna be boring 3 rounder
Main event is good. I enjoy watching both fighters and they usually put on shows so hopefully we get a good one. The rest of the card is fairly lackluster to me, though.
Surprised that many of you are picking Carwin. JDS is a very smart striker and I just don't see him getting stuck on the cage and KO'ed a la Frank Mir. JDS will pick his spots and stay away from Carwin's power...eventually catching and finishing him. JDS by KO late in the 2nd round.
Surprised that many of you are picking Carwin. JDS is a very smart striker and I just don't see him getting stuck on the cage and KO'ed a la Frank Mir. JDS will pick his spots and stay away from Carwin's power...eventually catching and finishing him. JDS by KO late in the 2nd round.
That's the most probable scenario.
Similar to Velasquez vs Lesnar.
Carwin is not that fast and JDS knows how to keep distance. When both will stay in a pocket then it will be a matter who will strike clean first - JDs is faster.
So as I said IMO no matter how I slice it. It looks like Junior is favorite in this fight.
Surprised that many of you are picking Carwin. JDS is a very smart striker and I just don't see him getting stuck on the cage and KO'ed a la Frank Mir. JDS will pick his spots and stay away from Carwin's power...eventually catching and finishing him. JDS by KO late in the 2nd round.
This fight should show where JDS really is. All he has shown anyone is his boxing. No kicks, no wrestling, no JJ just boxing. Yeah you get the usual line from his trainers about his TDD and ground game being amazing, but nobody has seen this as of yet. If Carwin shoots hard and JDS is able to easily stuff the TD's and work his standup then we will know he is the real deal. We'll see..
The Maia and Kenny fights just suck IMO. Who cares about Florian fighting in yet another weight class? And Maia is just a gate-keeping MW fighting an also ran..
The Maia and Kenny fights just suck IMO. Who cares about Florian fighting in yet another weight class? And Maia is just a gate-keeping MW fighting an also ran..
This is a 55 buck card Dana..
yup there should be 7 championship fights every event
I didn't go into any detail on my picks, but after the weigh-ins I'm interested enough to offer some thoughts...
JDS vs Carwin: JDS will play the distance game because Carwin will bulldoze him if he gets in close. It all comes down to JDS's cage awareness, he needs to keep it in the center or else Carwin's strength advantage will be too much and he'll end up trapped against the cage eating fists for dinner. If he can't keep distance, JDS needs to have a clinch game ready and try to break Carwin down with knees. This will go to the 2nd round cuz they have too much respect for each other to throwdown in the first, Carwin by vicious KO.
Kenny vs Nunes:
There's a good reason why good fighters are dropping weight classes, but Kenny dropping another weight class might end up looking like a bad idea because speed is the name of the game that far down in the classes. I suspect he's banking on being near 160 for the fight while Nunes stays under 150, so at the very least he will have a slight strength advantage. But Nunes is prolly gonna be peppering and annoying him so much he wins a decision unless Kenny comes in ready to kick up a storm and/or make Nunes carry him around. That's what I'm betting on haha.
Last edited by Stringer_Bell; 06-11-2011 at 12:00 PM.
I didn't go into any detail on my picks, but after the weigh-ins I'm interested enough to offer some thoughts...
JDS vs Carwin: JDS will play the distance game because Carwin will bulldoze him if he gets in close. It all comes down to JDS's cage awareness, he needs to keep it in the center or else Carwin's strength advantage will be too much and he'll end up trapped against the cage eating fists for dinner. If he can't keep distance, JDS needs to have a clinch game ready and try to break Carwin down with knees. This will go to the 2nd round cuz they have too much respect for each other to throwdown in the first, Carwin by vicious KO.
Kenny vs Nunes:
There's a good reason why good fighters are dropping weight classes, but Kenny dropping another weight class might end up looking like a bad idea because speed is the name of the game that far down in the classes. I suspect he's banking on being near 160 for the fight while Nunes stays under 150, so at the very least he will have a slight strength advantage. But Nunes is prolly gonna be peppering and annoying him so much he wins a decision unless Kenny comes in ready to kick up a storm and/or make Nunes carry him around. That's what I'm betting on haha.
I saw the weigh in, Kenny looks like a skeleton at this weight. This is a guy that was on TUF fighting at MW. This is such an act of desperation on his part. No great succes at WW, had limited success at LW and now he is trying to win a belt at FW. The window is closed Kenny..
The UFC needs to step up their game with better free cards in the coming year. PPV prices keep going up and the cards we get for free keep getting worse..
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