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Joe and George great great fight, a real jiu jitsu Battle...
30-27 across the board, not sure about that one but George did win IMO
Well done..
Haha I just googled him and AlexanderJust pop in the footage of the other times it happened..
Joe and George great great fight, a real jiu jitsu Battle...
30-27 across the board, not sure about that one but George did win IMO
Well done..
Wandy with the decision.. Great fight,
War WANDY!!!!
You were right djohn you have my apologies.
Cain by KO!!!
Wow - nasty.
A Cain/Brock fight will be very interesting..
Lol noooooooo apologies! Ive been wrong many many many times. Good show, I wish I would have changed my pick to bader! I said I was, but I never did. Im just happy my boy Cain won. Goodnight Spurstalk!You were right djohn you have my apologies.
Cain by KO!!!
If we could just get rid of that
Brown Pride Tatoo!!!
Tatoo is fine imo.
I'd rather see Brock fight Cain next than the winner of Mir/Carwin, which is probably gonna be Mir. I mean why does he have to fight Mir yet again?? Cain has earned a shot with this win..
If i had White Pride on my chest, they'd look to ban my ass from the arena..
Thats because they're not the same thing and the two things have completely different histories. The man has pride in where he came from. I don't think that should bother anyone.
I scored it 29-27, only because the 2nd round was pretty even IMO. I wish there was time for him to fight BJ...he has the speed, length, and flexability to put up a good fight. Frankie Edgar is a ing joke compared to George.
The thing I love about Wandy is that at the end of the match, you know he will start swinging and there ain't a damn thing you can do about it. Bisping stuck to his plan and it seemed to work but Wandy took it all away from him at the end.
Like I said, Cain is young and angry and he definitely looked like it tonight. No wasted energy, just straight up violence. Something didn't look right with Big Nog though, he didn't look aggressive at all...maybe he wanted to tire Cain out and take him out in the 3rd?
Props to Cro-Cop for not being a and killing Perosh in front of his hometown. Props to Perosh for stepping in and taking his beating like a man.
wow what a knockout... i had a few doubts about cain but hes ing legit.
You were right about Velasquez. Nog's done. The best thing about him was that he could take punches and keep going, like the terminator. Oh well, at least we now have his little brother in the UFC about to do work on the LHW division. Wanderlei won, but I can't complain about Bisping's performance. You could tell the man fought his heart out, just wasn't as good and didn't hit as hard. Worked hard though with a good game plan.
Comparing Nog of Pride to this one is like comparing Bud Light to Keystone. looks the same but in reality its just a watered down version of the good stuff. cain looked tough. A matchup vs carwin or mir would be real nice.
other thoughts before i pass out, george and bader looked impressive. jardine is ing done. keith jardine welcome to strikeforce.
and props to my boys Cro Cop and Wanderlei for still thuggin', keep bangin
anyone have a link to where I can watch these? Me and Google don't get along for some reason.
http://www.mma-core.com/
Jardine looked awful - AWFUL - from the opening of the first round, long before the KO. Sad to say, he needs to consider retirement at the ripe old age of... what, 34? Mirko, on the other hand, looked better than he has in quite a while. Maybe he's snapped out of his depression and is ready to join the game again.
I fell asleep in the middle of Joe/George and when I awoke my stream was kaputI saw nothing after their first round.
Results
Preliminary Card
Light Heavyweight Bout: James Te-Huna vs. Igor Pokrajac
Te-Huna defeated Pokrajac via TKO (strikes) at 3:26 of round 3.
Middleweight Bout: C.B. Dollaway vs. Goran Reljic
Dollaway defeated Reljic via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
Welterweight Bout: Chris Lytle vs. Brian Foster
Lytle defeated Foster via submission (kneebar) at 1:41 of round 1.
Light Heavyweight Bout: Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
Soszynski defeated Bonnar via TKO (cut) at 1:04 of round 3.
Main Card
Heavyweight Bout: Mirko Filipović vs. Anthony Perosh
Filipović defeated Perosh via TKO (doctor stoppage) at 5:00 of round 2.
Light Heavyweight Bout: Keith Jardine vs. Ryan Bader
Bader defeated Jardine via KO (punch) at 2:10 of round 3.
Lightweight Bout: Joe Stevenson vs. George Sotiropoulos
Sotiropoulos defeated Stevenson via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).
Middleweight Bout: Wanderlei Silva vs. Michael Bisping
Silva defeated Bisping via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
Heavyweight Bout: Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Cain Velasquez
Velasquez defeated Nogueira via KO (punches) at 2:20 of round 1.
Love Bonnar but how many fights does the UFC give him, losing like this? Just give him a PR job or something..
Dana said he has a lifetime pass to fight in the UFC. I just watched the Nogueira-Velasquez fight again and I didnt realize last night how much Cain dominated the standup. I was real tired and only really paid attention to the the shot that dropped Nogueira and the VICIOUS 5 shot, right on the button, ground and pound. But Cain really did good, and landed some nice shots in the round prior to the big one. So know, not only to being a GREAT wrestler, now his standup is respectable...you get some Jiu Jitsu on this guy and I think he can challenge Brock.
He can challenge Brock right now. The biggest thing he needs to be able to do is stand up quickly from guard if Brock can take him down. But right now he's got the definite stand up advantage and he may or may not be able to hold his own in the wrestling department. As skilled as they both are as wrestlers, that's where size becomes a factor.
l think he can challenge Brock right now as well. I would much rather see that fight than Brock pound on Mir again. Mir/Carwin for UFC 111 i am going to that fight, and i really don't want to see the winner get the shot at Brock. If it's Carwin maybe but if Mir wins that fight.. Give the shot to Cain..
Velasquez drops Nogueira at UFC 110
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports
SYDNEY – Cain Velasquez passed his first major test, planting himself firmly into championship contention with a first-round stoppage of former heavyweight champ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira at 2:20 of the first round in UFC 110 before 17,431 at Acer Arena on Saturday (Sunday in Australia).
Velasquez landed a right hand, a left hand on top of the head and followed it with a right hook on the chin that knocked Nogueiera onto his back. Velasquez immediately pounced upon him and finished him with five punches on the ground.
Referee Herb Dean hopped in to stop it.
“I wanted to stay in good position and beat him to the punch when I could,” said Velasquez, who is now 8-0 overall and 6-0 in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Velasquez, a former wrestling standout at Arizona State, could get the next shot at heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar. Frank Mir and Shane Carwin will meet for the interim le at UFC 111 on March 27. If the winner is healthy enough, he’ll meet Lesnar in July or August. If not, Velasquez will get the shot. And as he proved, he’s a legitimate championship contender.
Wanderlei Silva won an emotional victory over Michael Bisping, using a late knockdown to pull out a unanimous decision victory in Silva’s debut at middleweight.
The fight was even after two rounds on all three cards and the fight hung in the balance as the clock wound down. But the former PRIDE middleweight champion landed a huge windmill overhand right that landed behind Bisping’s left ear.
Bisping went down, but there was only about six seconds left and he was unable to finish it.
The bout didn’t have the high-octane punches many expected, but was a very good technical battle. After the fight, Silva, who had plastic surgery to remove scar tissue and help open breathing passages in his nose, began to weep.
“In life, we all have bad moments,” Silva said. “Everybody has bad moments, but if you believe in God and work hard, the good moments are going to come.”
They came for Silva late in this grudge match, which featured a lot of trash talking. Bisping was animated when the decision was announced, but was gracious later.
He praised Silva as an icon of the sport. He knew, though, the final knockdown was key. “I think the reason he got the decision was the knockdown at the end,” Bisping said.
George Sotiropoulos thrilled the large crowd with a superb jiu-jitsu performance in a back-and-forth ground battle with Joe “Daddy” Stevenson.
Sotiropoulos, a native of Geelong, Australia, dominated the first round, mostly on the ground, putting Stevenson in several bad positions.
Stevenson fought back and each of the last two rounds were close, but Sotiropoulos did enough to win each of them. All three judges had it 30-27 for Sotiropoulos, as did Yahoo! Sports.
Light heavyweight Ryan Bader, the winner of Season 8 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” knocked out veteran Keith Jardine with a powerful left hook in the third round. Bader hurt Jardine with a right hand.
He tried a flying knee that only partially landed, but he followed Jardine to the cage and ripped him with a left hook. Jardine fell in a heap, his right leg behind him, and referee Josh Rosenthal quickly jumped in to stop it.
Heavyweight Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic manhandled late replacement Anthony Perosh and stopped him at the end of the second round on a bad cut. Filipovic opened the cut with an elbow while he was in Perosh’s guard. The fight was stopped between rounds.
Chris Lytle submitted Brian Foster with a knee bar at just 1:41 of the first after Foster took his back.
Krzysztof Sosyznski won by third-round technical knockout over Stephan Bonnar when a clash of heads opened a huge gash on Bonnar’s forehead. Replays showed it was clearly a head butt, but referee John Sharp ruled it a punch and so when the fight was stopped, it was recorded as a knockout.
Cain do: Velasquez vaults to the top
By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports
SYDNEY – Dana White couldn’t have scripted UFC 110 any better had he tried.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship’s first show in Australia was a smashing success, and its top prospect gave the UFC president yet another elite heavyweight to throw into the mix.
Cain Velasquez more than lived up to his billing as a potential champion, stopping the nearly unstoppable Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira on Saturday (Sunday in Australia) in the first round to firmly thrust himself into the heavyweight championship picture before 17,431 stunned fans at Acer Arena.
“I was totally blown away by him,” White said of Velasquez, who knocked Nogueira down with a perfect right-left-right combination and then finished him with five powerful hammer fists on the ground.
It capped a near-perfect night in which the fights were good, the crowd was amazing and the contenders moved into focus.
The only thing that was missing was one of the fighters walking to the cage to Men at Work’s “Down Under.”
The stands were nearly full for the first fight, which started just after noon local time. When Igor Pokrajac walked to the cage to open the show, fans stood in unison and roared at the top of their lungs.
They managed to get even louder when Sydney resident James Te Huna was introduced. He sent them into near-delirium by stopping Pokrajac in the third round.
Another Australian, George Sotiropoulos, also received a hero’s welcome.
“I was blown away at the reception,” Sotiropoulos said.
Sotiropoulos edged Stevenson in a fast-paced match that was spent mostly on the ground and was given Fight of the Night honors. But Velasquez managed to trump even that great fight with his performance against Nogueira.
Nogueira is among the three greatest heavyweight fighters in mixed martial arts history and is renowned for his ability to absorb punishment. He was no match for Velasquez, however, who outboxed him, showed great patience and was ferocious in going for the finish when the opportunity presented.
Velasquez’s coaches preached patience to him and didn’t want him to get ahead of himself or abandon the game plan. But even though Nogueira landed the first punch of the fight and opened a cut on the bridge of his nose that required a few s ches to close, Velasquez didn’t panic.
“He got hit right away and he kept his composure,” said Dave Camarillo, Velasquez’s jiu-jitsu coach. “We were very impressed that he’s now displaying the experience he didn’t have. He’s really showing it, where he didn’t show it in the [UFC 99] fight with [Cheick] Kongo.
“You’re speaking to a true martial artist, and his best weapon is his mind.”
Perhaps, but it doesn’t hurt that he is by far the best-conditioned big man in the game, that he’s highly athletic, strong and unbelievably compe ive.
This is a guy who oozed with potential from the moment he turned professional after a high-profile wrestling career at Arizona State. He faced significant pressure when he was compared to some of the all-time greats upon debuting in the UFC at UFC 83 in 2007 after only two fights.
Velasquez showed something new in every fight, adding depth and breadth to his game each time out. On Saturday, he put it all together in a performance that puts him alongside Shane Carwin and Frank Mir as the primary challengers to champion Brock Lesnar.
Velasquez said he “was kind of surprised” that he was able to put away a legendary figure like Nogueira so quickly and so thoroughly.
“I put a lot of time in, and it felt great to come through after all the time I put into it,” Velasquez said. “Everything is coming together the way I planned. It didn’t come easy. It’s been a lot of hard work, but I felt good about the way it all came together.”
The UFC’s heavyweight division is by far the best it ever has been, which says something about the quality of the newcomers.
In addition to Velasquez, Mir and Carwin, Junior dos Santos always is a quality contender, and dos Santos will be in the championship mix if he defeats Gabriel Gonzaga next month in Broomfield, Colo.
Veteran Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic, who put together perhaps his best performance in what thus far has been a lackluster UFC career by stopping late replacement Anthony Perosh, conceded he was impressed by the talent matchmaker Joe Silva has stockpiled in the division.
“The young lions are definitely coming,” Filipovic said. “The heavyweight division is better than it’s ever been.”
White clearly agreed with that. Five years ago, there wasn’t a quality champion and there was no depth.
Now, there are a string of main-event quality fights that can be made and more than a half-dozen legitimate contenders.
“Five years ago, there is no comparison to the way it is now,” White said. “We had nobody like Cain. Nobody. All we had then was Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovski and that was it. The division was terrible. It sucked and [Sylvia] and Andrei kept knocking each other out.
“Now, you go down the list and you see guy after guy and you go, ‘He’s the real deal. He’s the real deal. He’s the real deal.’ We’re full of them right now. I can’t wait to see some of these fights. It’s going to be sick.”
The winner of the Mir-Carwin fight at UFC 111 next month is slated to get the next shot at Lesnar. Lesnar is expected to return in either July or August from his bout of diverticulitis, which has sidelined him since last July at UFC 100.
However, if the Mir-Carwin winner isn’t ready, White said the shot instead would go to Velasquez.
Velasquez is a low-key sort who said, “I’m getting better,” when asked what message he sent to Lesnar with his knockout.
But Velasquez clearly is confident. He’ll give up 25 or 30 pounds to Lesnar, as well as a few inches, but he isn’t going to turn down the le shot.
“I’d have to fight a smart fight, and my coaches and I would have to come up with a game plan,” Velasquez said. “Really, with that kind of guy, super big, strong, with a lot of power, it’s going to be a way and you have to keep fighting till the end. You have to tire those big guys out, which is easier said than done.
“But that’s how I’d see me going up against them, trying to get them tired and then edge out the win at the end. But it’s tough.”
It will be tough for Velasquez facing the many massive, athletic men in the division. Have no doubt, though, that he’s a tough match for any of them.
“I’ve been saying it for a long time, but maybe now people will start looking at this kid and realize how good he is,” White said. “I call him ‘The Terminator’ because he never quits. He’s got a lot going for him. He’s going to be tough to beat, man. He really is.”
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