If you have an Xbox360, you too can see GSP and Hardy up close and personal…
It took them long enough, five rounds to be exact, to decide that GSP is indeed still one heck of an MMA’r. UFC 111 came to us on March 27th, 2010 with a much better card than the last few. GSP, Frank Mir, Shane Carwin and even Nate Diaz helped to make this event pretty good to watch for free and otherwise. I would keep an eye out for Nate. This kid is becoming a monster in the UFC and if people don’t watch out, he’s going to make everyone look stupid. He definitely made me look stupid after all the hemming and hawing I’ve done proclaiming him a fake TUF champion.
Here are your results. Don’t blink, because we have another UFC event in two days: UFC Fight Night 21. Then we’ve got UFC 112 on April 10th. Spring is definitely getting busy for mixed martial artists. They better be as ready as we are!
No Wanna See You (Not Even For FREE!) Card:
* Welterweight bout: Matthew Riddle vs. Greg Soto
Riddle fooled the judges and beat up Soto via disqualification (illegal upkick) at 1:30 of round 3.
Spike TV Too Cheap For PPV Fights:
* Welterweight bout: Ricardo Almeida vs. Matt Brown
Almeida choked the fight out of Brown via submission (rear naked choke) at 3:30 of round 2.
* Catchweight (177 lb) bout: Nate Diaz vs. Rory Markham
Diaz put the hurt on Markham via TKO (punches) at 2:47 of round 1.
* Middleweight bout: Rousimar Palhares vs. Tomasz Drwal
Palhares choked the fight out of Drwal via submission (heel hook) at 0:45 of round 1.
Main PPV and/or Drunk at the Pub Fights:
* Lightweight bout: Jim Miller vs. Mark Bocek
Miller fooled the judges and beat up Bocek via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27).
* Welterweight bout: Jon Fitch vs. Ben Saunders
Fitch fooled the judges and beat up Saunders via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27).
* Lightweight bout: Kurt Pellegrino vs. Fabricio Camoes
Pellegrino choked the fight out of Camoes via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:20 of round 2.
* Interim Heavyweight Championship bout: Frank Mir vs. Shane Carwin
Carwin layed the smack down on Mir via KO (punches) at 3:48 of round 1 to become the UFC Interim Heavyweight champion.
* Welterweight Championship bout: Georges St. Pierre (c) vs. Dan Hardy
St. Pierre fooled the judges and beat up Hardy via unanimous decision (50-43, 50-44, 50-45) to retain the UFC Welterweight championship.
* Light Heavyweight bout: Rodney Wallace vs. Jared Hamman
Hamman fooled the judges and beat up Wallace via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
This site has pulled what will now be called a “BJ Penn” or “No Mas” for the last few months. I have to rethink what I want to do here. I’ll save that for another post. I think I was on the right track in the very beginning with a newbie guide that I wrote. I think I’ll explore this further.
Anyway, I won’t go over the grim details of UFC94. You can get that anywhere else on the web. Suffice to say, Georges St. Pierre is definitely DA Man! BJ got what he deserved after all that damn talk! You gotta walk that walk if you’re going to call out someone like GSP. He just looked listless out there. It was as though he didn’t train at all. Throw a punch, kick, knee, grapple, but don’t just lay there on your back hoping that GSP will fall into your guard! Georges knows all about you and trained like a mad man for this thing. Anyway, it is definitely back to the shaved-ice and surfing for BJ. Maybe he’ll figure out where it all went wrong and put in a better showing. I know he disappointed all of his fans that night.
Lyoto Machida vs. Thiago Silva was probably the match of the night. With one round and a flurry of good standup, Lyoto solidified his place as a contender in the Light Heavy Weight Division. Heck, either one of these guys could have done that! If Thiago managed to stay concious and win, he’d be given a title shot.
Jon Jones vs. Steven Bonner was a great fight as well. Jones really showed his skill and flexibility in this match. We will be seeing more of this guy in the future if anyone has the guts to step into the Octagon with him.
I was knocked down this week, but luckily it wasn’t from a mad “Frenchy” like GSP in UFC83. No, a damn cold left me looking at this match for a while on my DVR. I’m still waiting for the fight between Nate Quarry and Kalib Starnes to begin. Something tells me I might be waiting a looong time for that to happen. Here are my musings on what happened in the main event. They’re pretty close to the preview I gave which makes me think I should give up my day job and become a professional gambler. Of course, that would mean being right every single time. I think I prefer my 30% accuracy rate in my Gubment job. Here’s the results if you’ve been under a rock or sneezing and wheezing your head off like me for the last three days!
Matt Serra Vs. Georges St-PierreIt wasn’t total annihilation but it was close. Serra was able to get a few hits while he was on his feet. Of course, he wasn’t on his feet for most of the match. It was “Frenchy” (To be fair, he’s from Montreal and this is Serra’s nickname for St-Pierre.) that fought the best this night. For every technique Matt dealt, GSP was able to figure it out and totally dominate. It got really ugly after a while and the knees and elbows just kept flying. The pain ended at nearly the end of the second round. So, there it is. Georges is the champ and Matt’s the chump. Well, maybe that’s too strong a word for Serra. I’ll save that for a later fight. Hopefully, the fight I’ve been looking for, Matt Serra vs. Matt Hughes can happen: LoserBowl2K8!
Travis Lutter Vs. Rich Franklin Lutter was able to do some good submission work on the ground in the first. He controlled Franklin pretty well until the end of the round. Rich was able to escape and get up. Then the round ended. Second round unfolded very differently. It was all Franklin just pelting Lutter with hit after hit. He then got position on Lutter and did some ground and pound. The ref decided to give Franklin’s fists the night off. So, Rich gets the W first in this fight.
Nate Quarry Vs. Kalib StarnesI didn’t like the way Kalib looked. It seems that you *can* read a book by its cover! The Quarry/Starnes fight was one of the most agonizing matches to see in this event. Luckily, I could fast forward through the circling and circling and evading and dodging. It’s one thing to circle so you can gain position on your opponent to throw a good punch or kick at him, but it’s an entirely different thing to just circle to circle. Did Kalib forget that he is a Mixed Martial Artist? You hit and get hit as a MMA’er. That’s the breaks. It goes without saying that Starnes lost the match but for this pathetic showing, he lost his career in the UFC! I don’t know if it was warranted. But hey, there are plenty more hungry guys out there willing to do some damage aching for a contract. Check out the Iron Ring if you don’t believe me.
Charles McCarthy Vs. Michael Bisping McCarthy tried to get some grapple on in this fight and nearly got the arm bar on Bisping. Michael escaped and decided that grappling wasn’t going to be the feature of this fight. He just rained punch after punch on McCarthy and got the win before the first round was over.
Mark Bocek Vs. Mac Danzig This was the best fight of the night. I had Big Mac winning this but the first round made me think that I chose the wrong fighter and I should go back to munching on beef. Bocek was pretty much not going to let Danzig do any standup in this round. It didn’t seem like a good move even though Bocek has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. In the second round, it was the Second Coming of Big Mac. He was rocking Bocek from standup position and for good measure took it to the ground and laid some wood down. In the third round we saw both of these guys do some damage. Bocek grabbed Big Mac for a big take down. He had some control for a bit but Danzig got out of it by punching and then kicking to get to standup. Then after a few more hits, Big Mac lands a knee that busts Mark’s head open and bloodies it up so bad that the doctor stopped the fight to look at it. They look at it a bit and give him the go ahead to continue but they probably should have stopped it there. Somehow, after a flurry of jabs, Danzig trips Bocek and takes his back. Then it’s the old Rear Naked Choke and tappity tap tap time. The TUF6 winner gets another W and marches towards a belt of his own I think. Go Vegan Boy go Vegan Boy GO!
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