UFC 109 – Preview and Predictions

First off apologies to anyone of my loyal readers who has been disappointed at the lack of updates on here recently (*watches tumbleweed roll past blog*). I have still been writing stuff which has been posted on the rather awesome UKMMANews site but i just haven’t cross posted it here. I do have some more ideas for articles for this blog, so if you’re reading this…show me some love and leave a comment and at least let me know someone out there is reading this nonsense!!

Right, onto UFC stuff So this weekend sees the return of the big show with two Hall of Famers headlining. Couture and Coleman are both legends of the sport who were scheduled to meet way back at UFC 17 but Randy pulled out through injury and now 12 years later we are getting it on! Although this probably would have been a far more entertaining scrap when both were in their prime back then, I’m sure it will still be a spectacle worth seeing.

UFC 108 – Preview and Predictions

So finally we are a few days away from the first UFC 2010. Somehow the UFC has pulled together a pretty decent card after possibly one of the THE most pull-out ridden cards in UFC history. I’m sure all the pull-outs have nothing at all to do with the fights being so close to christmas and people not wanting to miss out on all that bad food and booze a week out from their fights!! (Damn its a good job I never was much good at MMA, even if I was I’m not sure I’d have the will power to abstain over christmas!).

The list of UFC 108 casualties and people who were pencilled in and later scrapped would be a monster card all on its own. Lesnar (poo leaking into his gut), Big Nog (staph), Anderson Silva (elbow surgery) are the biggest names. Carlos Condit, Sean Sherk, Rory Markham and Gabriel Gonzaga are some of the others. I’m sure there’s more but I’ve completely lost track of the exact in’s and outs. Still there are some great fights slated for the event and although it’s not a set-the-world-alight card we should be seeing some quality matchups. UK UFC fans will be drooling in anticipation of seeing another KO for Paul “Semtex” Daley in his second Octagon appearance and the main event of Thiago Silva vs Rashad Evans looks to be a barnstormer. But before we get into that, let’s look at the non-pay per view fights:

Post fight thoughts on UFC 107

I don’t normally do round-ups of the events as there are plenty of other sites on t’interweb that do a better job of that. But I can’t not comment on BJ Penn. The guy has now proved he is pretty much untouchable at 155lbs. Diego was supposed to be his biggest test and although I fully expected BJ to win, I thought it would be harder than he made it look. Fightmetric.com had BJ landing 150 strikes, Sanchez landed 8. That tells you everything you need to know about this fight…well that and this picture:

another entry to the hall of pain??

UFC 107 – Preview and Predictions

The UFC have been putting out seemingly cursed cards recently. Some great fights are announced and then injuries/illnesses and ego’s seem to get in the way and as a result we end up with some hastily cobbled together cards. UFC 107 is not an exception, not least because we have lost a main event that used a whole reality series to build it up! Rampage vs Rashad was to be the big draw on this card following their coaching stints on TUF10, but as we all know, Rampage threw his toys out the pram and quit, after deciding he wanted time out from his UFC contract to go play at being Mr T, making cabbage cannons whilst locked in a remote farmyard barn (damn I hope they use that weapon from the series in the movie that’d be frickin awesome!!).

Also off the card was holder of the fastest UFC knockout Todd Duffee facing heavy hitter Paul Buentello and Jon Fitch rematching Thiago Alves. But some decent opponents have been found to step into the breach for the injured fighters. The replacement main event could potentially be an instant lightweight classic and we get the added bonus of hopefully seeing Frank Mir beaten to a bloody pulp again after the joy of watching Freeman way back in the day and more recently Brock Lesnar reduce his face to mush. The man charged with making my night this time is Cheik Kongo because in case you didnt know: I hate Frank Mir

UFC 106 – Preview and Predictions

Just a week after the last UFC in manchester, we are back in the states for UFC106. After losing it’s original huge (literally!) main event of Lesnar vs Carwin, this card still manages to be pretty solid with some great matchups. Unfortunately it’s looking like we won’t be seeing Cock Chestnar on a UFC card for some time as he apparently has a pretty serious illness and has undergone surgery on his intestine. Looks like he may have to change up his pre-fight diet of raw grizzly bear that he hunted down and killed with his own bare hands!