This is the second time Spike TV has put together a Prime Time for a UFC fight. It’s very much mirrored after HBO Boxing’s 24/7. The goal of the show has to be to make Dan Hardy into either a worthy contender, or just someone so hateable that you want to see him lose.
The first time they did the show was last year and it also starred Georges St. Pierre. He was fighting BJ Penn and if you remember, Penn was pretty upset at the production of the show. We’ll see if Dan Hardy gets upset. I have a feeling he won’t. I think he simply wants to be the bad guy.
Georges is doing an Olympic weight lifting routine to gain ten pounds and increase his strength and athleticism. He did a crazy jumping squat with about 150 pounds on his shoulders. He says that he’s the most confident he’s ever been.
Hardy says that on the Sunday after the fight, all the GSP “nut huggers” will be in mourning. He doesn’t know how GSP can put his pants on with all the nut huggers on him. Continue Reading »
Big D and I are back and we’re not just talking wrestling. In fact, we open up the show discussing WEC 47 and Jens’ Pulver’s awesome promo. We also talk about the James Toney signing and UFC’s mystery show that they want to put head up against the Strikeforce CBS show.
Then we discuss the new Monday Night Wars and talk about TNA and WWE, including discussing the continuing angles for WrestleMania XXVI.
UFC’s first trek down under was a huge success as the Ultimate Fighting Championship held UFC 110 before a sold out crowd of 20,000 in Sydney, Australia at the Acer Arena. It was the second fastest international sellout in UFC history behind UFC 83 in Montreal. PRIDE went 2-1 on the show, as we saw Wanderlei and Crocop earn victories, but Nogueira ultimate fell to the hands of the younger, faster, stronger Cain Velasquez.
So today, for the first time ever, all five core members of FightGameBlog will comment on the event.
Cactus Jim Thumbs up.
Best Fight – George S. versus Joe S.
Worst Fight – Cro Cop versus Perosh
I’m still a little pissed that we’ve only seen one title fight in the last 8 events spanning 4 months. I certainly appreciate a good fight, title or not, but there just seems to be something missing for me when I’m paying $45 and not even getting a title fight. Let’s hope nothing causes delays to the title fights scheduled for the next 3 PPV’s. Now that I’m off my soapbox, I really enjoyed UFC 110. While there wasn’t really anything I’d consider a classic, all the fights were entertaining, even the fight I picked as worst of the night.
Alan Thumbs up
Best Fight: George vs. Joe
Worst Fight: CroCop vs. Perosh Continue Reading »
Big D and I are back to discuss two big shows this past weekend. WWE Elimination Chamber ended with both big belts being switched and the Undertaker now having a reason to face Shawn Michaels. We’ll talk about the matches that look to be set up for WrestleMania XXVI.
UFC 110 was a good show and we talk about all the fights. We also discuss the heavyweights in detail.
It’s UFC 110 time from Australia. It looks like a really fun show on paper, but that doesn’t always translate into being a good show.
Mirko Cro Cop is fighting first, but it won’t be against Ben Rothwell who pulled out on Thursday. Australian, Anthony Perosh takes his spot. It wasn’t that long ago when a Cro Cop fight was an event in unto itself. Boy has that changed.
1. Mirko Cro Cop vs. Anthony Perosh
Perosh wanted takedown, but he couldn’t get it and every time he ended up on his back, Cro Cop let him up. Mirko was patient and though he landed some heavy left hands, didn’t really follow up on them. He easily won the first round, but in a pretty unimpressive way considering that we don’t know Perosh at all.
Perosh can take some punishment. Cro Cop nailed him with an elbow on the ground and opened up a nasty cut on his forehead over his right eye. Herb Dean asked Perosh if he wanted to continue and he did and immediately took another big shot to the face and Cro Cop went into finish mode. Perosh survived, but they ended it at the end of the round.
From Big D who will be with us for the show tonight:
It’s good to see Mirko finally get a freakin’ win in the UFC. The fight ended a lot more violently than I expected, which I think is the best for Mirko. I hope he actually gets Rothwell his next go-round.
UFC 110 comes just two weeks after UFC 109, which wasn’t a good show at all. And it’s 5 weeks before their biggest show of the year thus far, UFC 111 with Georges St. Pierre defending his title. But if you look to skip this one, it might not be the best idea.
There’s a very interesting heavyweight fight scheduled as the main event between the legendary Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and the untested, Cain Velasquez. Michael Bisping also faces Wanderlei Silva in his biggest test since getting knocked out by Dan Henderson at UFC 100.
The FGB crew has their thoughts on these two matches.
(We originally were going to preview Mirko Crocop vs. Ben Rothwell as well, but Rothwell pulled out of the fight because of injury.)
Duan: Bisping by 2nd round TKO Alan: Silva by 1st round TKO Big D: Bisping by 2nd round TKO Stevie J: Bisping 2nd round TKO GG: Bisping by 3rd round TKO
Duan says:
This could be the end of the road for Silva. This fight has the potential to make him look very old. Bisping is younger, fresher, and moves better. I see Bisping being more precise with his striking and just taking him apart.
The word in the middle of this week was that Vitor Belfort hurt his arm and was going to pull out of his scheduled middleweight title match against Anderson Silva in Abu Dabi at UFC 112. It was later confirmed, but there wasn’t a true contender waiting in the wings.
The obvious choice would’ve been Chael Sonnen, but he had just finished a tiring match-up against Nate Marquardt. Demain Maia cut his eye lid in his fight with Dan Miller. We at FGB all started to think about who it could be. Cactus Jim scolded the UFC for screwing up negotiations with Dan Henderson, though, who knows if Silva would’ve fought him anyways. Duan didn’t care who it was as long as it wasn’t Sonnen who he finds terribly boring. For comedic purposes, we went through many of the middleweights like Michael Bisping, Wanderlei Silva, Yushin Okami, Amir Sadolah, Phil Baroni, Chris Leben, and even Phil Baroni and Patrick Cote. No one really resonated except for Bisping and Silva, but they have to fight each other this month.
“It’s always tough when a top fighter like Vitor Belfort has to pull out of a big title fight, but we have found a high quality replacement. Top contender Chael Sonnen was not available due to injuries sustained in his fight with Nate Marquardt, so top six middleweight Demian Maia will step in to fight for the title.
There is still some risk in that Maia’s eye lid injury will have to be medically cleared before he can fight. He is on suspension until the summer unless he gets his eye cleared, which I suspect White expects to happen soon or else he wouldn’t have booked the fight.
This is just the latest injury to ruin a main event fight, which has been the pattern in the UFC of late.
In what can be considered a rare occassion, UFC cut Mark Coleman from his contract today after his second round loss to Randy Couture at this past weekend’s UFC 109 PPV. A lot of people were hopeful that Coleman would get one more fight in the UFC against Tito Ortiz after the post-fight comments exchanged from the two, but as of today that does not appear to be the case.
Coleman, 45, has been a UFC headliner since the mid 90s when he captured the UFC Heavyweight Championship at UFC 12 with a win over Dan “The Beast” Severn. The peak of his career would have to be in 2000 when he won the PRIDE 2000 Openweight Grand Prix tournament with a win over Igor Vovchanchyn in the Tokyo Dome. At UFC 82, Coleman was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame.
Big D and I are back to talk about UFC 109 as well as early thoughts on UFC 110. We talk about the disgusting schedule starting in March and then segue into the news of Mayweather/Mosley, which just blows that schedule up even further. For the last 40 minutes of the show, we discuss the booking of WrestleMania XXVI.
This is the second time Spike TV has put together a Prime Time for a UFC fight. It’s very much mirrored after HBO Boxing’s 24/7. The goal of the show has to be to make Dan Hardy into either a worthy contender, or just someone so hateable that you want to see him lose.
It’s UFC 110 time from Australia. It looks like a really fun show on paper, but that doesn’t always translate into being a good show.
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