My take on the nigghht was,it was brilliant card,10 out of the 12 fights were really good,only ones that didn't impress me were the Patrick - ninja fight and the GSP - Shields fight.
My boy Randy got his arse handed to him,but it was a great performance from Machida with an absolutely devastating finish.
Thanks for the memories Randy,it's been great following your amazing career,you've left me with some MMA memories that will stick with me for life.
The GSP fight was boring,but I don't for the life see how some judges actually thought Shields won any rds.50-45 GSP for me,but wouldn't put up much of an argument if they gave a rd or maybe 2 as tied rds.
Aldo was dominant in 4 of the 5 rds,but personally i didn't think Aldo did enough or came close enough to finishing any of them to be awarded 10-8's.
I scored the fight 49-46 Aldo.
great show of heart from Hominick,really impressed me with the way he came out in that last rd and so glad his performance won him that nice fat bonus check.I think he deserves some credit from this showing,he was overall out matched but he put up more of a challenge to Aldo than MTB,Faber or Manny have in Aldo's last 3 defenses.
I missed the Janitor KO in live play,I blinked.
Lovely KO and a good stoppage from the ref,he was out.
The Bocek - Benson fight was a cracking fight.
Benson was just the faster,more agile and more aggressive fighter,bocek played his part in making this a really good fight,with some nice takedowns and a couple of half descent sub attempts,but Benson just carried on from his WEC days by looking nearly impossible to sub.Overall Benson just has a broader set of tools to work,more energy and explosive power and was just that little bit to much for him.
I scored it 30-27 Benson
Really impressed with Rory McDonald again,he quite easily beat a guy who I thought would give him alot more troubles.
He fought the 1st rd like a seasoned pro,scoring points,stuffing takedown attempts and taking nearly zero damage,the second rd was abit closer but Rory still did enough to win the rd with some good takedowns,nice clean punches in the clinch and a couple of lovely knees.
That last rd was brilliant,Rory really stepped up a gear in this rd and started dominating diaz,the 1st two rds were controlled aggression from Rory,this rd was just a case of rory letting it go and dominating Diaz.
Rory just ragdolled Diaz,suplexing him and slaming him to the mat several times and landing punches on him at will,great performance,can't wait to see him in action again.
The Ellenberger - Pierson fight was the only fight on the card that I thought was a real mismatch before it started.
ellenberger is a guy that should be fighting guys who are at a higher level than Pierson(but to be fair he was a last minute replacement)
Anyway Ellenberger did a great job of getting rid of what was in front of him in fantastic fashion,he landed a huge monster counter left hook that knocked Pierson silly,he landed another big shot while pierson was dropping to the canvas and finished with two more shots while Pierson was out on the deck.
It was a brutal finish,but pierson was OK came around soon enough.
apart from the last pre lim fight,this card started like a house on fire,absolutely great fights to start a card,If these had been the fights on a smaller Orgs main cards,we'd be saying what a great event it was,so happy we got to see them all on face book.
Not much to say about the Ninja - Patrick fight,Patrick did a good enough job to win the fight,easily winning the stand up and keeping out of to much trouble when the fight hit the deck,but i thought Ninja looked awful,he seemed to be gassed after the first rd and was throwing some of the weakest,sloppiest punches I've seen in a UFC match up,he might have a good ground game but he has a lot of work to do on his stand up and cardio.
Menjivar landed an absolute deadly short elbow to finish Velencia,it was a perfect shot that smashed up charlies nose and made him instantly turtle up,beautiful finish.
Mcdonald made short work of Jensen,he started off by escaping Jensen's guillotine attempt,moved to his back and then used some slick BBJ to scramble to a triangle position,once he had it nearly locked up,Jensen tried to pick him up and slam him off,but all that did was help McDonald locked it up even tighter,where Jensen had no choice but to tap.
I was a little disappointed with Makdessi's performance to be honest.After the Audinwood fight,I was expecting abit more from him.I think to be honest watson was just about giving as good as he got in the stand up battle,Makdessi did get better as the fight went on,Watson actually landed a nice head kick during the second rd but makdessi handled it really well and went straight back on the offensive.It was a pretty close fight after the first two rds,but then in the third makdessi came out with abit of magic to finish the fight that made me instantly forget about the 1st two rds.
It looked like he was loading up another spinning kick,but he dropped his leg down while rotating and changed to a spinning back fist that couldn't of landed any cleaner,from the front camera angle it didn't look that powerful a connection,but from the rear camera angle you could see the shock wave turn the back of his head and neck to jelly.
fucking lovely shot.
And Garza started the night of with a bang.
How did someone describe it last night on chat box,it looked like Garza was fighting Gary Coleman,the height difference was huge.
anyway garza push Jabouin straight to a corner and attempted his knees that served him so well in his last fight but Jabouin managed to push him back with a good kick and then managed to drop garza with a couple of knees himself,then when it looked like Jabouin was finding some success in the striking battle,garza grabs Jabouin in a clinch and immediately throws his legs up for a flying triangle,once on the ground garza manages to tangle jabouin up and rolls on top of him with the triangle still locked up,he ends up in a position where he has a chioce to go for his arm or stick with the triangle,he stuck with the triangle and locked it up nice and tight and jabouin is done.
Lovely move from Garza and a great start to the night.
I actually thought garza was pretty poor after his TUF showing and his quick choke he suffered in the WEC to Zhang,but his last two performances,although very quick have gave me a whol;e new respect for the guy.
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