One of the best events in recent history, every fight on the card other than two were great fights, something very rare these days. Starting from the bottom, Garza continues to impress, he appears to have it all, good stand up and good submission skills, although Jabouin picked him apart a bit on the feet prior to his submission. I think he could potentially cause the top end featherweights a few problems with his height, because nobody in the featherweight division comes close to being as big as him, although put him in their with Aldo and he'll be getting his legs destroyed all night.
Makdessi wasn't anything special for what the hype could potentially offer, at times he was being outstruck by Watson, somebody who's stand up is poor. Good highlight reel knockout, but not a good performance nontheless, still has a lot to prove to warrent him being put in their with the top 20 lightweights.
Good submission by MacDonald, good to see him getting back in the win column following his long absense due to his broken leg, be interesting to see who he gets put in their with next, as Jensen was a bit of a given for him, a guy who has been submitted countless times, so I think if MacDonald gets put in their against somebody with fairly decent submission defense and can keep the fight standing, I don't see much else that MacDonald can do.
Menjivar put on an impressive performance, he's another guy who is very well rounded, good stand up and good submission skills. The short elbow he threw that broke Valencia's nose was brutal. I think Menjivar can expect to be put in there with the top 10 guys again, maybe a rematch with Pickett after the two fought to a close decision last year.
Not much I can see on Patrick VS Robert as my Facebook stream went down, but from what I heard it went down at the right time. Roberts desperatly needs to improve his stand up, in a division packed with wrestlers you're not going to get by on BJJ, and fairly average BJJ at that. Patrick appears to be in the same boat except that he does have some decent stand up, both guys need to improve though if they want to face the top end of the welterweight division though.
Ellenberger VS Pierson was a huge mismatch, obviously Pierson was meant to face Brian Foster at first before he had to pull out, so you can't point fingers at UFC matchmaking too much for making this fight on such short notice. Even with the mismatch, I think this fight helped Ellenberger, as he was coming off that close split decision win over Rocha where he didn't look to impressive, so this helps to rise his stock again. I think Pierson was heavily overhyped following his fight with Riddle. Him being an Ontario native and all that, I think he was there to just make up the numbers.
Great performance by Rory MacDonald, i'm not taking anything away from the kid but i'm keeping an eye open on his name being brought up when the drug test results come back. I'm not suggesting anything but MacDonald was sporting some very Chael Sonnen esque acne on his back, so i'm just going to bare that in mind. Hopefully though he'll be clean, because he dominated Diaz, those slams he hit were brutal, i'm shocked Diaz was able to recover after that third one. MacDonald is the real deal, had he not got a bit excited in the Condit fight, he would have won that, so the future for this kid is very bright. I think Diaz needs a drop to 155, he's tried his luck at 170 and come unstuck against two guys who are bordering top 15, he was having close fights with top 5 guys at 155, obvious where he needs to go.
Ben Henderson had a great performance, I have a lot of time for him, I think with perhaps the exception of Machida, him more than anyone was the guy who had to make the biggest statement on this card, to prove that the WEC guys were the real deal. He has good stand up and a great submission game, so I think Henderson can expect to be in their with more top 10 guys in the future. Bocek looks fairly impressive at times, but nothing special, he's another guy that needs to dramatically improve his stand up.
Matyushenko did nothing to damage his stock, very good early knock out of Brilz, and I think he can expect to be in their with a top 15 guy next. Not much else can really be said about the fight, early knockout, nothing to really criticise Brilz on, and so we move on.
Funny thing about Machida VS Couture, I was on the chat box and was talking to Anfield about Steven Seagal and the Anderson kick and how Seagal claimed he was entirely down to it and pretty much slagging Seagal off, next thing, Machida comes out with the next version of the kick! So credit where it's due, whether or not it is actually his doing, but it would appear that maybe Seagal is teaching these guys a thing or two, so fair play. Now that that's out the way, I think it was obvious that Couture would be going out with a knockout loss, Couture hasn't been relevant since the Gonzaga fight 4 years ago, and he has made the right decision to call it quits. He's had a great career, and I credit him for that, but put him in their with any of the top 15 guys in the LHW division and I see him losing to most of them, so it was the right time to call it a day. Machida came back in a big way following his fights with Shogun and Rampage. If it hadn't been for the joke UFC matchmaking putting together Evans VS Davis, then we might understand a bit more where Machida stands in terms of the title picture, but at the moment we don't, maybe if Rampage beats Hamill they might put together a rematch between Machida and Rampage and the winner gets the next shot, but who knows.
Aldo VS Hominick was a great fight, Hominick earned my respect in a big way last night, as i'm sure he did with everyone watching the event, had it not been for some of the worst coaching i've seen in a while coming out of his corner, then maybe he might have had a better shot, but Aldo was just too much for him. Aldo had gassed in like the 3rd round and he still was too much for Hominick, and that is still without seeing anything of Aldo's BJJ game, something that I imagine we might have to see when he fights Chad Mendes at UFC 133. Not sure what happened with Aldo in the weight cut, but something certainly happened. Hominick didn't have the killer instinct that he needed in that final round, he should have passed guard way earlier and attempted so serious ground and pound because like I said, Aldo had gassed like 10 minutes earlier.
Now for the main event, and despite being a GSP fan I was "not impressed with his performance." I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and believe that he was having a lot of trouble seeing out of his eye, and obviously if you only have one eye you don't rentlessly attempt to knock somebody out, you do take precaution, and that's what GSP did, but we've seen this too many times now. First of all I think GSP has no intention of fighting Anderson, and if he was to fight Diaz, the only way I see GSP winning is by decision, so I think if UFC does want the Silva fight, they need to wait until GSP can stop somebody, because based on his recent performances he doesn't deserve Silva. As for Shields, not a clue what his game plan was, he tried a few takedowns in the first round which GSP avoided, but after that he just forgot what he's good at, after all the build up was based around his amazing BJJ and GSP has never faced a guy with that level of BJJ in his career, and then from rounds 2-5 he doesn't even make any serious attempt to display that, so i'm confused as to what happened there, although to be fair to Shields, he stand up looked to have improved rather well.
Overall, great event, with a disappointing ending, just a shame we have to wait until the end of May before the next event, but then it's 6 events in 6 weeks so this Summer is certainly going to be a good one in MMA
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but i've seen the Janitor's KO and all i can say is WOW, that guy just keeps on surprising me! He's like Randy Couture Version 2.0! 
I thought Aldo would seriously blow through him but Hominick did more than enough to hang in there and actually got some good offence off, especially in the fifth round where i felt he could have got a stoppage if he just let rip more! Great fight that showed a few holes in Aldo's game, such as his gas tank, but at the same time showed us things we didn't really know, such as how good his takedowns are!
