UFC 80: Newcastle, England - BJ Penn Vs. Joe Stevenson / UFC Fight Night 12

mookie blaylock 10

happy new year everyone! a lot going on in mma for december and january, so UFC 80 is already only a few weeks away. once again, back across the pond...this time in newcastle, england.

a great main event in penn vs. stevenson and a good HW rematch with gonzaga and werdum. the rest of the card is not as strong on paper, but we'll have to see how they play out. davis vs. liaudin could be interesting, as could lambert vs. gouveia, and i'm hoping to see either paul taylor or sam stout from the pre-lims.


UFC 80, January 19, 2008 - Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, England - PPV (Live at 3 p.m. ET)

Main Card:

BJ Penn Vs. Joe Stevenson - LW Championship
Gabriel Gonzaga Vs. Fabricio Werdum
Marcus Davis Vs. Jess Liaudin
Jason Lambert Vs. Wilson Gouveia
Kendall Grove Vs. Jorge Rivera

Pre-lims:

Antoni Hardonk Vs. Colin Robinson
Paul Taylor Vs. Paul Kelly
Alessio Sakara Vs. James Lee
Sam Stout Vs. Per Eklund

mookie blaylock 10

UFC Fight Night 12, January 23, 2008 - The Palms, Las Vegas, Nevada - Spike TV

Main Card:

Mike Swick Vs. Josh Burkman
Patrick Côté Vs. Drew McFedries
Nate Diaz Vs. Alvin Robinson
Thiago Tavares Vs. Michihiro Omigawa

Pre-lims:

Kurt Pellegrino Vs. Alberto Crane
Gray Maynard Vs. Dennis Siver
Cole Miller Vs. Jeremy Stephens
Corey Hill Vs. Joe Veres
Matt Wiman Vs. Justin Buccholz

mookie blaylock 10

rumours for upcoming UFC (and WEC) cards...



UFC 81, February 2, 2008 - MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada - PPV

Main Card:

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Vs. Tim Sylvia - "Interim" HW Championship (Winner to face Fabricio Werdum)
Brock Lesnar Vs. Frank Mir
Nate Marquardt Vs. Jeremy Horn
Alan Belcher Vs. Ricardo Almeida
Tyson Griffin Vs. Gleison Tibau

Pre-lims:

Chris Lytle Vs. Kyle Bradley
Terry Martin Vs. Marvin Eastman
Rob Emerson Vs. Keita Nakamura
David Heath Vs. Tim Boetsch




WEC 32, February 13, 2008 - Santa Ana Star Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico - Versus

Main Card:

Carlos Condit Vs. Carlo Prater - WEC WW Championship
Rob McCullough Vs. Jamie Varner - WEC LW Championship
Chase Beebe Vs. Miguel Torres - WEC BW Championship
Micah Miller Vs. Chance Farrar
Leonard Garcia Vs. Hiroyuki Takaya

Pre-lims:

Cody Wheeler Vs. Del Hawkins
Mark Hominick Vs. Josh Grispi
Jeff Bedard Vs. Yoshiro Maeda
Manny Tapia Vs. Antonio Banuelos
Jesse Morenge Vs. Scott Jorgensen




UFC 82, March 1, 2008 - Nationwide Arena, Cloumbus, Ohio - PPV

Dan Henderson Vs. Anderson Silva - MW Championship Unification Match (Pride and UFC Titles)
Cheick Kongo Vs. Heath Herring
Andrei Arlovski Vs. Jake O'Brien
Jon Fitch Vs. Chris Wilson (Akihiro Gono out due to injury)
Josh Koscheck Vs. Dustin Hazelett
Diego Sanchez Vs. David Bielkheden (Roan Carneiro out due to illness)
Luke Cummo Vs. Luigi Fioravanti
Jorge Gurgel Vs. John Halverson




UFC 83 - Date & Location TBA - Spike TV or PPV (originally was to be held March 8, 2008 at M.E.N. Arena, Manchester, England)

Michael Bisping Vs. Charles McCarthy
Houston Alexander Vs. James Irvin
Demian Maia Vs. Ed Herman
Terry Etim Vs. TBA
Goran Reljic Vs. TBA
Neil Wain Vs. TBA




UFC Fight Night 13, April 2, 2008 - Broomfield Event Center, Broomfield, Colorado - Spike TV

Main Card:

Kenny Florian Vs. Joe Lauzon
Karo Parisyan Vs. Thiago Alves
Stephan Bonnar Vs. Matt Hamill
Spencer Fisher Vs. Marcus Aurelio
Clay Guida Vs. Samy Schiavo
George Sotiropoulos Vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida
Anthony Johnson Vs. Tommy Speer




The Ultimate Fighter 7 - Premieres April 2, 2008 on Spike TV.

Tournament of 16 MW competitors. Coaches: Quinton Jackson and Forrest Griffin.




UFC 84, April 19, 2008 - Bell Centre, Montréal, Quebec, Canada - PPV

Georges St-Pierre Vs. Matt Serra - WW Championship
Mauricio Rua Vs. TBA
Evan Tanner Vs. Yushin Okami
Rich Franklin Vs. Travis Lutter
Mark Bocek Vs. Mac Danzig
Patrick Côté Vs. TBA
Jason MacDonald Vs. Joe Doerksen
Sam Stout Vs. Rich Clementi
Jonathan Goulet Vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka




UFC 85, May 24, 2008 - MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada - PPV

Sean Sherk Vs. BJ Penn - LW Championship
Tito Ortiz Vs. Lyoto Machida
Rashad Evans Vs. Thiago Silva




UFC 86, June 12, 2008 - O2 Arena, London, England - Spike TV or PPV

Marcus Davis Vs. TBA




UFC 87, July, 2008 - PPV

Quinton Jackson Vs. Forrest Griffin - LHW Championship




UFC, Fall, 2008 - Germany




UFC, 2008 / 2009 - Zagreb, Croatia / Dublin, Ireland / Scotland

sweetpotato

you're such a badass.

happy new year, mookster.

mookie blaylock 10

so, there were four of us who got our picks in on time for UFC 79, and invites need to be sent out to releash, and accbootlaggoddess. beachdweller did not get the invite in time to make picks. an invite was sent to pearljamfan99 so he is signing up...leaving us 3 spots left for the league. also, i think pearljamfan99's buddy is a plant from another league to bring our overall score down and prevent us from winning group prizes! just speculating...but 13?!?! i mean, i know there's bad luck, but 13?!?!


UFC® 79 NEMESIS :: LEAGUE RESULTS


The Evolution Fight Club

Rank - Player - Total Points Awarded
1 All Manador - 168
2 battery - 130
3 Loveboatcapt0226 - 121
4 DAKATAK - 13
5 beachdweller - No Play

hats off to civ eng girl!

mookie blaylock 10

sweetpotato wrote:

you're such a badass.

happy new year, mookster.

hey, thanks sweetpotato! same to you...about the badass part! :D

mookie blaylock 10

from the ufc fantasy site for the ufc 80 event...

Welcome to UFC® Fantasy!

Good News! We are getting very close to launching our next version of UFC Fantasy. We have been working hard to bring you a feature we knew would be very popular -- you will be able to CHAT LIVE with other Fantasy players! We hope to launch in the next few weeks, so keep an eye out for the announcement. Included in that upgrade will be the ability to use AVATARS with your screen name and we're adding more information on past event rankings for both individual players and leagues. All of this and more is coming soon. Best of all? It will remain FREE OF CHARGE to all players!

UFC 80 RAPID FIRE - The 1st place winner will receive a RAMBO prize pack that includes a military jacket from the film, DVD box set of the RAMBO movies and much more. The 2nd through 20th place winners will receive UFC DVDs.

We are very close to announcing rules and prizes for LEAGUE players. We hope to launch the game with UFC 80, in January 2008. It will be a cumulative point game, with great prizes for all members of the winning league. This is one you won't want to miss, so make sure to get your league(s) started!

New Players - If you're a first time visitor and would like to play, please log-in, choose your fighters and then let us know your experience in using the game. We are also interested to hear your comments and suggestions on how we might make the game as fun and compelling as possible in future versions.

New prizes for individual players, as well as leagues, will be announced for each event.

...rambo prize packs?!?! haha ...i've got my picks in! some ufc dvd's would be nice, though.

mookie blaylock 10

ufc announces their list of best submissions of 2007. it could be that i'm tired and can't think of all the subs rights now, but this looks like a pretty good list.


12/31/2007
Ten Best – The Best Submissions of 2007
By Thomas Gerbasi

From the subtle to the spectacular, submission victories in the UFC in 2007 had something for every fan, and for some of the game’s elite fighters, like BJ Penn, the ability to finish fights in this fashion has been a key to a career full of success. For others, like Marcus Davis, learning the art of submitting opponents has been the difference between a life in the UFC and a life struggling on the small show circuit. Read on for ten of this year’s best finishes by submission.

10 – UFC Fight Night – April 5 – Joe Stevenson WSub1 Melvin Guillard
Melvin Guillard is able to put opponents to sleep with his fists. Joe Stevenson can do the same thing with submissions, and in this clash of rising lightweight stars, it was the grappler, Stevenson, who emerged victorious, as he threw the MMA equivalent of a perfect game, rocking Guillard with a left hand, and then using ‘The Young Assassin’s subsequent aggressiveness against him as he sunk in a guillotine choke that produced a tap out just 27 seconds into the fight. It was Stevenson’s second straight win by guillotine, and maybe a nickname change from ‘Joe Daddy’ to ‘The Executioner’ wouldn’t be entirely out of the question if he keeps this up.

9 – TUF6 Finale – December 8 - Matt Arroyo Wsub1 John Kolosci
Matt Arroyo took his share of criticism from fight fans for opting out of the TUF6 semifinals due to injury, but when the Floridian got his shot in the big show, all was forgotten as he had Kolosci in constant trouble due to his extensive ground game, eventually submitting his fellow cast mate with an armbar.

8 – UFC 68 – March 3 - Martin Kampmann WSub1 Drew McFedries
The beautiful thing about MMA is that when Plan B doesn’t work, you can always go to Plan B. Martin Kampmann, a noted kickboxer, was getting his head handed to him by knockout artist Drew McFedries before he took his foe to the ground and showed the other side of his game by submitting the Iowan with a sleep-inducing arm triangle.

7 – The Ultimate Fighter 5 Finale – June 23 – BJ Penn WSub2 Jens Pulver
Let’s just call this an accumulative honor, since Penn showed off a number of impressive jiu-jitsu moves throughout his rematch with Pulver, with only ‘Lil Evil’s submission defense and heart keeping him in the fight as long as he was. By the second round though, Penn’s ground wizardry had taken its toll on Pulver, and the Iowan was finally forced to succumb to a rear naked choke.

6 – UFC 71 – May 26 - Din Thomas WSub2 Jeremy Stephens
Want to show a casual fan what a solid submission game can do, put this fight on. Thomas was facing an aggressive and hungry youngster in the debuting Stephens, and despite his unyielding will to win, Thomas had an answer for everything and transitioned beautifully from position to position, almost submitting his opponent with a rear naked choke in the first round. In the second though, Thomas finished the job with an armbar that was in so tight even a slam by Stephens couldn’t break it. Stephens’ arm wasn’t going to be as lucky, but referee John McCarthy wisely halted the bout. Said Thomas, “He probably didn’t tap, but I was gonna break his arm and take it home with me.”

5 – UFC 79 – December 29 – Georges St-Pierre WSub2 Matt Hughes
For sheer dominance of a world-class opponent, look no further than GSP’s lopsided victory over Hughes, who had no answers whatsoever for the Canadian standout. Finally, after a clinic that included takedowns, throws, and positional control, St-Pierre closed the door on Hughes with an armbar, the same maneuver that Hughes used to beat GSP in their first meeting in 2004.

4 - UFC 75 – September 8 - Marcus Davis WSub1 Paul Taylor
In a fight that lived up to its billing, Davis’ nine fight winning streak was in jeopardy early when he was dropped by a kick to the head from the UK native, who kept the pressure on for much of the opening frame. But suddenly, the former pro boxer turned the tide, and he didn’t do it with a haymaker, he did it with an armbar, continuing his evolution as an MMA fighter in his most impressive win of the year.

3 - TUF6 Finale – December 8 – Roger Huerta WSub3 Clay Guida
Down on all three scorecards entering the final round, Roger Huerta turned the tables on Clay Guida in an amazing show of heart as well as skill, hurting his foe first with a knee and then finishing him off with an improbable rear naked choke that made the fans at The Palms in Las Vegas erupt.

2 – UFC 73 – July 7 - Chris Lytle WSub1 Jason Gilliam
At this level, if you have stellar technique and can get a well-trained mixed martial artist to make enough of a mistake where you can capitalize and submit him, it’s safe to say that you’re a pretty good fighter. Lock your opponent up in two submission holds at once? That’s off the charts. But that’s what Lytle did in his highly impressive win over Gilliam, catching his foe in a triangle and an armlock to get the tap out and the submission of the night bonus in one of those sequences you have to see to believe.

1 – UFC 76 – September 22 – Forrest Griffin WSub3 Mauricio Rua
Sometimes the best submission of the year isn’t one that is memorable for spectacular technique or the ‘wow’ factor, but one that will live on in the minds of fight fans for what it meant at that particular moment in time. When Forrest Griffin closed the show on the heavily favored PRIDE import ‘Shogun’ Rua with a rear naked choke in the final minute, it was an exclamation mark on a result no one saw coming, especially Rua, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt. Not a bad win for a guy once seen as just a one-dimensional brawler.

Honorable Mention - Anderson Silva WSub2 Travis Lutter, Frank Mir WSub1 Antoni Hardonk, Akihiro Gono WSub2 Tamdan McCrory, Roman Mitichyan WSub1 Dorian Price, Mac Danzig WSub1 Tommy Speer, Kenny Florian WSub1 Dokonjonosuke Mishima, Rich Clementi WSub1 Melvin Guillard.

http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=9377

civ_eng_girl

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

UFC® 79 NEMESIS :: LEAGUE RESULTS

The Evolution Fight Club

Rank - Player - Total Points Awarded
1 All Manador - 168
2 battery - 130
3 Loveboatcapt0226 - 121
4 DAKATAK - 13
5 beachdweller - No Play

hats off to civ eng girl!

thank you, thank you very much... :cool:

the league prizes sound great! i think we've got a good team... we should be able to rake in some winnin's...

i want an Affliction t-shirt....

inmyrvm

im still in shock of hughes performance to even think about the next card

mookie blaylock 10

civ_eng_girl wrote:

thank you, thank you very much... :cool:

the league prizes sound great! i think we've got a good team... we should be able to rake in some winnin's...

i want an Affliction t-shirt....

i agree! that is, unless my suspicions about pearljamfan99's friend are true.

mookie blaylock 10

inmyrvm wrote:

im still in shock of hughes performance to even think about the next card

i'm still watching georges' performance. ...probably until the next card!

mookie blaylock 10

first they picked their top ten submissions, now top ten ko's, so i guess top ten fights will be next. i'm guessing huerta vs. guida (gets my vote), guida vs. griffin, or liddell vs. silva gets the nod for #1 there. griffin vs. edgar will be there too, along with forrest vs. shogun.



01/01/2008
Ten Best – The Top Knockouts of 2007
By Thomas Gerbasi

Nothing ignites a crowd like a spectacular knockout, and 2007 had its share of great ones. Of course, nothing that happened can touch the KO that checks in at number one for the year, but the rest of the top ten was pretty impressive in its own right.

10 - UFC 75 – September 8 – Houston Alexander TKO1 Alessio Sakara
As a former pro boxer, you would have expected that Sakara was going to test Alexander’s standup in his second UFC bout. But as soon as Sakara ate some of the Nebraskan’s thunder, the Italian shot for a takedown. Alexander threw him off like a ragdoll and moments later he effectively ended the fight with a knee to the head.

9 - UFC 77 – October 20 – Anderson Silva TKO2 Rich Franklin
It wasn’t one blow that ended Silva’ rematch with Franklin, but the wide array of techniques displayed by the UFC middleweight champion were a thing of beauty, and left Franklin not only defenseless, but with a look on his face wondering what the best pound for pound fighter in the world was going to unleash on him next.

8 – UFC Fight Night – September 19 - Nate Quarry KO3 Pete Sell
If Nate Quarry thought his return to the Octagon after close to two years was going to be easy, the first few bombs he took from Pete Sell erased that notion. But over the course of the next two-plus rounds, both fighters gave as good as they got, with Quarry finally ending the brutal slugfest with a huge right hand in the third.

7 - TUF6 finale – December 8 – Jon Koppenhaver TKO3 Jared Rollins
TUF 6 castmates and buddies Koppenhaver and Rollins tore at each other with a savage ferocity in their welterweight bout, but when one fighter seemed to be on his way out, the other would roar back. And that’s how the fight ended, as Koppenhaver survived what looked to be a finishing flurry from his foe, reversed position, and landed a series of punches that halted the bout and left the

6 – UFC Fight Night – September 19 - Chris Leben KO3 Terry Martin
It wasn’t the fight of the year that everyone expected going in, but in the third round, Leben and Martin let the bombs go. When Martin scored with a right hand, Leben staggered back to the fence in serious trouble. Martin raised his hands, apparently sure of victory, and moved in for the kill. Leben, knowing no other way to fight, waded in with haymakers of his own, and a single left hook laid Martin out in a spectacular turnaround.

5 – UFC 69 – April 7 – Matt Serra TKO1 Georges St-Pierre
As far as aesthetically pleasing knockouts go, there are better choices, but you can’t help but give a nod to a knockout that belongs strictly for its historic and shock value, and Matt Serra’s upset of the seemingly unstoppable GSP definitely applies. A hard right hand that clipped a ducking St-Pierre took the champion’s equilibrium, and as he tried to get his legs under him, Serra was calm, cool, collected, and sending bombs down the pipe that were keeping the Canadian from getting back into the fight. Finally, a series of unanswered shots on the ground forced a halt to the bout, and the MMA world had a new champion in the charismatic New Yorker, Matt ‘The Terror’ Serra.

4 – UFC Fight Night – January 25 – Rashad Evans KO2 Sean Salmon
In the lead-up to his main event bout with Sean Salmon, Rashad Evans started going by the moniker ‘Sugar’. Well, the former MSU Spartan showed a little spice in this fight, battling through a sluggish first round to put an emphatic end to Salmon’s UFC debut in the second with a picture perfect right kick to the head. Salmon was out on impact, and he hit the head with a thud as the fans in attendance gasped. Thankfully, Salmon was all right, but if you needed any reminders that this is a contact sport, Evans’ spectacular knockout win provided all the proof you needed.

3 – UFC 71 - May 26 – Houston Alexander TKO1 Keith Jardine
At around 4:30am on Sunday, May 27, the morning after he took out Keith Jardine in just 48 seconds, Houston Alexander was getting the rock star treatment, signing autographs, taking pictures and shaking hands with well-wishers
while waiting for his ride to the airport. It’s what you get when you enter the Octagon for the first time and knock out a contender who was a couple wins away from a likely title shot. And that’s what Nebraska’s Alexander did, actually stunning Jardine with repeated right hands at close range and then unleashing the finisher with a couple vicious right uppercuts that put ‘The Dean of Mean’ down and out in under a minute. It was a spectacular debut to say the least, one of the most memorable in some time.

2 – UFC 71 – May 26 – Quinton Jackson TKO1 Chuck Liddell
In a case of ‘he shoulda known better’, UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell threw a lead to the body from five feet away at UFC 71 and paid for it, getting stopped in 1:53 of the first round by Rampage Jackson, who made it 2-0 against ‘The Iceman’ in the biggest UFC event of the year. Jackson’s right to the jaw of Liddell was a thing of beauty, dropping the soon to be ex-champion hard to the mat. The follow-up barrage by Jackson was just a formality, and a new 205-pound king was crowned at the MGM Grand.

1 - UFC 70 – April 21 – Gabriel Gonzaga KO1 Mirko Cro Cop
Many felt that Gonzaga’s ground game was good enough that if he could take Cro Cop to the mat, he had a chance to win. Well, Gonzaga followed that plan and grounded and pounded Cro Cop for much of the opening round. Unfortunately for the Brazilian, his efforts seemed for naught when the fight was stood up with 35 seconds left in the round. Suddenly, Gonzaga was going to face the wrath of the most feared striker in the game. But then a funny thing happened, and Gonzaga whipped a right kick to Cro Cop’s head, and the Croatian fell like he was shot, grotesquely twisting his knee and ankle in the process. Not only was it shocking, it was spectacular, and even though it happened in April, the rest of 2007 couldn’t possibly come up with a knockout to top this one.

Honorable Mention - Terry Martin KO1 Jorge Rivera, Drew McFedries KO1 Jordan Radev, Anthony Johnson KO1 Chad Reiner, Patrick Cote TKO1 Kendall Grove, Grey Maynard KO1 Joe Veres, Ed Herman KO3 Joe Doerksen.

http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=9395

civ_eng_girl

lots of honours for the December 8th event!! definitly the best of the year... :cool:


edit: Grey Maynard KO1 Joe Veres: is that the 9 second victory, and the "wink"? What about the one where Gray knocked himself out?? that should be on there!

mookie blaylock 10

civ_eng_girl wrote:

lots of honours for the December 8th event!! definitly the best of the year... :cool:


edit: Grey Maynard KO1 Joe Veres: is that the 9 second victory, and the "wink"? What about the one where Gray knocked himself out?? that should be on there!

indeed!, you're probably right, yes, and yes (it's not often one knocks oneself out!)

i'm trying to be concise today.

civ_eng_girl

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

indeed!, you're probably right, yes, and yes (it's not often one knocks oneself out!)

i'm trying to be concise today.

i'm going to try to use the expression "sure, knock yourself out!" as much as possible from now on.

mookie blaylock 10

civ_eng_girl wrote:

i'm going to try to use the expression "sure, knock yourself out!" as much as possible from now on.

that's a good one. me laugh!

mookie blaylock 10

Georges St. Pierre and Matt Serra Could Unify Titles in April — in Canada
January 2, 2008
MMA Junkie.com

With his victory over Matt Hughes at this past weekend’s UFC 79 event, Georges St. Pierre may have set up one of the biggest welterweight fights in MMA history — and it could come in his native Canada.

St. Pierre, who bested Hughes for the second time in three fights with a second-round arm-bar submission at this past weekend’s UFC 79 event, is now the UFC’s interim welterweight champion. Up next? A likely fight with current champ Matt Serra.

Serra was originally slated to face Hughes this past weekend — the bout had been teased for three months while the two fighters served as coaches on the latest season of “The Ultimate Fighter” — but he had to pull out of the fight in November with a herniated disc. St. Pierre got the call instead, and to jazz up the main-event bout, the UFC awarded the winner an interim title.

There’s still no timetable for Serra’s return, but UFC President Dana White is optimistic it’ll be in time for the Canada event — one that he promised would happen during a pre-UFC 79 press conference.

“Matt Serra is very confident that… he’ll be ready for April,” White said over the weekend.

However, even if Serra isn’t ready to go, White said he wants St. Pierre — Canada’s most popular fighter — on the card anyway.

“It’s our goal,” he said.

The event will likely take place April 19 at Montreal’s Bell Centre. It’ll be the first-ever UFC event north of the U.S. border; the UFC tentatively scheduled two prior events in Canada but eventually scratched them due to scheduling conflicts.

Serra and St. Pierre met once before — at UFC 69 (coincidentally, an event that was originally slated to take place in Canada). In what has been dubbed the biggest upset of 2007, Serra parlayed a title shot he earned by winning “The Ultimate Fighter 4” into a first-round TKO upset of newly minted welterweight champ St. Pierre.

The win has largely been considered a fluke; St. Pierre is still considered one of the top two or three pound-for-pound fighters in the world while Serra’s lucky to be considered a top-five welterweight in many rankings. Regardless, even St. Pierre said he doesn’t consider himself a legitimate title-holder until he can manage to get by Serra.

“It means nothing to me,” St. Pierre said of the interim belt. “Thanks to the UFC for giving me (this). It’s a good honor, but the real champion is Matt Serra, and until I get my belt… back, I won’t consider myself the real champion.“

The upcoming event, which will likely be UFC 83 or UFC 84, will also likely feature middleweight (and Canadian) Jason MacDonald.

http://mmajunkie.com/2008/01/02/georges-st-pierre-and-matt-serra-could-unify-titles-in-april-in-canada/

civ_eng_girl

there are still too many "could"s and "likely"s in that article for my liking!! :mad:


ps. my picks are in for UFC 80...

mookie blaylock 10

civ_eng_girl wrote:

there are still too many "could"s and "likely"s in that article for my liking!! :mad:


ps. my picks are in for UFC 80...

indeed! at least they have a date and the venue is confirmed as available...but still, you're right...could...likely...i prefer confirmed!

nice work on the early picks, ceg. i'll probabaly end up changing before the event is here, but my intital thoughts...

UFC 80, January 19, 2008 - Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, England - PPV (Live at 3 p.m. ET)

Main Card:

BJ Penn Vs. Joe Stevenson - stevenson by tko
Gabriel Gonzaga Vs. Fabricio Werdum - gonzaga by decision
Marcus Davis Vs. Jess Liaudin - davis by tko
Jason Lambert vs. Wilson Gouveia - gouveia by submission
Kendall Grove Vs. Jorge Rivera - rivera by tko

Pre-lims:

Alessio Sakara Vs. James Lee - sakara by tko
Sam Stout Vs. Per Eklund - stout by ko
Paul Taylor Vs. Paul Kelly - taylor by ko
Antoni Hardonk Vs. Colin Robinson - hardonk by tko

civ_eng_girl

mookie blaylock 10 wrote:

Main Card:

BJ Penn Vs. Joe Stevenson - stevenson by tko (Penn by Submission)
Gabriel Gonzaga Vs. Fabricio Werdum - gonzaga by decision (Gonzaga by TKO)
Marcus Davis Vs. Jess Liaudin - davis by tko (Liaudin by TKO) i might change this one...
Jason Lambert vs. Wilson Gouveia - gouveia by submission (Lambert by Descision)
Kendall Grove Vs. Jorge Rivera - rivera by tko (Grove by Submission)

Pre-lims:

Alessio Sakara Vs. James Lee - sakara by tko (Lee by Decision)
Sam Stout Vs. Per Eklund - stout by ko (Stout by TKO) i might change to KO
Paul Taylor Vs. Paul Kelly - taylor by ko (Taylor by TKO)
Antoni Hardonk Vs. Colin Robinson - hardonk by tko (Robinson by Decision)

uh oh! we don't agree on some of these... see above....

however, i don't know much about any of these guys though, so mine are a total stab in the dark....