Belfort out and Machida in. From an exciting fight to a Machida snooze fest.

Enter the Dragon!

Jacare should've got that fight but whatever...

Glad TRT is done...Vitor might as well retire now...

I actually woke up early this morning to see the main event from Hong Kong. We have an early Knockout of the Year candidate with one of the coolest KO's I've ever seen, dude was out before he hit the ground.

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Anyone else looking forward to UFC 171 tomorrow? Holy crap, that card looks stacked. Hendricks vs Lawler, Condit vs Woodley, and Diego Sanchez? That may be one of the best-looking UFC PPV in a while.

Hoping Woodley can KO Condit. Hendricks vs Lawler should be KO city as well.

yeah I'm hoping I get home in time to see it!

$3.50 on xmeforums.com :D

Woodley isn't knocking Condit out, sorry. He's a brawler fighting a true martial artist with a solid chin. I see no other way Hendricks/Lawler ends other than a KO, but I think it's pretty likely Lawler is flat on his back at the end although I'm pulling for him.

Hendricks/ lawler should be worth the price of admission by itself

IMO the only way Woodley wins is if he can hold Condit down, which I doubt. Condit is a beast on his feet and obn the ground. He does throw a ton of kicks though which could leave him open for a takedown.

I said it was hope. Don't ruin my dreams!

Whew, that was close, Hendricks needed two attempts to make weight. That would have been a disaster.

edit: correction: three attempts

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In case anyone is wondering, if Hendricks would not have made weight, they probably would have fought anyway, but Hendricks would have lost a lot of money to Lawler, and he would not have been title-eligible. Lawler would have won the belt if he beat Hendricks, or the title would have remained vacant if he lost.

2 other fighters in the prelims failed to make weight initially, but only one of them was unable to make it in the extra 2 hours allotted. Renee Forte lost 20% of his appearance fee to his opponent, and won't be eligible for any bonuses.

ROFL

Gastelum was the prelim fighter who made weight on his 2nd try.

anybody watching this?
damn if ole Jake didn't damn near pull a rabbit out his hat!

Yup and damn Jake Shields nearly put me to sleep...

Myles Jury is such a tool....

looks like jurys got it

Lombard should never get a title shot until he really goes for it. That dude is a point-fighter doing only enough to win a round, then lays on his opponent taking no extra risks.

T-WOOD!!!

They keep saying over and over again that the title will change hands for the first time in 6 years. I'm starting to think they might be jinxing it, watch this end in a no contest.

BTW Mike Goldberg is the most annoying and idiotic announcer in any sport, any where...Christ I wish the UFC would put him out to pasture.

These flukish injuries during these main or co-main events suck. I'd rather have a controversial decision than that shit.

He'd be great in the WWE.

Very close 1st round. Probably 10-9 Hendricks.

Another bullshit takedown will win a big fight....so sick of that shit.

That may have been one of the least-controversial and easy 5-round decisions to score I've seen in a while. Hendricks obviously won 2 rounds, Lawler obviously won 2 rounds, and Hendricks probably won the first. Judges all saw it the same way.

nah, Hendricks did wrestle out the clock with a minute left when he knew he was ahead, but he legitimately knocked Lawler around in the 5th before that and won the round in the first 4 minutes.

...and Lawler knocked him around for the first couple of minutes.

I'm not claiming robbery or anything but they made the TD out on the commentary to be the biggest thing ever. They were both pushing Hendricks hard throughout the fight so it's not surprising.

Can't believe Rogan thinks Rory deserves the next title shot AND they had a video package of him ready to go...yeah seems legit LOL.

Who do you think deserves a shot? I thought his reasoning made sense.

# 2 Condit blew out a knee

# 3 Lawler lost and # 6 Shields lost. That leaves McDonald and Ellenberger and McDonald recently beat Ellenberger. It's a no brainier.

Hendricks was winning that fight if it was close all the way. It's in Dallas and they've been hyping the shit out of him.
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Rematch or Woodley...

Agreed...the commentary was borderline embarrassing.

UFC announcing isn't much different than WWE announcing,hype the guys the company pushes no matter what,sell some storylines.
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What the hell happened to Lawler anyways? He was pretty much a washed up name a few years ago.

Got humbled, actually started to give a shit, worked on his all around game, and grinded back to Strikeforce and eventually the UFC.

You don't give a rematch there and Woodley hasn't done shit. You don't go from outside the top 10 to A title shot because a guy you fought tore an ACL

....and MacDonald beat Maia so.....

I'd give Stun Gun a shot before him.

Pretty much...thought it was hilarious that a Rory MacDonald highlight package was ready to go when Rogan "spontaneously" gave his answer.

I'm sure they had Condit penciled in before the injury.

Yeah, Kim is the only one aside from MacDonald that might make any sense.

How does MacDonald make sense?

Guess I'm missing something...

by default. It's not like he's an obvious choice, but I don't really see anyone else other than Kim. I don't think Lawler gets a rematch, he'll probably need to beat someone else.

bizarre twist to the scoring: one of the judges had round 2 10-8 for Hendricks, and had the 5th round 10-10. Well, it still added up to the correct answer, I guess.

That's crazy lol...idiot judges...

hah, they actually did give performance of the night to OSP. He called it during his interview with Rogan. He probably deserves it for laying down some MMA 101 on all of us with that very rare Von Flue choke.

Hendo is a beast, but he probably can't sustain his style of I'll take two of yours to deliver one of mine any longer. His body is going to betray him soon.

The UFC released Jake Shields, kind of premature IMO. I know his fight with Lombard was a stinker but Dana seems to want to distance himself from the scrap pack as a whole.

and Jake Shields fights are boring as shit. Hard to sell boring fights.

I disagree, but I don't need to see a KO to be entertained. I enjoy watching the grappling battles, the scrambles and the strategy. Most casual fans don't. That's why Dana wouldn't sign Ben Askren. There are a lot of guys with the same type of style though, GSP had become a fight not to lose fighter before his retirement.

meh...you can enjoy the technical aspects of MMA and still find Jake Shields completely boring.

Jake Shields is a terrible striker but he's one of the most technically sound grapplers at 170 or 185. That's not fun for most people to watch, I get that.

He definitely is...I agree with that. But he's not always aggressive with his grappling. Sometimes he doesn't even make an attempt to pass. No attempt to work his way to full mount and finish a fight. Lots of times he's content to use his grappling to maintain position on a guy and ride out a round. No fun in that. It's not a wrestling match, it's MMA. Your supposed to use your discipline to work towards a finish.

Yep, and that's what makes him so dangerous, he's had to be humbled then come back up the hard way... he knows the riddle of the steel.

That's why he was able to give Hendricks all he could handle in his first big UFC fight in ages, always loved that guys style, he goes for the dynamic strike every chance he gets... he's anything but boring.

UFC 175 on July 5th really looks stacked. Weidman vs Machida at middleweight, Rousey vs Alexis Davis, and Wanderlei Silva vs Chael Sonnen

i don't watch much ufc, but i find it kind've cool that a former ufc fighter goes to my gym some times.. i don't think he was anyone big, but still cool.

LMAO

Tonight's main card is pretty good for a free network event. Heavyweight title eliminator tonight.

I was surprised by Browne getting absolutely dominated on their feet. Werdum looked better than he ever has. He still won't beat Cain though, not even on his best day

Yeah, Werdum looked crisper than a mother****er.

I didn't get to watch the fight but Fabricio has been working quite hard on improving on his feet.

It showed, he took Browne to school and gave him a real beatdown

DC Hendo just made official for UFC 173 in May. That's going to be a sick fight. I think DC wins a decision.

Anybody else excited for Bones v Texiera? I think Glover gives him a pretty damn good scrap.

Should be fun.

I'm excited for the fight, but I think Jones is too big for Glover. He won't pose the same problems Gustaf did.

Glover isn't as technical Jones.


However, he's got some ridiculous power and Jon doesn't have fantastic head movement. If Glover wins, it's a stoppage.

Me too. The rest of the card looks a little meh, so if the main event weren't incredible I'd probably skip this one, but Jones and Teixeira is just too good to miss, so I'll just have to pony up and hope that its more than just 1 good fight.

Calling it now: Bones by submission in 3

Jones Destroyed Glover at his own game

I'd like to see Rumble vs Gustaf for the next shot at Jones.

Davis/Johnson fight was probably more fun to watch,it just needed to go 5 rounds. ALL MMA PPV fights need to be 5 rounds.

According to Dana, Gustafsson will get a rematch and will be the next to challenge Jones.

The co-main sort of helped make the card worth it. We have learned something very interesting tonight: Rumble is now a serious threat.

Jones's hands-to-the-face move is the MMA equivalent of the pick play the Broncos constantly run: it's illegal, but it's not his responsibility to monitor it, it's the referee's. That's why I think Gustafsson is able to hang with Jones, and why the smaller, beefier dudes can never seem to pull close. I think Texiera was faking a few of those eye pokes to try to force the referee to enforce it, but it only worked for the first round or two.

What is illegal? Sticking his fingers in his eyes is illegal and he was warned both times, but I don't believe it's illegal to put your hand on someone's head to keep the distance.

Makes sense.

Rumble should get the Cormier/Hendo winner for a shot at the Gustaf/Bones winner.

The criticism is that when he keeps his hands out there with fingers splayed wide open like that, its a strong disincentive for the other fighter to rush in for a punch because he'll run his eye into those fingers.

If you don't have a reason to have your hands wide open like that (like you are grappling or trying to grab the other fighter), then you are supposed to keep your hand at least mostly closed, but its not his responsibility to enforce that.

I really enjoyed that whole card, Jim Miller is a beast, Luke Rockhhold is going to blast Vitor if Vitor can work out his drug test issues and Rumble was just a freaking monster.


On another note WTF is Andrei Arlovski even doing back in the UFC? He is past it and needs to hang em up