We're definitely gonna learn something about these two warriors tonight

Rumble is the slight favorite at -140

DC is the "good guy" who "deserves" to win, but it doesn't always work out that way. Rumble is not a bad guy if he ends up with the KO

DC is a great personality for the sport. I'm not sure he has a lot for other top level guys at lhw, guess we'll see

I wish the UFC had never bought and put WEC in it's PPV schedule. They've really lost me as a fan, not because I don't enjoy, but because it doesn't make sense to buy 3.5 ppvs a month to enjoy the sport. This was a rare event that had buy-worthy potential but some of that was based on me knowing guys already.

It's nuts that Rumble used to cut to 170. That dude still looks huge at 205.

Cormier is ****ed. He is going to be knocked out.

Very close, probably DC

Rumble can fight off the take downs. He's going to clock him with an uppercut.

****ing lay and pray shit.

I remember Alistair fighting Liddell back in the day at lhw in pride.

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images...jpg?1324862040

Its clear that Rumble only has round 1 explosiveness. He's just about done.

1-1 after two rounds

DC is gonna win this. Johnson is busted up and tired.

Yes.

Cormier isn't being very aggressive or active when he's on top.

roidble is 100% gassed and not even trying

Well, that was disappointing.

Rumble gave up.

Bullshit.

DC was always active and almost had him sub'd many times in the 1st round. You have to be a very hard-core Rumble fan to think this.

****KKKKKKKKKKK Now, I have to hear Cormier run his mouth (I can't stand DC).

Hurry back Jonny. Take your belt back.

Well ****.. Get your ass kicked by the champ, champ gets stripped =profit

Rumble was ****ing beat. I was surprised that he didn't have the gas tank I thought he had, but he almost lost a couple times in the first round, and he was done a couple minutes into the 2nd

Rumble needs to do nothing but cardio! He lost from pure tiredness there.

DC is about my least favorite fighter, enjoy it while you can you aren't even in Jones league.
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Exactly.

Don't like this at all.

And he has the nerve the to call out Jon Jones.

Can't wait for Jones to beat the living shit out of him again.

Never give up is a pretty crazy message for someone who just gave up

LMAO. Yeah, DC you put up such a challenge the first time.

well thats the only person in the division that can challenge, who was he supposed to call out, Rumble?

Well, that was just about perfect, First 2 fights were great, Cowboy destroyed a random dude to earn a title shot, Weidman took out the cheater, and a nice guy is the LHW champ.

LHW is pretty weak. I guess Gustaffson gets next crack? If so I think Gustaff/ Jones ends up being the rematch we get and should be the better fight

Reading back through these posts, DC is very underrated here. Someone even mentioned that they weren't sure if he had anything for the top level LHW's.....really? This is a dude that has lost exactly ONE fight, to Jon Jones. Prior to that, he was undefeated, including fighting undersized at heavyweight against guys like Josh Barnett and Antonio Silva. Not to mention absolutely manhandling Dan Henderson on the ground their entire fight. The dude is legit.

Don't really know how you can justify Gus getting a title shot coming off an ass whupping...I would think he an Bader would fight and the winner gets a shot.

I wish Weidman would get nutso and fight some at 205...

I just don't get the DC hate. Yeah, he's a wrestler which isn't as fun to watch as a striker, and yeah he talked a lot of shit about Jones and lost, but come on. DC did a lot of impressive shit before he threw Rumble around tonight, it wouldn't be weird to think that maybe he learned something from his fight with Bones and would perhaps beat him next time.

I was just thinking that. With 205 so weak Weidman and Rockhold might be at the top of the LHW division also.

He's a legit fighter. He's also a gigantic douche.

I agree.

He can't dominate Jones on the ground like he did to Rumble. He can't stand and trade with him.

Cormier has a snowball's chance in hell of beating Jones.

And Jones isn't? If we're judging fighters off of personality, Jones leads the pack in douchiness, and apparently he's up there in irresponsibility as well.

Jones isn't a douche.

And since when is douchiness factored into the ability to fight. Guys in here were pretty much writing him off and assuming that he (an olympic level wrestler) would have trouble tonight handling a guy that is notorious for being handled by wrestlers. Rumble was wrestle****ed by Josh Koscheck for crying out loud.

Matter of opinion. I disagree.

Jones is a POS but at least he was a true champion. There is a difference in my book between champions and guys that just have held the belt.

I don't completely disagree here. There's certainly a little bit of a cloud over this whole situation. We see Cormier with the belt, but we all know how things went down. Kinda sucks, but it's Jon's own fault that Cormier is walking around with his belt right now. So, oh well.

I believe that DC could beat Jones. He did not beat Jones last time because he did not have the correct camp and plan for him, but you seem to be writing him off as some random scrub, when in reality DC has previously been dominating good fighters.

Not at all. I would compare him to Chad Mendes of the 145 division.

Right. Not sure what the UFC could have done but Im sure they were pulling for Rumble as to not have the cloud you speak of hovering. At least Rumble hadnt been pounded by JJ so they could sale that.

Warmest Regards Timbone,

I was the person who made that comment so I'll respond. First, I'll admit to an irrational hatred of "wrastlers". This is not their fault but a failure in the current scoring system that allows singularly skilled guys in this one ability to win consistently over more skilled MMA combatants.

I hate that GSP, who was a very exciting fighter at one point, realized he was better off wrastle****ing people for the rest of his career after taking a loss.

DC seems nice /SR

I put 50 on Daniel Cormier and have happily received 105 dollars in my bank account this morning. Not trying to be a hipster, but he's better than Jones. Their fight last year was bad planning by Cormier and an underwhelming 5 round performance by Jones.

Here's to hoping Jonny Bones Nose can avoid further felony hit and runs with pregnant women so his groupies will shut the hell up about him being invincible. Cormier wins next time, cementing himself as the best 205 pound fighter in the world.

Oh, and Donald Cerrone>>>>>>

I do not like wrestlers who just lay on someone and throw token strikes to stay "busy", but DC was not that last night. He was always actively looking for a submission, and almost had Rumble's arm a couple times in the first round, and got the submission in round 3. It never got close to a decision.

I feel the same way about the entertainment value I got for my PPV dollar. If I knew in advance it would be that kind of night, I would have paid $100 for that.

Yeah. AA/Browne, Cerrone, and Weidman/Vitor were all very exciting. A DC grinder outer was just let down excitement wise following those 3 fights.

I just hope they dont try to make DC/Bader a PPV headliner if they go that route.

Apparently Cowboy had broken ribs going into the fight

Kos is pretty good at wrestling. He was much better before he destroyed his neck in college but there isn't any shame in getting wrestle****ed by Kos back in 2009.

They should give Rumble a "gimme" fight, then set up Rumble vs. Gus.

He's NOT better than Jones. His strength was supposed to be wrestling and Jones even out wrestled him. Dislike Jones all you want and call him all then names that you want, but he's the best Light Heavyweight in the world and it's not even close.

Again? Rumble nearly MURDERED Gus in his homeland.

I just can't think of who else is close at 205 to competing for the title.

Maybe Vitor or Lyoto bump back up but I'm struggling to think of quality matchups at 205. There's Bader (who isn't going to have a good fight with Rumble), Texeira (which could have 1st round fireworks but probably won't be a great fight) and then Gus.

So, Anthony gets one win against one of those 3 that could potentially fight for the title (knocking them back 2 fights to challenge) then rematches DC (assuming Jones isn't back then)? IMO, it'd be better off to pair Rumble and those 3 mentioned with 8-15th ranked guys, and see what happens. It sucks that LHW is so shallow when it's been a good/great division for so long.

It pretty much was the main division for many years. JJ cleaned it out and there isnt much coming up that ive seen. It might now be the weakest division in the UFC

Yeah, I wasn't knocking Kos's wrestling at all. His wrestling is great. I was just pointing out that Rumble has been handled by wrestlers much smaller than Cormier. And while I understand Rumble is bigger now that he's not damn near killing himself to cut to WW, there was little reason to believe that a bigger wrestler like Cormier wouldn't have success against him as well.

Yeah, I'm with you. While I don't consider GSP to be the traditional definition of lay and pray (I think Jon Fitch is a better example), I did get frustrated watching a lot of his fights. He attempted to pass guards, and he attenpyed subs when in control, he just made sure doing so wasn't going to cost him losing control of his position. It turned him from an exciting fighter into a very safe grinder. Successful, but frustrating to watch. I ended up watching his fights and rooting for his opponent out of frustration.

My only problem with peoples comments in this thread regarding Cormier is that folks were letting their personal feelings dictate their predictions and fighter analysis. That's all.

It probably seemed worse than what it was given the fights DC had to follow. DC was the only fighter on the PPV that drew boos from the crowd for lack of action.

Saw that quote today on another message board and had to laugh. Horrible luck for the UFC that their heavyweight champ gets hurt so often. If he can't make the next fight in June for any reason at all, then they need to take his belt away and promote Werdum.

Which is a tragedy for MMA heavyweight fighting. Werdum is a decent fighter who's certainly diverse, but in no way should he be a UFC champion. Why has the heavyweight division always been so weak in the UFC? Since I've started watching, it's been the Tim Sylvia/Andrei Arlovski era, then the Brock Lesnar/Frank Mir era, and now the Velasquez/JDS era. At least now, it's pretty top heavy.

And my favorite fighter of all-time is Alistair Overeem.

Its widely accepted that there is a EA Sports curse, right? This is UFC 2015:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...526!EA_UFC.jpg

Pretty weak card tonight in Brazil. The only fight thats really worth watching is the main event, which should kick off sometime around 11-11:30pm central

Lentz/Olivera was pretty damn good.

Yes, it definitely was. Some of the prelims were cool too, but the main card was dull until the co-main. That was a great fight.

That was one of the bloodiest fights I've seen. Alves is a warrior.

Love watching Condit fight. Always active and throwing everything.

The only UFC 2015 curse is the game itself. What an absolute trainwreck.

The UFC has partnered up with USADA to handle the new drug testing program. USADA will handle everything: the protocol, who, when, where, how often, etc. The UFC will have no say in it other than how many tests overall are done and paying for the tests.

There is literally no one in all of North America more qualified to handle drug testing than USADA.

edit: 2,750 tests per year. This averages out to 5.5 per year per athlete

The UFC also announced that they will have their own sanctions, which seem a little more lenient than NV. (So, we may someday have someone eligible to fight for the UFC but not in NV or any state that reciprocates with NV, so I guess they may have to fight overseas in some area that the UFC self-regulates)

Anabolic steroids, growth hormones, peptides, blood doping drugs and methods (tested for in- and out-of competition):

1st offense: 2 years (with possibility of 4 years for "aggravating circumstances")
2nd offense: Double the sanction for the 1st offense
3rd offense: Double the sanction for the 2nd offense

marijuana, cocaine, other stimulants and glucocorticosteroids (tested for in-competition only):

1st offense: 1 years (with possibility of 2 additional years for "aggravating circumstances")
2nd offense: Double the sanction for the 1st offense
3rd offense: Double the sanction for the 2nd offense

edit: "in-competition" has also been defined, it is the time period from 6 hours before weigh-in until 6 afters after the fight. So, I guess wait at least 7-8 hours before a celebratory smoke

WTF is this shit


Soccer mom looks like she left the grocery store and walked straight into the cage


http://youtu.be/0Lu79tvNsxc

Shit happens all the time on the small shit cards. Pulling guys and girls in off the street , give them a few hundred bucks to take a beating.

Inmen was asking because he wants to know where to sign up. He wants to beat up out of shape soccer moms too.

My money would be on Katie Castro.

This whole damn card in NOLA has been bananas tonight. Hopefully the last 2 fights live up to it.

Holy Shit!!!

Hendo knocked out Boetsch in less than a minute! 44 years old!

I guess he doesn't have to retire yet.

Everyone made weight for 188. Cain somehow made it all the way to the fight healthy.

Anyone watching Wilder v. Mexican Tomato Can?