UFC 135 - Saturday September 24

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UFC 135 FIGHT CARD

PPV
UFC Light Heavyweight Championship
Jon Jones (No. 1 LHW, No. 6 PFP) vs. Quinton Jackson (No. 4 LHW)

Matt Hughes vs. Josh Koscheck
Travis Browne vs. Rob Broughton
Nate Diaz vs. Takanori Gomi
Ben Rothwell vs. Mark Hunt

Spike TV
Tim Boetsch vs. Nick Ring
Tony Ferguson vs. Aaron Riley

Facebook
Cole Escovedo vs. Takeya Mizugaki
Ricardo Romero vs. James Te Huna
Junior Assuncao vs. Eddie Yagin


Not the deepest card by any means, but just thinking about seeing Jon Jones beat the you know what out of that punk Rampage has me super geeked for this card.
 
Here are the weigh-in results. It's interesting the order that they've put the main card in, Hunt/Rothwell as the swing bout...

My picks are in Bold

PPV
Jon Jones (204.5) vs. Quinton Jackson (204)
Matt Hughes (170) vs. Josh Koscheck (170.5)
Mark Hunt (261) vs. Ben Rothwell (263)
Rob Broughton (261) vs. Travis Browne (255)
Nate Diaz (156) vs. Takanori Gomi (155)

Spike TV
Aaron Riley (155) vs. Tony Ferguson (155)
Tim Boetsch (186) vs. Nick Ring (185)

Facebook
Junior Assuncao (145) vs. Eddie Yagin (145)
Cole Escovedo (135) vs. Takeya Mizugaki (135)
Ricardo Romero (205) vs. James Te Huna (205)

Plugging my nose taking Diaz. Taking Ring because he's from Calgary and he was my buddy's first Muay Thai trainer. And I think that the Ferguson/Riley, and Mizugaki/Escovedo fights have the possibility to be fight of the night. However, if Jones beats on Rampage for five rounds that'll likely get the nod.
 
I previewed again for Fighters.com but I'm feelin lazy to grab you guys a link :laugh:

You and I see eye to eye on pretty much everything here Dave, except I took Gomi and Boetsch. The Ring/Boetsch fight was a tough call, and every part of me hopes I'm wrong and we see Ring continue on undefeated. Ring really good at what he does...but after wondering Boetsch manhandle Kendall Grove the way he did, I wonder how many people at 185 can begin to match his strength and how much of a factor that's going to play in things with future fights? If you try to match strength with him, is it always going to be like Alistair Overeem vs. Fabricio Werdum where he stands there and shrugs people off? He was in his league at 205, but dropping that 20 pounds without dropping his muscle or strength puts him at really high class of middleweight in terms of his strength.
 
Thanks Dave, appreciate it :)

We're both 3/3 so far...it sounds like the Te-Huna knockout was crazy by the sounds of the Twitterverse.

It also sounds like Eddie Yagin and Assunciao's fight was about as exciting as a live case break of 90-91 Pro Set with Ben Stein.
 
75K to Jones/Rampage (Fight of the Night), Koscheck (Knockout of the Night), and Diaz (Submission of the Night). I was really supremely impressed by Johnny Bones, and as much as I can't stand him Nate Diaz looked amazing too.
 
canucksfreak19 said:
75K to Jones/Rampage (Fight of the Night), Koscheck (Knockout of the Night), and Diaz (Submission of the Night). I was really supremely impressed by Johnny Bones, and as much as I can't stand him Nate Diaz looked amazing too.
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If Hunt and Rothwell weren't completely gassed by the 3rd round, i think the fight of the night should have went to them.

Good card overall.
 
My weekend predictions weren't so bad...8/11 for DREAM and 8/10 for UFC winner-wise. I don't know how many of the fight outcomes I had right (I usually only get one or two of those right each event.)

I'm not so useless after all :laugh:
 

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