UFC 166: Velasquez vs. dos Santos 3 - Oct. 19th

[canucksfreak19]

Top to bottom this is a pretty loaded card, interesting fights abound. I am looking forward to seeing Darrell Montague and "Touchy" Fili make their UFC debuts.

Main Bouts (on Pay-Per-View):
Cain Velasquez (12-1; #1 Heavyweight) vs. Junior dos Santos (16-2; #2 Heavyweight)
Daniel Cormier (12-0; #4 Heavyweight) vs. Roy Nelson (19-8)
Gilbert Melendez (21-3; #3 Lightweight) vs. Diego Sanchez (24-5)
Gabriel Gonzaga (15-7) vs. Shawn Jordan (15-4)
John Dodson (15-6#4 Flyweight) vs. Darrell Montague (13-2; #6 Flyweight)

Preliminary Bouts (on Fox Sports 1):
Tim Boetsch (16-6) vs. CB Dolloway (13-4)
Nate Marquardt (32-12-2) vs. Hector Lombard (32-4-1)
Sarah Kaufman (15-2) vs. Jessica Eye (10-1)
George Sotiropoulos (14-5) vs. KJ Noons (11-7)

Preliminary Bouts (on Facebook):
TJ Waldburger (16-7) vs. Adlan Amagov (12-2-1)
Tony Ferguson (13-3) vs. Mike Rio (9-2)
Jeremy Larsen (8-4) vs. Andre Fili (12-1)
Dustin Pague (11-8) vs. Kyoji Horiguchi (11-1)

 

[canucksfreak19]

Disappointed to see Andre miss weight in advance of his UFC debut. 1456 is his natural weight, but I believe that his last fight was at 170lbs. Still no excuse for missing.

Cain Velasquez (241) vs. Junior dos Santos (240)
Daniel Cormier (224) vs. Roy Nelson (249)
Gilbert Melendez (156) vs. Diego Sanchez (156)
Shawn Jordan (255) vs. Gabriel Gonzaga (257)
John Dodson (125) vs. Darrell Montague (126)
Tim Boetsch (186) vs. C.B. Dollaway (186)
Nate Marquardt (171) vs. Hector Lombard (169)
Sarah Kaufman (135) vs. Jessica Eye (135)
George Sotiropoulos (155) vs. K.J. Noons (156)
T.J. Waldburger (170.5) vs. Adlan Amagov (171)
Tony Ferguson (155) vs. Mike Rio (156)
Jeremy Larsen (145.5) vs. Andre Fili (*148.5)
Dustin Pague (135) vs. Kyoji Horiguchi (135)

* Fili failed to make weight, and will forfeit 20 percent of his purse to Jeremy Larsen.

 

[canucksfreak19]

Extremely impressive UFC debuts for Horiguchi and Fili. And I was wrong Andre took this fight on 10 days notice and had been training for an upcoming fight at 170; he just said that he cut from 178lbs. in 10 days to get to 148, scary.

 

[canucksfreak19]

Gil/Diego what an insane, amazing, awesome, can't heap enough superlatives on this fight fight.

 

[canucksfreak19]

That may have been, top to bottom, the best fight card I've ever seen.

$60K Bonuses: Fight - Melendez/Sanchez, Submission - Ferguson, Knockout - Dodson.