This sight looks real slick. Although I wonder how the people of Cincinnati feel about the ‘Escape from Cincinnati’ look the background has. Makes the city look like a war zone.

i cant wait to see rich get the belt back…. you all think anderson is unstopable… GESS AGAIN!!!

I have a very sick feeling in my stomache for Rich “Ace” Franklin. I hope Vera gets KTFO.

[quote comment=”157629″]i cant wait to see rich get the belt back…. you all think anderson is unstopable… GESS AGAIN!!![/quote]

Dude…..please..Rich might last a round this time..but he is not going to take the belt. I am a rich franklin fan but he will not, i repeat will not take the belt.

[quote comment=”157634″]I have a very sick feeling in my stomache for Rich “Ace” Franklin. I hope Vera gets KTFO

Couldn’t agree more. Silvia will get crushed! The truth hurts!

[quote comment=”157686″][quote comment=”157629″]i cant wait to see rich get the belt back…. you all think anderson is unstopable… GESS AGAIN!!![/quote]

Dude…..please..Rich might last a round this time..but he is not going to take the belt. I am a rich franklin fan but he will not, i repeat will not take the belt.[/quote]

I’ve promised myself I will never again say that a fighter will certainly win.

rich to win by decision - just like bisping did

man what a disappointing card.. Franklin is just going to get owned again.

I dont see “ace” winning this fight, i think he will get caught in the clinch again or submitted, but with the way fights have been going lately you cant count anyone out..

I really hope Vera wins, I really dislike Tim Sylvia.

we were spoiled with events this month, how many did we have 3 full cards,now we have to wait a month for the next one,

Finally my boy Brandon Vera is BACK!!! Hes gonna work Tim Sylvia!!!!

Oh yeah…and of course Rich is fuckin done AGAIN! Anderson Silva is unstoppable. Rich does not have the fighting style to defeat anderson silva.

[quote comment=”157629″]i cant wait to see rich get the belt back…. you all think anderson is unstopable… GESS AGAIN!!![/quote]
Figures …. the one guy in the world that thinks Rich will win can’t even spell guess. Just messin’ with you. good luck to Rich, i don’t see him having any real gameplan to win this fight, but I do like to see upsets.

aren’t there any more fights on this card???

[quote comment=”157728″]aren’t there any more fights on this card???[/quote]

It’s a 2 fight card!! jk

I dont understand why there aren’t more fights confirmed for the card!

Did they airbrush the abs on Rich? Looks like an actor from 300. I wonder if he will show up with the signature black eye he has had the last two fights.

I beleive Anderson is truly unbeatable at this point. In fact I don’t see Rich lasting very long, he looked unimpressive in taking out an uninterestd Yushin Okami

[quote comment=”157686″][quote comment=”157629″]i cant wait to see rich get the belt back…. you all think anderson is unstopable… GESS AGAIN!!![/quote]

Dude…..please..Rich might last a round this time..but he is not going to take the belt. I am a rich franklin fan but he will not, i repeat will not take the belt.[/quote]

yeah just like all of you were so sure griffin was gonna get destroyed by shogun and jardine was gonna die at ther hands of lidell………franklin is gonna win it just watch!

Sylvia will KO Vera with a head kick and send him down to 205, i think that he belongs there.

Spider will remain champ, i really don’t see this fight going beyond the 3rd round.

The other 7 “unofficial” fights really suck, i don’t think i’ll buy this ppv, nor ufc 78, which sucks given that i live in NY.

[quote comment=”157727″][quote comment=”157629″]i cant wait to see rich get the belt back…. you all think anderson is unstopable… GESS AGAIN!!![/quote]
Figures …. the one guy in the world that thinks Rich will win can’t even spell guess. Just messin’ with you. good luck to Rich, i don’t see him having any real gameplan to win this fight, but I do like to see upsets.[/quote]
I think Rich will win, and my spelling is impeccable, not to mention my grammar.

Disappointing cards …

I love the way Sylvia is trying to suck in his inner tube on the front of the web site.

Brandon Vera is the heir to the HW throne. Recognize.

rich franklin by controversial decision

[quote comment=”157727″][quote comment=”157629″]i cant wait to see rich get the belt back…. you all think anderson is unstopable… GESS AGAIN!!![/quote]
Figures …. the one guy in the world that thinks Rich will win can’t even spell guess. Just messin’ with you. good luck to Rich, i don’t see him having any real gameplan to win this fight, but I do like to see upsets.[/quote]
[quote comment=”157737″][quote comment=”157686″][quote comment=”157629″]i cant wait to see rich get the belt back…. you all think anderson is unstopable… GESS AGAIN!!![/quote]

Dude…..please..Rich might last a round this time..but he is not going to take the belt. I am a rich franklin fan but he will not, i repeat will not take the belt.[/quote]

yeah just like all of you were so sure griffin was gonna get destroyed by shogun and jardine was gonna die at ther hands of lidell………franklin is gonna win it just watch![/quote]

The difference between those fights and this one is the fact that we’ve seen Rich and Silva fight before. We’ve also seen them both fight since then. Doesn’t appear that Rich has gotten magical powers since then, so the results will be about the same.

Sorry, I don’t know how I quoted two comments.

[quote comment=”157629″]i cant wait to see rich get the belt back…. you all think anderson is unstopable… GESS AGAIN!!![/quote]

..I do not Guess.

[quote comment=”157733″]Did they airbrush the abs on Rich? Looks like an actor from 300. I wonder if he will show up with the signature black eye he has had the last two fights.[/quote]

Well the whole thing is photo-shopped so I’d imagine everything is touched up. But Rich does have a very low body fat percentage.

For everyone who truely believes that Rich will win..will find out he hard way..in another upset ( if you want to call it an upset ) in 2007..when Silva beats the crap out the Rich.

[quote comment=”157748″]I love the way Sylvia is trying to suck in his inner tube on the front of the web site.[/quote]

he does that in every pic.

[quote post=”3419″]I dont see “ace” winning this fight, i think he will get caught in the clinch again or submitted, but with the way fights have been going lately you cant count anyone out..[/quote]

BUT, there is an exception to every rule. Franklin losing to Silva is the lone exception where you truely can count someone out of a fight. Seriously. It will be the championship equivalent of Joe Scarola vs Mac Danzig. Rich is going to be beaten before he even steps foot into the octagon. He is scard of Anderson. He has nightmares of Anderson. If he didn’t he would have watched the tape of their first fight and try and see where things went wrong. Does anyone really think that he can handle Anderson’s clinch? Does anyone really think that Rich has better standup? Does anyone really think Rich has better BJJ? Rich probably has better wrestling, but that did him no good in their last fight. The only way I see Silva getting KO’d is by a wild looping punch that he doesn’t see coming. Hoever, that’s not Rich’s style. Rich is more of a straight ahead type puncher. Mostly jabs and especially crosses as oppposed to a lot of hooks and looping puches. I will be completely surprised to see Franklin make it out of the first round. If Anderson Silva loses to Franklin, I will gladly eat my words. BUT until then, you can count on me guaranteeing an Anderson Silva victory.

[quote post=”3419″]yeah just like all of you were so sure griffin was gonna get destroyed by shogun and jardine was gonna die at ther hands of lidell………franklin is gonna win it just watch! [/quote]

[quote post=”3419″]The difference between those fights and this one is the fact that we’ve seen Rich and Silva fight before. We’ve also seen them both fight since then. Doesn’t appear that Rich has gotten magical powers since then, so the results will be about the same. [/quote]

Thanks James. I was going to reply with the same.

every one likes to be on hamils nuts cause i mean tech he didnt win but before that every one said hed never win or how jardine over liddel would never happen i hate when people talk shit about how someone an underdog can never win and when they do people like t be all i new he could do it he most def has more credit than any of u give him hes if nothing else has better boxing look at the first match his boxing is actually better its andersons clinch thats second to none look at all silvas loses in every one he was taken down minus the dq to yushin franklin gameplan was could take him dwn and get a tko forsure idk if he will do that but to say he has no chance this and that is foolish

[quote comment=”157826″]every one likes to be on hamils nuts cause i mean tech he didnt win but before that every one said hed never win or how jardine over liddel would never happen i hate when people talk shit about how someone an underdog can never win and when they do people like t be all i new he could do it he most def has more credit than any of u give him hes if nothing else has better boxing look at the first match his boxing is actually better its andersons clinch thats second to none look at all silvas loses in every one he was taken down minus the dq to yushin franklin gameplan was could take him dwn and get a tko forsure idk if he will do that but to say he has no chance this and that is foolish[/quote]

If you think the key to beating Anderson is GnP, you need to go back & watch some of his older fights.

franklin will get ktfo and have his nose pushed to the side again. … did anyone else notice his botched nosejob? he looks like he has a pig’s nose

No problem Mike.

Just so everyone knows, I like rich as much as everbody else does. I just find it hard to believe that he has been able to make any major adjustments to get him the win over Silva. The first time they fought I honestly didn’t know who Silva was. I knew he knocked out Leben, but that’s not very impressive. When he fought Rich, I didn’t give Silva a chance. He beat Rich up. Know I’ve watched a few of Silva’s past fights. Watched him effectively defend his title. Rich has nothing for him. If anybody knowledgeable in mma can give me a decent gameplan for Rich to win this fight, I’ll give him a chance, but until then….May He Rest in Pieces

Franklin’s best chance is to land a one-punch knockout. His second best chance is to shoot on Anderson, take him down and then do just enough to keep from getting stood up. The problem with that is he might be able to do it in one of the rounds, but very likely not 3 of 5 rounds.

Heres my prediction:

Anderson Silva, KO before the first round. Rich will put himself into a rear naked choke, and end the match. Luckily Big John will walk by just in time to pull Rich off, uh himself, before he goes out cold.

This way, less damage is done to Rich.

[quote post=”3419″] Hoever, that’s not Rich’s style. Rich is more of a straight ahead type puncher[/quote]
Violent mike I’m not so sure about that. Rich always seems to throw every which way kind of crazy and un orthadox. Looks very hook like to me, very loopy. But having said that, I agree with everything else, I think looping or not, Franklin is gonna get killed by Anderson. Like you said, he was beaten a long time ago, I have never seen anybody looked so obvioulsy scared as Rich is of Anderson.

Oh yeah and I also hope, and think that Vera will beat Tim, I think it will be his hardest fight as of yet though obviously, as Vera has never realy foughten anybody legit in the first place.

I say let them fight again to quiet all the non believers then move Henderson down. He is the only one currently in the ufc who has anything for silva.

[quote comment=”157826″]every one likes to be on hamils nuts cause i mean tech he didnt win but before that every one said hed never win or how jardine over liddel would never happen i hate when people talk shit about how someone an underdog can never win and when they do people like t be all i new he could do it he most def has more credit than any of u give him hes if nothing else has better boxing look at the first match his boxing is actually better its andersons clinch thats second to none look at all silvas loses in every one he was taken down minus the dq to yushin franklin gameplan was could take him dwn and get a tko forsure idk if he will do that but to say he has no chance this and that is foolish[/quote]

His western boxing is better, maybe,so maybe he has a better jab and cross. If you go back and watch Andersons old fights, he has fought really good boxers and has beaten them all. He has massive kicks and has rarely has had difficulty getting anyone in the clinch. A Jab will not be the answer in this case, because he will be met with repetative front kicks to the belly and inside kicks to his lead leg. Take downs ahhh, what like Travis Lutters Take down or Okami’s take down (here is a reminder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csq3fIlfK-Y )or maybe like when he fought Jeremy Horn, one of the best ground games in MMA here is a remind of how that went http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UuCuABNTKU ). He is so good look who else could pull this off… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnpUkneMSWE
The number one reason he will not win is because of this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmPFvUxQ3ec

i think rich is scared and he will be so worry about the clinch he wouldnt even see a heavy punch or headkick coming.anderson should fake the clinch and throw a head kick

[quote comment=”157629″]i cant wait to see rich get the belt back…. you all think anderson is unstopable… GESS AGAIN!!![/quote]

I understand your a Franklin fan but snap to reality, Rich isn’t ready to fight Anderson again, He needs more time he not going to win if he comes in like he did against Mcdonald or Okami, sure he won but nothing devastating. Anderson is going to look to end the fight quick and painfully, Franklin is going to be gun shy, and to cautious, it wont happen the spider is going to crush Franklin, i kinda feel bad for him.

is riches’ plastic surgeon somewhere in the back ground. i hope so,for his sake!

not much to talk about eh! anderson comes out destroys rich quickly,rich has surgery and then what?

I am a Rich Franklin fan but i know just like most do, that he aint getting out of the first round agian…Anderson is to much for him, to be honest Sylva is to much for any middleweight. I see Anderson as the 185 champ for a long time..probably the rest of his career! cant wait for a unfication match between ANDERSON SYLVA and DAN HENDERSON!!!
if HENDO cant beat him. NO 185er can..and i dont think HENDO has what it takes,,Sylva is a monster..
and as far as VERA vs SYLVIA…..thats easy..the TRUTH HURTS!!

I said it befor and i will say it again Rich will win this fight…

[[quote post=”3419″]quote comment=”157739″]Sylvia will KO Vera with a head kick and send him down to 205, i think that he belongs there.

Spider will remain champ, i really don’t see this fight going beyond the 3rd round.

The other 7 “unofficial” fights really suck, i don’t think i’ll buy this ppv, nor ufc 78, which sucks given that i live in NY.[/quote][/quote]

vera will crush sylvia, rd 1!!!!

I hope Rich can do it but if he doesnt I know exactly what will happen, are you ready?….

DAN HENDERSON WILL COME IN AND OWN EVERYONE!!!! LOL!!

I am a Rich Franklin fan but i know just like most do, that he aint getting out of the first round agian…Anderson is to much for him, to be honest Sylva is to much for any middleweight. I see Anderson as the 185 champ for a long time..probably the rest of his career! cant wait for a unfication match between ANDERSON SYLVA and DAN HENDERSON!!!
if HENDO cant beat him. NO 185er can..and i dont think HENDO has what it takes,,Sylva is a monster..
and as far as VERA vs SYLVIA…..thats easy..the TRUTH HURTS!! [/quote]

There is no way that Vera wins. He definitely needs to move down to 205. If Vera wants to stay a heavyweight he definitely needs to put on some muscle mass.

[quote post=”3419″]There is no way that Vera wins. He definitely needs to move down to 205. If Vera wants to stay a heavyweight he definitely needs to put on some muscle mass. [/quote]
man how can you say that???
Randy is the champ and he weighs 128..
Brandon WILL beat sylvia{KO} and probably beat Randy if he gets the chance..
You dont have to be 250lbs to be a heavyweight champ..Randy proved that by beating Gonzaga{252lbs}..slammed his ass and TKO’ed the win…

Downtown Cincinnati isn’t as nice as it once was, but there certainly aren’t mortar blasts and automatic rifle fire every night. Even without the sounds, the graphic isn’t flattering and it’s bad publicity for the city.

There is no way Anderson beats Dan. Dan is the man. The fool is out of his mind, anybody that can match strength just about with Rampage, and throw blows with him and Wandi without being finished, is gonna be tough for Anderson. This will be another level for Andreson, should be the legitest MW fight in a VERY VERY long time.

[quote comment=”158832″]There is no way Anderson beats Dan. Dan is the man. The fool is out of his mind, anybody that can match strength just about with Rampage, and throw blows with him and Wandi without being finished, is gonna be tough for Anderson. This will be another level for Andreson, should be the legitest MW fight in a VERY VERY long time.[/quote]

There is no way Serra can beat GSP..there is no way Forrest can beat Shogun..there is no way Jardine can beat Chuck..
In MMA there is always a way..I think Silva will destory Rich..in this rematch..but I’ll be right or wrong on the night of Oct. 20

man how can you say that???
Randy is the champ and he weighs 128..
Brandon WILL beat sylvia{KO} and probably beat Randy if he gets the chance..
You dont have to be 250lbs to be a heavyweight champ..Randy proved that by beating Gonzaga{252lbs}..slammed his ass and TKO’ed the win…

Brandon Vera has eight fights and they really arent that impressive not only that he shows sighns of fatigue in 3/5 min rounds Randy Couture has twenty four fights and the ones in the ufc have all been a title match except Mike van Arsdale and one of his biggest assets is his conditioning veras biggest fight is frank mir who to me is still very good but not the same old frank mir but couture has victories over Vitor Belfort twice Maurice Smith jeremy horn chuck liddell tito ortiz kevin randleman and the list goes on never say never but thats a pretty large upset not to Mention he vera hasnt fought in eleven months

[quote comment=”158829″]Downtown Cincinnati isn’t as nice as it once was, but there certainly aren’t mortar blasts and automatic rifle fire every night. Even without the sounds, the graphic isn’t flattering and it’s bad publicity for the city.[/quote]

I am really guessing they are playing on the words “Hostile Territory” and making the skyline fight. It would not seem real hostile if the put A nice clean picture of a nice trendy park in the city.

regardless who wins this will be good card!

If franklin wins this! He definitely will be the best!

[quote comment=”159031″][quote comment=”158832″]There is no way Anderson beats Dan. Dan is the man. The fool is out of his mind, anybody that can match strength just about with Rampage, and throw blows with him and Wandi without being finished, is gonna be tough for Anderson. This will be another level for Andreson, should be the legitest MW fight in a VERY VERY long time.[/quote]

There is no way Serra can beat GSP..there is no way Forrest can beat Shogun..there is no way Jardine can beat Chuck..
In MMA there is always a way..I think Silva will destory Rich..in this rematch..but I’ll be right or wrong on the night of Oct. 20[/quote]
Dude c’mon, save me the “anything can happen” I AM aware of this,I also realize Dan can die in a car accident on the way, but that’s not what were discussing. But you know what im saying though. My opinion is that on a good day, both 100%, Dan takes it any day, Anderon can’t beat him.

i live in cincinnati and i dont think its that good of a card

Just found this site and I wanted to say that the posts have been very entertaining and informative. PhilQNY I like you but I would love to see Rich and Brandon win. Peace!