
Event: UFC 81: “Breaking Point”
Date: Saturday, February 2, 2008, at 10 p.m. ET on pay-per-view (PPV)
Location: Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
Main event:
Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira (30-4- 1) vs. Tim Sylvia (24-3) for interim UFC Heavyweight Championship
Main card (televised):
Hvywt.: Frank Mir (10-3) vs. Brock Lesnar (1-0)
185 lbs.: Nate Marquardt (25-7-2) vs. Jeremy Horn (79-16-5)
185 lbs.: Ricardo Almeida (8-2) vs. Rob Yundt (6-0)
Undercard (May not be broadcast):
155 lbs.: Tyson Griffin (10-1) vs. Gleison Tibau (15-4)
170 lbs.: Chris Lytle (24-15-5) vs. Kyle Bradley (13-4)
185 lbs.: Terry Martin (16-3) vs. Marvin Eastman (14-7-1)
185 lbs.: David Heath (7-2) vs. Tim Boetsch (6-1)
155 lbs.: Keita Nakamura (14-2-2) vs. Rob Emerson (6-6)
*All fights officially confirmed by UFC.com.
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Oh please please please give me a Silva vs Henderson 185, or Franklin vs Ortiz at 205, wow couple matches id love to see there.
And who is next for tyson Griffin, Kenny Florian perhaps, wow wat a fight.
PS Forrest Griffin vs Rampage Jackson is what Im dying to see, quite possibly greastest fight ever. if forrest is healthy of course.
how do the cards get worse as the fighters get better?
What the hell, maybe with the 155 wieght class being so clogged you would have good fights, ones to see whos the best, it started good, with Thiago and Tyson, then Edgar, and Fisher, but Tyson, and tibau, come on, there’s florian, theres diego, make more monkey maker fights at 155, For the fans, for the UFC, for me, please!
Man Tyson Griffin is a f*cking BEAST and been through some wars, but I don’t know how he’ll fare against Tibau. All his other fights have been against fairly inexperienced fighters: Edgar, Guida (inexperienced in UFC, not in MMA), and Tavares.
But yeah Josh, you’d, figure that they’d match Griffin, Guida, Huerta, and Tavares up against some of the top lightweights. 155 is becoming my favorite weight class.
THEY SHOULD MOS DEF make Griffin v. Rampage for the Lightheavyweight Title the main event. It would be a highly anticipated match and Forest deserves a shot after beating Shogun.
Minotaro Nogireau should fight Sylvia for the Heavyweight title too if they can’t get Randy back to fight.
i am hoping to go to this event, i think main event will be randy ve big nog or big nog vs slyvia for the belt
[quote comment=”205215″]how do the cards get worse as the fighters get better?[/quote]
can I get some Hamill,theres no way bitch-face bisping should run his mouth about the fight,he didnt even win a round let alone the fight!
Thalies Leites is an animal, and if he steam rolls threw Nate, give a title shot, or at least a big time fight, like Okami?
Tanner?
Kampman 2? what a rematch that would be
Griffin vs. Rampage is a good fight; is Jardine fighting the winner though?? He should be right there seeing how he beat Chuck Lidell… if the winner of the liddel silva fight gets the next title shot isn’t jardine kind of getting screwed, not that I’m a huge jardine fan but it is kind of obvious at that point.
[quote comment=”215832″]Thalies Leites is an animal, and if he steam rolls threw Nate, give a title shot, or at least a big time fight, like Okami?
Tanner?
Kampman 2? what a rematch that would be[/quote]
I agree! Leites is an animal. If he wins he deserves to fight a top notch opponont. But Nate Marquardt is one of the best fighters in the division, so a win against Nate might put him next in line for a title shot, if not much closer!
i think if leites beats nate he should get next shot at title unless
okami fights on card against tanner or say leban and wins
he needs to get a title shot if he keeps winning even if he is a boring fighter he gets the job done i don’t see anyone crying about machida’s style
[quote comment=”217501″]Griffin vs. Rampage is a good fight; is Jardine fighting the winner though?? He should be right there seeing how he beat Chuck Lidell… if the winner of the liddel silva fight gets the next title shot isn’t jardine kind of getting screwed, not that I’m a huge jardine fan but it is kind of obvious at that point.[/quote]
I agree… And remember, Jardine also beat Griffin.. knocked him out. Jardine should be next up. But I really want to see Griffin vs. Rampage.
griffen rampage is a good fight but i think machida should get a shot if he beats sokoudjou(granted thats a big big if). forest should fight thiago silva for the number 1 contender spot if machida wins. if not maybe he sould fight rampage!jardine should fight either shogun or wanderlei(wandy if wandy beats chuck)
matt hamill should fight jason lambert or stephan bonnar and rashad evans could probably fight chuck if he won or shogun or wandy depending on the results. gotta get the big names to fight each other. bisping to fight either houston alexander or tito when tito comes back
205 needs to be sorted as for 185 dana whats up bring in denis kang, evan tanner, dave terrel(sure terrell is back) bring in lindland no matter how boring he is, bring in paulo filho he is wasted in the wec and give kampmann good treatment on his knee 185 sucks right now
170 is good for now 155 is great
How does Franklin, Huges or BIG TIM S.look at their selves right now? None of them looks great or looked their selves the last few fights they have had. And has Chuck Liddell become a joke to the rest of you as he has to me? But the most impression to me is Forrest Griffin, now that a fighter that deserves a chance a RAMPAGES BELT!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s the situation for the heavyweight division:
It is quite obvious that the middleweight division is crappy right now and the only thing it has done is take the attention away from the heavyweight. The fact is Heavyweight is going downhill for a couple of reasons. #1. Arlovski has not fought for far too long. At one time he was the dominant Heavyweight champion but his last two fights have hurt him. #2. Couture has quickly gained the attention with his amazing abilities at age 44 but for some reason he is being such a money whore lately that he’s acting like a baby that wants his bottle. #3. Tim Sylvia is too damn defensive. His last three fights have been the most boring fights I have ever seen.
Here is what must happen to reawaken the division:
Randy must stop his bitching, fight nog, Arlovski must come back and fight the winner of Mir-Lesnar, and Tim Sylvia needs to stop all the fucking excuses and lose the gut.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if Nogueira won the belt via an armbar on the same arm that Frank Mir did?
they tell us we are getting the best fighters in the world, but they shun frank shamrock, matt lindland, and now fedor.
ohhh…please this is the worst ppv EVER Brock Lesner who?
the guy has had one fight and there making a whole paper view out of it….WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT!!!!! i’m not paying $50 or $60 dollars for this and nobody else should neither!!!!
it’s the eve before the super bowl….i think i’ll wait to see the results and watch the BIGGEST SPORTING EVENT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH FOR FREE the next day!!!!
[quote comment=”224504″]How does Franklin, Huges or BIG TIM S.look at their selves right now? None of them looks great or looked their selves the last few fights they have had. And has Chuck Liddell become a joke to the rest of you as he has to me? But the most impression to me is Forrest Griffin, now that a fighter that deserves a chance a RAMPAGES BELT!!!!!!!!!![/quote]
I can’t say I would want to wrestle around with guys all day every day, so I imagine keeping up the training becomes an issue after a while. I think some of them fought with injuries as well.
I can’t figure out why Vera has fallen off the radar screen. The boy breaks his hand in round 1 and survives two more rounds with that giant farm boy Silva. That is almost as impressive as a victory.
[quote comment=”226002″]ohhh…please this is the worst ppv EVER Brock Lesner who?
….i think i’ll wait to see the results and watch the BIGGEST SPORTING EVENT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH FOR FREE the next day!!!![/quote]
Well you are going to have to watch a shit load of commercials as well. But I understand what you are saying.
[quote comment=”226017″][quote comment=”226002″]ohhh…please this is the worst ppv EVER Brock Lesner who?
….i think i’ll wait to see the results and watch the BIGGEST SPORTING EVENT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH FOR FREE the next day!!!![/quote]
Well you are going to have to watch a shit load of commercials as well. But I understand what you are saying.[/quote]
You get to see it free the next day????? Where???? What channel??? I’ve been missing out, fill me in.
[quote comment=”226078″][quote comment=”226017″][quote comment=”226002″]ohhh…please this is the worst ppv EVER Brock Lesner who?
….i think i’ll wait to see the results and watch the BIGGEST SPORTING EVENT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH FOR FREE the next day!!!![/quote]
Well you are going to have to watch a shit load of commercials as well. But I understand what you are saying.[/quote]
You get to see it free the next day?????
Where???? What channel???
I’ve been missing out, fill me in.[/quote]
He’s talking about the Superbowl, the next day, for free on tv.
Ahh, I see. Thanks for the clarification.
yeah this is going to be a tough one to get REALLY amped up for, but im sure come fight time, i’ll be tugging at my pants all day knowing that there is a UFC coming up.
i have no life.
thanks for your support
It’s weird that their marketing department made the “1″ in 81 so transparent. I barely noticed it the first time I looked - it just looks like UFC 8 to me unless I really focus on it.
so is the mir vs lesnar match the co main event or are they still trying to get a couple more big names, good card but mir fight ain’t no co main event
the extra five bucks doesnt matter to me. It really wasnt worth buying anyway. This is a good one to watch at a bar.
HARDCOARE CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHTING HAS NOGUGERA FIGHTING ON FEB 1. HOW CAN HE FIGHT SILVIA ON FEB 2. LOOKS LIKE THE UFC LOST ANOTHER GUY.
It’s becoming more apparent that the Tim-Big Nog fight is anything but a done deal. Otherwise why continue to promote the Mir-Lesnar fight like it’s the main event? Anyway, with only two really interesting fights as it stands now (Griffin-Tibau and Marq-Leites), it’s definitely not a PPV card. The Fight Night card on the 23rd is looking much better!
Man, this is an awful card. Pretty much any fight with Tim Silvia should never be a headliner. He is one of the most boring fighters in the UFC.
Mir vs Lesnar could be an interesting fight but it is likely it will be a short fight.
Another fight that is likely to be short but should at least be exciting is the Martin vs Eastman battle. I expect that to be fast and furious.
Anyways, it looks like most of the fights will be over quickly and the one that won’t be over quickly will be a clinch-fest.
[quote comment=”243781″]HARDCOARE CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHTING HAS NOGUGERA FIGHTING ON FEB 1. HOW CAN HE FIGHT SILVIA ON FEB 2. LOOKS LIKE THE UFC LOST ANOTHER GUY.[/quote]
There are two Nogueiras. They are twins. I assume that the one fighting in this “Hardcore Championship Fighting” is his brother, Antonio *Rogerio* Nogueira. Antonio *Rodrigo* Nogueira fights for the UFC.
i am surprised with less than a month away they still need two more fights to fill yet announced
[quote comment=”226013″][quote comment=”224504″]How does Franklin, Huges or BIG TIM S.look at their selves right now? None of them looks great or looked their selves the last few fights they have had. And has Chuck Liddell become a joke to the rest of you as he has to me? But the most impression to me is Forrest Griffin, now that a fighter that deserves a chance a RAMPAGES BELT!!!!!!!!!![/quote]
I can’t say I would want to wrestle around with guys all day every day, so I imagine keeping up the training becomes an issue after a while. I think some of them fought with injuries as well.
I can’t figure out why Vera has fallen off the radar screen. The boy breaks his hand in round 1 and survives two more rounds with that giant farm boy Silva. That is almost as impressive as a victory.[/quote]
I agree- they put Lesner on a main card,becouse he is big and strong and did some fake wwe in past. that a joke
I dont know if you guys have noticed but most of the ufc cards that looked like wouldnt be that good have most of the best fights of the year. Yeah excluding tim sylvia alot of these fighters are pretty good. I just dont know how tim keeps getting offers for main events in the last hm….. 4 fights hes been in has sucked and went to a decision which with a man of his size he should be knocking them out left and right. In my opinion the heavyweight has the least amount of good fighters I mean name atleast 5 fighters that are the rampage or st pierre of their weight class need I say more. Dana and the ufc should be signing fighters or giving fighters such as Andrei Arlovski a fight.
Bring back Tank! Kimo? OK…maybe not. What happened to Congo? He’s dropped out of sight lately. Anyway, there are many more HW match-ups that would be more interesting than Big Tim vs. Big Nog.
dude for the last pay per view we found a website that showed us all the fights for free, its called mmatko.com .. and im pretty damn sure that they will have all the pay per view fights on there agian …
Looks lyke a very good card. Even the fight that won’t be televised look savage
Tim is getting the shot he deserves, him and Arlovski carried the division for a while until it got pumped with all the new talent
Too bad Andre isn’t getting the respect Tim is getting. Andre was always a more exciting fighter, match him up against any of the new blood (eg Congo, Cro Cop, Vera etc) and it looks exciting
Whereas Tim is still a good fighter but I always preferred to watch The Pitbull’s fights
OK, now the Marq-Horn fight ought to be the co-main event.
Ok, now this card has just gotten really good. I though that Horn had just went the way of a trainer and would never step in the ring again. I am so glad that he is taking this fight,,, would love to hear what transpired to get to Horn as a replacement, but this should be really good.
This card is looking really good now.