
By Jesse Holland
UFC 78: “Validation” was an entertaining event. It had slick submissions, brutal TKO’s and a heart-stopping welterweight war.
Too bad those were the preliminary fights.
UFC 78 wasn’t exactly a barnburner, but it did have its moments. My favorite happened to be during Tamdan McCrory vs. Akihiro Gono, when a beer-battered patron screamed out “Put him in a body bag Johnny!”
You just can’t beat the classics.
Speaking of Grandpa’s old cough medicine, when did arenas start selling bottled beer? I know the Prudential Center (PC) just opened and they’re still working out the kinks, but I get the impression that no one in vendor management ever went to a heated playoff game (or heard of Monica Seles).
I’m sure after the first person gets their head split open they’ll rethink their strategy.
While we’re on the topic of strategies, where were the veterans on Saturday? In fairness Joe Doerksen was a late replacement, but he looked like a shell of himself against Ed Herman.
And Spencer Fisher? Not to take anything away from Frankie Edgar but for a guy with 20 wins I expected a much better takedown defense. Fisher couldn’t have been more flat-footed if he was fighting in ski boots.
Karo Parisyan is a talented fighter but if he wants that spot in the main event he’s going to have to start finishing people. In his last 10 fights, nine of them have gone to the judges.
I guess that’s better than not making it to the judges, which is what unfortunately happened to Chris Lytle. His war with Thiago Alves was the most exciting fight of the night. Not bad for only two rounds.
The big screen showed two cuts near Lytle’s eye: One above the brow and one on the eyelid - which may or may not have allowed his eyeball to go flying into the fourth row if Thiago connected.
It was the right call, but then again Thiago himself could barely see as a result of the beating he took. From the left side he kind of looked like Sloth from the Goonies.
Note to UFC lightweights: Joe Lauzon is coming.
The crowd at the PC was really behind Houston Alexander and there was a prolonged air of disappointment after he was stopped. I took no pleasure out of picking against him in my predictions, but I just couldn’t see him getting past a BJJ black belt - from Chute Boxe no less - without ground training.
And who is responsible for training Rashad Evans? Someone better get on the Bat-phone and page Billy Rush. If Rashad thinks he can walk into a five-rounder with Rampage and suck wind for the last three rounds, he’s gravely mistaken.
It was nice to see Rampage make a cameo, but when did his head become the size of a Volkswagen? I’m not sure what he said to Michael Bisping between rounds, but the Brit looked awfully tentative on his feet.
I would have been on my feet if the UFC had made the Henderson/Silva announcement during the event and not after it. As would the pay-per-view viewers at home - assuming the three people who actually ordered UFC 78 weren’t in the bathroom or fetching a snack between rounds.
And why did Evans fetch his mouthpiece off the Octagon floor without letting the referee wash it off? The same Octagon floor that had sixteen sweaty/bloody fighters rolling around on it for four hours?
Not since the debut of two girls/one cup have so many people dry-heaved in unison.
It was a glorious night for the female fans. Between rounds I took a leisurely stroll to the little boy’s room and lo and behold the line was about fifty deep. I glanced over and saw a few women sporadically filing in and out of the ladies room with no wait. They nodded at our cross-legged line with a deep sense of satisfaction.
There won’t be much fallout from UFC 78 because the magnitude of the event was about 2.4 on the Richter scale. Not that it matters; UFC 79 is only a month away.
I may have to add four days to my Advent calendar.
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Glad I saved my $40 on PPV and dropped $80 just to be entertained watching this at the bar. First?
UFN > UFC 78
I missed it… Saw the decision in the main event while waitin outside in a line through the window:( aha
Being stationed in Germany the only cool thing I have to look forward to is free UFC on AFN. But… with the time difference it starts at 4 am. The only fight I wanted to see was Alexander Houston’s and a dozed off before it started. I think I woke half way through the bisping/rashad fight but that stinker had me snoozing again. Eh… What a so-so card. I just found out that Houston lost by submission and now not only am I disapointed by the event, I think I’m kinda pissed off.
good piece…luv the slothe reference:)
Actually, Houston lost by TKO, not submission.
[quote comment=”213137″]Actually, Houston lost by TKO, not submission.[/quote]
DAMMIT JIM!
man, Houston looked different then normal. Look a lil nervous…? Maybe just my imagination or just me trying to come up with excuses for him.
He needs some serious work on his ground game.
Good thing i didnt pay to see this UFC, def. not worth $40 bucks but at least Bisping lost.
I was bored watching UFC 78, and I LOVE watching UFC. Bring on December 29th.
Some of my thouths on the event (just some, got too many):
1. Some UFC judges must be the best judges in the world of MMA(Steve Mazagatti, Mario Yamasaki and Big John), but the judges on UFC 78 was crap, to have so crappy judges at this level of MMA is a shame.
2. Bisping did better against Evans than I predicted, Evans gassed like a hovercraft on crack and he walked like and old dude trying to imitate a pile of jelly.
After seeing him gassed like that I’m already waiting in my sofa for him to gas for Rampage, what Rampage is thinking at this stage of his career is quite obvious: “Oh shit not Evans, how can I beat an A class act fighter like him???”
3. Spencer Fisher said he should win by knocking Edgar out breaking his perfect record, I just couldn’t see it coming… if that was his best try to knock fighters out then I really want to see him submitting them.
4. Karo saying he was sorry for making a crap fight and blame it on personal stuff… what personal stuff?
If we knew what it was we could on our own hand consider whether that was a actual reason for the fight being crap…
I’m just bored with fighters blaming it on personal stuff, everybody has personal stuff, hint to Karo: Don’t take personal things with you in the Octagon!
“Hey Karo, leave the vacuum cleaner at home… nobody in the world of MMA want to see it!”
Bisping should have got the win.
That card blew…Bisping and Evans should’ve been a draw. Both guys suck. Seriously. Rashad looked awesome when he beat a giant, although green Brad Imes in TUF, and Keith Jardine, and Bonnar….but theres no waaaay(!) he can hang with the big dogs. Bisping lacks almost everything. Hes not strong enough, not enough athleticism or speed, his punches are weak, and his BJJ is weak. Seriously, he would get banged up at 185.
[quote comment=”213151″]That card blew…Bisping and Evans should’ve been a draw. Both guys suck. Seriously. Rashad looked awesome when he beat a giant, although green Brad Imes in TUF, and Keith Jardine, and Bonnar….but theres no waaaay(!) he can hang with the big dogs. Bisping lacks almost everything. Hes not strong enough, not enough athleticism or speed, his punches are weak, and his BJJ is weak. Seriously, he would get banged up at 185.[/quote]
I agree, they both suck, and I am tired of all these matchups going to the judges..
That was an alright card, Ed herman saved it with that beautiful knockout, silva had a lttle to do with it aswell, but how BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING was bisping v evans, i put that mostly down to evans, he is quite possibly the most boring fighter i have ever seen in my life, when the hype blows over for him, he will be outa there so fast - good! pretty excited about silva though , force to be reckoned with !
Glad to see Edgar dominate the way he did. I thought he’d win, but not like that. It looked like one of the early ufc fights where a standup fighter with no clue what to do on the ground fought a good wrestler.
It looked like houston doesn’t have a ground game but I’m still a fan of his stand up. I hoped they put him against a striker next year like liddel or forest. He’s still one of the most entertaining guys in ufc. Silva is a force and looks solid too
[quote comment=”213176″]That was an alright card, Ed herman saved it with that beautiful knockout, silva had a lttle to do with it aswell, but how BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING was bisping v evans, i put that mostly down to evans, he is quite possibly the most boring fighter i have ever seen in my life, when the hype blows over for him, he will be outa there so fast - good! pretty excited about silva though , force to be reckoned with ![/quote]
Was there ever hype around Evans?…His sure-win formula is to just take guys down, do f*ck all till the ref stands them up…rinse repeat till decision will.
main fights were pretty shit - n dana going up to rashad after saying “great fuckin fight guys” bollox! it was wank - bisping though looking weak, was pushing the action. Rashad was just a huge bore. I dont wanna see this guy even get the chance to fight top 5. he doesnt deserve it and secondly he wouldnt survive anyway. Bisping got robbed - IT WAS A DRAW.
Like i predicted - Silva Ko’d that dood who thinks he’s bad in the 1st - SWEET! u see how mashed up his face was with just a few blows! lovin it! - houston should have his rematch with jardine next - forget forrest v jardine.
Good win for Ed Herman!!
Bisbing was showen up for the second rate fighter he is against another second rate fighter!!
I would love to see him against Bonner or Griffen he would be KO’d in seconds!!
you dont think there is a fair bit of hype about him?
well he would be one of the most talked about fighters, god knows why! you agree he is boring as they come yeh? was not able to dominate bisping on the ground at all, he got him down , bisping made his way over to the cage , pushed up and got out !
what a crock of sh*t worst one ive ever seen.just glad it was free on bravo.the undercard reports sound wicked though.they put the wrong fights on.got a big feeling 79s gonna make up for it.
So I went to this event. If you look closely….. Couture was a cornerman for Karo. He hides though. Hes wearing a black hat, black tshirt, and jeans. When the camera is on Karo he is on the very right sorta hiding to be off camera. I only know this because I had Binoculars and could see him from where I was sitting. I want to find out if he had to sneak in or what not. I was like “GO RANDY” haha.
All in all it was about a 4 out of 10 for being the most exciting card.
When things go like that they should show clips of the undercards just not one or two of the fights.
Houston was not there the guy who showed up was ernies roommate from sesame street. Man Houston was hyped. His next fight should be Bonnar or Hamill or Bisping.
apparently frankie edgar was recovering from a staph infection he got a few weeks ago. but man, it looked like i could of taken spencer fisher down from where i was sitting
I was there and it’s true the best fight were the under card fights, none of them got to the 3rd round.
I’m sorry about Houston’s loss, but hey he needs to work in his ground game, he though he could just lift him up, Silva is a strong dude…
I’m glad Evans got the decision, that way Bisping can feel what Matt Hamill felt when he got robbed.
They didn’t sell glass bottles in the arena, they were plastic bottles. Loved the new arena, very nice.
I was hoping Fisher to dominate this fight, but hats off to Edgar that kid was great.
In general I’ll give this event a 4 out of 5 (because been there made the difference).
guys, any word on Houston’s thoughts regarding his loss and his ground game? heheh
I took the plunge on Sunday and ordered the PPV late. I was REALLY bored on Sunday waiting for the Patriots to destroy the Bills. SO…. I agree with everyone else BORING Rashad v Bisping.
Lauzon is the fucking man! he owned that old man!
Finally Herman gets a KO.
Houston Alexander looked tentative and VERY nervous. He did have a sweet choke slam but that was all he could do. I was very disappointed because he didn’t even look like he was trying to shake off Alves. It was like he gave up.
Fisher looked like he had rubber legs.
I give this card a 4 out of 10 for excitement. The fight of the night for me goes to Joe Lauzon.
horribly card! Just terrible. Dana owes us a fee pay per view after that one.
Bisping came to fight, Rashad made that fight boring… I hate bisping but I would have given him the win over Rashad.
Karo did what I told everyone that Karo does- he doesnt finished thats why the best bet of the night was the overs in the Karo fight. Boring fight
Spencer looked uninterested. Was that the real spencer fischer? Boring
Ed Herman had the best fight, but he was fighting a chump by the name of doerkson, It looked like Joe was uninterested although the triangle chhoke/arm bar at the end of round 2 was impressive.
Houston fight was horrible. Houston came out gun shy, thats not his game. He became 2 and 0 by going out there and unleashing hell on his opponent. His early furry is able to hide the weeknesses in his game. Him fighting so tentative, exposed to the world that he is far from a complete martial artists.
Joe Lauzon looks dangerous. Mania u r right…. Lightweights better watch out.
Worst event that I have seen since Ireland. Terrible. Dana you owe us a free one. He better give us the England event with BJ Penn headlining it for free.
FOOTBALL FANS WHO WATCH MMA ON OCCASION REALLY HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE IN MMA EVENT I’M NOTICING.
THIS BEING SAID THE EVENT WASN’T BORING. TRY MMA FOR YOURSELF AND THEN JUDGE IT, TRAIN,COMPETE, KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE IN A 15 MINUTE FIGHT WITH SOMEONE AS GOOD AS YOU AND LETS SEE WHERE YOU STAND.
NOT EVERY FIGHT IS GOING TO BE A KO, OR SHOULD IT HAVE TO BE TO BE A GOOD FIGHT.
Bisping won that fight!!! but I like how everyone is turning on Evans, before the fight “Evans will kill Bisping. Bisping does not stand a chance.Blah Blah Blah” now after the fight and his poor showing “Evans sucks…does not stand a chance aganist Rampage..Blah Blah Blah”…as always the fans love and hate a guy all based on if he won or lost his last fight,
I agree - this card sucked!
Spencer Fisher looked horrible and was completely ineffective - has he not faced a wrestler in all of his previous fight? Something seems wrong with him - he hasn’t looked great recently.
I was very skeptical about Houston’s ground game - I was right! Also, his intimidating running towards his opponent with guns blazing doesn’t work against an experienced complete MMA artist. He’s tough but incomplete at this time.
Joe Lauzon looked great but so did the Seattle Seahawks against the 49ers last week. I’m still not convinced until I see him against a quality opponent. The Jens Pulver fight was a freak event.
Lastly, The Evans-Bisping fight sucked and undeserving of main event status. Bisping hasn’t really improved significantly since TUF, Rashad has but most of his fights are somewhat boring (ex: Sean Salmon, Jason Lambert). He has acquired better stand up but he is still a wrestler. Watching wrestlers fight in MMA are becoming more distasteful (i.e. Edgar vs. Fisher). However, I was happy to see Rashad get the decision after Bisping’s sub par performance and dead wrong decision vs. Hammill - not to mention his disrespectful and disgusting comments after that fight. He should be punished for more fights to come. He is a low life.
ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS WHERE THE HELL WAS THE REAL REF’s?? I have nothing to say about the fights cause they all blew BIG TIME!!! I do want to say where the hell was Big John McCarthy and Steve Mazzagati and Mario Yamaski? Instead we got this nerdy dude and then a giant roided up ref who looked like he was about to EXPLODE out of his shirt and should have been in the ring fighting rather than lookin like a pussy reffing the fights. I was just ready for him to surprisingly bust out of his shirt and start fighting. Would have made UFC 78 10 X more interesting..lol.
all of it was weak..i’m glad i was drunk the whole time
What a gapping gap between all 205 fighters. I said gapping.
I was there, and i was surprised at how empty the place was. There were 100s of seats available all over the place. It was just very crappily produced, when Alexander came out for his walk in they put up all of Bisping’s banners and stuff. Not overly impressed with the lack of UFC stars and or other celebs in attendance. Best fight of the night was the opener, hope they showed that on the PPV but idk. I was especially surprised at the lack of typical NJ AHOLES and happened to sit next to a young lady who was close friends with Frankie Edgar and his fiancee, which was great as my friend had bet a hefty sum on Fisher.
[quote comment=”213176″]That was an alright card, Ed herman saved it with that beautiful knockout, silva had a lttle to do with it aswell, but how BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORING was bisping v evans, i put that mostly down to evans, he is quite possibly the most boring fighter i have ever seen in my life, when the hype blows over for him, he will be outa there so fast - good! pretty excited about silva though , force to be reckoned with ![/quote]
Ed Herman did have a sweet KO. Bob, weave, hook = perfection.
Rashad Evans has a couple of boring fights, but overall, he really is not THAT boring of a fighter. Look at his fights against Imes, Bonnar, Lambert and Salmon. Rashad has all the tools necessary to be a Top 5 fighter, ESPECIALLY if he would drop to MW. Rashad at MW would be a serious force to be reckoned with. Much more so than Pissbing at MW. The MW division already has a bunch or primarliy strikers - Chris Leben, Terry Martin, Patrick Cote, Pete Sell, Scott Smith, the list goes on and on. However, the MW division does not have many phenominal wrestlers with good hands. The only one that comes to mind, emphatically, is DAN HENDERSON.
I do believe that Rashad won the first round, Bisping the second, and Rashad the third, so I am content with the decision.
[quote comment=”213233″]So I went to this event. If you look closely….. Couture was a cornerman for Karo. He hides though. Hes wearing a black hat, black tshirt, and jeans. When the camera is on Karo he is on the very right sorta hiding to be off camera. I only know this because I had Binoculars and could see him from where I was sitting. I want to find out if he had to sneak in or what not.
I was like “GO RANDY” haha.[/quote]
Randy was clearly visible to the viewers as Karo was preparing to step into the octagon. I was surpised he was allowed to corner. However, the announcers did not mention his name.
It seems for each weight class(none in WW yet), we have those guys who have A stand up but zero ground game
LW - Melvin Guillard
MW - Drew Mcfredies
LHW - Houston Alexander
HW - Cheick Kongo
News flash! it’s MMA not the fastest or most vicious hands.
Overall, I was pretty upset with the live event… not just because of how weak the main cards were (outside of the Edgar/Fisher fight total lack of action) but the overall direction of the event for the live fans. No announcing, no countdown till the next fight… just entrances, fighting… and thats it.
Anyone else see Randy in Karo’s corner? Thats right.. the camera wouldnt show him, he was JUST out of lense coverage.
I wasnt gonna purchase it, but I had second thoughts and was afraid I would miss something (like a Houston Alex explosion worth 40 bucks)… Now I am grieving at the loss of my 39.99. should have gone with my gut on this one…. foiled again
[quote comment=”213300″]It seems for each weight class(none in WW yet), we have those guys who have A stand up but zero ground game
LW - Melvin Guillard
MW - Drew Mcfredies
LHW - Houston Alexander
HW - Cheick Kongo
News flash! it’s MMA not the fastest or most vicious hands.[/quote]
Wow, anyone notice a similarity between the 4 people on the list??? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm…
I didn’t see John McCarthy ref any fights on the PPV. Was he in the others? I didn’t think he ever missed a PPV.
What can you say about that fight card? I mean, the last few months of cards have been so good with epic battles. I would rather them show these types of fights on spike and sit out a month without a fight.
Frankie looked dominate. I suppose a fighter can have a bad night - but the king looked like a unskilled pauper on this night.
Joe L looked great; but, was he fighting one of the ump-a-lumpas? Seriously, I know the guy was undefeated, but he was old and very short. I am just saying - this was very odd and added to the surreal nature of this event.
Bisping got what he needed for public relations; he lost, and some thought he won. Some may call this justice. I think his toughness can not be challenged. One can question his take down defense and ground skills. but as far as grit, desire and cardio - he is top notch. Not that it matters, but I still dont care for him. I am guessing they are working on image control - is it me, or did he have some facial stuff done? He just looked different???? Give Bisping some Greco training and this conversation may be different.
The short fuse - man I want him to do well. He just looses focus and gets sloppy. May need to get checked and treated for ADD. Seriously. He looks stronger and more confident, but it is like rooting for the old Red Sox. That is, you are just waiting for something to go wrong. It was good to see him win.
In the end, I think the UFC needs to pace themselves. They raise expectations and then invariably lower the standard with an event like this. Is this some type of formula they use - I am not sure. Perhaps this is all the result of steroids and injuries? Or, perhaps, we are so dependent on marketing to get us up for fights and there was not enough time or planning to get the larger number of fighters exposed to the mainstream? Who knows. The UFC better pace themselves or I am going to start budgeting my 40 dollars to other things.
This was a shitty event all out. Other than Frank Edgar,Ed Herman and J Lo. This sucked.
The worse fights were the top the on the card.
It seems that Joe has really learn’t from BJ. That was a classic BJ rear naked choked with the leg locking the arm. Just like BJ did to Jens. Nice.
The guy that Joe L fought looked like the 40 year old virgin.
LOL
Rashad makes boring fights. Bisping wanted to trade and make a show of it, hell he was even throwing more from the floor.
However it was just another example of why he should drop to M/W, he is just not strong enough. Think he could make an impact at 185 as long as he stays away from Silva.
Had a smirk on my face watching Alexander getting pummled, he is an exciting fighter but some of the hype around him was just stupid.
Good KO for Ed Herman but he was VERY lucky at the end of the 2nd, that triangle was in deep, 10 seconds more and he would have tapped.
can anyone tell me what eh henderson/silva thing is ?
Good KO for Ed Herman but he was VERY lucky at the end of the 2nd, that triangle was in deep, 10 seconds more and he would have tapped.
Good Point. I forgot about that.
He was definitely lucky.
[quote post=”3939″]I didn’t see John McCarthy ref any fights on the PPV. Was he in the others? I didn’t think he ever missed a PPV. [/quote]
Yeah, the same two new refs did every televised fight. Where was Big John, Mazzagatti, Mario Yamasaki, and Yves Lavigne?
The new refs were really trying to push the pace of the action. I personally thought that the new refs stood the fighters up TOO soon on several occasions.
I was happy with the new refs. They did make it a bit more exciting. The new refs are way better than Herb Dean.
[quote comment=”213410″][quote post=”3939″]I didn’t see John McCarthy ref any fights on the PPV. Was he in the others? I didn’t think he ever missed a PPV. [/quote]
Yeah, the same two new refs did every televised fight. Where was Big John, Mazzagatti, Mario Yamasaki, and Yves Lavigne?
The new refs were really trying to push the pace of the action. I personally thought that the new refs stood the fighters up TOO soon on several occasions.[/quote]
Agreed. Am I wrong in saying that Big John has not missed an event? I have to say that I agree with Joe Rogan in the fact that there should not be any stand ups. Joe is usually full of it but in this point he is correct. These new refs didn’t let them spend hardly any time on the ground or in the clinch against the cage.
Big John needs to be inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame. He has been there since the beginning.
[quote comment=”213410″][quote post=”3939″]I didn’t see John McCarthy ref any fights on the PPV. Was he in the others? I didn’t think he ever missed a PPV. [/quote]
Yeah, the same two new refs did every televised fight. Where was Big John, Mazzagatti, Mario Yamasaki, and Yves Lavigne?
The new refs were really trying to push the pace of the action. I personally thought that the new refs stood the fighters up TOO soon on several occasions.[/quote]
I asked this on another thread and received a reply that ref’s need to be certified/sanctioned by the New Jersey body and that the regular ref’s weren’t
I’m really eating my words on this one, Houston has no ground game at all. Thiago has exposed his weak spot and everyone is going to try to ground and pound him. All I can say is I was wrong about Thiago. I guess I should never underestimate the Chute Box Acadamey.
[quote comment=”213410″][quote post=”3939″]I didn’t see John McCarthy ref any fights on the PPV. Was he in the others? I didn’t think he ever missed a PPV. [/quote]
Yeah, the same two new refs did every televised fight. Where was Big John, Mazzagatti, Mario Yamasaki, and Yves Lavigne?
The new refs were really trying to push the pace of the action. I personally thought that the new refs stood the fighters up TOO soon on several occasions.[/quote]
Refs are employed by the athletic commission of each state, not the UFC.
Yes, the event sucked. But I expected it to. I have never missed an event in years of watching, so if I bought Franklin-Okami, I was buying this. But with such a weak main event and lack of star power on the undercard, it was obvious this would happen. Dana better put his ego aside, sign the top guys(still waiting for Arlovski), and book some real main events. And Rashad sucks.
Frickin’ Evans. LAY AND PRAY you big sissy.
I thought that the event was pretty good. I mean it was a solid card and I wish that I would have been able to watch Lytle/Alves. But, what are you gonna do?
I’m from the UK. OK here it is…. YIPPPPPEEEEEEE Bisping got beat!!
See an actual UK fan of MMA not just what country the fighter’s from! Thank god Bisping lost or his ego would have caused an explosion! And Rashad was not much better on the night. They are both awful, Rampage, Chuck, Griffen, Silva etc would beat the snot out of both of them at the same time! Even if they drop to 185 Mr Silva or Mr Henderson and plenty of others will kick their arses. How these 2 managed to top the bill i’ll never know.
[quote comment=”213460″][quote comment=”213410″][quote post=”3939″]I didn’t see John McCarthy ref any fights on the PPV. Was he in the others? I didn’t think he ever missed a PPV. [/quote]
Yeah, the same two new refs did every televised fight. Where was Big John, Mazzagatti, Mario Yamasaki, and Yves Lavigne?
The new refs were really trying to push the pace of the action. I personally thought that the new refs stood the fighters up TOO soon on several occasions.[/quote]
Refs are employed by the athletic commission of each state, not the UFC.[/quote]
I thought the refs stood them apart early a few times, but I would rather them break apart early than take up 4 1/2 minutes and finally do it. So, I didnt care really.
I didn’t think it was worth ordering, or even going down to the sportsbar to watch for that matter. For those future lackluster cards and the people that don’t mind watching it later that night for free, the fights are all posted at http://www.mmalink.com.
^^^My bad, that should have been http://www.mmalinker.com.
2 girls 1 cup…….classic
Couldn’t be more happy that bisping lost
I think the NJ Refs did a REALLY good job.. take the Alexander fight for instance… dude jumped to stop it… held back, Thiago hit two more SOLID shots and the ref stopped it. GREAT job standing fighters up the whole night… I was REALLY impressed (then again, they ref a lot of MMA fights, just not the UFC.)
Now the NJ Drs….. ewww
I’m trying to figure out which was more of a snooze fest,
UFC 72 or UFC 78 ?
where can I watch the ufc 78 post press conference in its entirety to hear what dana had to say about Dan vs Silva
[quote comment=”213280″]ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS WHERE THE HELL WAS THE REAL REF’s?? I have nothing to say about the fights cause they all blew BIG TIME!!! I do want to say where the hell was Big John McCarthy and Steve Mazzagati and Mario Yamaski? Instead we got this nerdy dude and then a giant roided up ref who looked like he was about to EXPLODE out of his shirt and should have been in the ring fighting rather than lookin like a pussy reffing the fights. I was just ready for him to surprisingly bust out of his shirt and start fighting. Would have made UFC 78 10 X more interesting..lol.[/quote]
Evans/Bisping went exactly how everyone predicted.
Silva did a good job running away from Alexander and weathering the storm until he could get him on the ground and execute his skills on the weaker grappler.
Herman looked good KO’ing a bottom 20 MW.
Edgar showed that he’s no fluke, Fisher showed he needs to watch more tapes of these new LW’s and take them more seriously.
I knew the Parisyan would take the fight to the judges yet again.
I love Lytle’s switch to an aggressive stance and bringing it to his opponent. He should have won that fight but the doctor seems to think very differently.
Gono and Lauzon executed some fast submissions, very nice.
Jesse Holland did a great piece, keep up the good work.
lol the best thing is.
i live in england which means that all ufc events are FREE!!!!!!
gota love it
it dont mata how crap a card is it is still worth watchin 4 free
bisping should of won i dont think niether 1 are borin fighters.
bisping is only boring against wrestlers but that is mainly the wrestlers fault! they make fights borin!!
but rashad has good power i like his hands and if he used his hands more (like in the fight with, lambert, salmon and imes) instead of relaying on his wrestlin skills whenever he isnt preformin well then he would be much better and worthy of the top 5
rashad - get your conditionin up!
bisping - get stuck in and stop throwin pethetic jabs!!
I realize you thought Spencer Fisher would win because of his experience, but have you actually watched Frankie Edgar’s fights closely? The kid is an absolutely dominating wrestler, and we all saw that in his fight with Tyson Griffin. But watch him throw punches, too. He is very technical with his striking, which is unusual in a wrestler, much less a UFC fighter. Best of all, he doesn’t run or turn away when he gets hit, like many fighters do.
I knew Frankie Edgar would destroy Fisher from the get go, and I was surprised so many people were betting against him. Edgar’s the next big thing in the lightweight division. I bet he could even beat up Joe Stevenson. I’m not prepared to say he could beat BJ Penn, though.
Anyway, start watching this kid, I see tons of potential in him.
[quote comment=”213176″] i put that mostly down to evans, he is quite possibly the most boring fighter i have ever seen in my life, when the hype blows over for him, he will be outa there so fast - good! pretty excited about silva though , force to be reckoned with ![/quote]
Man, Tim Silvia is as, or more boring to watch then rashad … not only is Tim a dumb fighter, he just stands there and leans against the cage. But agreed, that card was the biggest waste of time and money this year.
When are they going to be rid of Karo and his whiney ass and his pathetic excuses… Doesn’t he know he’s in the UFC? Great at throws, but they don’t typically end fights unless you drop them on their heads (ala Matt Hughes) - Get a tooth Karo!
[quote comment=”213147″]Bisping should have got the win.[/quote]
I thought it had the potential for a draw.. but i dont think Bisbing did enough for a win!
He needs to start letting those hands go, he looks real shakey on his feet these days
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