UFC 89: “Bisping vs. Leben” is set go off LIVE today (Saturday, October 18) from The National Indoor Arena (NIA) in Birmingham, England.
Of course, the action will unfold in the United States via tape delay tonight on Spike TV at 9 p.m. ET. MMAmania.com will provide blow-by-blow, round-by-round coverage of the main card bouts at that time.
For those who can’t wait, however, we are posting LIVE quick results RIGHT NOW of all the action throughout the afternoon below, meaning spoilers could be contained in the comments section for those who intend to watch the telecast this evening.
Therefore, consider yourself warned before proceeding any further.
Keep in mind that we will provide blow-by-blow, round-by-round coverage of the main card bouts, beginning with the 9 p.m. ET Spike TV special.
Without further delay, see below for the latest UFC 89 quick results. (Note: This will go from the bottom up; therefore, scroll toward the bottom for the latest results!)
UFC 89 QUICK RESULTS:
Michael Bisping defeats Chris Leben via unanimous decision
Keith Jardine defeats Brandon Vera via split decision
Luis Cane defeats Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou via TKO in round two
Chris Lytle defeats Paul Taylor via unanimous decision
Marcus Davis defeats Paul Kelly via submission (guillotine choke) in round two
Dan Hardy defeats Akihiro Gono via split decision
Shane Carwin defeats Neil Wain via technical knockout (strikes) in round one
David Bielkheden defeats Jess Liaudin via unanimous decision
Terry Etim defeats Sam Stout via unanimous decision
Jim Miller defeats David Baron via submission (rear naked choke) in round three
Per Eklund defeats Samy Schiavo via submission (rear naked choke) in round three
Keep in mind that we will also be the spot for the latest news, recaps and post-fight analysis after UFC 89. Be sure to also remember to hang out with us tonight during our detailed Spike TV round-by-round, blow-by-blow coverage of all the main card action at 9 p.m. ET!
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First! hmm…that actually doesnt do that for me, i thought it actually feel cool like a geek would…So ive got leben wining this by Tko if leben cant finish him Bisping will take a split decison.
I not long got back from the NIA here in Birmingham and apart from some excellent fights the highlight of my night was meeting Dana White. He was cool as hell and he called my son over (who is 11) and said “hey little guy, how you doing?”, “I’m so pleased to meet you, you’re a cool kid here at the UFC aren’t ya? Its a real pleasure to meet you!”
My son was choked, and didn’t know what to say. It was a real cool moment I will always remember.
I promised myself I’d Big Up Dana for that so…..BIG UP!
Yea Dana is cool, when i attended UFC 70 he signed autographs and spoke to the fans for like 2 and a half hours, throughout all the prelims and the first few fights of the main card haha. Everyone else who spoke to the fans like Bisping & Kongo only did it for 10 mins.
Does Dana still have that old ass security guard? lol guys got to be into his late 50’s at least.
Yeah he was there. He was chilled though not like too many security Ive met before.
To be honest I was thinking this cant be Dana’s security but looks can be decieving I guess!
Its streaming at 3pm EST on channelsurfing.net
Stinky, Im ready for my winnings.
You’ll be waiting your whole life for those winnings.
lol, wasnt i on the list of people also? looks like well be waiting together there cwar
Vera out of the UFC? how on earth did he let himself go to a split decision? he shoulda gone for broke in round three realizing what was at stake… i bet he gassed second round and let jardine run away with it
They respected each other WAAAAYY too much in that fight. Neither wanted to take ANY risks and this really surprised me considering they both had a lot to prove.
was it a boring fight?
Yes. I had it as possible fight of the night but it was definately the worst that I can remember.
well if Stinky ever shows up, my email is wh1t3_w4bb1t@hotmail.com, h011a
Curious to see if the “pro gambler” pays up, nice picks Stinky, once again your claims go unvalidated…
what were his picks?
I can’t get this to work on channelsurfing.net Mexi.
I just get that ’starting channel…please wait’ loading prompt forever. Any ideas??
channelsurfing.net sucks, keeps pausing, sound cuts out …
Leben via TKO in Round 1.
Sportsnet is showing the event live in Canada!! sorry to u suckas who gotta wait till tonight on spike
I just RAN to the TV and got the post fight comments from the main event… DAMN!!! I can’t believe it.
Oh well, I’ll get ‘im next time
I got bispong and vera, other than that I don’t really care. I think soku will win, but hope he loses, he got too much (unwarranted) hype coming into the UFC!! the predator mask made me hate him! go to wwe or japanese wrestling douche!!!!!!!!!!
Soku by 1st round Ko. I’m one of those people who gave him all that hype prior to him making his horrible first appearance in the UFC and I don’t regret it at all! Soku will prove he’s the real deal starting tonight!
i got 75 on marcus davis and 50 on jardine! show me the money!
well…..i suck
lol, ya win some ya lose some… im 2 for 2 for the night! jardine and davis for the win! made 93 dollars tonite
Bisping By TKO(GnP) or UD
im pulling for leben!
I met Leben back when he trained at Team Quest (Portland, OR) with his brother, not only that, I’m an American, so I pick Chris Leben KO. Also, I believe Bisping is one of the most protected over-rated fighters in the UFC, Matt Hammill beat him, and his first 185 fight was a joke. This fight will prove or disprove Bisping’s hype.
At least Bisping didnt lose to Kalib Starnes like your boy Leben did.
I think about that as well when considering this match. Looking back, how in the hell did Leben lose to Starnes (by decision!) and to MacDonald? I think he is/was better than both of those guys. When you think about those losses, you got to go with Bisping. Leben said he was trying to evolve and change his game during those fights, but still, if its the 3rd round, and your “new” style isn’t working, go for facking broke man.
Prove or disprove?
Behave, if Biping wins tonight everybody who cant get over the hamil decision will still hate him and you will say the next fighter he gets is going to KTFO Bisping, its like a broken record.
So no this isn’t going to prove or disprove anything.
Those of us who can get over it are in for one great fight (hopefully) regardless of who wins.
Well he did lose that fight, he is protected, and I don’t like him. I do think he has some decent skills though and will probably win tonight.
All the people that love Bisping need to get over the fact that he did lose to Hamill, he is protected and he did not beat anyone of any kind of notable skill.
I hope they beat the crap out of each other though.
he did??? lst I checked he won a spli decision. I thought it was close, hammil got a take down, bisping got up. Bispings boxoing was way better. My wife (who forgot more mma than most of us ever knew) had bisping winning, i had a draw!
I do like Bisping and I do think he lost to Hamil (on the night) I dont think Ive ever read anywhere on these boards anyone claim Bisping won that fight.
I dont have any problem with people disliking Bisping (or any fighter) and wanting him to lose, differences of opinion is what makes forums like this interesting and fun. But some of the stuff posted here about Bisping is nonesense written by people who say he is going to lose before they know who he is fighting, thats the only thing that annoys me.
But I do agree, allthough I will be rooting for bisping win or lose so long as I see an all out war with both guy’s giving 100% I’ll be happy.
Sherdog.com UFC 75 Play-by-Play had Bisping winning. I heard Bisping say that in an interview or something, and I checked it out. Tis true.
http://www.MoonUK.co.uk had a bisping win too, but I saw it live in the house.
The stream isnt up
Try Sopcast. I’m watching it on there. Tvu isn’t working, Sopcast is though.
This is the one fight of Bisbing. If he loses everyone will diss him forever. If he wins he will be the one te beat The Spider if won’t retire too soon. B’ham and the pressure won’t let The Count lose, no way
i hope they start to put shane carwin on the main card
Did Goldberg just call Paul Kelly “Telly” ? lol
nvm it’s his nickname, never sene Kelly fight so I should be excused just thought we had another “watt miman” moment haha.
Sweet! Hardy wins me nice amount of loot! Haha john, Hardy beat down your ‘boy’ HA! Notts here we come!
Free on Sportnsnet in Canada airing live!
hell ya!!
oops. i had taylor winning that
I also had Taylor winning that. I was so surprised when they called Lytles name.
It was close, but yeh I had taylor winning it too. Chris Lytle won it with take downs…..even though he did no damage.
Thats a rule that needs changing right there but this fight was close enough to let the decision go.
Yeah I thought Taylor won, 29-28.
that close huh? i was about to lay some bread down on taylor cuz hes +300 at betus, but damn im glad i didnt, id be pissed!
Woah Cane looked good.
I had Cane winning this fight from the start. Although Sokoudjou had an excellent 1st round. Can was just biding his time I think and when Sokoudjou couldn’t finish him cos he just kept walking forward he kinda gave up.
I expect big things from Cane and will be a dangerous fight for a lot of the top guys also as he has FINISH HIM written all over his style.
He was right in front of me when he was beating Sokoudjou’s head in and I was loving it.
All in all I had a great evening at the NIA and really got a lot of action for my money.
nice, what kinda coin you drop for your seats?
Ringside was really cheap (£250) this time compared to when it was at the 02 arena in London (nearly £600).
Was well worth the money for all the action that went down.
i knew it luis cane is for real deadlies knees i ever seen
vera wins by decision.
LMAO thats what you get for trying to scoop
Jardine by split decision
looks like it would be a good time to rematch jardine with chuck, or a fight with him and cane would be interesting. it just doesnt get any easier for jardine.
i almost forgot, the TITTY TWISTER strikes again !
the titty twister is becoming very feared.
adios brandon vera.. You were once my favorite fighter.
thats goodbye for vera.he loses 2 wins one boring and loses again.what happend to the vera going in knocking guys out then calling arlovski and liddell out after.
Yeah, whatever happened to that cocky fighter? Tsk!
What’s with everyone on the entire card getting kicked in the nuts haha! Like every single fight.
jesus dont click on machos link! lol where are you watching the fights at a bar or something?
haha it’s a great picture. N no but I am about 7 beers deep. Uhuh!
Leben at the end of round 3, hilarious!
And Bisping it is… Winner by Decision
bisping didnot win that surely
Yes by a deserved UD
There’s no way in hell Bisping would beat Franklin or Henderson, who ever the coach is for tuf i feel bad for Bisping.
OMG its started allready, Leben didn’t knock him out so now the haters are on to supporting the next guy. see Lebens face at the end of the fight…he got owned
Owned? Idk about that. Yeah, he got cut. But besides that, one didn’t dominate the other. Congrats to Bisping on the win, but it was a close fight. It looks like both guys just keep getting better, though and Bisping’s better technically at this point. No “ownage” on either part though, imo.
Absulutley owned, Bisping was unmarked his gameplan worked perfectly and Leben had no response he only landed about four or five punches the whole fight the rest of the fight he was just throwing legs to no effect, yes Leben did come forward but he didn’t do anything.
This was in no way a close fight, Leben got a pity round from 1 judge.
IMO obviously
I live like 15 mins away from Bisping and actually train with 2 of his close friends yet i don’t like him. I don’t hate him but it’s a joke that the UFC think they can can promote themselves in the U.K with one average fighter.
So yeah call me a hater whatever I’ll call you a fanboi.
Also I was expecting Bisping to win in the Leben fight, but I can’t see how he coudld beat Franklin or Henderson, seriously can anyone, props to him if he can but i doubt it will ever happen, they are just to good for him. We’ll see…
Your name fits you perfectly.
Touche. I should have said tough, as opposed to close. I’ll rewatch the match tonite on Spike, but I don’t really think it was SO one sided. Then again, I could have been blinded by my desire for Leben to get the w…
Check out the play by play at sherdog.com thats exactly how I see it.
And how confident of your analysis are you if you have to make fun of my name.
Macho Im not calling you a hater, allthough I am a bisping fan and proud to support him.
But I dont believe (and I dont think he believes) he is ready for Hendo or franklin yet let alone Silva.
My point is he is never the one saying he is going to challenge for the belt soon, he just says his plan is to challange for the belt eventualy.
Sorry if you thought I was having a go but you have to understand as a bisping fan on this board its easy to get lonley and defensive….LOL
Yea cool bro. Yeah i understand, I don’t hate Bisping I just get fed up of hearing about him. Loads of people at my work always go on about him to me because they know I train mma and when they talk about mma thats all i hear “bisping this, bisping that” haha you can see why i get annoyed. But he is an ok guy, pretty cool.
I’ll support any british fighter that comes through and without a doubt the best british display came from Paul Taylor he was unlucky not to get the decision but he is deffinately one to watch.
But at the moment Bisping is the only British guy doing anything in the UFC so he is my focus for support.
Yeah I thought Taylor won, it was close but i thought Taylor did more than Lytle. I scored it 29-28 in his favour, may have to watch it again to make sure.
Just wait, 5-10 years time from now British mma will be booming, well hopefully. Got a long way to go but it can be done, just at the moment not a lot of great fighters and the british mma orgs are not that great, like I’m english but can’t stand to watch Cage Rage. Things will improve though.
bisping is a coward, his gameplan was to win by UD, never heard that before..
well ill tell u one thing macho idiot…bisping cant do much worse vs anderson silva than those other 2 assholes did
Impressed with Lebens graciousness in defeat. but Bisping gave him a lesson in boxing, He still looked unmarked at the end of the fight even though Leben had landed 3 big lefts.
Leben was just two slow and one dimensional, he was never knocking Bisping out.
What do you expect, Leben is his own head coach with no camp to speak of. Can’t expect too much of a guy who almost goes the distance with Terry Martin lol.
leben was outclassed. his conditoning looked great and he landed some good leg kicks in the 1rst, other than that it was the same old leben, going for 1 punch. bisping was too fast for him, but leben does have one hell of a chin. bisping is not ready yet for the likes of hendo or franklin, let alone silva, and he admitted it. fights with jason macdonald and ricardo almeida should be next for him.
I agree 100% with what your saying, especialy about Lebens conditioning he looked great. it looks like Bisping is going to be facing Hendo or Franklin on TUF.
Does he have time for one more fight before it starts?
maybee, but i doubt if it happens.
man i shoulda bet this fight! i had almost no doubt in my mind that bisping was taking this… instead, last minute i put my 75 on marcus davis at -350… still won but obviously woulda made more coin had i bet bisping at -220… oh well i wonder what mania is going to do with the playboy magazine? i can only imagine how many people picked bisping winning a decision
they will probably go with who picked the right scoring or who picked a decesion win for bisping first.
Damn my boys lost leben,vera,soko but man cane impressend me so much i hope he gets that belt:D
Cane was good his gameplan came together perfectly
All cane showed was that he can eat kicks in the stomache, and loves the straight left. Sokadjou lost that fight on his own, Cane didnt come out and win it. Sokadjou gased, and his game plan was to obviously try to end it in seconds, which doesnt work very well unless your Anderson Silva.
yeah, sticking to your gameplan sucks. a fighter will never go anywhere doing that.
People forget that Luiz Cane is brutal.
Bisping owned Leben and nobody can argue that.
Neil Wain is a fat pig.
I know a girl that looks like Neil Wain….LOL
damn hook me up
the ufc definetly needs to start putting carwin in with some tougher opponenets. wain was a can.
I would take Carwin over Lesnar. He had the same pedigree with better boxing and experience. He also trains with Greg Jackson.
it would be a hell of a fight. carwin vs valasquez (if he wins) would be as well.
So…having to go the distance with Leben. Wasn’t the talk about Bisping being the next real challenger for Anderson Silva?
Yeah, after GSP, probably (if he beats Penn)
No, on this board the talk was about how Leben was going to KTFO Bisping…..Didn’t happen.
You should watch the speech from Bisping at the end of the fight, he only talks about his progression through the ranks and how he needs to fight 1 or 2 more solid middleweights before he thinks about a title shot.
As for tonight Bisping done exactly what he had to do to win the fight, for a different fighter he will fight a different way. it was obvious his entire gameplan for this fight was about not giving Leben an opertunity to throw a heavy left.
Yeah,i had meant immediately next.
GSP can do it, but it would be tough. Not to be a homer, but I think the only one that can would be Rich Franklin if he re-trained hard for like 2 years. But I dont think that is going to happen.
Out of true MW’s.
I cant see it hapening, Bisping acknowledged himself that he isn’t ready for Silva and with TUF coming up…
I think as predicted both TUF coaches will fight for the right to face Silva in one of his last fights.
That’s the right approach too. He was a contestant on a damned show three years ago, he deserves a chance to mature like Anderson had. Fighters should take their time and not rush it. Good for Bisping.
Unless their name’s Brock Lesnar
I dont understand the push on Lesner $$$ I guess
Capitalize on what fanbase he has left from WWE, in an attempt to expand the UFC fanbase, I would think.
Whoa whoa whoa guys! I just wanted to say “time out” because I have some sweat in my eyes! Hey ref gimme your shirt so I can wipe my face clear. ….wtf?
i think he had some vaseline in his eye, but it was a little strange. you dont get timeouts in mma. kinda like when herb dean stopped the couture/gonzaga fight when gonzaga complained about not breathing, that was a unwarrented timeout. its the refs job to make sure the fighters dont have to much shit on their face before the round starts.
It showed me that Bisping felt maybe too comfortable in there. He had a plan to box in retreat and he won but it wasn’t something I would remember, and Bisping has a few of those. As did some of the other fighters tonight.
louis cane and shane carwin were the only 2 fighters who were very impressive(although carwins fight was a gimme). the rest of the fights/fighters were just ok and all the winners did just enough to win. the whole event was just average, on par with an ufn.
agree totally, looks like nobody is looking for the finish anymore.. jardine, vera, bisping.. I hate that
next week should be better with a.silva/cote and kos/alves. i cant see either of those 2 fights going the distance. ive read were dana white said that if the spider wins another quick one(like usual) he could fight again on ufc 92 in dec at lhw again.
Davis had an impressive submission victory.
true. he and lytle should fight next for sure. i think i like davis in that one.
I knew Bisping would win this easily. Chris is a tier below. Needless to say Franklin and Hendo are a tier above Mike. As for Anderson…well he’s way out there on his own.
Soku was terrible, very unprofessional gassing like that. Not a great event all in all. Good to see Marcus get the W.
Did you even watch the fight? Leben gave Bisping all he could handle. That wasn’t by any means any easy victory for Bisping.
Did you watch the fight?
Leben only landed a handfull of punches the whole fight.
Bisping walked it, not a mark on him at the end of the fight and he wasn’t even out of breath.
You are clearly bias’d, Leben landed a lot of shots, he clearly lost to Bisping’s stick and move style but I wouldn’t call it an easy victory, Leben is often bloody at the end of his fights he has an iron jaw and he knows it so he’ll happily take a few shots trying to get his big hit which is also kind of a weak style. I agree with the people saying Bisping won’t be a champ with this style, harder to try and win by decision when there are 5 rounds to fight, but like he said he’s not ready for that level yet so he may realize he needs to grow.
Yeh I am biased…cant help it lol, I thought Leben looked great and he pushed Bisping as much as he could but I dont think he troubled him enough to force a change in his gameplan which Leben needed to do to get the win, I wont say Bisping owned him anymore what I will say is Bisping handeld Leben perfectly for the win
i hope this means Soko drops out of alotta your top 10 lhw lists
Leben LOST , there is no doubt about that, but Bisbing gameplan and this style won’t get him further than this far.
If you are a champ you can’t defend your title with this style
“The game plan was about using my speed to go for a unanimous decision win,” said Bisping.
Well I for one think this will get a fighter nowhere fast.
Leben won that fight bull shit Fuck the ufc and its fixed fights.
your crazy man…did you see there faces after the fight? leben was messed up while bisping didnt have a mark on him.
What’s up with Vera? If I didn’t know better I’d say that he “was hearing footsteps”. Vera lacks a “killer instinct”. He reminds me of Arlovski a year ago. The Lyttle fight was excellent.
I am very disspointed again in the fight of Leben and this punk that I dont know what happens ,but he always wins. This is another example of Lioto Machida who runs like rabbit and at the end wins.This is as a complete disrespect to the fans.
I dont see how a bunch of you say “Look at the end of the fight, Leben was beat up” That does not mean a damn thing. Some cut and bruise easier than others. If you remember the Stout and Fisher fight, they were both knocking the shit out of eachother and Fisher was cut and bleeding everywhere and Stout looked fine. If you use that as an excuse why Bisping won then your an idiot and maybe need to learn a little bit.
By the way Bisping looked like crap and looked a little like Starnes. Run, Run, punch, Run, Run and why not run a little more.
well lenzino
he ran…he must be very good if he can run the whole fight and still make leben look like he got jumped by 50 ppl…he got anhiliatwde…dont hate on bisping cuz hes not dumb..wat is he supposed to do..stand there and exchane with a person who is known to drop ppl…come train at xtreme couture for a lil and ull learn some mma
and something has to be wonrg here…cuz half the ppl are saying bisping looked terrbile and leben won…and the other half are sayin bisping dismatled him…whcich he did
Vera = No kiler instinct
Lay off the PUN and the bong before fights…
Anyone wanna see Hendo vs Rampage 2 assuming they both win or lose their matches?
Wow. It is really crazy how some of you can watch someone get their ass kicked and say that they didnt. It reminds me of my high school. So stupid.
LEBEN LOST!!! He got handled. Serious. He landed like 6 punches. And blocked like 60 with his face. That was the the entire fight. How anyone saw it any different is way beyond me.
There will be haters no matter what I guess.
I guess Leben looked good enough to get a title shot soon? hahahahahahahaha
I guess alot of punching bags fight for the title?
exactly….lolll…it feels like high school..when ppl dont want to admit that the person they were routing for lost….that was a good analogy..hahaha
i personally think that the best matchup for anderson silva is nate marquardt…that guy is an absolute beast