Official UFC Thread

[Paroxysm]

My picks

Anderson Silva via submission
Rich Franklin via decision
Jon Jones via TKO
Jake Ellenberger via TKO
Miguel Torres via submission

Torres looks sharp, he's hooked up with Firas Zahabi and trains in Montreal.

 

[B]

Beast of a card tonight, Reeeeaaalllly looking forward to it.

Silva/Belfort staredown at weigh ins was amazing, Silva wore a white mask that kinda played along with something Belfort has said in the build up to the fight. Hopefully the fight matches the statedown.

Jones/Bader & Griffin/Franklin are gonna be 2 great fights as well.. can't wait.

 

[El Bastardo]

Fyeah. Jones vs. Shogun!

 

[The Game]

Spoiler

Silva is P4P King, now can we end the discussion

 

[El Bastardo]

Yeah, talk about a wow.

 

[BlackLantern]

my thoughts

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[louiebling$]

Silva Wins Via SPARTA KICK

 

[CrypticOne]

Simply amazing. Wow.

Shogun is gonna steamroll Jones. Can't wait.

 

[mrvlknight21]

Simply amazing. Wow.

Shogun is gonna steamroll Jones. Can't wait.

Man, youre nuts. Jones is ridiculously good. I believe Shogun will beat Rashad, but his reign will end after that.

Silva once again is left with no decent contenders.
I was glad to see my hometown boy Griffin win again, I hope this is a climb back to the top for him.

 

[B]

Anderson Silva is the P4P King, without question.

There are a handful of really top strikers in the UFC & I'd class Vitor as one of them, but Anderson Silva is above them all.. hes just so dynamic & throws outragous elbows, knees & kicks like the one last night. It looked like Leonidas's kick from 300!

Really it's gonna take someone to get Anderson Silva to the ground & practically hold him there for 5 rounds in order to beat him.. and even there he is dangerous with his elbows & submission capabilities.

Oh yea & Jon Jones, what a domination of Ryan Bader.. Bader's wrestling.. or at least his shots don't transfer into MMA that well. Jon Jones vs Shogun.. this is gonna be an interesting fight.

 

[E-Man]

Jones has a really good shot against Shogun. Shogun's main weakness is getting taken down and his cardio, and at 205 you have some very strong wrestlers that can do that without getting swept by him. The key is how good Jones' control is to get in some ground and pound without getting reversed. I haven't seen him be on the defensive from the top, but at the same time he's so damn strong and long that he is a nightmare for anyone once he takes them down. Shogun goes down when someone wants to take him there. I think Jones could ragdoll Shogun and wear him out before getting the finish.

 

[Iron_Stark]

Silva is no doubt the greatest fighter in the world, and I don't see anyone beating him. That said he's still a ****ing B****.

Jones is going to get skull ****ed by Shogun. Beating Bader was good, but Shogun is on another level.

Miguel Torres looked like a timid fighter now.

 

[Paroxysm]

That fight was ****ing sick. I loved when Sliva looked low and then flicked his foot high. THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!! BAM! right on the Belforts chin. I heard Seagal helped Silva perfect that move a few months ago.

Jones is going to get skull ****ed by Shogun. Beating Bader was good, but Shogun is on another level.

We'll see. I can see thing going either way but more in the way of Jones. t:

 

[B]

Jon Jones has a very good chance against Shogun, that being said Shogun is a good solid class above anything that Jones has faced before. His striking is far superior to Bader's & Shogun has a solid ground game.

Shogun should try & do what he did against Machida to try & kill some of Jones spring/elusiveness... ie chop his legs down with those savage leg kicks.

 

[E-Man]

I will have my ass there if it happens!

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/02/...ers-centre-possible-hosts-for-silva-gsp-supe/

LAS VEGAS -- Georges St. Pierre will main event the first stadium show in UFC history when he takes on Jake Shields in April.

If he wins, he'll likely get a second big stage immediately following it.

UFC president Dana White said that if St. Pierre defeats Shields, it will set up a long-awaited St. Pierre vs. Anderson Silva superfight for the middleweight championship, and the event is a near-lock to take place at a stadium. Among the possible hosts? Texas' Cowboys Stadium, and Toronto's Rogers Centre.

"It makes sense that we'll do a stadium show," White said after Silva knocked out Vitor Belfort at UFC 126. "It totally makes sense. and you know, if there was ever a fight where we were going to do Dallas' [Cowboys] Stadium, this would be the fight."

Cowboys Stadium is the home of Sunday's Super Bowl, but White has met with its executives in the past about possibly holding an event there. He got his first taste of the showcase stadium when he attended a Manny Pacquiao fight, and became convinced that a UFC show would make sense there.

"When I saw that stadium I said, 'we can definitely do this,'" White said. "It's a great atmosphere for a fight."

Cowboys Stadium is no lock, though. White said a return trip to Rogers Centre in Toronto could be another possibility. Tickets to the UFC's first foray to the Toronto stadium go on sale this week, with about 42,000 tickets available. A sellout would nearly double the existing North American MMA attendance record.

A Silva-St. Pierre superfight would be an even hotter ticket, but Shields can cancel the party by playing spoiler at UFC 129 on April 30.

 

[Paroxysm]

I just re-watched the Jones/Bader fight and did anyone else notice Jones say something to Bader when he was choking him out? You can clearly see Jones saying something but in the post fight conference someone asked him if he said anyone and he claimed he didn't.

????

I wonder what it was?

 

[CrypticOne]

HAHA! Jones stand-up is sloppy as hell. I don't know what some of you guys are seeing. Jones is a good wrestler. His striking is flashy, but it sucks. He's only landed some of the stuff he has because of his reach. Shogun is a muay thai specialist. I expect Jones to either get knocked on the feet or leg-locked.

 

[zanos]

Sonnen is the only fighter who has any chance against Silva. I realize Silva has made a reputation for being a great striker, but opponents give him way too much respect. The second the fight starts they're already on the defensive and hanging back. This works out perfectly for Silva, because it allows him to set up his entire arsenal of kicking attacks, dance moves and cartwheels. I can imagine Anderson feels absolutely no pressure when he's in these types of situations.

 

[Paroxysm]

HAHA! Jones stand-up is sloppy as hell. I don't know what some of you guys are seeing. Jones is a good wrestler. His striking is flashy, but it sucks. He's only landed some of the stuff he has because of his reach. Shogun is a muay thai specialist. I expect Jones to either get knocked on the feet or leg-locked.

If Forrest Griffin can choke out Shogun than so can Jon Jones.

 

[E-Man]

HAHA! Jones stand-up is sloppy as hell. I don't know what some of you guys are seeing. Jones is a good wrestler. His striking is flashy, but it sucks. He's only landed some of the stuff he has because of his reach. Shogun is a muay thai specialist. I expect Jones to either get knocked on the feet or leg-locked.

But Shogun has terrible takedown defense, so it's going to go to the ground if Jones wants it there. Shogun's ground game is also highly overrated. He's great at reversing position and ground and pound, but he leaves himself too open to attacks when he's countering going for sweeps. He also has pathetic cardio. He's only been past the first round six times in his career, and in all six fights except the Machida one he gassed and looked bad. The Machida fight didn't have a lot of grappling, so Shogun not gassing is more indicative of the style of fight rather than Shogun having an improved gas tank.

Now you can say something similar about Jones, but if both gas he's in better position because he'll be the one making Shogun carry his weight. Forrest used his weight well against Shogun, and that was with a partially torn shoulder heading into the fight. If Jones is healthy he'll toss Shogun around while forcing him to carry 220-230 over and over again. For a guy with a history of bad cardio that's a huge problem he'll have to overcome.

 

[CrypticOne]

Why are people looking at the Forrest/Shogun fight?! If they fought again, Shogun would destroy him. He was coming off of knee surgery and messed his knee up again in that fight. I'm taking nothing from Forrest, I was actually rooting for him in that fight, but come on. If we get a 100% Shogun, no one is stopping him.

Shogun's TDD does suck, but I bet he's been working the hell out of it, even training for Evans.

Jones has lanky limbs too. He takes a powerful kick from Shogun, I wouldn't be surprised if his legs folded or arms got broken.

 

[Paroxysm]

I mainly brought it up because Shogun has been choked out twice in his career and that seems to be Jones best move. If Jones can score a TD it's bad news for Rua.

 

[E-Man]

For all the talk about Shogun's knee, Forrest had an injury just as bad. He needed shoulder surgery, and he still had problems with it up until last year. Forrest wasn't 100% either, but he beat Shogun. Shogun may beat him if they fought again, but I'd give Forrest a good shot to pull off the upset again. Shogun just isn't that good going past the first round, and that even goes back to the ZOMG mighty Pride days when Shogun was supposed to be an unstoppable monster.

 

[Iron_Stark]

I will have my ass there if it happens!

http://www.mmafighting.com/2011/02/...ers-centre-possible-hosts-for-silva-gsp-supe/

Holeeeeee s***!

If it does come to the Death Star, I'll save as much money as I can and make the short drive to it.

 

[B]

Sonnen is the only fighter who has any chance against Silva. I realize Silva has made a reputation for being a great striker, but opponents give him way too much respect. The second the fight starts they're already on the defensive and hanging back. This works out perfectly for Silva, because it allows him to set up his entire arsenal of kicking attacks, dance moves and cartwheels. I can imagine Anderson feels absolutely no pressure when he's in these types of situations.

I'm probably giving Anderson Silva way too much credit, but when you hear all the **** Chael Sonnen talked about Anderson Silva/Nogueira/BJJ.. I think Anderson Silva went into that fight to submit Chael Sonnen.

Put simply, I think Anderson wanted to fight from his back. I think he let Chael take him down easily.

He came out to the fight dressed in BJJ gear didn't he as well?

I'd love to see a rematch between those 2 & have Silva punish Sonnen on the feet with one of those Sparta kicks.

If Forrest Griffin can choke out Shogun than so can Jon Jones.

I agree with you but the Shogun that fought Forest Griffin wasn't the Shogun that dominated Pride & is the current UFC LHW Champion in my opinion. He genuinely looked a little ring rusty, gased out a little & probably underestimated what Forest Griffin had in his arsenal.

Shogun has a very solid ground game, but Jones is an absolute beast. It's a very intriguing matchup. I think Jon Jones is far more of a threat to Shogun than Rashad Evans is. That being said Jones will really need to bring his A-Game because Shogun is without question a far bigger threat than Ryan Bader or anyone else hes fought/destroyed.