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[misjuevos]

diaz uses his boxing to set up his body shots. don't matter how strong your chin is, the body is his target. i am hoping they go to the ground though, love seeing the scrambles in diaz fights. my favorite ones were diaz vs diego and karo.

 

[CrypticOne]

diaz uses his boxing to set up his body shots. don't matter how strong your chin is, the body is his target. i am hoping they go to the ground though, love seeing the scrambles in diaz fights. my favorite ones were diaz vs diego and karo.

Yeah, Diaz works the body pretty good. Penn better be working hard on his cardio. That is one advantage I have to give to Diaz, the cardio. This fight can go either way though.

 

[TheVileOne]

I can see Diaz winning it because he's got a good chin and he keeps a ridiculous pace. He's used to fighting at 170 as well.

 

[TheVileOne]

Heck of a win for Ellenberger tonight. Tough luck for Shields, but that was a just stoppage. If you are that out of it you are trying to fight the referee, it was a good stoppage.

 

[misjuevos]

yeah when shields went out he had the single, then ellenberger got up and left and the ref stepped in, shields woke up and went right back to the single.

 

[TheVileOne]

Yeah he had the single, but he was getting blasted and the ref saved him. Didn't look like it was a good enough grip to really save himself and recover.

I mean I feel bad for Shields for everything he went through recently. However, as much as I hate to point out to it you can find stories of guys who go through similar circumstances and they still come through and win. I mean maybe Shields shouldn't have stayed in the fight but it sucks no matter how you look at it.

That being said, I think Ellenberger really just took advantage of a problem Shields has had for a long time and that is his poor striking. Shields gets bullied standing up by good strikers, in the past though he's simply used his outstanding wrestling and BJJ to overcome it.

 

[misjuevos]

all im saying is that is why shields shot the single on the ref, his last conscious thought was him grabbing the single. when he woke up it was like nothing happened and he still thought he had ellenberger's leg.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

Finally! The final week before the fight.

 

[misjuevos]

to be honest this fight should have been rashad vs jones. The fact that it didn't happen makes this fight lackluster to me. I really don't care about Rashad or jones but after all the crap it sucks the fight fell apart. Sort of like if after Rashad and rampage talked so much they end up not fighting.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

I look at it as something to hold me over until the heavyweight fight in november.

 

[E-Man]

This is going to be a major fight for both guys. Jones has his first of a slew of high level elite guys Saturday while this could be Rampage's last title shot if he loses. I have Jones by decision.

 

[E-Man]

On my phone so I can't post a link, but Hendo amd Shogun are fighting at UFC 139! It's going to be a great fight.

 

[mrvlknight21]

Finally! The final week before the fight.

Rampage is going to get stomped.
Hughes vs Koscheck? Interesting, I didn't know that was on the card.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

Hughes in his last fight didn't look like he has any chin left.

 

[misjuevos]

also gonna have nate diaz vs takanori gomi. if you remember nick diaz gogo'd gomi and was dq'd later for failing his piss test. he was high and beat gomi.

 

[CrypticOne]

I hope Rampage knocks Jones, but Jones will most likely win.

I don't like either Hughes or Kos, but I'll be rooting for Hughes.

As for the rest of the card, I have Browne, Gomi, and Rothwell winning, all by TKO.

EDIT: Anyone hear about Hendo/Shogun fighting at UFC 139?! Awesome fight.

EDIT: Vitor Belfort got injured. Cung Le is now fighting Wanderlei.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

Another change

UFC president Dana White announced on Twitter Wednesday that Vitor Belfort was out of the pay-per-view fight against Le, scheduled for Nov. 19 in San Jose, Calif., due to injury. The 34-year-old middleweight did not disclose the nature of the injury, yet via Twitter he indicated it's "nothing major" and expects to be ready to fight by December.
"The doctor required four weeks of intense [physiotherapy]," he wrote.

In Belfort's place steps 35-year-old Wanderlei Silva who, having been knocked out in July by Chris Leben, is in dire need of positive news in the cage.

http://espn.go.com/mma/story/_/id/7000959/cung-le-first-ufc-foe-wanderlei-silva


I think this is good news for Le though.

 

[misjuevos]

one good thing about the ufc's huge roster is there are so many match ups i wanted to see. now they can happen just because of injury or whatever.

 

[E-Man]

I keep forgetting that Cruz is defending his title against Mighty Mouse next week. I may be more excited for that than Jones vs. Rampage.

 

[E-Man]

I forgot about TUF coming on tonight. New weight classes should mean better prospects since bantamweights and featherweights haven't had their TUF runs yet. The classes also bring more excitement.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

I like Jason Miller, I actually think he's funny but I just have no interest in watching all the in house guy drama anymore.

 

[misjuevos]

dream 17 gonna air on hdnet at like 2am check your local listings. saku, aoki and others fighting. gonna be 5hrs.

 

[DoomsdayApex]

I really hope Rampage knocks out Jones. I can't stand Jones, at all.

 

[misjuevos]

Dream.17 is scheduled to air live on HDnet at 3:00 AM ET on Saturday, September 24th. The event which features an 11 bout card will take place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
Shinya Aoki vs. Rob McCullough
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Joachim Hansen
Takeshi Inoue vs. Caol Uno
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Yan Cabral
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Willamy Freire

Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Gerald Harris
Hideo Tokoro vs. Antonio Banuelos
Bibiano Fernandes vs. Takafumi Otsuka
Masakazu Imanari vs. Abel Cullum
Rodolfo Marques vs. Yusup Saadulaev
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Baru Harn

it airs early this morning gonna be 5hrs.

 

[misjuevos]

won't spoil anything, but this dream card was great. they will re air it next friday on hdnet in a condensed version, just the fights no walkouts.