Brock Forgotten? A New Star Is Born

That stars name is Cain Velasquez. At what point do you classify Cain Velasquez as a star? When he knocks out a legend four minutes into the first round. You often here people say "Nogueira doesn't lose, he just doesn't have enough time to finish" Well ill tell you this. Everyone was proven wrong last night at ufc 110. Rising heavyweight Cain Velasquez fought legend of the sport Antonio Minotauro Nogueira. Aside from the fact Cain knocked him out, Cain really proved that he is the top fighter and hes ready for war. All you have to do is type in ufc and tons of things on Cain Suddenly come up. Theres alot of buzz going around about Cain, And you have to think to yourself: What about Brock? Not even two weeks earlier brock was the main spotlight. "The man" But now it looks like the attention has shifted to Velasquez. After watching the fight last night you kinda think that if anyone is to beat brock its this guy. Brock is a warrior dont get me wrong. but i think with all the time off hes fading away to everybody. If Brock would have just beat someone last night im sure he would be the sensation the next moring, but hes been off for to long. Its about time some new heavyweight contension stepped up. Cain has so much technical skill its unbelievable how he combines that with his speed and stamina. He truly is the perfect fighter. The title shot goes up for grabs at ufc 116, brock lesnars return. Dana white made a statement saying that the tite shot could go to the Velasquez Nogueira fight. I think after Cains win in thaty devastating fashion he deserves it. But, for now we wait for Carwin VS Mir. With all of this hype around Velasquez is Brock truly forgotten?

The Aftermath: UFC 110

Man, was there some good fights on the fight card tonight! I was extremely excited to see wandy vs bisping because i love bad blood and i think it makes an intreresting fight. It was making history and it sure did a good job for being the first ufc event in australia, and australia was PUMPED! The night started off with cro cop vs some dude i dont remember and they both really didnt look to good. i guess cro cop looked okay but he seemed a little exsausted. Then it came time for jardine vs bader. The fight went to the third round and it seemed keith was winning, but bader pulled off a knockout on keiths glass jaw, and really didnt impress anyone. He just got lucky with throwing wild hooks. Then, joe daddy stevenson took on george sotiropoulos, in a fight that was an amazing ground battle. The fight was back and forth, but in the end george took the win with a decision victory. When it came time for wandy vs bisping i was truly excited! The fight went all three round with wandy ultimitaly dominating bisping, and dropping late in the third round, sa to say he didnt have enough time to finish it. Then it cam time for the main event of the evening! cain velasquez vs minotauro nogueira. And damn this fight really proved alot to everybody. Cain went into the fight guns a blazin, but with some restraint, technical precision, And hard hits, and was able to knock out nog in the first round, bumping cain up into my top 5. It was a great card and legendary for the fact being that it was the first time in australia.
My Overall Rating Of The Event: 8.0

Cain Velasquez VS Minotauro Nogueira

This fight really showed everyone how good cain is. I picked a second round tko for cain, but i guess i expected to less. Cain came out into the fight looking extremely explosive and quick. Minotauro said he knew he liked to press the action and that he had trained for that. I expected to see just punches from cain. just simple boxing and nothing special. Cain was throwing kick to the body to the legs to the head and punches everywhere else too! Cain was so fast compared to minotauro, that minotauro couldnt even keep up with cains pace, and ability to throw all over. Not more than a minute in the fight and your already thinking "cain is to relaxed to take it to the ground and landing to much on the stand-up" Cain was landing so many combos with devastating kicks and hard stiff jabs and straits. Minotauro had no time to land anything because cain would land perfect combos on him even before he could throw. Little over three minutes into the first round minotauro gets rocked right in the face leaning into one of cains huge overhand rights. Minotauro gets dropped and cain blasts him three or four more times. The fight is over in the first round and cain wins by knock out. Wow. It really shows cains ability to throw all over and do it succesfully to set up huge punches. It was truly an overall statement and dominance by cain velasquez. The unstoppable has been stopped.

George Sotiropoulos VS Joe Stevenson

This was truly a ground battle for the ages. This fight went everywhere on the ground! I thought joe daddy was gonna win this one with a choke, but i was wrong and it turned out to be a pretty damn insane ground battle. George was getting the takedowns early in the fight and doing minimal damage and joe daddy kept him in half guard the whole time. then the fight went into the second round and it started to turn into an all out insane scramble with the fight ending up in benifits for both fighter and just going everywhere. While the fight went on the stand-up occasionally, it was going to george who waslanding crisp jabs and straits. Joe daddy started looking for the takedowns and was having success but everytime he took george down, george pulled rubber guard and kept him there allowing joe daddy nowhere to go. The fight got into a crazy back and forth scenario in the third round, with george always ending up in the offensive position. George used an omo plata submission to sweep joe daddy, and it was just beautiful. In the end george got the decision andhe truly deserved it. Georges amazing top level jiu jitsu really paid off in this fight and it looked purly amazing. i cant wait to see who he fight next, because he poses a threat to anybody on the ground or stand-up.

Bad Blood Between Bisping And Silva

An upcoming fight for todays ufc 110 nogueira vs velasquez, wanderlei silva vs michael bisping takes the co-main event and im actually more excited to see this rather than the main event. Ive been watchingall the press confrences, all the interviews, and all the other news and such, and it seems wandy has alot to say about bisping. Wandy was saying that nobody like bisping and other things that were hilarious! At the press conference the topic went to wandy vs bisping. Bisping was interupting wandy and wandy said "shutup" man the crowd loved silva and they were laughing at the things between him and bisping. At the weigh-ins they took an extremely heavy stare-down while butting heads and dana had to push wandy back, it was great. For some reason i have a little ounce of respect for bispin, i dont know if its because hes a decent-good fighter or something else, but i really have tons of respect for wanderlei. i was watching his training and other things, like his video about helping haiti. I just feel event though wandy has a bigger mouth, that he deserves more respect. This fight should be on one of the better sides of the fights later tonight, and i have a feeling wandys gonna run into this fight shoot boxing style, and overwhelm bisping. With anything this happens i see wandy kicking the shit outta bisping.

UFC Undisputed 2010

Man ive been waiting to do this post. The whole reason i got into ufc was because of ufc undisputed 2009. I absoulutley love that game. Ive never really been a gamer but i love fighting so ufc undisputed 2009 took my heart. Now there coming out with ufc undisputed 2010 in may, and man am i exited. I already pre-ordered it and i research the shit outta it. The new features sound amazing. You will be able to duck, lean, and dodge punches, then counter. they have a new posture system, and punch targeting has been redone. Punch targeting and detection was one of 2 things i didnt like in the first on. the stand-up punch knockouts hardly ever looked good. The other thing i didnt like was the clinch... Which they started over from scratch. all this and so much more is being added to the new ufc and its gonna be sweet. The new screens showing paulo thiago and mike swick look pure amazing. theres gonna be 100 plus fighters all photo realistically done. Cant wait to see junior dos santos, kimbo, and paulo thiago in the game. You can even creat you own fighting style! you can choose wht punched you fighter does and what ground trasitions and submissions he does! And they've added sambo, karate, and creco roman wrestling, so you can use those also. This new ufc game will be coming out may 25 usa. may 28 everywhere else. yes england you have to wait an extra 3 days.

Upcoming Fight: Wanderlei Silva VS Michael Bisping

This is a fight coming up tomorrow along with velasquez vs nogueira. Its great to see wandy back and ive been hearing that if he doesnt win this then hes out? I dont know if thats a good thing or a bad thing. if he loses that probobly means hes not doin to good anymore, but on the other hand he is fighting michael bisping who is pretty technically skilled. I still have a feeling the wandy is gonna come up with a knockout though. If you watch bispinds last fight against denis kang you see that bispings doesnt have a good jaw. Bisping got tagged and dropped, And in between rounds his corner was telling him something about getting dropped and he said he dint even know he got hit. That tells me that bisping has somewhat of a glass jaw.(or henderson really fucked him up) Im sure wandy wont have a good jaw either after getting hit so many times and especialy recently after getting knocked out cold by rampage. Aside from the fact of there jaws this fight should be great. wandys shoot boxing against bispings counter striking... man that should be good. In my mind i still see bisping having to much to handle. Wandys gonna be to fast and always pressing the action. and that might be a problem for bisping. This fight will probobly stay on the stand-up, and someones probobly getting dropped. I see wandy coming out with a second round ko.

Its Official: Shogun VS Machida 2

Its now official. Mauricio "shogun" Rua will be having his rematch against ufc light heavyweight champion Lyoto "The Dragon" Machida for the belt. The first fight which occured at ufc 104 was an amazing fight. In the end machida won a unanimous deision which was bull. shogun deserved the win, but i dont know what the judges were looking at... damn cecil peoples. Anyways i thought machida was gonna knock shogun out fast, but shogun put up a fight, and in my mind won. I still feel that after this fight machida learned his mistakes and will come out with the win this time only it will be in rightfull fashion. When you here the name machida you know its gonna be a good fight. Machida has tooken out the whos who in mma(including bj penn!) and has pretty much beaten them all in devistating fashion. his fight over rashad was hilarious, and it really showed how much rashad sucks. so enough on machida and his 16-0 record and his skill. Now its time to talk about shogun. When i saw there first fight at ufc 104 it was the first time i ever saw shogun fight, and ha it was cool. shoguns style is so much different than everyone elses. It benifits him and hurts him in ways. Shogun like to keep his feet close together and his hands far apart, which leaves him open for takedowns. but he keep his front foot light so he can throw it when he wants. Shoguns also beaten the who who in mma, but mostley in pride and mostley by aoccer kicks. wherever this fight goes i think it should be intresting. if it stay on the stand-up i think shogun has a slight advantage, but if it goes to the ground, which it probobly wont unless machida in deep trouble, then its all machida. i still think machida could take the win on the stand-up too though. whatever happens its gonna be one hell of a fight.

Upcoming Fight: Nogueira VS Velasquez

Nogueira vs velasquez is to take place in two days from now. The more i watch countdown and the more i research this fight, it seems to get better in my eyes everytime. I cant express my hype for this fight but ill tell you now im rooting for velasquez and i think he has a slight advantage. I think if cain could take rothwell down 20 times each round and never break a sweat, then theres gonna be no way nogueira can stay up to speed with him. I dont really see cain coming out throwing and winging punches, i see him taking a quick aprehensive pace to this fight. If cain get hit he can always take noqueira down. Hes been working his submission defense extensivley so theres nothing else to fear besides nogueiras sweeps and subs, and cains a full posture kinda fighter so all i see are possible leg locks from nog, because cains puches will be to fast to catch. Not to say cain is gonna win by a milestone. this fight could go to decision, and that would only make the fight better knowing that both these guys put there all in it, cause man!, are these guys determined. nog can take a hit. we all know that, i jut think theres gonna be to many of thosse from everywhere. once nog is even stumbles, cain is gonna take him to the mat and pound on him. i wouldnt be mad if nog won, and i probobly wouldnt be suprised. i mean nog can pull out a sub from anywhere so its always possible.

Chael Sonnen Fails To Immpress

I was watching ufc 109 extremly excited to see #2 middleweight in ufc, nate marquart take on chael sonnen. I thought that nate was going to walk all over chael. I have never been a chael sonnen fan, and i dont think anyone else is, and ive never bee immpressed by any of his performances. Yet ive been extremly immpressed by nate marquart with his incredible stand-up and his knockout over demian maia. I get really pissed off with people like rashad and chael who relentlessly take people down keep them there and look for the unanomy. The fight started out with marquart throwing some sweet ass kicks, and chael takes him down. the whole rest of the fight it is chael on top of marquart. but the sad thing is that the person who was fucked up in the end was bloody chael sonnen who won the fight. The end of the fight is marquart on top of sonnen in mount pounding the fuck out of sonnen, and if he had mabey 10 more seconds the fight might have been his. The title of this could go both ways because im not going to bias here and say it was all marquart. they both looked bad in opposite positions, not to say that marquart sucked.(he seemed to get back up and land some shots every once in a while) but if marquart can almost stop sonnen then anderson can fuckin destroy him. Chael gets title shot at the winner of the silva vs belfort fight. Does chael really deserve this opportunity?

The Aftermath: UFC 109

I had a great time watching ufc 109 and was suprised on how good the fights were. i didnt expect much outta this card but man when it came time for it was i excited! randy couture always gets me pumped! i really wanted to see serra vs trigg and i was so fuckin happy when serra knocked the fuck outta that douchebag! the prelims were pretty good and i was suprised to see a gracie lose his debut. the only fight that really pissed me off was marquart vs sonnen. i realy wanted to see marquart beat the shit outta sonnen, but sonnen went rashad and took nate down and kept him there an did nothing. sonnen will fight the winner of anderson silva vs vitor belfort.(anderson) i swear anderson better beat the shit outta sonnen. what am i saying he will beat the shit outta him. demein maia improved his striking, which is still not good on some guy whos name i forget? well whoever he was he must have sucked because maia beat haim up on the stand-up. paulo thiago squared off against mike swick in an explosive fight which thiago won by rocking swick then sinking in a d'arce choke. overall the event was way better than i thought and it was sure amazing to see couture finish coleman! i cant wait to see couture serra and paulo in the octogan again, and when it comes time for sonnen vs silva boy will that be funny as hell!
My Overall Rating Of The Event: 6.5

Matt Serra VS Frank Trigg

I was ready to watch ufc 109 and serra vs trigg was the second fight i really wanted to see. Im a big matt serra fan and i had no dought he would win but man did he do it nicely. i though matt serra was gonna choke frank trigg out in the 3 round( knowing that frank trigg loves to wrestle) but that wasnt the case. matt serra came into the fight looking really good dipspite the short reach advantage. it looked like it might have been a sean sherk vs bj penn at first(but without trigg being on amazing strike like bj penn. mabey just matt serra swinging and not connecting. little did i know thats how most of his fights start out. the fight start and matt serra is quick to engage. matt start throwing big overhand rights and hooks. he lands a little right and trigg counters back. joe rogan says "looks like serra got tagged and is a little hesitant"... bullshit. serra goes strait back to pressing the action and his core boxing skills. trigg throws a strait and serra counters with a huge hook and blastes trigg right in the face! trigg goes on his ass and barley covers up as serra comes down with some huge rights. 3 of them and trigg is laying there knocked the fuck out! of course he tries to play off that he was out only problem was he was laying there on the ground stffened up not able to move. the knokout was tremendus for serra and moves him up on my rankings. great boxing and power shown by serra. truly great!

Randy Couture VS Mark Coleman

just got done watching randy couture fight mark coleman. It was purely amazing. Randy couture came in as the favorite and man was the crowd pumped and so was i. It starts of and couture starts hitting coleman with some really good looking jabs. Randy starts landing some immpresive uppercuts in the clinch and starts using his greco wrestling on coleman, but what he did unlike other fight was that he hit coleman and didnt stop. this fight was going to randy one way or another. every time coleman would get out of the clinch he would start to throw the jabs and with everyone one of them connecting they were paying off. he would throw rights in there stumbling mark a couple times alowing couture the clinch. soon it was time to enter the second round. couture comes into the fight with the same game plan while coleman seems to be wanting to strike with randy. Randy gets the clinch and starts hitting coleman with uppercuts, then to my amazmint couture takes the "godfather of ground and puond" down! he starts teeing off on coleman hitting him after and after! Then for his third time randy couture throws out a sumbmission attempt and submit coleman with a rear-naked choke!!! it was awesome. Couture seems to be moving up the ladder, and i cant wait to see who he gets to fight next.

Jon Jones, Thiago Silva, And Forrest Griffin.

These are 3 light heavyweights who all stand out, but i have to think where are these guys going. Jon jones is fighting brandon vera on ufc on versus 1, coming off his disqualifacation of matt hammil, which was fuckin retarted. I have a feeling jon jones is gonna own, but where does that put him after. Title shot? i dought title shot because lyoto and and shogun are scheduled for a rematch and i think the winner of the rashad rampage fight will get a shot at lyoto. Thigo silva is coming off his loss to rashad which takes him off the top cotenders list and there probably gonna give him a shit fight that he will easily win. Thiago will probably have to win a bunch of fight to get another title shot. Forrest griffin, coming off his win over tito ortiz it scheduled to fight Antônio Rogério Nogueira (little nog) Im sure this fight isnt going to happeen cause thats one hell of an opportunity for little nog and i dont think its fair he should get that good of a fight. Not to say that he cant win but that would be really tough. All 3 of these fighters have great potential. but what does the future hold for them? I cant wait to see jon jones fight brandon vera. i think hes gonna get the win by devistating fashion. i think griffin has the heart to get up to another title shot. And right now i dont know where thiago stand. Thiago vs Luiz Cane?