General Fighting thread

[scotty2hatty]

Watching TUF Finale at the moment - no spoilers if you know anything. Anyway, just been announced that Anderson Silva is moving up to 205 to take on James Irvin! Should be awesome.

[AdamM]

that's a huge announcement. Not sure if he'll have to vacate the middleweight title. A few middleweight contenders breathing a little sign of relif maybe, and Rich Franklin might get his career back.

[Grier78]

Congrats to Amir, just hope he can bring it in the real world.

[TheChipPrince]

Why's Joe split with Warren 2-3 fights before the end of his career?

[EvilPie]

 I have no idea who Lesnar is training with, but if it was one of the major camps, I guess I'd of heard.

I noticed in the Mir fight that he had Eric Paulson in his corner. Now there's a guy that knows about fighting.

With help like that he should improve.

Anyone know if he's got another fight announced?

[AdamM]

he was supposed to be fighting Mark Coleman. He used to be out of breath after 6 minutes in his prime. now he'd be an easy fight for Lesnar.

unfortunately for Lesnar, Coleman has pulled out with a knee injury. His replacement is Heath Herring. A serious fighter and I think Lesnar is in a world of trouble. Roll on August 9th

[AdamM]

also on the card, GSP v Fitch and Huerta v Florian. two cracking sounding fights

[pokefast]

Why's Joe split with Warren 2-3 fights before the end of his career?

Can only be money orientated.

Cut out the middle man so to speak.

Can't blame Joe really he has payed his dues and deserves a few retirement fights.

[AdamM]

Forrest Griffin is 3.25 to beat Quinton Jackson. Bit of value there I think.

I did say I expected a decision win for Josh Koscheck but at 3.6 Chris Lytle might be worth a dabble too. Got a punchers chance.

[Delboy]

At least Brock put on a fairly interesting (if short) heavyweight bout, don't see many of those these days.

He needs to learn how to punch and drop elbows, the shots against Mir were wild and ineffective IMO.

Did you see Mir's face about two hours later.....?  ALOT of damage and big time swelling

I gve Lesner two years and he'll be world champ....

[AdamM]

won't happen. Mir is the best possible style match up for him. a smaller BJJ with a habit of taking punishment before sinking his submission. against a top class striker or a more efficient fighter I don't see it.

can you imagine Lesnar v Nogueria? I saw Nog at Seni this year. very impressive looking dude up close. Head like a canon ball.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Lesnar will grow into a decent heavyweight fighter, but I don't see him ever being top of the food chain, even in a relatively weak division like the UFC heavyweights.

call it 18 months and I'm sure we can come up with a sig bet

[EvilPie]

Forrest Griffin is 3.25 to beat Quinton Jackson. Bit of value there I think.

 

Well worth a few quid. When's the fight? I've not been following UFC too much recently but this one will be worth watching.

Also agree about Lesnar. Stick him in against Nog and he's got a whole world of hurt.

[scotty2hatty]

Well worth a few quid. When's the fight?

Saturday. A friend of mine has tickets. Lucky *****.

[AdamM]

early hours on Setanta, repeated on bravo I think.

[AdamM]

UFC 86
this looks like a better card already

Jackson v Griffin. I actually give Forrest the edge in this. I think he'll have the advantage on the feet and will have been working heavily on his take down defence for this fight. Randy Couture is not a bad sparing partner to prepare for this fight.

Cote to beat  Almeida by TKO
Stephenson to submit Tibau
Would love to see Lytle knock Koschecks head off, but my guess is Koscheck decision (lay and pray win)
Tyson Griffin decision (as usual) over Aurelio
Miller TKO over Gurgel
Guillard to KO Siver
Hill TKO Buchholz
Saunders submit Rollins

Forrest, what a star. I gave him all but the 4th round. Great fight. Rampage really didn't like those nasty leg kicks.
Cote looked pretty ordinary in round 1 but deserved the decision.
Stephenson was losing that fight but got the sub I thought he would
Koscheck was very aggressive. Hardly the lay and pray I expected. really bloody fight. I thought it should of been stopped between rounds 2 & 3 but to be fair to Lytle he was still swinging at the end.
Tyson Griffin decision as usual. good fight though.
Miller won as I thought, but by submission. I'll look for that bout online later.
Guillard to KO Siver. tick.
Hill got submitted, spoiling my perfect pick (don't know what happened to Saunders v Rollins)
7/8 not bad though. would of been 8/9 if I'd remembered to add the Gonzaga bout.