anyone watch MMA? (also known as UFC K1, or cage fighting to name a few)

I watch MMA but have not seen K1 as I don't think I've ever seen it on Sky Sports but might have been on late at night on Channel 5.

Its on bravo well used to be anyway.

Setanta have it now.

I'm a big MMA fan.

I can only see Machida winning tonight against Evans, I think he's too elusive and won't get caught like Griffin and Lidell did against him.

Just seen the UFC last night via the internet. For those that do not know:
































Machida by ko in the second. Clearly illustrated the strength of an excellent technique as opposed to pure strength.

Matt HUghes won by decision, 29-28 on all the score cards.

I watch a bit, GSP's my favourite fighter, the man's a freak.

Just watched the Marcus Davis vs. Dan Hardy fight at UFC99, Although Marcus Davis physically was more damaged i still thought he did enough to win the fight personally, Also dispite being a Professional Boxer he was always looking to ground the fight and was very effective down there...
Dan Hardy defeated Marcus Davis via split decision (29-28, 28-29, 29-28*)

I'm just anticipating Mirko Filipovićs (Mirko Cro Cop) return to the UFC vs Mostapha Al-turk...

Time is Wanderlei on?

Had a look at the Betting and it says (22:30)...

What a card UFC 100 Looks...

[uUFC 100 Official fight card:[/u

Main Card
Heavyweight Championship bout: [iChampion[/i Brock Lesnar vs. [iInterim Champion[/i Frank Mir
Welterweight Championship bout: Georges St-Pierre vs. Thiago Alves
Middleweight bout: Dan Henderson vs. Michael Bisping
Welterweight bout: Jon Fitch vs. Paulo Thiago
Middleweight bout: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Alan Belcher

Kongo is fighting now. So after this.

I'm struggling to understand Kongo's game plan

Rich Franklin to win definitely for me also he's only lost 3 of his last 15 fights and they have been against Anderson Silva x2 & Dan Henderson on a Split Decision... compared with Wanderlei Silva who has lost 4 of his last 5 fights of which 3 have been KO's vs Quinton Jackson, Dan Henderson and Mirko Filipović while the other was a Unanimous Decision vs Chuck Liddell...

That will be awesome and will look forward to the Bisping fight with him being a local lad.

Lay there and get battered seemed the order of the day. I am not sure that was his plan though.

GSP to walk it I'm thinking.


I want Wanderlei to win, I love watching him when he's in the mood, seems he's peaked now, though.

He tried to take him down and stuff, but it just didn't make any sense, the little success he had was through standing up and striking, every time he tried to assert dominance he failed. Strange.

That last decision was plain awful. Wanderlai won rounds 2 and 3. Thus he wins. Strange.

I can't agree with you there Rich Franklin definitely deserved the win IMO yes Wanderlei had the odd good shot but Fraklin controlled the majority of the fight...

Decent show tonight all in all.

Some of you may not be aware of undercard results but there were wins for 5 UK fighters on the card, amazing for British MMA.

Hardy was mega impressive in his fight, his gameplan was perfect for getting Davis wound up, but it's also made him a household name due to all the hype. He's a ligitimate top 10 fighter now IMO.

The Uno/Fisher fight was a mess and one of Joe Silva's infrequent poor match ups. Their styles were too similar and it lead to a boring stalemate.

Mike Swick is surely not far from a Welterweight title fight. He won't win it of course, but he deserves it for good performances as of late.

Cro Cop is just a complete fraud now tbh. You can argue that he won convincingly enough, but the fact that it took an eye poke for him to do this says it all. I'd probably have put Al Turk away by that point.

Velasquez is a beast, simple as. I'd like to see Velasquez v Carwin with the winner getting a match against the winner of Lesnar v Mir.

As for the main event, just an amazing fight. I'd be amazed if we see too many better this year. I agree with the judges, although Silva did a bit of damage, Franklin was techincally very sound all the way through, and his striking was very crisp. It'll be interesting to see who Franklin fights next, but he's still well down the pecking order for a shot at the title at 205.

Maybe it is my Wanderlai nut huggery coming through.

Do not be silly. Cro Cop had him reeling before that eye poke. Al Turk had already been knocked down once and was looking shaky. Unfortunate but it happens. The ref should have intervened really. Not Cro Cop's fault.


I agree that he looked impressive but a couple of points did come to mind after the fight. His stand up looked plain awful! For the first 5 seconds of each round when it was on the feet he was nearly knocked out! Needs to work on that. Second point is that when he was grounding and pounding Kongo he could not put him away. ON a few occasion he could have gone for an arm bar or even a kimura but he prefered to keep smacking him. Fair enough, but those shots were never going to be fight enders.

Both valid points on reflection.

Velasquez is still very green, but it's scary how good he could become. He reminds me of a very early Josh Koscheck. His ground control is scary and when he learns how to bang a bit he's going to be awesome.

I'm not really sure if he could get Lesnar to ground, and he might struggle to take down Carwin, so he needs to improve the other elements of his game.

Has anyone been following TUF 9?

It hasn't been a bad season tbh, even though there have been two standout guys in both weight classes (DeMarques and Andre).

It's such a shame to me that Dana picked some real bums on the USA team, I know he's got a business to run, but it looks like he picked the real cream of the crop UK wise to make new stars over here (see lightweight semi finals on this week's show).