Event primer - UFC 169

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Prelims (Fight Pass)

Welterweight - Neil Magny vs Gasan "Cobra" Umalatov

• Magny's Style - Grappling
• Umalatov's Style - Sambo (I mean, probably, right?), being a diacritical mark
• Prediction - Umalatov by submission
• Thoughts - Go away, Neil Magny, nobody from TUF 16 is any good

Lightweight - Rashid "Highlander" Magomedov vs Tony Martin

• Magomedov's Style - Sambo
• Martin's Style - Grappling
• Prediction - Magomedov by decision

Middleweight - Clint "Headbussa" Hester vs Andy "Tank Mode" Enz

• Hester's Style - Striking
• Enz's Style - Grappling
• Prediction - Hester by KO
• Thoughts - This is kind of a decent set of nicknames from both dudes.

Prelims (Fox Sports 1)

Lightweight - Al "Raging" Iaquinta vs Kevin "Mo-Town Phenom" Lee

• Iaquinta's Style - Boxing, BJJ
• Lee's Style - Wrestling
• Prediction - Iaquinta by decision
• Thoughts - Serra-Longo Fight Team continues to roll. STRONG ISLAND, BABY!

Middleweight - Tom "Kong" Watson vs Nick "The Jersey Devil" Catone

• Watson's Style - Boxing
• Catone's Style - Wrestling
• Prediction - Catone by decision

Flyweight - Chris "Kamikaze" Cariaso vs Danny "The Gremlin" Martinez

• Cariaso's Style - Striking
• Martinez's Style - Punching
• Prediction - Martinez by decision

Lightweight - John "The Bull" Makdessi vs Alan "Nuguette" Patrick

• Makdessi's Style - Striking, wonky eye
• Patrick's Style - BJJ
• Prediction - Patrick by submisison

Main Card (PPV)

Lightweight - Jamie Varner vs Abel "Killer" Trujillo

• Varner's Style - Wrestling
• Trujillo's Style - Striking
• Prediction - Trujillo by KO
• Thoughts - You go away, too, Jamie Varner.

Flyweight - John "Hands of Stone" Lineker vs Ali "Puncher King" Bagautinov

• Lineker's Style - Striking, missing weight
• Bagautinov's Style - Punching
• Prediction - Bagautinov by TKO, Lineker comes in at least 2 pounds heavy

Heavyweight - Alistair "Demolition Man" Overeem vs Frank Mir

• Overeem's Style - Kickboxing
• Mir's Style - BJJ, Smug
• Prediction - Overeem by KO
• Thoughts - Both of these guys lose in very funny ways, so this fight should be stupid-entertaining

Featherweight - Jose "Junior" Aldo vs Ricardo "The Bully" Lamas

• Aldo's Style - Muay Thai, soccer
• Lamas' Style - Wrestling
• Prediction - Aldo by KO

Bantamweight - Renan "Barao" Pegado vs Urijah "The California Kid" Faber

• Pegado's Style - BJJ, Muay Thai, being a Nosferatu
• Faber's Style - Wrestling, BANG Muay Thai, Dougie-ing
• Prediction - Barao by decision

Event Primer - UFC Ultimate Fight Night 26

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Preliminary Card (Facebook)

Lightweight - "Stripper" Ramsey Nijem vs James "The Texecutioner" Vick

• Nijem's Style - Wrestling
• Vick's Style - Grappling
• Prediction - Vick by submission

Light Heavyweight - Cody "Donnybrook" Donovan vs Ovince "OSP" St. Preux

• Donovan's Style - BJJ
• St. Preux's Style - Boxing, wrestling, football
• Prediction - St. Preux by KO

Featherweight - Manvel "The Anvil" Gamburyan vs Cole "Magrinho" Miller

• Gamburyan's Style - Judo
• Miller's Style - BJJ
• Prediction - Miller by decision

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)

Featherweight - Diego "Cerea" Brandao vs Daniel "The Pit" Pineda

• Brandao's Style - Muay Thai, BJJ
• Pineda's Style - Muay Thai, wrestling
• Prediction - Brandao by KO

Featherweight - Mike Brown vs "Super" Steven Siler

• Brown's Style - BJJ
• Siler's Style - Grappling
• Prediction - Siler by decision

Featherweight - "Notorious" Conor McGregor vs Max "Blessed" Holloway

• McGregor's Style - Boxing
• Holloway's Style - Striking
• Prediction - McGregor by KO

Bantamweight - Brad "One Punch" Pickett vs Michael "May Day" McDonald

• Pickett's Style - Boxing
• McDonald's Style - Kickboxing, Yah Mo BJJ There
• Prediction - McDonald by submission

Main Card (Fox Sports 1)

Lightweight - Joe "J-Lau" Lauzon vs Michael "the Menace" Johnson

• Lauzon's Style - BJJ
• Alternate Lauzon Nickname - "Creepy" Joe Lauzon
• Johnson's Style - Wrestling
• Prediction - Lauzon by submission

Middleweight - Uriah "Prime Time" Hall vs John "Doomsday" Howard

• Hall's Style - Striking, apologies
• Howard's Style - Striking
• Prediction - Hall by KO

Welterweight - Matt "The Immortal" Brown vs Mike "Quicksand" Pyle

• Brown's Style - Striking, grappling, scrapping, returning from death
• Pyle's Style - BJJ
• Prediction - Brown by TKO
• Thoughts - Argh, I don't want either of these cool dudes to lose. Dang you, Joe Silva!

Bantamweight - Urijah "The California Kid" Faber vs Yuri Alcantara

• Faber's Style - Wrestling, Brozilian jiu-jitsu
• Alcantara's Style - BJJ
• Prediction - Faber by submission (BROLLOTINE CHOKE)
• Thoughts - I say, I sure wish I knew how to Dougie. What's that, Team Alpha Male? You can teach me? Wow, you are the best shirtless dude-bros around!

Heavyweight - Alistair "The Reem" Overeem vs Travis "Hapa" Browne

• Overeem's Style - Muay Thai
• Browne's Style - Muay Thai, BJJ
• Prediction - Overeem by KO

Light Heavyweight - Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs Chael Sonnen

• Rua's Style - Muay Thai, BJJ
• Sonnen's Style - Wrestling
• Prediction - Sonnen by decision
• Thoughts - I am really enjoying Chael's The Genius/Lanny Poffo poetry schtick.

Fantastic Finishes - Overeem vs Fujita

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Today on Fantastic Finishes, we take a look back at the time Alistair Overeem's foray into fighting large-headed monsters didn't end with him getting murdered via hubris (Of course, it helps that Fujita is about five hojillion times worse at the mixing of martial arts than Antonio Silva).

Alistair Overeem vs. Kazuyuki Fujita - Dynamite!! 2009 (December 31, 2009)

Who Are These Dorks?

Alistair Overeem is a Dutch kickboxer that packed on an entire Demetrious Johnson worth of muscle in about two years, allegeldy through a steady diet of horse meats. His knees are so powerful, they have been known to shakedown the Tunguska event for its lunch money.

Kazuyuki Fujita is a Japanese (pro) wrestler born with Homer Simpson Syndrome, otherwise known as a slightly thicker than average skull. He's used this X-gene to absorb his opponents' punishment and gently nudge their exhausted bodies over for glorious knockouts (technically) (Or, in the case of Ken Shamrock, force a heart attack).

Why Is This Fight Special?

In all his history as a punching bag, Fujita had never gone entirely unconscious. He had several TKO stoppages on his record, but they were either from cuts, his corner calling off the fight two seconds in thanks to injuries, or, in the case of his bout against Wanderlei Silva, Fujita was on his way back to his feet (For I believe the sixtieth time) when the ref waved off the contest.

Against Overeem, though, Fujita went out entirely. In fact, he went super out, so much that Overeem ran into Fujita being taken to the hospital on a stretcher in the back of the arena. Fujita went so unconscious, I don't believe he retired from MMA so much as he just hasn't woken up yet.

What Did We Learn?

• Alistair Overeem's knees will murder your brain so hard your parents will forget you ever existed
• A person needs more than a thick candy shell around their head to be a successful mixed martial artist
• Knee Death claims another victim, having previously stopped a man's heart, and later, drained a man of all his head-blood.

Event Primer - UFC 156

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Prelims (Facebook)

Bantamweight - Edwin "El Feroz" Figueroa vs Francisco "Cisco" Rivera

• Figueroa's Style - Striking
• Rivera's Style - Striking
• Prediction -  Figueroa by KO

Bantamweight - Chico "The King" Camus vs Dustin "The Diamond" Kimura

• Camus's Style - Striking, Existentialism
• Style - Submissions (But no kimuras? What in all of the hecks, man?)
• Prediction - Camus via getting Kimura to contemplate the nothingness of the universe by way of extensive face punches

Prelims (FX)

Lightweight - Yves Edwards vs Isaac Ville-Flagg

• Edwards's Style - Thugjitsu
• Ville-Flagg's Style - Punches
• Prediction - Edwards by KO
• Thoughts - Edwards is the best dude ever.

Lightweight - Jacob "Christmas" Volkmann vs Bobby "King" Green

• Volkmann's Style - Wrestling
• Green's Style - Hood
• Prediction - Green by decision
• Thoughts - I hope Volkmann manages to wrangle a live microphone so he can get another Secret Service visit.

Welterweight - Tyron "The Chosen One' Woodley vs Jay "Thoroughbred" Hieron

• Woodley's Style - Wrestling
• Hieron's Style - Wrestling
• Prediction - Woodley by decision
• Thoughts - Remember when Hieron bled a bunch? That was gross.

Lightweight - Gleison Tibau vs Evan Dunham

• Tibau's Style - Wrestling, BJJ, cutting weight
• Unofficial Tibau Nickname - Gleison "Tim" Tibau
• Dunham's Style - BJJ
• Prediction - Tibau by decision

Main Card (PPV)

Flyweight - Joseph Benavidez vs Ian "Uncle Creepy" McCall

• Benavidez's Style - Wrestling, Brozlian Bro Jitsu
• McCall's Style - BJJ
• Prediction - Benavidez by submission (Brollotine choke)
• Thoughts - Obligatory Team Alpha Male video

Welterweight - Jon Fitch vs Demian Maia

• Fitch's Style - Wrestling, beating up Thunder Cats
• Maia's Style - BJJ, turning on blood faucets
• Prediction - Fitch by TKO
• Thoughts - This fight isn't really fair since Fitch has MIND POWERS (From being Week Day Vegan)

Heavyweight - Alistair "The Reem" Overeem vs Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva

• Overeem's Style - Muay Thai
• Silva's Style - Striking, BJJ
• Prediction - Overeem by KO
• Thoughts - WHOA, OVEREEM, PANTASTIC BODY!

Light Heavyweight - "Suga" Rashad Evans vs Antonio Rogerio "Minotouro" Nogueira

• Evans's Style -Wrestling, boxing
• Nogueira's Style - BJJ, boxing
• Prediction -Evans by KO
• Thoughts - More like LOL Nog

Main Event: Featherweight Title - Jose "Junior" Aldo vs Frankie "The Answer" Edgar

• Aldo's Style - Muay Thai, BJJ, buying suits
• Edgar's Style - Wrestling, Boxing
• Edgar's Real Nickname - Frankie "Two Times" Edgar
• Prediction - Edgar by TKO
• Thoughts -  I can't wait for rounds 6 - 10 in like six months!