Event Primer - UFC 171

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Prelims (Fight Pass)

Featherweight - Daniel "The Pit" Pineda vs Robert "The Hammer" Whiteford

• Pineda's Style - Grappling
• Whiteford's Style - Striking
• Prediction - Pineda by submission

Middleweight - Robert "Bubba" McDaniel vs Sean "Tarzan" Strickland

• McDaniel's Style - Grappling
• Strickland's Style - Striking
• Prediction - Strickland by KO
• Thoughts - Please go away, Bubba, nobody likes you.

Flyweight - Will Campuzano vs Justin "Tank" Scoggins

• Campuzano's Style - Striking
• Scoggins' Style - Striking
• Prediction - Scoggins by KO

Lightweight - Renee Forte vs Frank "Sitkayan" Trevino

• Forte's Style - Playing loud
• Trevino's Style - Striking
• Prediction - Trevino by decision
• Thoughts - What the fuck is a "Sitkayan" ?

Prelims (Fox Sports 2)

Welterweight - Sean "Black Magic" Spencer vs Alex "The Dominican Nightmare" Garcia

• Spencer's Style - Freestyle
• Garcia's Style - BJJ, striking
• Prediction - Garcia by KO

Featherweight - Jimy "The Kid" Hettes vs Dennis "The Menace" Bermudez

• Hettes' Style - Judo
• Bermudez's Style - Wrestling, boxing
• Prediction - Bermudez by KO

Women's Bantamweight - Raquel "Rocky" Pennington vs Jessica "Bate Estaca" Andrade

• Pennington's Style - Striking, grappling
• Andrade's Style - BJJ, Muay thai
• Prediction - Andrade by decision

Welterweight - Kelvin Gastelum vs Rick "The Horror" Story

• Gastelum's Style - Wrestling, grappling
• Story's Style - Wrestling
• Prediction - Gastelum by submission

Main Card (PPV)

Light Heavyweight - Ovince "OSP" St. Preux vs Nikita "The Al Capone" Krylov

• St. Preux's Style - Football
• Krylov's Style - Fedora
• Prediction - Ovince by KO

Welterweight - Jake Shields vs Hector "Lightning" Lombard

• Shields' Style - American Jiu-Jitsu, rorsin' around
• Lombard's Style - Boxing, judo
• Prediction - Shields by decision

Lightweight - Diego "The Dream" Sanchez vs Myles "Fury" Jury

• Sanchez's Style - Wrestle-boxing, being a slippery lizard, DEVIL YOGA
• Jury's Style - Kickboxing, BJJ
• Prediction - Sanchez by decision
• Thoughts - I would really like to see Diego not take a massive amount of brain trauma in this fight.

Welterweight - Carlos "The Natural Born Killer" Condit vs Tyron "T-Wood" Woodley

• Condit's Style - Spinning shit
• Woodley's Style - Wrestling, boxing
• Prediction - Condit by TKO
• Thoughts - Since Condit is the fighting version of Adam Scott, I want to see a MMA version of Parks and Recreation (Don Frye can be Ron Swanson)

Welterweight - Johny "Bigg Rigg" Hendricks vs "Ruthless" Robbie Lawler

• Hendricks' Style - Wrestlin', punchin'
• Lawler's Style - Punchin'
• Prediction - Lawler by TKO
• Thoughts - So sad for Hendricks that as soon as he doesn't win the welterweight title, he loses it to Lawler.

This Week in Dumb MMA Stuff

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Fights – Strikeforce – Rousey vs. Kaufman was a good event, from top to bottom, so I’m going to spend a bit of time talking about those fights.

Mike Beltran, Dwarf Lord Referee

First off, I want to make special note of referee Mike Beltran and his glorious, hypnotic mustache.  He did have some off moments, like warning guys on the ground to keep working, despite submissions being actively sought for.  He also wanted to speed Roger Bowling’s groin shot recovery along, threatening to get the ring doctor involved despite the rules stating a fighter gets upwards of five minutes to recuperate.  He was much more accommodating to Germaine de Randame after she took a knee to the lady balls from Hiroko Yamanaka.

Check out actual fight information after the jump, and more!

Strikeforce - Rousey vs Kaufman Primer

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Strikeforce Presents:  Rousey vs. Kaufman is coming up on Saturday.  In a completely Strikeforcian move, Miesha Tate vs. Julie Kedzie is not going to be on the main card, but on the prelims, which are broadcast on Showtime Extreme, which is a channel that twelve people have.  Out of protest, I'm only going to be covering the main card, which should start on regular Showtime at 10PM ET (I'm watching the prelims, though, because luckily enough I do get ShoXtreme, hooray).

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS

Ovince “OSP” St. Preux vs. TJ Cook

• St. Preux’s Style – Football, wrestling
• Cook’s Style – Striking
• Prediction – St. Preux grounds and pounds his way to a stoppage.
•  Thoughts – OSP needs to get back to fighting at least five times in two months, that’s when he had his most success.

MIDDLEWEIGHTS

Lumumba “Heavy Hands” Sayers vs. Anthony “Lionheart” Smith

• Sayers’s Style – Submissions
• Smith’s Style – Striking AND Grappling
• Prediction – Sayers will hit Smith very hard and win with a submission, probably due to strikes.
• Thoughts – I like that Sayers’s nickname doesn’t reflect how he finishes fights.  It would be like if Miesha “Takedown” Tate just threw crazy Tae Kwon Do and Capoeira spinning, flying kicks.

WELTERWEIGHTS

Tarec “Sponge” Saffiedine vs. Roger “Relentless” Bowling

• Saffiedine’s Style – Karate
• Bowling’s Style – Freestyle, Picking up Spares
• Prediction – Bowling wins by knockout.  Bowling gets the nod because he beat up Neo-Nazi jerk-hole Brandon Saling, and also Saffiedine fought Scott Smith to a decision, which is disappointing because at least one person is supposed to get knocked out in a Scott Smith fight.
• Thoughts – I can’t think of a good bowling pun.  Wait, I bet Roger doesn’t want to win a SPLIT decision!  That was terrible, I am terrible.

MIDDLEWEIGHTS

Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza vs. Derek “the Human Blanket” Brunson

• Souza’s Style – BJJ
• Brunson’s Style – Wrestling, poker (Oh, wait, wrong Brunson)
• Prediction – Souza wins via submission because he is an alligator-man, and that’s pretty cool.
• Thoughts – I hope Souza wins, especially by submission, because I love seeing him do his alligator/caiman chomp.

MAIN EVENT - WOMEN'S BANTAMWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT

“Rowdy” Ronda Rousey vs. Sarah Kaufman

• Rousey’s Style – Judo
• Kaufman’s Style – Boxing
• Prediction – Ronda wins with her standard judo throw, armbar combo.
• Thoughts – I’m really fluctuating on if I like Ronda or not.  She’ll do something kind of dumb, like that YouTube video and I think “Please just do fights”, but then she’ll have a good interview on Conan, or say she doesn’t care if Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos injects horse semen into her eyes, just make 135 and the fight is on, and I think “Okay, that’s pretty cool”.  I think Kaufman is in trouble because her only loss was by armbar, she was in danger of getting armbarred by Davis in her last fight, and as everyone knows, all Rousey does is take arms home with her.