Event primer - UFC 170

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Prelims (Fight Pass)

Lightweight - Ernest "The Mad Titan" Chavez vs Yosdenis "The Pink Panther" Cedeno

• Chavez's Style - Striking
• Cedeno's Style - Striking
• Prediction - Cedeno by decision

Lightweight - Rafaello "Trator" Oliveira vs Erik "New Breed" Koch

• Oliveira's Style - BJJ
• Koch's Style - Kickboxing
• Prediction - KOch by KO
• Thoughts - Holy cow, did Koch poop in one of Dana White's cars? He probably shouldn't be this low on the prelims.

Prelims (Fox Sports 1)

Flyweight - Zach "Fun Size" Makovsky vs Josh "The Gremlin" Sampo

• Makovsky's Style - Grappling
• Sampo's Style - Grappling
• Prediction - Makovsky by TKO

Bantamweight - Cody "Renegade" Gibson vs Aljamain "Funk Master" Sterling

• Gibson's Style - Striking
• Sterling's Style - Funk, grapping
• Prediction - Sterling by submission

Bantamweight - Raphael Assuncao vs Pedro "The Young Punisher" Munhoz

• Assuncao's Style - BJJ
• Munhoz's Style - Punishing young people, BJJ
• Prediction - Assuncao by submission

Women's Bantamweight - Alexis "Ally-Gator" Davis vs Jessica "Evil" Eye

• Davis' Style - Grappling
• Eye's Style - Smoking drugs
• Prediction - Davis by submission

Main Card (PPV)

Welterweight - Robert Whittaker vs Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson

• Whittaker's Style - Striking
• Thompson's Style - Kickboxing
• Prediction - Thompson by KO

Welterweight - Mike "Quicksand" Pyle vs TJ Waldburger

• Pyle's Style - Mullet, grappling
• Waldburger's Style - Grappling
• Prediction - Pyle by TKO

Welterweight - Rory "Ares" MacDonald vs Demian Maia

• MacDonald's Style - Being a robot that dresses like An Gestapo
• Maia's Style - BJJ
• Prediction - MacDonald by decision

Light Heavyweight - Daniel "DC" Cormier vs Patrick "Durkin" Cummins

• Cormier's Style - Wrestling
• Cummins' Style - Barista
• Prediction - Cormier by TKO
• Thoughts - Cummins gonna get smashed into pulpy bits of jerk

Women's Bantamweight - "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey vs Sara McMann

• Rousey's Style - Judo
• McMann's Style - Wrestling
• Prediction - Rousey by submission (ARMBAR)
• Thoughts - Two Olympic medalists are fighting, which should be rad! I just think McMann needs two or three more fights against high level competition

Event primer - UFC 168

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Prelims (Facebook, YouTube)

Featherweight - Robbie "Problems" Peralta vs Estevan "El Terible" Payan

• Peralta's Style - Striking
• Payan's Style - Boxing
• Prediction - Payan by KO

Welterweight - William "Patolino" Macario vs Bobby "Vicious" Voelker

• Macario's Style - Striking
• Voelker's Style - Striking
• Prediction - Voelker by TKO
• Thoughts - Macario has a bit of a Doug Yuma thing going on, which usually never works out in MMA.

Prelims (Fox Sports 1)

Welterweight - John "Doomsday" Howard vs. Siyar "The Great" Bahadurzada

• Howard's Style - Muay Thai
• Bahaduzada's Style - Kickboxing
• Prediction - Bahadurzada by TKO

Featherweight - Dennis "The Menace" Siver vs Manvel "The Anvil" Gamburyan

• Siver's Style - Kickboxing
• Gamburyan's Style - Judo
• Prediction - Siver by TKO

Lightweight - Gleison Tibau vs Michael "The Menace" Johnson

• Tibau's Style - Wrestling, cutting weight
• Johnson's Style - Wrestling, sprinting
• Prediction - Tibau by decision
• Thoughts - Glacier Tebow will weigh 500 pounds on fight day. Also, Johnson is probably the only non-Dennis to have the nickname "The Menace"

Middleweight - Chris "The Crippler" Leben vs Uriah "Prime Time" Hall

• Leben's Style - Boxing, Zombie boxing, smashing cats
• Hall's Style - Kickboxing, malapropisms
• Prediction - Hall by TKO

Main Card (PPV)

Featherweight - Dustin "The Diamond" Poirier vs Diego "DB" Brandao

• Poirier's Style - Grappling
• Brandao's Style - Muay Thai, BJJ
• Prediction - Poirier by decision

Lightweight - Jim Miller vs Fabricios "Morango" Camoes

• Miller's Style - Grappling
• Camoes' Style - Grappling
• Prediction - Miller by decision

Heavyweight - Josh "The Warmaster" Barnett vs Travis "Hapa" Browne

• Barnett's Style - Catch wrestling, anime, tabletop role playing games
• Browne's Style - Kickboxing
• Prediction - Barnett by submission
• Thoughts - I think Browne might be too big, but I really want to see Barnett break out the Torture Rack.

Women's Bantamweight - "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey vs Miesha "Cupcake" Tate

• Rousey's Style - Judo
• Tate's Style - Wrestling
• Prediction - Rousey by submission
• Thoughts - I would not be surprised if Ronda goes full Toquinho and keeps cranking the armbar until she has actually removed the limb from Tate's body.

Middleweight - Chris "The All-American" Weidman vs Anderson "The Spider" Silva

• Weidman's Style - Wrestling, boxing
• Silva's Style - Muay Thai, BJJ
• Prediction - Weidman by KO
• Thoughts - Last time, I said anyone that picked Weidman to win was pretty dumb. This is why I will never be a respected blogger.

Event Primer: UFC 157 - Rousey vs Carmouche

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Prelim (Facebook)

Welterweight - Nah-Shon "The Rock n Rolla" Burrell vs Yuri Villefort

• Burrell's Style - Striking
• Villefort's Style - Elbows
• Prediction -Burrell by KO

Welterweight - Jon Manley vs Neil Magny

• Manley's Style - BJJ, wrestling
• Magny's Style - BJJ, wrestling
• Prediction - Magny by decision
• Thoughts - Both dudes have the same style and same record, and both were on the same season of The Ultimate Fighter. I think Joe Silva is trying to figure out if one guy is the palette swapped version of the other dude.

Welterweight - Kenny Robertson vs Brock "The Machine" Jardine

• Robertson's Style - Wrestling
• Jardine's Style - Grappling, striking
• Prediction - Robertson by submission
• Thoughts - I'm still waiting on Keith Lesnar to make his UFC debut.

Prelim (FX)

Lightweight - Sam "Hands of Stone" Stout vs Caros "The Future" Fodor

• Stout's Style - Kickboxing
• Fodor's Style - Freestyle
• Prediction - Fodor by decision
• Thoughts - I always expect Ben "Phoenix Jones" Fodor to intervene in one of Caros's fights. Maybe this time he'll show up.

Featherweight - Dennis "The Menace" Bermudez vs Matt "The Real One" Grice

• Bermudez's Style - Wrestling
• Grice's Style - Wrestling
• Prediction - Bermudez by decision

Lightweight - Michael "Maverick" Chiesa vs Anton Kuivanen

• Chiesa's Style - Wrestling, BJJ
• Kuivanen's Style - Grappling
• Prediction - Kuivanen by decision
• Thoughts - This Kuivanen hype video certainly ruffled Chiesa's feathers.

Heavyweight - Brandon "The Hybrid" Schaub vs Lavar "Big" Johnson

• Schaub's Style - Football, striking
• Johnson's Style - Punch
• Prediction - Johnson by KO

Main Card (PPV)

Welterweight - Josh "Kos" Koscheck vs "Ruthless" Robbie Lawler

• Koscheck's Style - Wrestling
• Lawler's Style - Punching
• Prediction - Lawler by KO
• Thoughts - A few years ago, this would have been a prime Fight Camp fight, American Kickboxing Academy versus Miletich Fighting Systems. Now, I just want Lawler to punch the heck out of Koscheck's weird, dumb head.

Welterweight - Court "The Crusher" McGee vs Josh "The Dentist" Neer

• McGee's Style - Karate, BJJ, wrestling
• Neer's Style - BJJ, striking
• Prediction - McGee by submission

Bantamweight - Urijah "The California Kid" Faber vs Ivan "The Pride of El Salvador" Menjivar

• Faber's Style - Brozilian Bro Jitsu, wrestling
• Menjivar's Style - Grappling, striking
• Prediction - Menjivar by submission
• Thoughts - How crazy is it that Menjivar faced a debuting Georges St. Pierre at Welterweight and only lost the fight because the referee is a dingus? SUPER DANG CRAZY. Also, TEAM ALPHA MALE ALWAYS AND FOREVER.

Light Heavyweight - Lyoto "The Dragon" Machida vs Dan "Hendo" Henderson

• Machida's Style - Karate
• Henderson's Style - Big Right Hand, wrestling
• Prediction - Henderson by KO
• Thoughts - My heart wants this prediction to come true so much. I BELIEVE IN HENDO

Women's Bantamweight Title - "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey vs Liz "Girl-Rilla" Carmouche

• Rousey's Style - Armbar, judo
• Carmouche's Style - Striking
• Prediction - Carmouche by TKO
• Thoughts - I hope that Dana doesn't scuttle the entire women's division if/when Ronda loses because he's a weird, creepy dude and doesn't think any other female fighters are marketable.

This Week in Dumb MMA Stuff

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Fights - Hey, UFC fights are back, yay!  Plus Bellator and SFL (PUNCH KICK WOW) as always (Well, not always, Bellator's season ends in a month, and I don't know if SFL is going to literally run every week or not).

Bellator 80 - On this edition of Bellator Fighting Championships, the finals for the Heavyweight and Featherweight tournaments were set up, plus former champion and self-proclaimed "Baddest Man on the Planet", Joe Warren returned to see if he would get knocked out for the third fight in a row.

DeRocher vs. Krahl

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Ryan DeRocher punched Taylor Krahl, and now Taylor has to crawl everywhere he goes.  I am the worst.

Vedepo vs. Bernhard

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This is some crazy stuff.  Bernhard throws a kick and slips, so Vedepo dives into guard, and gets stuck in a triangle.  Vedepo jams his shin and knee all up in Bernhard's neck, and eventually postures up enough and the pressure causes Bernhard to tap out.

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So, ladies and gentlemans, here is the Vedepo choke.  If works perfectly against dorks too dumb to let go of a crappy triangle to avoid getting themselves choked out.

Check out more Bellator, SFL, UFC and other fights, plus lots of news after the jump!

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.

This Week in Dumb MMA

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Fights – Lots of dudes beat up some other dudes this past week.  Here are some of those occurrences.

UFC 150 was a fun event with some good moments to share.

 

Henderson vs. Edgar

Benson Henderson edged out Frankie Edgar with a controversial split decision victory to retain the Lightweight title.  It was another good fight, but Frankie Two-Times doesn’t get another rematch (Nor would Henderson have gotten one if he would have lost), instead Nate Diaz is the number one contender.  I’ll be honest, I really like Ben and I’m glad he won, but I don’t think he did enough to win that decision.  I could watch these two guys fight at least three more times.

Cerrone vs. Guillard

Melvin Guillard was in trouble before the fight started, coming in overweight on Friday (Not even bothering to cut any further), and walking to the cage while wearing sunglasses.  He just needed to walk out to Eminem to trigger every fighter curse.  He did manage to hurt Cerrone early and looked close to finishing the fight, but Cerrone managed to survive.  Cerrone hit Guillard with a big headkick, and finished things off with a punch (Though he was diving for a rear naked choke before the fight was stopped), propelling “Cowboy” up the already clogged Lightweight rankings.

Bermudez vs. Hayden

Tommy Hayden hurt Bermudez early on with a knee, but Bermudez managed to recover and simply over power Hayden.  Bermudez hits a nice front kick and finishes the fight with a standing guillotine.

Check out more Dumb Stuff after the break!

This Week in Dumb MMA Stuff

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Every week I plan on compiling some of the more interesting pieces of MMA ephemera and dump it all in one spot.


Fights - There are always fights going on, and there's usually at least one interesting thing that happens on a given night.


Awesome Ladies' Night
Invicta FC 2 was on Saturday, and despite issues with the live stream, it was an amazing night of lady punchmen.  I’m just going to say to watch the entire card because the whole thing was pretty amazing.  Normally I’d give a brief mention to some of the more standout performances on a card, but they all deserve attention, so, again, watch the entire thing.

Check out more Dumb Stuff after the jump!