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.

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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.

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