Sean Sherk and Waylon Lowe =Brothers?

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Waylon Lowe and Sean Sherk

Could they be related or even brothers.

You be the judge.

Best Quote of the Night for: UFC Fight For The Troops 2

The best quote of the night goes to........Darmaques Johnson after his win against Mike Guymon.

After Guymon tapped out due to the pressure from the body triangle Johnson had on him. This was said:

"who likes foreplay with no orgasm, i mean i didn't finish, my bad."

I was dying this was too funny.

Chael Sonnen Black Belt

On January 3, 2011, the man named Chael Sonnen was awarded a black belt in Money Laundering.

He also was spotted at McDonald's also trying to get a black belt under the Nogueria brothers. Unfortunately, in his happy meal he didn't get the black belt. Good Luck Chael maybe next time.

UFC: Fight For The Troops 2 Main Card

 

This Saturday, January 22 the UFC will hold their second Fight For The Troops event. It will be held in Fort Hood, Texas.  This is how I think the main card will go.

Main card

• Lightweight bout: Evan Dunham vs. Melvin Guillard
• Heavyweight bout: Matt Mitrione vs. Tim Hague
• Featherweight bout: Mark Hominick vs. George Roop
• Heavyweight bout: Pat Barry vs. Joey Beltran
• Lightweight bout: Cole Miller vs. Matt Wiman

 (Each name above has a Wikipedia link)

Evan Dunham vs Melvin Guillard

Evan Dunham was supposed to be fighting Kenny Florian for the main event but due to an injury to Florian, therefore Melvin Guillard, (who was supposed to fight Yves Edward on the prelim card) will step in for Florian.

Dunham coming off a loss against former UFC lightweight champ Sean Sherk, (in which many, including myself thought he won) will try to rebound from that judging error.  Guillard coming off a win against Jeremy Stephens will try to keep on the winning streak.  He's coming into the fight with a 3 fight win streak.

Dunham the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt will have a HUGE advantage on the ground.  He has a really good submission skills and I think will be looking to put Guillard on his back and put Guillard into his weakest aspect.  But, Dunham has shown he can use his striking effectively and efficiently.

Guillard's change to train at Greg Jackson's camp, has been a good career move.  He's become a more disciplined fighter.  A lot of people have been saying he played it safe his last fight against Jeremy Stephens.  It may not be as exciting by not seeing him brawl, but why would he want to take a chance at getting knocked out and lose.  If you lose you get cut from the organization.  Why would he risk that, I think a wins a win.  Guillard will try to keep this standing and use his wrestling to keep this fight standing.

I like Dunham's advantage in the ground but he's going to be facing a talented striker.  With Guillard training at Greg Jackson, hes been becoming more well rounded and better at his weakest areas.  I have Guillard taking a decision.  Chin test for Dunham.


Matt Mitrione vs Tim Hauge

Despite Mitrione having only 3 professional fights, the Duke Roufus product has shown a lot of promise in this sport.  He loves to strike and I think has pretty good ability on keeping distance.  Honestly, I think that Mitrione will try to keep it standing against Hauge.

In all honesty, I haven't seen Tim Hauge fight to much except when he got knocked out by Todd Duffee and lost a decision to Joey Beltran.  Can't say much but he did submit Pat Berry, in which he was getting beat down but showed some heart in the fight and came back with the win.  I know that he does have a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu jitsu.

Its a toss up for me, but I'm going with Mitrione only because I think his striking is more crisp and training with Duke Roufus means that his stand up is going to be better.  Tossing a coin and it lands on Mitrione.

Mark Hominick vs George Roop

This is my fight of the night candidate.  Mark Hominick has one of the best technical strikers in the featherweight division.  He has pin point accuracy and a vicious liver shot.  Mark Hominick is well versed on the ground too.  He also has a little more incentive than Roop, if he wins he is told that he will be getting a title shot against the featherweight champ Jose Aldo.  Hominick also has A TON of momentum behind, having a 4 fight win streak.

George Roop is a scrapper though.  He comes in and fights.  He just gave the best performance of his career by knocking out the Korean Zombie, a guy in which nobody has finished.  That highlight reel knockout had him up there with knockout of the year candidates.

 SO don't count Roop out of this.  That might happen.  But he's primarily known as a striker so this should be a stand up war.

I'm going with Mark Hominick with this one.  He brings more technique and a more refined striking game than Roop.  Second Round TKO , hopefully by body shot that crumbles Roop.  Plus we get to see Aldo get to fight a very good striker.

Pat Barry vs Joey Beltran

Even though Pat Barry lost his last fight against Mirko Cro Cop, he showed hes one of the best strikers in MMA period.  He knocked Cro Cop down in the first round of their fight a couple times.  If he sustained the brilliance he showed in the first round, he could have won the fight. 

But the downside with Barry is that he had surgery on his hand after the Cro Cop fight and nobody will know how that hand will hold up during his fight.

Beltran is also a striker.  He is also coming off a hard fought decision against Matt Mitrione, months prior.  Both have a ton of power in their strikes and can end fights instantaneously.  This is going to be a stand up war.  I want to say Beltran by decision but I feel like Barry can finish in the first round.  I'm going to call a KO for Barry.

Cole Miller vs Matt Wiman

This is going to be a tough one to call.  Wiman is a very tough and durable guy but I love the fact that Miller always wants to finish the fights.  Miller looked a lot better in his stand up game against Ross Pearson and his ground game is always sharp.  I feel like Miller has a huge on the ground , but Wiman is not someone you should count out.  I mean he comes into the cage and fights each time and gets into some great battles.  I mean look he wracked up 3 fight of the night awards against Thiago Tavares (win), Jim Miller (loss), and Sam Stout (loss).

I'm going with Miller finishing by submission in the 3rd round.

UFC 129 Headlining Bouts

UFC 129 will be taking place at the Rogers Centre at Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 11, 2011.  As of today, the only official fights are the headliners, Canada's own George St. Pierre against his challenger, Cesar Gracie product Jake Shields.  The other headlining fight will put two former light heavyweight champions against each other.  Randy Couture will be facing Lyoto Machida.

The welterweight champion George St. Pierre will finally facing Jake Shields.  Shields has been fighting in many other places besides the UFC, now he will be pitted against his toughest test to date.  Jake Shield's base has been in his ground game and will probably try to get the champion to his greatest strength.  The concern I have with Jake Shields, is if he'll pull off the same stupid stunt he did against Martin Kampman.  Shields had trouble making weight and it showed during the fight because his cardio looked really bad, gassing out.

George St. Pierre, coming off a dominating performance against his nemesis Josh Koscheck.  GSP used his stand up to neutralize Koscheck, by jabbing his eye shut.  Thus, making Koscheck basically fighting with one eye for 3-4 rounds.  As in his last fight, it took place in his home country of Canada.  It was sold out very fast.  So, I'm expecting that this will sell out quick too. 

Randy Couture finally got what he asked for, he'll finally be facing Lyoto Machida.  The 47 year old Couture will take a shot at the karate master. 

Also, if featherweight Mark Hominick gets past George Roop at UFC Fight for the Troops, he will be getting a title shot against Brazilian striker Jose Aldo.  There has been speculations that if that fight were to take place, it would happen at UFC 129.

The Ultimate Fighter Season 13 Coaches

NEWS just came in that Heavyweights Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos are going to be coaching the Ultimate Fighter. The season will consist of a welterweight only season. This will seem to be an exciting season knowing that Brock Lesnar is very vocal and his personality may not be liked by others.

I'm honestly expecting him to add some WWE flavor into the show with the showman ship. He loves the camera. It's just in his nature to entertain. On the other hand, Junior Dos Santos seems like he will be the chill one and don't forgot we'll likely have subtitles for him speaking. So all the entertainment should be coming from the one man show named Lesnar.

By taking the coaching job for the season, it will cause them to battle it out for a June showdown for the interim heavyweight title. Since, UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez will be out for some time, Brock and Junior will square off for the title.

By reading on forums and on the internet, people are already counting Brock out of the fight. But lets face it, when you lose, a person can do two things : come back stronger or not. Honestly, I think Brock is a competitor, I think he will learn from his loss, just like when he lost to Frank Mir. We'll just see when it comes down to fight night.

Fights Targeted for UFC 130

A couple fights are being targeted for UFC 130. It's not official but here are some of the fights that are targeted to be on the May 28th card.




Rampage Jackson vs Thiago Silva

The fight will most likely be that the winner will be catapulted into the light heavyweight contention. Thiago just came off a one year layoff to rehabilitate his injuries. Coming off UFC 125, Thiago dominated and smashed his opponent Brandon Vera.

Rampage also won his last fight against Lyoto Machida. Therefore the winner will be taking a huge step up in the light heavyweight ladder.

Frank Mir vs Roy Nelson

This match looks to be a very exciting match up in my opinion especially, both being Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belts.

Frank Mir's job will also be on the chopping block, after Dana White ripped his performance against Mirko Cro Cop.

I'm guessing the whole contract issue with Roy Nelson is resolved. He just came off a gutsy performance against Junior Dos Santos. He took a massive beating and showed a ton of heart.

Also, there is a rumor that Frankie Edgar and Grey Maynard will have their rematch on this card. Its only a rumor, besides Frankie needs to be medically cleared due to the fracture in his nose.

George St. Pierre vs Jake Shields= Not exciting?

GSP just got off his one sided jabfest of Koscheck's right eye. He shut him down so easily, that Koscheck couldn't even see or even react to GSP's jab. That one sided domination, brings an argument for St. Pierre for cleaning out everyone in that division. The only relevant person for him to fight is Jake Shields. After that, its a clean sweep. Personally, that fight could potentially be the most boring fight in MMA history. It would be a takedown marathon I would think for Jake Shields, maybe that might be St. Pierre's weakness, fighting someone who can bore him to death more than he bores other people to death.

I'm not trying to diss them, they are amazing fighters but they give very lackluster performances. GSP doesn't take any risk and makes sure he gets the win and doesn't take the risk to go all in and finish the fight. He used to finish fights when he was younger, but he'd rather take the safe approach and win. Which doesn't always translate into an exciting fight for the fans.

Jake Shields, don't get me wrong hes a good fighter but, I never seen him in an exciting fight. He comes to wrestle and grapple. He puts the fight into his greatest strength which is a smart game plan. But he also does the lay and pray technique at times. Which many people labeled him to a boring fighter. The most exciting moment I've ever seen him in a fight is when Hendo almost knocked him out. That was the best.

Do you guys think this will be an exciting fight?

The Best MMA kick landed EVER!!!

Although I was wrong on my prediction with the Benson Henderson and Anthony Pettis fight last night, Pettis showed a real set of skills and a no fear attitude to commit to this kick. Its probably the best kick i ever seen landed, it was flashy as hell. To bad Henderson didn't get KO'd from it. Enjoy.






Highlight

Final WEC Fight Card

Tonight, the last the world will ever see the WEC banner producing fights. This will be the final fight card due to the merger with the UFC. Two titles will be on the line, the WEC Lightweight Championship and the WEC Bantamweight Championship. This will be a showcase for these WEC fighters, to show the UFC what kind of talent they had there. Here are my predictions for the fights of the main card.

First on the main card is :


Bart Palaszewski Vs. Kamal Shalorus

Kamal Shalorus is a very decorated international wrestler. But he uses it to keep the fight standing and use his stand up to keep the fight in his element. He loves to throw all his power into his punches and if it lands, your going to be in huge trouble. But, I'm going to give his fight to Bard Palaszewski. Hes a crafty veteran and has much more experience than his opponent. He also pulls out a lot of crafty wins. He can finish you with his stand up or pull a crafty submission, but I see a 2nd round submission by Palaszewski.

Donald Cerrone Vs. Chris Horodecki

Honestly, I don't see where Horodecki is better than Cerrone. They got stand and bang. But with Cerrone's experiences with top flight guys in their division, I think he'll pull out a Horodecki leg battering decision. Expect Horodecki to be hobbling after the fight.

Dominick Cruz Vs. Scott Jorgensen

As much as I hate saying this because I consider Jorgensen one of my favorite Bantamweight fighters, Dominick Cruz pulls another decision. Hes going to have to stay on the outside and use his long reach to keep Jorgensen on the outside. Expect a GSP jabfest to Jorgensen's face. Jorgensen's straight forward pressure may go against him in this fight running into the punches. Cruz by 5 round decision.

Ben Henderson Vs. Anthony Pettis

The winner of this fight will face the winner of Edgar/Maynard bout in January. This fight has a lot on the line for these to, this will show who will be the last WEC Lightweight Champion before going to the UFC. Anthony Pettis has amazing stand up, very dynamic. He also has amazing triangles off his back. But, Henderson has a threshold that nobody ever seen. He doesn't tap, its like trying to choke out a zombie, it won't work. Henderson finishes this in 3 rounds by TKO . Ground and Pound, nobody ever seen Pettis really get rocked so this will test if he can eat Henderson's ground and pound assault.

The Ultimate Fighter Season 13 Coaches

Although there is no coaches set for the next installment of the Ultimate Fighter, there has been various options of who will coach this season. Dana White has thrown around the idea of a Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir. This would set up a rubber match between the two to finish the trilogy. Personally, I would probably like to watch the animosity towards each other. Trash talking would be the amusement factor. Everyone knows they hate each other, why not have great footage. But who knows. Other speculations would be a Chael Sonnen and Wanderlei Silva season. This would be an interesting match up but who knows if Chael Sonnen will be the same person, will he be humbled after his incident or will he be the trash talker he is. Having Wanderlei in the season means that there will be subtitles for sure. Who knows though, we'll just have to see what the UFC has in store. Personally, ill go with the Lesnar vs Mir just so these gigantic dudes will have some anger towards each other, which will lead to a great fight in the cage. What do you guys think?