UFC 122 Talk

Preliminary card
Welterweight bout: Kris McCray vs. Carlos Eduardo Rocha
Light Heavyweight bout: Seth Petruzelli vs. Karlos Vemola
Welterweight bout: Duane Ludwig vs. Nick Osipczak
Welterweight bout: Pascal Krauss vs. Mark Scanlon
Light Heavyweight bout: Vladimir Matyushenko vs. lexandre Ferreira
Middleweight bout: Kyle Noke vs. Rob Kimmons

Main card
Light Heavyweight bout: Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Goran Reljic
Welterweight bout: Amir Sadollah vs. Peter Sobotta
Lightweight bout: Dennis Siver vs. Andre Winner
Middleweight bout: Jorge Rivera vs. Alessio Sakara
Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt vs. Yushin Okami

What do you guys think? Personally I think its a poor to mediocre at best card. I get that it's free and all but come on, with all the talent in the UFC, we can come up with some bigger names on this card can't we? I also think, especially now that the UFC as officially absorbed the WEC, that there should be at least 1 title fight on every big UFC event. Why can't they do that? No reason I can see.

That being said, I love Nate Marquardt, I expect him to run through Yushin Okami. Denis Siver has one of the coolest highlight reel knockouts of all time, a liver kick KO! I always enjoy watching Amir Sadollah fight, he is a gamer and never quits and has a full tank of gas and a wicked guard. Other than that, I expect a boring card and I understand why it's free because no one would pay $50 to watch this. Come on Dana, step up your game son!

I'm not very excited for this one I must say, but at least it's free. It might surprise us though, that's the thing about mma it tends to surprise you sometimes a card looks bad but ends up being awesome and sometimes a fight or card looks awesome but doesn't deliver.

Mark Scanlon is fantastic at Jiu Jitsu, another guy from Liverpool

All i know is that matyushenko is going to sleep via guillotine within the first minute

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Originally Posted by Ericp

All i know is that matyushenko is going to sleep via guillotine within the first minute

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if he does, i'll give you a cookie.
if he doesnt, i'll be first to point and laugh :D

Sakara out of co-main
BREAKING NEWS: MMAjunkie.com has confirmed with UFC officials that an illness has forced Alessio Sakara out of his co-main-event bout with Jorge Rivera. The fight has been scrapped from tonight's card.

bummer

Pac man by triangle

i hope this happens with okami again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StYulH-yKsk

I really wanted to see Rivera. But Slick Nick and Duane Bang to the main card ? Alright. That's a trade off I won't complain about. I think this might be the most exciting fight.

People want bigger names, but COME ON. Your complaining and you haven't even seen the fights yet. These guys work harder than I ever will and they're on tv and people are complaining. How would that make you feel as a professional ?

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Originally Posted by Freddy Chavez

People want bigger names, but COME ON. Your complaining and you haven't even seen the fights yet. These guys work harder than I ever will and they're on tv and people are complaining. How would that make you feel as a professional ?

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I honestly don't care how the fighters feel as professionals, they get paid by the UFC, and they get their chance in the spotlight on tv to show me what they've got, and if I am impressed, well then on the NEXT card that I see them on, I might think differently about the overall quality of that card. I'm all for giving the lesser-knowns a shot at the lime light, but that's what smaller shows should be for, like the fight nights on spike, which I'd love to see a lot more of. But this is supposed to be a big UFC event, second time ever in Germany, etc. I just think the UFC has enough big names where they can at least round out the card with some bigger draws, it's not like there arn't big name fighters waiting in the wings looking for a fight.

4/5 prelim fights were finishes. The main card has been good so far :)

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Originally Posted by Tomoplata

4/5 prelim fights were finishes. The main card has been good so far :)

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Link?

It was an awesome UFC event. On paper it didn't look that good. But even all of the prelims where awesome. The only kinda boring fight was the main event.

Many thanks to Joe and Eddie who made it possible for me to watch the event live in the arena!
Love you guys! :)

Honestly...I'm tired of watching the UFC. What made MMA exciting for me in the first place were the style match ups. I feel like the UFC is becoming all about who is the most freakishly athletic. IMO two dudes trying to out score each other with athleticism just makes for boring fights.

I would rather watch ADCC, or even big international Gi tournaments. I mean BJJ is the reason why MMA was exciting to me in the first place.