Frankie doesn’t deserve a title shot - he’s had 2 fights since his last one, both again guys who aren’t in the top 10. I love Frankie Edgar too, but even I don’t want to see Edgar-Aldo 2.
Funkula
1702
Just saw last week’s event, and now I know what that gelatinous brown mass in my yard Thursday morning was. Do you think Evan Dunham wants his liver back after it’s sat outside for a few days?
Well what either of us thinks doesn’t matter much, since Edgar is pretty set on a title fight or at least a title elimination. Him vs. Cub Swanson would make a lot of sense for a title elimination match.
It was not a good night to be a liver.
We got Lawler vs Brown this weekend. I’d say this is easily my most anticipated fight of the year. I wish they could both win.
If you need to get hype for this upcoming fight: Matt Brown vs. Erick Silva.
Zuwadza
1706
Thanks for moving the thread, mods!
Matt Brown vs. Robbie Lawler pretty well delivered. Everything except a finish, but what can you do when both guys clearly aren’t human. Seeing Brown clearly hurt his right hand and still keep winging it was incredible. Looking forward to Lawler/Hendricks 2 and seeing who Brown faces next.
Rest of the card was pretty good too. Rumble looked good, Guida got owned.
I didn’t get home in time to watch the prelims, but the main card was pretty great. My only regret is that Brown and Lawler couldn’t both have won somehow. I hope Lawler beats Hendricks in a rematch and Brown gets a couple wins so he can rematch Lawler for the belt. I’m a huge fan of both of those guys.
Would love to see Brown against Rory Macdonald. Mostly because I dislike Rory and think Brown could pretty easily push past Rory’s jab and do a ton of damage.
It was awesome to see a fight actually on network TV on a Saturday at a reasonable time. This was an answer to my earlier complaint. I loved it! Got to watch the fights with my son on my chest as I called out techniques to him.
Little Nog got his big chin smacked. I think both of those brothers are getting a little long in the tooth.
Good to see both Clay Guida and Matt Brown in action again. Both of them lost but both fought with a lot of heart.
It’s funny, Joe Rogan went from a little known standup and Fear Factor guy to the absolute voice of this sport. When they were doing the intro for the main fight card and they had the Fox Sports commentators I was worried they would replace him but I guess he’s just so good at the play by play I don’t know who else they’d get. Time and time again he goes “watch out for this” and then the fight plays out almost exactly as he called it. Amazing.
Didn’t get to watch live on Saturday night but had it on my DVR, just watched it tonight. That Lawler/Brown fight certainly lived up to the top-card billing. I’m with carlton, wish they could both have won. Felt bad for Brown when that hand went on him in the last round; he was really making a push before that happened.
And man, that Anthony Johnson KO looked like it was straight out of Punch-Out. The first two connections were solid enough, but the big uppercut that went in third was brutal.
Little Nog doesn’t exactly look like he has a glass chin, either. You could park cars on that thing. Guess Johnson really is a beast.
By the way, is Rampage Jackson out/retired? I haven’t seen him in a while.
Rampage signed with Bellator a while ago - he had contract disputes with the UFC and said a lot of negative things about them before leaving. He was immediately scheduled to fight Tito Ortiz in Bellator’s PPV but Tito dropped out. He recently beat King Mo for a shot at the Bellator title (lol). He also might begin professional wrestling for TNA in the future.
TNA brought him in a while back same with Ortiz. Don’t think they wrestled or anything though. And TNA is probably going under soon so he won’t be doing any of that.
I think Rampage has wrestled - I don’t really follow professional wrestling. I do know that Tito has awkwardly stood there and blankly stared at a bunch of guys including Rampage, who all pretended to be scared.
Ben Rothwell’s post fight interview tonight gets the “Motivational Speech of the Year” award, I think.
Zuwadza
1716
Haha, that fight was hilarious and his speech was hilarious. Overeem’s chin is very bad. He looked like a light breeze would knock him out.
Pretty good fights tonight, both prelims and main card. Lots of good finishes. I have no interest in seeing Vitor vs. Weidman, but goddamn I’d love to see him up against Jacare.
So UFC 181 was probably the best card I’ve seen in quite some time. Quality finishes all night, Pettis showing he’s here to stay, Lawler avenging his loss and gaining the strap… all good times. The CM Punk signing in particular caught our viewing party by surprise.
Oh yeah, pretty great night overall. I’d seen CM Punk rumors floating around for a while now, so it wasn’t a total surprise, but it was still fun to hear. I have a few friends to like pro wrestling and MMA, so it was entertaining to see them flip out about it, to say the least.
Zuwadza
1719
Decent fights coming up tomorrow night: Jones vs. Cormier and Cerrone vs. Jury. Cerrone is awesome and Jury’s last couple fights have been good. Shame that Matt Brown’s fight ended up cancelled though. Jones, Cerrone and Brown headlining an event would have been killer.
Yo_Rudy
1720
Main card was pretty dreadful, main event was okay if you like grindy, technical fights. Loooottta clinching. The Bad Blood remains Bad.
After the winner of Gustafsson-Rumble fights (and loses, probably) to Jones, he should permanently move up to HW. He has absolutely cleared out the division of notable contenders and done so by dominating all his opponents except Gus. Werdum made a sorta threat on twitter about how he should stay at LHW but Jones would mess him up good. Jones-Cain would be a tremendously interesting match-up.
Conor McGregor fights later this month in what will be his last protected (not a wrestler) fight before Aldo. If he does beat Aldo (maybe?) Mendes or Edgar will squish him.
