~Fedor Emelianenko~

~Top 40 MMA Pound 4 Pound Fighters~

~Marloes Coenen~

~Honorables~

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CR=Current Ranking
H=Honorable

UFC 121: Lesnar vs. Velasquez

Date: Oct 23, 2010
Location: Anaheim, California
Venue: Honda Center
Broadcast: Pay-per-view
Time:  9pm Eastern(USA)

Official fight card

Main card

• Heavyweight Championship bout: Brock Lesnar(c–No. 1 HW)) vs   Cain Velasquez(No. 4 HW)
• Welterweight bout:   Jake Shields(No. 3 MW, No. 8 PFP) vs. Martin Kampmann(No. 6 WW)
• Welterweight bout:   Diego Sanchez vs. Paulo Thiago(No. 7 WW)
• Light Heavyweight bout:   Tito Ortiz vs. Matt Hamill
• Heavyweight bout:   Brendan Schaub vs. Gabriel Gonzaga

Preliminary card (Spike TV)

• Middleweight bout:   Court McGee vs. Ryan Jensen
• Middleweight bout:   Patrick Côté vs. Tom Lawlor

Preliminary card

• Welterweight bout:   Mike Guymon vs. Daniel Roberts
• Lightweight bout:   Sam Stout vs. Paul Taylor
• Middleweight bout:   Chris Camozzi vs. Dong Yi Yang
• Heavyweight bout:   Jon Madsen vs. Gilbert Yvel

~Where To Watch UFC 121 Locally, on Payperview~

~Where To Watch UFC 121 Locally, on Payperview~

You mean to tell me that there’s actually an UFC ppv event this Saturday.  Surely, I’m not the only one that has had this notion slip through there list of things to do this weekend!    After the last UFC ppv events (UFC 109:  Couture vs. Coleman) overall fight card, fans were left somewhat bored.  I must admit however, that Bruce Buffer (acclaimed ring announcer) did a marvelous and manic-like job of announcing the fighters and their credentials.  It was the best part of this entire fight matchup.  Nonetheless, many mma fans didn’t expect too much from that particular main event.

It’s good that the UFC has a quick turnaround event, which is happening this Saturday, February 20….@9pm(Chicago Time).  The UFC 110 is in Australia, which means that it will be Sunday @ 2pm down under.  The unusual start time was simply to amuse the American and Canadian audiences.

There is very little hype, seemingly, about UFC 110.  The overall matchups are good:

MAIN CARD

• Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Cain Velasquez
• Michael Bisping vs. Wanderlei Silva
• George Sotiropoulos vs. Joe Stevenson
• Ryan Bader vs. Keith Jardine
• Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic vs. Anthony Perosh

PRELIMINARY CARD

• Chris Haseman vs.  ??????????
• Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
• Brian Foster vs. Chris Lytle
• C.B. Dollaway vs. Goran Reljic
• Igor Pokrajac vs. James Te Huna

Dana White, President of the UFC, made sure to include a few fighters of Australian descent.  This is a good and easy marketing move.  Besides, it only seems appropriate.  George Sotiropoulos, James Te Huna, Chris Haseman, and Anthony Perosh are all from Australia.  Sotiropoulos vs. Joe Stevenson looks to be a great matchup.  Since 2006, Sotiropoulos has only lost to the Japanese star Shinja Aoki.  And Stevenson is looking to get another title shot at BJ Penn. Stevenson has been quite impressive in his last 2 fights.

Heavyweight title contender Cain Velasquez (7-0) faces the living mma legend in  Antonio Rodrigo “Big” Noguiera (32-5).   The winner is almost a clear shot to fight Brock Lesnar (Champion) for the belt sometime this summer.

Both Cain Velasquez and Joe Stevenson are of the American-born Latino culture. Cain has a tatoo across his chess that reads “BROWN PRIDE.”  This tatoo has come under some small disagreements amongst viewers.  And with Joe “Daddy” S.  you may have to search his myspace page to verify that he’s indeed of the Hispanic background.  Stevenson is proud… Read more »

This Saturday, Oct. 24th, 2009, the UFC holds yet another ppv event.  UFC 104 will feature arguably the best current fighter in the world in Lyoto Machida.  He faces his toughest opponent to date.  This fight would be major even amongst the casual mma fan if these 2 guys were of American decent. This fight is a mega fight.  Because Machida is so heavily favored is why some don’t see this as a mega fight.   Both guys are Brazilian.   Machida (10-0) is a second decent Japanese-Brazilian.     Read more »