UFC.Com has posted their Unofficial top Knockouts of 2008. The list goes as follows and you can’t help but agree with most of it. Rashad Evans KO over Liddell was a phenomenal knockout that was not only unexpected but…well, perfect. Jeremy Stephens huge uppercut that TKO’d (Looked like a clear knock out to me) Dos Anjos made my jaw hurt when I saw it. There are link to UFC.com other “Unofficial” fights and submissions.
Rashad Evans KO’s Chuck Liddell (UFC 88)
Junior Dos Santos KO’s Fabricio Werdum (UFC 90)
Anthony Johnson KO’s Kevin Burns (TUF 8 Finale)
Thiago Alves KO’s Karo Parisyan (Fight Night April 2, ‘08) and Matt Hughes (UFC 85)
Quinton Jackson KO’s Wanderlei Silva (UFC 92)
James Irvan KO’s Houston Alixander (UFC Fight Night 4/2/08)
Wanderlei Silva KO’s Keith Jardine (UFC 84)
Josh Koscheck KO’s Yoshiyuki Yoshida (Fight For The Troops)
Rory Markham KO’s Brodie Farber (Fight Night 7/19/08)
What’s a better way to get in to your opponents head and perhaps make them overconfident? Maybe even train a little lighter in anticipation that you may not be training hard if at all? Start some rumors, or maybe just help spread the ones others let you in on. This is exactly what Frank Mir did prior to his winning fight over Interim Heavyweight Champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.
There were rumors floating around by word of mouth and cyber-space that Mir may have injured his back and that he wasn’t training hard for the fight in hopes to find a way out. When December 27th came around it was quite obvious that the rumors were nothing more than that.
WEC 38 is scheduled to take place on Sunday January 25th from San Diego California. Headlining the event will be Jamie Varner defending his lightweight championship against Donald Cerrone. We’ll also get to see Faber Vs. Pulver for a second time in one year. One fight on the card that I would like to see but won’t be televised is Charlie Valencia Vs. Seth Dikun. Valencia is always a fun fighter to watch. This is the official fight card and order from WEC.Tv.
Diego Sanchez has dropped down to the 155 lightweight class and will face Joe Stevenson at UFC 95 in London, England.
During The Ultimate Fighter Season 1 I didn’t like Diego Sanchez. He had this certain cockiness about him, but they also made him look very unintelligent during the season. Sanchez proved that he was in it to win it during the show and came out on top with his win over Kenny Florian in the Ultimate Finale. Diego’s last fight was a win over Luigi Fioravanti at The Ultimate Finale 7.
Frank Mir has overcome quite a bit since his motorcycle accident some four years ago. His “Re-start” was one that had a few bumps in the road. This year has been great for Mir, though. With his victory over UFC newcomer and current Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesnar and his win over Nogueira this past Saturday Mir looks at the Heavyweight Championship while holding the interim Heavyweight title.
Both Mir and Lesnar are cocky and confident fighters. Mir being the more skilled fighter with many more fights under his belt and a defeat already over Lesnar. Lesnar being the bigger, overwhelming fighters that is dedicated to everything that he does. Mir has the skill while Lesnar has the size, but Mir’s no 220 pounder and is much more in his prime than Randy Couture. Standing the same height as Lesnar with only 15 or 20 lbs less than Lesnar this will be interesting.
I didn’t get to watch UFC 92 last night, but I’ve found the official results from MMAJunkie.com. I’ve only posted the fight results, so if you want to read the play-by-play you can do so at MMAJunkie.com. Looks like it was a great event. Wish I could have watched but other things came up.
Patrick Barry wins over Dan Evensen: TKO (Evenson injured by a leg kick and unable to continue) @ 2:36 in the first round
Brad Blackburn wins over Ryo Chonan by unanimous decision after 3 rounds. Judges score the fight 29-28, 29-28, 29-28.
Matt Hamill beats Reese Andy with a strikes TKO @ 2:19 in round 2
Antoni Hardonk scores the win over Mike Wessel with a strikes TKO @ 2:09 in round 2.
Yushin Okami wins by unanimous decision over Dean Lister after 3 rounds. Judges score the fight 30-27, 30-27, 30-27.
Cheick Kongo defeated Mostapha Al-Turk with a strikes TKO @ 4:37 in round 1.
Quinton Jackson knocks out Wanderlei Silva with a left hook in round 1 @ 3:21.
C.B. Dollaway wins over Mike Massenzio with a TKO from strikes @ 3:01 in round 1.
Frank Mir defeated Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira @ 1:54 in round two by TKO from punches, fight stopped by Herb Dean.
Rashad Evans wins the lightweight championship title by beating Forrest Griffin in three rounds (@2:46) by TKO punches.
Tomorrow night we’ll see who the ultimate fighter is among the Ultimate Fighter. Forrest Griffin and Rashad Evans take to the ring in a Light Heavyweight bout for the title. As most know, Dana White usually does some type of video blog from time to time and here is his video blog on UFC 92.
I’m going to wrap up things here until after the Christmas Holiday with a few short announcements.
Georges St. Peirre has been named the Canadian Athlete Of 2008 by Sportsnet.ca. It’s great to see MMA fighters get the credit they deserve in the world of Athletics. Although most MMA fighters are paid much less than most professional athletes and perform even less, they still deserve recognition as being great athletes. The amount of training, fight-science and overall discipline that goes in to being an MMA fighter, it’s only right that they get the respect they are entitled to.
XFC has inked a deal with ValCom to produce and distrubute 13 one hour episode from pre-existent content to be distributed for cable broadcast. The deal will also see future “High-end” developments for upcoming events according to MMA Weekly.
UFC 95 has been confirmed to take place in London and UFC 96 will take place in Columbus Ohio. Bouts for these events have been rumored but nothing is set in stone quite yet.
With that said, Happy Holidays however you may celebrate.
Mike Brown has verbally agreed to fight Leonard Garcia for the featherweight title. When and if this fight will actually take place is unknown as of right now. There has been no contracts signed yet and ultimately it’s not up to Brown or Garcia. It’s up to the big dogs in the management.
Fellow 145-pound contender Wagnney Fabiano first mentioned an announcement of the rumored bout in an interview with the Brazilian website Tatame.com, and MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has since been able to confirm the agreement with multiple sources close to the bout.
I think Garcia deserves a shot after his win over Jens Pulver.
Bobby Lashley beat Josh Franklin in 41 seconds at his MMA debut fight. It was a TKO win because Franklin suffered a cut by the hands of Lashley that was deemed to sever to continue. SO Lashley has his first win. The video below isn’t the best quality of the MFA: There Will BE Blood Event, but it gives you a general idea of how the fight went on December 13th.
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