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10 Thoughts on UFC 140: Jones vs. Machida

Posted in Boxing classes | December 11th, 2011

It was usually a few brief months ago that a UFC done their entrance in Toronto during 129, and while this label lacked a hiss of a prior one it delivered a products for a second time. Let’s puncture a small deeper and plead what done this label so damn successful.

1. we still am demure to go all in on Jon Jones though his batch was lifted intensely here. He was tested in a vital approach in a initial spin as Machida used his cunning to find a few holes in Jones’ formerly inflexible defense. Even early in spin 2 Machida seemed in control of Jones. But afterwards all it took was one takedown, that lead to one nasty bend to a front that lead to a nasty station guillotine. If Jones can spin it on usually like that and finish an competition as dangerous as Machida afterwards maybe all those folks out there who have Jones #3 on their bruise for bruise list have a point.

2. Despite a power of a categorical event, though doubt a picture that will live on from this label will be Frank Mir rolling by twice, holding on to a kimura and afterwards gnawing a arm of one of a comprehensive best heavyweights of all time. Critics will indicate out that a hostility of some (GSP) to mangle skeleton sends a summary that his storms are to be weathered and we would have to agree. Frank Mir does not disaster around and now we have to start articulate about one final shot during a pretension and either or not he deserves it.

3. Obviously during UFC 141 we will get a implausible showdown between Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem and a leader of that will get a initial moment during Junior Dos Santos though who comes after that. Maybe Cain Velasquez depending on where he goes subsequent though we consider that interjection to a sarcasm of a multiplication Mir could presumably even wait it out from here. Of march he’ll substantially wish another quarrel before afterwards though we consider that dogmatic Mir a #4 male in a multiplication right now is satisfactory and protected statement.

4. The news wsn’t all bad for a Nogueira brothers as Little Nog looked as good as he’s ever looked in a UFC tonight. Granted he was violence adult a faded Tito Ortiz though still there is something to be pronounced for earning a 1st Round TKO by simply alighting an absurd series of physique shots.

5. Ortiz’s post-fight talk was a diminutive bit absurd though lovely for a approach in that he didn’t retire. Who else has grown intensely sleepy of abused fighters holding a possibility after their better to make it all about them by dogmatic that they are stepping divided from a sport. Unlike BJ Penn, Tito Ortiz is a warrior who wants to fight. He spoke of usually carrying one some-more left on his agreement though if in a few months he pulls off another torpedo feat do we unequivocally consider he’ll take that as his evidence to usually float off into a sunset? we get a feeling with Tito that he’ll be some-more than happy to take this career thing usually as distant as Ken Shamrock has, no matter how pitiable he ends adult looking.

6. we will extend we that a Brian Ebersole/Claude Patrick quarrel was kind of a snoozer (which Patrick quarrel isn’t a snoozer) though for me it worked since of usually how damn tighten it was. Round 3 was Ebersole’s, we consider that is clear, though if we were somebody who believed in 10-10 rounds we would have used them in both of a initial dual here. In a play by play we eventually gave a quarrel to Patrick though this one was so tighten via that we couldn’t assistance though conclude it. You hatred to see a 14 quarrel win strain finish underneath such a indeterminate preference though we don’t unequivocally consider that Patrick could protest about a scorecards.

7. Chan Sung Jung gave us unequivocally small to plead in propinquity to his quarrel with Mark Hominick though it bears repeating that he knocked out a male whose final quarrel was for a UFC pretension in usually 7 seconds. Yes, it ties a central UFC record for fasted KO (tying shouting batch Todd Duffee), and approbation Joe Rogan is still out there campaigning for Duane Ludwig’s UFC Fight Night 3 4 second feat (which was wrongly available as 11 seconds) though unequivocally a concentration should be on a considerable year a Korean Zombie has incited in. After removing kicked block in a conduct by George Roop to finish final year he spent 2011 scoring a many illusory acquiescence of a year and a lightning quick knockout.

8. It was positively a night of early stoppages as 6 of a 12 fights finished in a initial round. The many intolerable of those might have been a approach Krzystof Soszynski got male rubbed by Igor Pokrajac.

9. Dennis Hallman finally did something to land him in a good graces of Dana White. After display a universe his strength during UFC 133 and afterwards blank weight before this eventuality he went out and true adult dominated a formerly undefeated John Makdessi. we suppose that had he left out and incited in a terd opening tonight his pursuit unequivocally good might have been in jeopardy.

10. No word nonetheless on where Jon Jones goes from here though we would adore to see him take on a recently winning Dan Henderson in a generational battle. Of march we would have to assume that Jones would be a outrageous favorite going in but, again, after his opening here tonight who wouldn’t he be adored against?