Friday, January 27, 2012

The Return

I have not been blogging for the past 2 months due to partly my laziness. But I have been following the fights recently and definitely the year ended and started with a bang. One of the most memorable fights in 2011 coincided with the return of Dan 'Hendo' Henderson to the UFC as a fought against the revived former UFC 205 Lbs  champ Shogun Rua. This is definitely fight of 2011. The amount of beating Shogun got in the first 3 rounds and the come back in the fourth and the fifth was really something.

There are so many fights to talk about, the Wanderlei vs Cung le, Jones vs Machida, Mir vs Big Nog, the flash knockout by the Korean Zombie. Too many to talk about. and there's the Lesnar-Overeem fight.

The Minnesota Viking vs the Dutch Incredible Hulk

One of the most anticipated fights of the year and did it deliver.

I said it and said it again, Overeem is the best striker in the world. Heavyweight division mind you. Yes, you may say that Dos Santos can lay claim to that, I believe Dos Santos is more of a Boxer than a complete striker like Overeem. OK, how bout this, JDS best heavy boxer in MMA while Overeem best complete striker in MMA. Good?

Then there was the first event of the year, The Rumble in Rio for UFC 142. Jose Aldo, well was Jose Aldo. He went and beat the crap out of Money Mendes with a knew and he threw a couple of punches to make sure that Mendes stayed down a little while longer. Truthfully speaking, I thought Money Mendes would win, well I was wrong. Very wrong.

There's the Belfort vs Rumble which I was actually very excited for until Rumble missed weight by 11 lbs. The excitement just left the building. I didn't even bother to watch the fight knowing a guy was overweight. If he was over by a 2 or 3 pounds, I would still watch but blimey 11 lbs. Coming from a dude who was going up a weight class that was pure disrespectful to Belfort who (from videos) worked hard to reach the weight. Thank God Belfort won. Justice served and Done.

After UFC 142, there was the UFC on FX 1 in Nashville, Tennessee. Headline by Jim Miller and Melvin Guillard. I am a fan of Jim MIller. I love his style. Because of that style he won against a better striker who actually looks like he was going to knock out Jim Miller. Some how and by some divine way, Jim got Guillard back and RNC the crap out of Guillard. B-E-A-U TIFUL.

Next fight in Chicago, UFC on Fox  Rashard Evans vs Phil Davis. Battle of the wrestlers and probably the only 2 guys in the UFC who could match the current champ Jon 'Bones' Jones. My bets on Evans because I want to watch Bones slug it out with him. Davis is still green and he might be a future champ and make it rivalry with Bones in the future that is.

Co main event is the two most interesting fighters in the business, Sonnen vs Bisping. Initially Sonnen was suppose to fight Munoz for the no. 1 contender but Munoz got under the knife to remove 24 pieces of bones fragments. He is out until June. So Bisping step up. If he wins, he will fight for the title, and if Sonnen wins he will not fight for the tittle because Anderson is afraid and Sonnen still lay claim of the UFC middleweight title. This is an intriguing fight both stylistically and for the show boat. To loud mouths facing each other. What can we expect?

Further updates will be coming

So stay tune

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