Great Month for MMA

[ironchef]

Mark your calendars boys, January is going to be DOPE! My picks in bold.

First up,

UFC 93 - January 17th

Henderson is over rated IMO, looking for Franklin to knock his ass out! I hope Coleman roid rages on Shogun, cause I think Coleman's hilarious. Looking for another slick sub from Palhares, cause I have no idea why Horn is still fighting these days. Marcus Davis vs Chris Lytle will probably be fight of the night IMO.

Rich Franklin Vs. Dan Henderson

Mark Coleman Vs. Mauricio Rua

Jeremy Horn Vs. Rousimar Palhares

Marcus Davis Vs. Chris Lytle

The rest I don't know well at all to comment on the fights.

Eric Schafer Vs. Antonio Mendes

Tomasz Drwal Vs. Ivan Serati

Tom Egan Vs. John Hathaway

Dennis Siver Vs. Nate Mohr


Affliction: Day of Reckoning January 24th
Sweet card top to bottom pretty much. I like both Fedor and Andre, but have to stick with the guy who could armbar God, Fedor. Looking for Josh to destroy Gilbert, because that guy is a bitch. Same thing for Sobral, because Sokoudjou is all hype. Keep an eye on Kiril, some are saying he's the baby Fedor, kids got a lot of potential in the future. Albert Rios vs Anthony Duarte should be a nice scrap too. Everything on the undercard will be shown on HDNet.

Fedor Emelianenko vs. Andrei Arlovski

Josh Barnett vs. Gilbert Yvel

Renato Sobral vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou

Matt Lindland vs. Vitor Belfort

Chris Horodecki vs. Dan Lauzon

Paul Buentello vs. Kiril Sidelnikov

Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

Jay Hieron vs. Jason High

Mark Hominick vs. LC Davis

Albert Rios vs. Antonio Duarte

Brett Cooper vs. Patrick Speight

WEC January 25th

Hard to predict a lot of these fights since I don't know pretty much any of those people, but WEC always puts on great cards, so they should be good fights regardless.
Jamie Varner Vs. Donald Cerrone

Urijah Faber Vs. Jens Pulver

Danillo Villefort Vs. Mike Campbell

Ed Ratcliff Vs. Anthony Njokuani

Edgar Garcia Vs. Hiromitsu Miura

Dominick Cruz Vs. Ian McCall

Scott Jorgensen Vs. Frank Gomez

Blas Avena Vs. Jesse Lennox

Charlie Valencia Vs. Seth Dikun


UFC 94 - January 31st

Going to be a WAR between BJ and GSP, potential FOTY imo. Nate Diaz and Clay Guida should be dope as well.

Georges St-Pierre Vs. BJ Penn

Lyoto Machida Vs. Thiago Silva

Stephan Bonnar Vs. Jon Jones

Karo Parisyan Vs. Dong Hyun Kim

Nate Diaz Vs. Clay Guida

Jon Fitch Vs. Akihiro Gono

Manny Gamburyan Vs. Thiago Tavares

Chris Wilson Vs. John Howard

Jake O'Brien Vs. Christian Wellisch

Matt Arroyo Vs. Dan Cramer

[ironchef]

A guy on the Sherdog forums put together a little list of Fedor's accomplishments. The guy is not human! lol



There is ONLY one fighter that has proven his worth in about 30 fights, that has only been stopped by one doctor.

There is only ONE fighter that has beaten:

4 different X UFC champions
Coleman
Randleman
Sylvia
Nog

4 kick boxing champions
Schilt
Hunt
Goodridge
HMC

6 different MMA champions
Coleman
Randleman
Sylvia
Nog
Goodridge
Mirko

2 silver olympic medalist
Lindland
Ogawa

1 ADCC open weight champion
Arona


There is only 1 fighter that has gone 30+ fights that has

- Never lost a decision.
- Never been sub'd
- Never been knocked out

Only one fighter that has ever won 5 different mma championships.
- Wamma HW belt
- Pride HW belt
- Pride Grand Prix tournament
- Rings king of kings tournament
- Rings world class tournament

All while finishing 75% of his opponents.
A current 24 fight win streak
With 21 victories in the first round
4 victories in the first minute
12 victories in the first 2 minutes

No other fighter in all MMA has any where near the list of accomplishments.

Mind you Fedor did this while being injured 2 times due to injuries he sustained to his hand during a fight. And while top fighters backed out of fights. One of which back out on multiple occasions.

[Maniacc]

Dude, I've given up on IA when it comes to mma. These fuckers don't care about anything other than their hondas and their cartoon network.

[03RCode]

Fedor is the man.

Most of your picks are pretty well dead on what I would have chosen, but like you said a few I don't know well enough to make a decision. I haven't really gotten to watch/pay attention to MMA in a good while, I'd like to get back into it.

[ironchef]

Dude, I've given up on IA when it comes to mma. These fuckers don't care about anything other than their hondas and their cartoon network.Yea, its a shame :(.

[alpine_aw11]

The only pick of yours I would change would be Diaz vs. Guida. I have a feeling that crazy bastard is going to pull it off.

And Arlovski is definitely one of my favorite fighters ever, but Fedor isn't going to be beaten until he goes senile and is bound to a wheelchair, in which case he would still have a shot at beating anyone.

[ironchef]

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4477/fedormotivationalox2.jpg

Nuff said...

[ironchef]

Mark Hominick is out of the fight for Affliction, he got pneumonia. Sucks too, cause that fight should've been decent.

[Tuan]

A guy on the Sherdog forums put together a little list of Fedor's accomplishments. The guy is not human! lolChuck Norris backed round house the shit out of him though.

[ironchef]

Fedor > Chuck Norris, no contest!

[Tuan]

BOLO>FEDOR

[ironchef]

Bolo got owned by JCVD, and JCVD is scared of Fedor. Therefore Fedor > Bolo, and pretty much anyone else.

[Tuan]

Fedor can't jiggle his boobs like BOLO!

[SleepingTalon]

Talked to BJ a few weeks ago. He's ready as ever and wants to "hurt GSP bad" as those were the exact words he said to me. Never heard him so focused before, and that is a VERY scary thing.

[Brick]

Don't agree with the Henderson/Franklin pick at all.

[SleepingTalon]

Mark Hominick is out of the fight for Affliction, he got pneumonia. Sucks too, cause that fight should've been decent.

BTW, Bao Quach is now the replacement for Hominick. He's fought over in Shooto, WEC, and at some ShoXC events. He's got a lot of experience and is riding quite a win streak.

[Tuan]

I as well believe that Henderson will beat Franklin.
Don't agree with the Henderson/Franklin pick at all.

[highspeed06]

my pick for tonight fights are.


Rich Franklin Vs. Dan Henderson.........rich franklin-2 round-tko

Mark Coleman Vs. Mauricio Rua...........mauricio rua-2 round-tko

Jeremy Horn Vs. Rousimar Palhares........rousimar palhares-2 round-tko

Marcus Davis Vs. Chris Lytle.........chris lytle-1 round-tko

[ironchef]

So, 2/4 of my predictions were right, oh well. Fairly lackluster card overall though.

[lowazzcord]

none of the fights were that great but mark coleman looked like a rockem sockem robot

[ironchef]

Well I was right on 5/8 fights tonight. Great card though.

- Fedor, still the king, w00t!
- Vitor, sick KO!
- Babalu answered my prayers. So glad he got Sokoudjou, that guy is an overrated POS.
- Buentello looked really good, props to him.

[{X}Echo419]

7/8
damn you Linland!
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t189/XEcho419/Fedorposter.jpg

[ironchef]

UFC 94 - January 31st

Going to be a WAR between BJ and GSP, potential FOTY imo. Nate Diaz and Clay Guida should be dope as well.

Georges St-Pierre Vs. BJ Penn

Lyoto Machida Vs. Thiago Silva

Stephan Bonnar Vs. Jon Jones

Karo Parisyan Vs. Dong Hyun Kim

Nate Diaz Vs. Clay Guida

Jon Fitch Vs. Akihiro Gono

Manny Gamburyan Vs. Thiago Tavares

Chris Wilson Vs. John Howard

Jake O'Brien Vs. Christian Wellisch

Matt Arroyo Vs. Dan Cramer2/9 right, good thing I didn't bet any money lol.

Weird that Machida's fight of all people didn't go to decision. With the exception of that and GSP/Penn, 8 fights went to decision, wtf?

[Tuan]

so to me the weird thing is Avolski got paid 1.5 million to fight Fedoe that got 40k!

[Nikola]

compared to GSP, Penn looked fat and very out of shape .... but he took a beating like a real man!!!!