My past record has not been great. If I were a betting man I'd probably be losing right now but here goes nothing: Sat 19/01/08 18:00 Metro Radio Arena Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB UFC 80 Also on PPV Card: B.J. Penn v Joe Stevenson - BJ Gabriel Gonzaga v Fabricio Werdum - Gonzaga Jess Liaudin v Marcus Davis - Davis Wilson Gouveia v Jason Lambert - Jason Jorge Rivera v Kendall Grove - Kendall Antoni Hardonk v Colin Robinson - Hardonk Paul Kelly v Paul Taylor - Kelly James Lee v Alessio Sakara - Sakara Per Eklund v Sam Stout - Eklund Thanks, Tom
I will just comment on the fighters I know who I know and think will win BJ Penn Gonzaga Marcus Davis Gouveia Grove The Penn vs Stevenson fight will be interesting as they are both very good fighters and great a Jujitsu and can see Penn with the slight advantage. The Kendall Grove fight is nothing more than to get a win for Grove and back on track to move up in the ranks.
werdum might give gonzaga a run for his money, I saw his fight with minotauro a while back and he looked pretty decent
There are only two fights I'm really interested in for this one - Penn/ Stevenson and Gonzaga/ Werdum. As much potential and skill as I think Stevenson has, I think Penn's taking the belt home with him. He has to keep his cardio up to scratch in order to get his tubby **** down to 155, so his conditioning shouldn't be a problem, in which case, Penn simply eclipses Stevenson in every aspect of the game Werdum already holds a win over Gonzaga and considering some of the fights he's put on (the snoozefest against Arlovskin notwithstanding), I think he's got the tools to do it again. Gonzaga's got the power to KO him, and very good BJJ as well, so it could be a different fight this time
B.J. Penn v Joe Stevenson - Penn Gabriel Gonzaga v Fabricio Werdum - Gonzaga Jorge Rivera v Kendall Grove - Rivera James Lee v Alessio Sakara - Sakara These are my picks for the fights I'm interested in. Penn is known as "the prodigy" for a reason, and I don't see Stevenson beating him. Plus if Sherk is acquitted and comes back, Penn should be able to give him a run for the money. Werdum didn;t impress me against Arlovski. Gonzaga has a few good UFC fights under his belt, even if he lot to Randy. I'll pick Gonzaga. Rivera's tough. Hopefully he'll do better than TUF showed. Sakara is my boy just because we're both Italian. Ok, I think he;s an excellent fighter as well. But I'm going with the fellow paisan!
Well, who want to talk about the fights last night. Certainly interesting in terms of the fact that only one went the distance... lots of tap outs and TKOs. We were wondering how many fights were gonna get shown with how few rounds there were!
No Pac I haven't. I had to be up @ 4:30am to get to work by 6am. I need my beauty rest. (I could sleep for a year and it wouldn't help though)
I use to have to be up at the same time, now I'm up at that ungodly hour...GRRRR!!! Oops, wrong thread
As you may recall, just a few months back I was working 12:00am to 8:30am. Now, 4/10hr shifts from 6:00am to 4:30 pm. I like the extra day off and more time to rest and train. Depending on my schedule (I usually have to work Sunday) I can catch the UFC fights on cable but the PPV always happen on Saturdays! :cry:
Can someone please give me a run through of what happened (esp BJ v Joe Stevenson)? Had the in-laws staying last night and completely forgot it was being shown on Sat rather than Sun night as is normal here, so I didn't record it. :bang: I checked Setanta's schedule for the next week and it doesn't look like they're going to repeat it either! Unless anyone has a link to where I can watch the fights online? Thank you!!!!
Okay here is the BJ Penn vs. Stevenson Fight at Youtube: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7P9tGp6P0Y"]YouTube[/ame] I do not know how long that will be up. Post fight interview: http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=MultiMedia.Detail&gid=9672
Cheers Brian! BJ/Stevenson fight is still on there, and here's Gonzaga/Werdum: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHsOZJXQwbU"]YouTube[/ame] Great fights.
Well that was a disappoinment. Everything going so well and then it was like he forgot to pay his electric bill...
Werdum fought this time. Man that first fight he was like a limp fish... Gonzaga/Werdum looked like the best fight of that night. Next person that fights Werdum will use allot of leg kicks.
