UFC 139: Rua vs. Henderson In-Depth Preview
Posted on November 14, 2011, 11:22 AM by Joey SantosusLegendary Light Heavyweights Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and Dan "Hendo" Henderson will headline the stacked UFC 139 fight-card, set to take place November 19th from the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California. Also featured will be a Middleweight showdown pitting the heavy-handed "Axe Murderer" Wanderlei Silva against former Strikeforce Champion Cung Le and a Bantamweight title eliminator between top contenders Urijah Faber and Brian Bowles. Photo: Scott Hirano
Main Card
Light Heavyweight bout:
Maurício Rua vs.
Dan Henderson
Middleweight bout:
Wanderlei Silva vs.
Cung Le
Bantamweight bout:
Urijah Faber vs.
Brian Bowles
Welterweight bout:
Martin Kampmann vs.
Rick Story
Light Heavyweight bout:
Stephan Bonnar vs.
Kyle Kingsbury
Preliminary Card
Light Heavyweight bout:
Ryan Bader vs.
Jason Brilz
Middleweight bout:
Tom Lawlor vs.
Chris Weidman
Bantamweight bout:
Michael McDonald vs.
Alex Soto
Lightweight bout:
Gleison Tibau vs.
Rafael dos Anjos
Bantamweight bout:
Miguel Torres vs.
Nick Pace
Welterweight bout:
Matt Brown vs.
Seth Baczynski
Lightweight bout:
Shamar Bailey vs.
Danny Castillo
Comments
going 2 be a damn good fight card
Indeed.
Shogun via TKO (Knee and Punches) Round 2.
Cung Le via KO (Headkick and Punches) Round 1.
Bowles via Unanimous Decision
Story via Unanimous Decision
Kingsbury via Unanimous Decision
What because of Hendo getting stopped? :D
Thought so, lol... If I had Hendo via H-Bomb Round 1.
Immediate 100 sharps! :D
Prelims =
Bader via KO (Punches) Round 1
Weidman via Unanimous Decision
Mcdonald via Split Decision
Tibau via Unanimous Decision
Torres via Unanimous Decision
Baczynski via Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) Round 2
Castillo via Unanimous Decision
Great card , would much prefer to see tibau vs dos anjos on the main card rather than kampann v story, Story will out-wrestle MK for 3 rounds
As a massive fan of Martin Kampmann, why are the UFC pairing him vs wrestlers??? why not showcase his stand up instead?
Agree, I always enyoy watching him banging, he gave a beating and ended up losing to Sanchez for a few takedowns.
And this card is much better than the Fox one, but since they brodcasted just one fight in the States it makes sense.
Did you catch the prelims on Facebook? Great night of fights!
hendo via hbomb....
I notice the UFC dont like showing that jumping punch to Bisping in that KO, they keep cutting it out after the overhand right connects, they did the same thing on the replays in UFC unleashed show.
I, on the other hand, have it running as a GIF as my desktop background and now I can see it even if I close my eyes. If you look closely you can see spit flying out of his mouth there too.
will be hard to watch yet exciting to watch all at the same time. Hendo and Shogun are among my favourites and would hate to see one of them fall. Also stylistically its hard to predict as theres so many scenarios that can play out.
Hendo via Falcon Punch.
Cung le via Head kick
Faber vs Submission
Story by Unanimous Decision
Kingsbury via Ground and Pound
Kampman is the man, He punished Scott smith before the miricle right hand. He banged sanchez and got robbed. Let him strike.. I would love to see a Martin Kampman vs Donald cowboy cerrone fight at a catchweight. Straight fireworks.
Dan and Shogun.....I can't wait for that one!! Alot of good fights on this card. Hope Hendo wins so he can get a shot at Bones or Lyoto>
Shogun vs Henderson - Henderson via "American-wrestler-finally-beats-a- Brazilian-and-gets-us-back-on-track-before-I-have-to-thrash-Anderson"....not even Steven Seagirl can defend against that. No disrespect to Couture, Valequez and myself but those pesky Brazilians seem to be on to something.
Ok is this really Chael Sonnen? If it is please make your profile pic a picture of you holding a sign saying"This is the real Chael Sonnen using Lowkick" then I will believe you. Also this is such a hard fight to call me but if I have to pic someone I'm going to have to go with Shogun.
Good idea
so damn excited for this card since in my town and i got my tickets in my hand...its gonna be a damn beautiful night of fights, i got my camera ready!!!!!!!!!!!
I was so excited for UFC on Fox and a big disappointed !
Now I really look forward for UFC 139 should be something to remembered (:
It wasn't that bad the Lamas/Swanson and Guida/Bendo fights were both very exciting. Too bad UFC on Fox didn't have a 5 fight main card like the usual.
i'd like to see henderson take it but the only way he can would be by a stoppage or shogun gassing out but i doubt shogun will ko/tko him but he might be able to sub him , anything can happen ,
Bonnar by split decision ; Story by Unanimous Decision , Brian bowles by some kind of stoppage ; cung le by knockout ;
kampmann to fught alves in his next fight. im waiting for that one so long now...
hope wand can pull this one off. think bader will ko brilz. and i hope shogun wins, but hendo seems to be pretty hard.