UFC 146 Preliminary Recap: Dan Hardy retains job in impressive fashion
Posted on May 27, 2012, 12:11 AM by Mike DrahotaThe UFC 146 preliminary fights are in the books and they delivered with a great amount of action. They started with Paul Sass utilizing his famous triangle choke for a first round submission. From there the action advanced quickly.
Dan Hardy was fighting for his job, facing Duane “Bang” Ludwig. Fortunately for him, he showed some of his old striking prowess in scoring the first round TKO. Hardy prematurely celebrated the bout after a great hook, but soon kept his job with a brutal TKO of his opponent.
Moving on, C.B. Dollaway toppled Jason “Mayhem” Miller in what many deemed a boring affair, leaving Miller's MMA career in jeopardy after two poor UFC performances.
This fight was outshined by the following victory of former WEC Lightweight champion Jamie Varner. Varner was a late replacement of Evan Dunham, scheduled to face up-and-coming Lightweight superstar Edson Barboza. After knocking out Terry Etim with a wheelkick last January, Barboza's hype was at an all-time high. However, he succumbed to Varner's vicious hammerfists during the first round handed Barboza his first loss ever.
The preliminaries ended with a bout between between former The Ultimate Fighter winner Diego Brandao and Darren Elkins, who survived some brutal punches in the first round to grind out a decision victory.
Overall, the preliminary bouts provided a great intro into one of the best overall UFC cards in history.
Comments
Awesome fights tonight.
Though the stoppages with Hardy and Varner were a little slow. Bam's face was sliced up, and Barbosa was lying there getting hammer fisted.
Mayve becuase some have been borderline to quick in the past, there letting downed fighters eat a few more and see if they can comer back.
Brilliant night. Huge upsets on the undercard.
That just goes to show how hard reffing is people were complaing about the Nelson Struve stoppage saying it was to early, Watch Gary Goodridge's documentary about him with CTE, and you might think twice before complaining about an early stoppage.
The varner fight was great too I thought it was funny how ROGAN called it a come from behind victory when barboza in NO way was dominating the fight.
You got the impression rogan thought there was no way varner could win in the stand up he tends to do that kind of thing
Yeah--I like Rogan--but I take what he says with a few grains of salt.
When Rory MacDonald fought Che Mills--he talked up Mills calling him a 'killer' several times--then later, as Mills was drowning in his own blood--he called MacDonald a 'killer'.
Interestingly, I have noticed that Goldie will be reporting what he says before his eyes, while Rogan is still talking about what he imagines the fight should be.
*reporting what he sess^
Yeah good point Rogan hypes up fighters way too much he also uses the Phrase Knockout artist way too much, like what does that even mean
*sees*
I give up--I need reading glasses
Yeah there was alot of that last night even the cain fight like they should have stopped that earlier for sure the guy was fkin soaked in blood getting smashed with punches. MIR fight was a good stoppage too he was fkin out of it besides that one extra hammer fist which i thought was pretty funny
Hope Hardy goes on a streak now. You gotta love the guys that go for the kill EVERY time.