Afterthoughts on UFC 131
Just a few takeaways from UFC 131
Just a few takeaways from UFC 131
With NHL Stanley Cup fever in Vancouver, the city was in a festive mood in anticipation for the UFC 131 main event between Shane Carwin and Junior dos Santos. The winner of the bout would get a UFC Heavyweight title shot against the current champion Cain Velasquez. Originally JDS was supposed face Brock Lesnar the opposing coach from season 13 of The Ultimate Fighter, but due to Lesnar’s diagosis of diverticulitis he had to pull out of the fight. Junior before knowing Carwin would be his opponent was busy
Community picks for UFC 131: Dos Santos vs. Carwin by Edub, HunterB, and few more who wanted to try their luck at some educated guessing.
UFC 129 Made History by not only selling out 55,000 tickets seats but also being the first ever MMA event held in Toronto Ontario Canada.
The event itself prove to be one of the best events the UFC has ever deliver, the card had KO’s , Submissions , TKO’s and Decisions, But most fights end up on finishes or were high paced fights. So here are 7 quick conclusions to UFC 129 :
1- We got 2 new contenders at 170 , Rory MacDonald and Jake Ellenberger prove to be the type of fighters the UFC needs to have in the
(“I asked Scott Coker to find me a couple of cans, but this is ridiculous.” Hi-yo! Rimshot! Goddamn…
UFC middleweight contender Yushin ‘Thunder’ Okami is training with Team Quest ahead of his UFC 122 main event showdown with Nate ‘The Great’ Marquardt, in Oberhausen Germany, and also weighs in on the controversy surrounding Chael Sonnen
James Irvin has had a run of bad luck in recent showings for the UFC. Maybe his luck will change now that he has been given another shot in the UFC at LHW.
(Come on, Dan — how many times did we go over the inverted-Colemura escape in training? Photo courtesy…