UFC 102: I am pumped!!

Yup man im not sure who you watched it with or how much you spent on tonights PPV. However its 50 for me including the tax I usually get on it and I enjoyed every minute of this card if I got a 75 dollar charge for UFC 102 on my next Directv bill I wouldnt even try and fight it I enjoyed it that much. I record all the PPVs and this is one I actually will watch agian and probablly tomorrow.

 

8-5 now. Fight didnt go like I thought it would but the man I picked won. Leben is awful.

I was completely wrong with Couture/Nog. But im happy im wrong. Noguiera looked very solid, still eats far too many punches though.

It is pretty funny that Couture and Dana try to handpick Randy a fight against what they thought would be a washed up legend which many of us thought and it turned out to backfire.

Maia/Marquardt, not surprised Marquardt won the fight given how Maia chose to fight. I like Maia, I thought he had a legitimate shot against Marquardt but looking at his record, he fought nothing but grapplers. He just so happened to outgrapple them.

When he fought a fairly decent striker he paid for it in a big way.

Jardine/Silva: Neither of these guys are that good but I did pick Jardine. And now I realized why I dont like Jardine. Hes just not good.

Alright card, Maia/Marquardt turned out to be a huge disappointment.

 

The problem with Mir/Nog is it wouldnt end up any different.

Nog could stand with Couture because Couture cant crack. He absolutely has no power.

 

Why do you even watch ? Jardine and Silva arent good ? Then why do they score so many wins and Jardine agianst high level guys ? Come back to me when you have the amount of wins Leben has ok bud :goodHow was Nogueira handpicked ? That fight has been discussed for years and incase you forgot they both where coming off KO losses so its not like ok a Champion Couture picked the worst guy out there. We basically knew going into the Couture-Lesnar and Nogueira-Mir fights if Couture lost he would more then likely fight the Mir-Nog loser. If Couture fought like ****** McCully or something then say handpicked but he faced a fellow legend that he was supposed to fight before hand.

 

Jardine and Silva are gatekeepers.

I am definitely not saying I could beat Leben, but to say Leben is not good is an accurate statement.

Couture and Dana wanted no part of Noguiera. Sure it was discussed, same with alot of other fights. But this one didnt materialize and it only materialized now because Noguiera looked absolutely awful against Nog. You dont think this is some kind of coincidence? Nog looks bad against Herring, Sylvia and Mir and then Couture fights Nog?

 

Couture saw him look bad vs Herring and Sylvia but still tried to make the fight with Fedor happen. Then when he does come back to the UFC it so happens that Couture and Nogueira get KOed within a month of each so why not make the fight ? It looks like you are trying to call Randy Couture a guy who handpicks his opponets and if you are you lose the very little crediblity you had.

 

I am glad Nog won. I think that Randy did think it would be an easier fight and that Nog was probably finished because of the Mir fight.

Maia and Nate ended too fast. Too bad. Maia shouldn't have tried to stand with Nate at all.

Leben and Jake both were kinda boring to me. The submission was nice though. Vera and Sos wasn't anything special. Jardine always worries me when he fights cause I worry about his chin. This time it happened to be true that the dude doesn't have a chin at all.

 

Silva's lost 1 fights so now he's a gate keeper? I see your point with Jardine though.

Leben looked horrible tonight.

If I were going to handpick an opponent I sure as hell wouldn't pick Nog, no matter how bad he's looked as of late. Randy's a competitor, he's never been scared to fight the best and it show's on his resume.

 

I agree with the Leben statement, he thought he was a counterpuncher tonight but he just layed back too much until he got beat.

 

Yeah and it seems Leben has a problem dealing with submissions

 

A few notes...

Nog and Randy are legends and they showed what it takes to be a legend... resiliency, heart, intelligence and desire to win. Nog could've finished off Randy on several occasions and Couture showed incredible will to deny him.

Thiago Silva deserves a LOT of credit for his performance. It's not very often a fighter gets dominated like Silva did against Machida and responds with this kind of performance against a good fighter like Jardine.

Nate Marquardt deserves a rematch with Anderson.

Yves Lavigne sucks ass.

 

Yup offensivly I think his submission game is actually quite solid but that was a huge mistake he made last night where he let his left arm go inside of Rosholts when he already had control of Lebens head.

 

What the hell does making a fight with Fedor have to do with Nog looking bad against Herring and Sylvia? That makes no sense?

Fighting Noguiera a couple years ago did nothing for Couture and the UFC. Noguiera wasnt a draw and none of the other HW prospects were proven or even legitimate draws. That is why Couture seeked out Fedor even though he knew he had absolutely NO chance of fighting Fedor.

Couture than sits out a year and fights the biggest draw in the sport in Lesnar for a MASSIVE payday. Shortly after, he watches a decent fighter in Mir beat the **** out of Noguiera for 1.5 rounds and win the interim belt.

And in regards to handpicking opponents. Couture in his 1st retirement wanted DESPERATELY to fight Sylvia who he apparently thought according to Dana was a perfect matchup stylistically for him. Not only did Couture get a title shot at Sylvia but he actually got a title shot coming off a 1 year retirement and a LOSS to Chuck Liddell.

 

Theres a reason Couture was the heavy favourite. Everybody thought Noguiera was completely shot.

If there was ever a time to fight Nog, it was now. And thats why Dana and Couture didnt hesitate to set this up.

Its the same reason why they didnt hesitate to set up Liddell/Rua.

 

You seriously think Dana White had no clue that Nog was injured/ill prior to the Mir fight?