Day: July 4, 2010

Last night was the biggest MMA fight card ever! The undercard was solid, and the main event pitting UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar against undefeated, UFC Interim Champion Shane Carwin lived up to the hype.

Here are the results with my predictions:

Kendall “da Spyder” Grove vs. Goran Reljic.

• Prediction: Grove pulls out a win in a tough match.
• Result: Grove defeated Reljic by split decision (28-29,30-27, 29-28) making me 1-0 for the night

Seth“The Silverback” Petruzelli vs. Ricardo Romero

• Prediction: Petruzelli takes the win.
• Result: Romero defeated Petruzelli via armbar submission in round 2 making me 1-1 for the night

Brendan “The Hybrid” Schaub vs. Chris “The Crowbar” Tuchscherer.

• Prediction: Schaub wins via TKO.
• Result: Schuab defeated Tuchscherer via TKO in Round 1 making me 2-1 for the night

Kurt “Batman” Pellegrino vs. George Sotiropoulos.

• Prediction: Sotiropoulos with the victory in a tough bout.
• Result: Sotiropoulos defeated Pellegrino via decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28) making me 3-1 for the night

Stephan “The American Psycho” Bonnar vs. Krzysztof “The Polish Experiment” Soszynski.

• Prediction: Soszynski earns the “W”
• Result: Bonnar defeated Soszynski via TKO in Round 2 making me 3-2 for the night

Matt“The Immortal” Brown vs. Chris “Lights Out” Lytle.

• Prediction: In an upset, Matt Brown gets a hard fought victory.
• Result: Lytle defeated Brown via armbar submission in Round 2 making me 3-3 for the night

Chris “The Crippler” Leben vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama.

• Prediction: Leben toughs out another victory, his second win in two weeks!  Leban along with his oppenent,
• Result: Leben defeated Akiyama by triangle choke in Round 3 making me 4-3 for the night

Shane Carwin vs. Brock Lesnar.

• Prediction: Carwin takes the title!
• Result: Lesnar defeated Carwin by arm triangle choke submission in Round 2 making me 4-4 for the night

Final thoughts:

• The fight card lived up to the high expectations.

• Stephan Bonner kept his career alive with a tough win against a tough opponent.  Both Bonner and his opponent Krzysztof Soszynski picked up and extra $75,000 for co-fight of the night bonuses.

• Lytle’s submission was crazy —  and in my opinion should have earned submission of the night and the $75, 000 bonus that went with it.  (Instead Brock Lesnar was awarded it.)

• Chris Leben earned his second win in two weeks and he and his opponent Yoshihiro Akiyama scored $75,000 each as co-fight of the night bonuses.
  

• Shane Carwin dominated the first round of the fight.  It was strange to see Brock back-peddling after getting rocked by Carwin’s punches.   Once on the ground Lesnar covered up and simply weathered the storm.  I wish Carwin had gone back to his feet with enough time left to do more real damage.I was sure that Lesnar would go for the take down in the 2nd and he did.  I thought that Carwin would have a better ground defense.  I guess he was just gassed after the first round.  Brock cinched in the choke and it was over.   Congrats to Brock for having a game plan and sticking to it.  Even more congrats to Brock for acting like a champion after the win.