Month: July 2010

UFC 116 Results

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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.

Lesnar vs Carwin: Predictions

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Tonight is perhaps the biggest MMA fight card ever!  The live gate is sold out and the prediction is that there will be a million buys of the pay-per-view.  The undercard is solid, but it’s the main event pitting UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar against undefeated, UFC Interim Champion Shane Carwin.  Both men are beasts.

Let’s take a look at the entire card along with my predictions:

Kendall “da Spyder” Grove vs. Goran Reljic.  Although this may not be televised, it should be a good match.  Grove has more experience but is a slight underdog due to Reljic’s better record (13-7 vs 8-1).

  • Prediction: Grove pulls out a win in a tough match.

Seth “The Silverback” Petruzelli vs. Ricardo Romero.  (Will air on SPIKE TV LIVE starting at 9PM EST) This should be another close bout.  Will “The Silverback” be able to take out Romero like he did Kimbo Slice?

  • Prediction: Petruzelli takes the win.

Brendan “The Hybrid” Schaub vs. Chris “The Crowbar” Tuchscherer. (Will air on SPIKE TV LIVE starting at 9PM EST)  Both fighters have excellent records (6-1 vs 18-2) but Schaub goes in the favorite.

  • Prediction: Schaub wins via TKO.

Kurt “Batman” Pellegrino vs. George Sotiropoulos. Another great fight between two fighters with excellent records (21-4 vs 12-2).  Pellegrino has more experience, is a fan favorite, and a nickname that makes it hard to go against him, but…

  • Prediction: Sotiropoulos with the victory in a tough bout.

Stephan “The American Psycho” Bonnar vs. Krzysztof “The Polish Experiment” Soszynski.  This should be another excellent fight.  Both men have similar records (20-10 vs 14-7).

  • Prediction: Soszynski earns the “W”

Matt “The Immortal”  Brown vs. Chris “Lights Out” Lytle. This is a fight many are saying will be the fight of the night! That says a lot considering it’s on the same card as Lesnar vs Carwin.  Lytle goes in the favorite.

  • Prediction:  In an upset, Matt Brown gets a hard fought victory.

Chris “The Crippler” Leben vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama. Although Leben fought (and won) just two weeks ago, he’s ready to step into the octagon again.  Leben goes in the underdog, but…

  • Prediction: Leben toughs out another victory.

Shane Carwin vs. Brock Lesnar. Let the 4th of July fireworks start now!

  • Prediction: Carwin takes the title!

Heroes Con 2010, Part 7

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That’s Otis Frampton getting ready for his close-up.  Most regular ZONErs know Otis from my many posts about his 7-7 Sundays.

That’s Sean Gordon Murphy holding up the Rocky & Butkus sketch that he did for me at the convention.  I was really excited to get on Sean’s sketch list and even happier when I saw the end result.  You know that I’ll post a scan of it in the coming weeks.

Here we have Wayne Osborne and Uko Smith.  I’d never met either of these guys before.  They were set up almost directly across from Big Beatty’s table.  I noticed that Uko was the artist and Wayne just seemed to be hanging out at the table… sort of like I do with Beatty.  Then I noticed that Wayne looked a bit like me (or is it that I look a bit like him?).

So I told Beatty, “that artist brought his own Zablo“.  Beatty looked across and did a double take.  He got to chuckling.  That’s when he noticed that Wayne saw him looking and laughing.  So Wayne mouthed something that I won’t repeat.  Now Beatty didn’t know what to do.  He’d been caught making fun of a stranger, or at least it seemed that way.  That’s when Big John realized who it was. John had met Wayne before years ago.  Wayne didn’t think Beatty was talking about him, he was just being silly to get John’s attention.  At any rate, it was pretty funny if you were there.

Starting tomorrow, I’ll post some photos of some of the art that made it to the auction.  Hope you’ll be back.

Heroes Con 2010, Part 6

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A fun part of conventions is the fans who dress up in amazing costumes.  Heroes Con always has a large number of fans who do just that and this year was no different.

The photo above is of Gene Gonzales and Joe Pekar.  Contrary to what you might think, those aren’t costumes.

Andrew Chairpar made a surprise appearance at the show.  I was fortunate enough to get not one, but two pieces from Andrew.  He worked up Sly from The Expendables and Sly from Spy Kids 3-D.  I’ll of course post scans in the coming weeks.

Luckily it won’t be weeks until my next batch of Heroes Con photos.  Until tomorrow…