{"id":1627,"date":"2007-10-21T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2007-10-21T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T16:52:00","slug":"catching-up-with-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1627","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up with the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RxuD-1TVyaI\/AAAAAAAAAy8\/Tb579-Te-uU\/s1600-h\/z102107ufc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RxuD-1TVyaI\/AAAAAAAAAy8\/Tb579-Te-uU\/s400\/z102107ufc.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123834116547398050\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">As we got ready to watch last night&#8217;s<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> UFC pay-per-view <\/span>my nephew asked me why I hadn&#8217;t posted my fight predictions.  To be honest, I wasn&#8217;t all that excited about the card.  Sure, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Silva vs Franklin<\/span> was THE <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">main event<\/span>, but most folks [me included] felt that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Silva <\/span>would win.  The under-card consisted of a few other fights that less than twelve hours later I&#8217;m hard pressed to remember.  I know that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stephan Bonner<\/span> beat somebody&#8230; and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tim Sylvia<\/span> scored a unanimous decision over <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Brandon Vera<\/span>.  Bah!<\/p>\n<p>Actually I was interested in the main two fights.  I&#8217;m not a big fan or either <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tim Sylvia <\/span>or <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Brandon Vera<\/span> so I didn&#8217;t care who won, but I was interested in seeing how each man would combat the other. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Sylvia<\/span> used his size to full advantage and wasn&#8217;t afraid to trade punches.  He deserved the win.<\/p>\n<p>The main event brought <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Anderson Silva<\/span> to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Franklin&#8217;s home town<\/span> but the crowd made no difference.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Anderson Silva <\/span>looks to be unstoppable at this point.  Who can beat him?  And what will <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rich Franklin <\/span>do now that he knows the first fight wasn&#8217;t a fluke?<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to note that former <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">pro-wrestler Brock Lesner<\/span> has been signed by the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">UFC<\/span>.  He&#8217;s a bruiser no doubt, but how will he fair against a true <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MMA fighter<\/span>?  Whatever the outcome, you can bet that his first fight will have a lot of people watching.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The next <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">pay-per-view<\/span> will be <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">UFC 78 Validation<\/span> on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">November 17th<\/span>.  The card will consist of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">    Frank Edgar Vs. Spencer Fisher, Ryo Chonan vs Karo Parisyan, David Terrell vs Ed Herman, Thiago Silva vs Huston Alexander<\/span>, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Michael Bisping vs Rashad Evans<\/span>.  You can be sure that I&#8217;ll post my predictions before the fights and I&#8217;ll make the same offer that I made to my nephew &#8212; send in YOUR predictions and we&#8217;ll discuss them before the card.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we got ready to watch last night&#8217;s UFC pay-per-view my nephew asked me why I hadn&#8217;t posted my fight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}