{"id":1747,"date":"2008-03-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2008-03-02T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T19:00:00","slug":"ufc-and-the-best-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"UFC and the Best Fighter"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>If Anderson Silva <\/span>isn’t the best pound-for-pound fighter in the UFC<\/span>, then maybe Jon Fitch<\/span> is. Yeah, I know. I’ll explain in a minute, but first let’s take a look at last night’s UFC<\/span> highlights.<\/span><\/p>\n

The main event<\/span> had Anderson Silva<\/span> going up against former PRIDE<\/span> and two time Olympic wrestler<\/span>, Dan Henderson<\/span>. Henderson<\/span> dropped 20 pounds<\/span> to take on Silva<\/span>, who has totally dominated his division. To Henderson’s credit<\/span>, he won the first round. Silva<\/span> came on strong to win by submission in the second after scoring on big knees and punches. I don’t see anyone out there who can beat Silva<\/span> at this point. Unless he decides to go up a weight class [and why would he], he could be in for a long title run. <\/span><\/p>\n

The upset of the night <\/span>was Heath Herring<\/span> over Cheick Kongo<\/span>. Nobody expected [well, outside of Herring<\/span>] the fight to go all three rounds or for Herring<\/span> to win. The guys I watch the fights with usually bet a buck on each match. Someone is usually willing to take the underdog since it’s just a buck and once in a while you can even get 2-1 if you take the dog. Last night NO ONE wanted Herring<\/span>. I ended up taking him on a 2-1<\/span> bet where I won if he lasted through the first round [Whoooo-hooo, I won 2 bucks] and a 5-1<\/span> bet for a win [Yipppeee-ki-yaaa, five more came into the till]. Herring<\/span> won a split decision and actually looked better than ever doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jon Fitch<\/span> won a tough match against Chris Wilson<\/span> and extended his winning streak in the UFC<\/span> to 8. Believe it or not, that ties the longest winning streak ever in the UFC<\/span>, putting Fitch<\/span> in the same strata as Royce Gracie<\/span>. Who’d a thunk it? Ask anyone who the best UFC fighter <\/span>is and you’ll hear: Anderson Silva, George St. Pierre, Matt Hughes, Rampage Jackson, Randy Couture<\/span>, and many others before you’d hear Fitch’s<\/span> name called out. Well, Jon Fitch<\/span> needs to be in there because if he wins his next fight he owns the record. <\/p>\n

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If Anderson Silva isn’t the best pound-for-pound fighter in the UFC, then maybe Jon Fitch is. Yeah, I know. I’ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","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=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}