{"id":4303,"date":"2010-04-10T17:35:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T21:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2010-04-10T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T21:35:27","slug":"ufc-112-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4303","title":{"rendered":"UFC 112 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z041010ufc112_results.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>UFC 112<\/strong> is now history.\u00a0 Here are the <strong>results<\/strong> and my earlier<strong> predictions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mark <\/strong>&#8220;The Philippine Wrecking Machine&#8221;<strong> Munoz (7-1) vs. <\/strong><strong>Kendall <\/strong>&#8220;Da Spyder&#8221; <strong>Grove (11-6). <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Prediction:<\/strong> &#8220;The Philippine Wrecking Machine&#8221; wrecks &#8220;Da Spyder.&#8221;  <strong>Munoz win<\/strong> by <strong>TKO<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result:<\/strong> <strong>Munoz won<\/strong> by<strong> TKO<\/strong> due to strikes in <strong>round 2<\/strong> which makes me <strong>1-0 <\/strong>with a perfect call of <strong>TKO<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Matt Hughes (43-7) vs. Renzo Gracie<\/strong><strong> (13-6-1)<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Prediction<\/strong>: <strong>Hughes<\/strong> <strong>win<\/strong> via <strong>unanimous decision<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result:<\/strong> <strong>Hughes wins<\/strong> by <strong>TKO<\/strong> due to strikes in round 3 at the 4:40 mark. Although that keeps me perfect at <strong>2-0<\/strong>, I missed calling how the fight would end.\u00a0 If only <strong>Gracie<\/strong> could have held on for 20 more seconds!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>BJ <\/strong>&#8220;The Prodigy&#8221; <strong>Penn (15-5-1) vs. Frankie <\/strong>&#8220;The Answer&#8221; <strong>Edgar (11-1)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Prediction<\/strong>: &#8220;The Prodigy&#8221; knows &#8220;The Answer&#8221; to defeating <strong>Edgar<\/strong>.  <strong>Penn<\/strong> win <strong>via submission<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Result:<\/strong> <strong>Edgar defeats Penn<\/strong> by <strong>unanimous decision<\/strong> to become the new <strong>UFC Lightweight Champion!<\/strong> What an upset.\u00a0 Hats off to <strong>Edgar<\/strong> for find &#8220;The Answer&#8221; needed to beat &#8220;The Prodigy.&#8221;\u00a0 That knocks me down to<strong> 2-1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Anderson <\/strong>&#8220;The Spider&#8221;<strong> Silva (25-4) vs. Demian Maia (12-1)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Prediction: Silva wins <\/strong>by<strong> KO.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Result: Silva defeats Maia<\/strong> with a <strong>lackluster performance<\/strong> but a <strong>unanimous decision<\/strong> and <strong>retains the UFC Middleweight Title<\/strong>.\u00a0 Although I was wrong about how it would end, I did pick <strong>Silva<\/strong> and so I end the night at <strong>3-1<\/strong> or<strong> 75%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Silva<\/strong> clowned and danced and was warned by the ref in later rounds to mix it up.\u00a0 Yet, <strong>Silva <\/strong>was content to stay on the outside and pick his shots.\u00a0 <strong>Maia<\/strong>, for his part, tried to make the fight competitive and continued to swing for the fences for all the good it did.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Dana White<\/strong> was <strong>very upset<\/strong> by <strong>Silva&#8217;s performance<\/strong> and told the press:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;&#8230; what a disgrace the main event was&#8230; To end it the way that we did was an embarrasment for me, the UFC, the Fertittas and\u00a0 the UAE&#8230; I&#8217;m so blown away and disgusted and saddened&#8230; I don&#8217;t know how yet, but I will make this up to the fans&#8230; &#8221; <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mma\/blog\/cagewriter;_ylt=AjsNvtmzE7uKgBEgzLUIRPU9Eo14\" target=\"_blank\">According to Steve Cofield of YaHoo Sports<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>White also said Silva may be the first UFC champ to fight on the non-televised prelims in the future.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While <strong>75%<\/strong> ain&#8217;t bad, I bet I feel better about my wins than <strong>Silva<\/strong> does his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 112 is now history.\u00a0 Here are the results and my earlier predictions: Mark &#8220;The Philippine Wrecking Machine&#8221; Munoz (7-1)<\/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-4303","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\/4303","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=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}