{"id":4607,"date":"2010-07-03T12:10:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2010-07-03T12:13:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T16:13:47","slug":"lesnar-vs-carwin-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4607","title":{"rendered":"Lesnar vs Carwin: Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z07032010lesnar_carwin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight is perhaps the biggest <strong>MMA<\/strong> fight card ever!\u00a0 The live gate is <strong>sold out<\/strong> and the prediction is that there will be a <strong>million buys of the pay-per-view<\/strong>.\u00a0 The undercard is solid, but it&#8217;s the main event pitting <strong>UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar<\/strong> against <strong>undefeated, UFC Interim Champion Shane Carwin<\/strong>.\u00a0 Both men are beasts.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the entire card along with my predictions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kendall <\/strong>&#8220;da Spyder&#8221; <strong>Grove vs. Goran Reljic<\/strong>.\u00a0 Although this may not be televised, it should be a good match.\u00a0 <strong>Grove<\/strong> has more experience but is a slight underdog due to <strong>Reljic&#8217;s better record<\/strong> (13-7 vs 8-1).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction<\/strong>: <strong>Grove pulls out a win in a tough match.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Seth <\/strong>&#8220;The Silverback&#8221; <strong>Petruzelli vs. Ricardo Romero<\/strong>.\u00a0 (Will air on <strong>SPIKE TV LIVE<\/strong> starting at <strong>9PM EST<\/strong>) This should be another close bout.\u00a0 Will <strong>&#8220;The Silverback&#8221;<\/strong> be able to take out <strong>Romero<\/strong> like he did <strong>Kimbo Slice<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction<\/strong>:<strong> Petruzelli takes the win.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Brendan<\/strong> &#8220;The Hybrid&#8221;<strong> Schaub vs. Chris <\/strong>&#8220;The Crowbar&#8221; <strong>Tuchscherer.<\/strong> (Will air on <strong>SPIKE TV LIVE<\/strong> starting at <strong>9PM EST<\/strong>)\u00a0 Both fighters have excellent records (6-1 vs 18-2) but <strong>Schaub<\/strong> goes in the favorite.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction: Schaub wins via TKO.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kurt<\/strong> &#8220;Batman&#8221; <strong>Pellegrino vs. George Sotiropoulos. <\/strong>Another great fight between two fighters with excellent records (21-4 vs 12-2).\u00a0 Pellegrino has more experience, is a fan favorite, and a nickname that makes it hard to go against him, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction: Sotiropoulos with the victory in a tough bout.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Stephan<\/strong> &#8220;The American Psycho&#8221; <strong>Bonnar vs. Krzysztof <\/strong>&#8220;The Polish Experiment&#8221; <strong>Soszynski<\/strong>.\u00a0 This should be another excellent fight.\u00a0 Both men have similar records (20-10 vs 14-7).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction: Soszynski earns the &#8220;W&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Matt <\/strong>&#8220;The Immortal&#8221;\u00a0<strong> Brown vs. Chris <\/strong>&#8220;Lights Out&#8221;<strong> Lytle. <\/strong>This is a fight many are saying will be the <strong>fight of the night<\/strong>! That says a lot considering it&#8217;s on the same card as <strong>Lesnar vs Carwin<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Lytle<\/strong> goes in the favorite.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction:\u00a0 In an upset, Matt Brown gets a hard fought victory.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Chris<\/strong> &#8220;The Crippler&#8221;<strong> Leben<\/strong> <strong>vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama.<\/strong> Although <strong>Leben<\/strong> fought (and won) just two weeks ago, he&#8217;s ready to step into the octagon again.\u00a0 <strong>Leben<\/strong> goes in the underdog, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction: Leben toughs out another victory.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Shane Carwin vs. <\/strong><strong>Brock Lesnar.<\/strong> Let the <strong>4th of July<\/strong> fireworks start now!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Prediction: Carwin takes the title!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight is perhaps the biggest MMA fight card ever!\u00a0 The live gate is sold out and the prediction is that<\/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-4607","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\/4607","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=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4612,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions\/4612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}