{"id":5037,"date":"2010-12-11T14:35:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5037"},"modified":"2010-12-11T14:35:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:35:36","slug":"ufc-124-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5037","title":{"rendered":"UFC 124 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z12112010ufc124.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>UFC 124<\/strong> is tonight.\u00a0 Although the main event between <strong>Josh Koscheck<\/strong> and <strong>Georges St. Pierre<\/strong> is highly anticipated, the undercard doesn&#8217;t really grab me.\u00a0 Still there are a few fights that have interested me [and hopefully you] enough that I&#8217;ll share my predictions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joe Stevenson vs. Mac Danzig<\/strong>: It&#8217;s possible that the loser will also lose his contract with the <strong>UFC<\/strong>.\u00a0 THAT should provide motivation for a good fight between two form <strong>Ultimate Fighter <\/strong>champions.<br \/>\nPrediction:<strong> Joe &#8220;Daddy&#8221; Stevenson<\/strong> by <strong>decision<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong><span class=\"sbn-auto-link\">Sean McCorkle<\/span><\/strong> vs. <strong><span class=\"sbn-auto-link\">Stefan Struve<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"sbn-auto-link\">: <strong>McCorkle<\/strong> is 6&#8217;7 and <strong>Strive<\/strong> is 6&#8217;11&#8221; so if a knockout occurs, it will take a bit longer for the loser to hit the mat.\u00a0 Other than that, there&#8217;s not much that interests me about this one.<br \/>\nPrediction: I&#8217;ll go out on a limb with the upset&#8230; <strong>McCorkle <\/strong>wins by <strong>KO<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"sbn-auto-link\"><strong>GSP vs Josh Koscheck<\/strong>.\u00a0 Although<strong> Kos <\/strong>is undefeated since <strong>GSP<\/strong> beat him 3 years ago and by all accounts is a better fighter; <strong>GSP<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t lost since he was upset [which he avenged] by <strong>Matt Serra<\/strong>&#8230; and he&#8217;s even better now.\u00a0 There&#8217;s little chance that this fight will live up to the hype.<br \/>\nPrediction: <strong>GSP<\/strong> via <strong>stoppage<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"sbn-auto-link\">As always I&#8217;ll post results tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 124 is tonight.\u00a0 Although the main event between Josh Koscheck and Georges St. Pierre is highly anticipated, the undercard<\/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-5037","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\/5037","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=5037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5038,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5037\/revisions\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}