{"id":5039,"date":"2010-12-12T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T13:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2010-12-12T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T13:59:00","slug":"ufc-124-results-and-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=5039","title":{"rendered":"UFC 124 Results and Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z12122010ufc124.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night <strong>Georges St. Pierre<\/strong> closed<strong> Josh Koscheck&#8217;s<\/strong> eye and the year with a win at <strong>UFC 124<\/strong>.\u00a0  Let&#8217;s take a look at the earlier fight results and then come back to the main event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joe Stevenson vs. Mac Danzig<\/strong>:<br \/>\nPrediction:<strong> Joe &#8220;Daddy&#8221; Stevenson<\/strong> by <strong>decision<\/strong>.<br \/>\nResult: <strong>Danzig<\/strong> caught <strong>Stevenson<\/strong> with a counter left hook knocking him cold and scoring a <strong>1st round KO <\/strong>making me<strong> 0-1 for the night.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\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\"><br \/>\nPrediction: I&#8217;ll go out on a limb with the upset&#8230; <strong>McCorkle <\/strong>wins by <strong>KO<\/strong>.<br \/>\nResult: The limb snapped after <strong>McCorkle<\/strong>, who had been dominating the fight with a giant slam, a kimura armbar and dominating top control got swept and hammered by <strong>Struve<\/strong> until the ref stopped it at 3:55 of the first round.\u00a0 <strong>0-2 for the night.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"sbn-auto-link\"><strong>GSP vs Josh Koscheck<\/strong>.<br \/>\nPrediction: <strong>GSP<\/strong> via <strong>stoppage<\/strong>.<br \/>\nResult: <strong>GSP<\/strong> dominated every round with a brutal standup and <strong>won 50-45<\/strong> on all three cards bringing me to a sad<strong> 1-2 for the night.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"sbn-auto-link\"><strong>Final Thoughts&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joe Stevenson<\/strong> may have fought his last <strong>UFC<\/strong> fight due to his <strong>KO loss<\/strong>.\u00a0 I hope that&#8217;s not the case.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stefan Struve<\/strong> showed heart and patience to earn his win.\u00a0 My hats off to him.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GSP<\/strong> has cleaned out his division.\u00a0 He says if he decides to go up in weight to fight<strong> Anderson Silva<\/strong> he will do it the right way.\u00a0 He&#8217;ll gain muscle mass and will stay in that division.\u00a0 THAT is a fight I&#8217;d love to see.<\/li>\n<li>For the first [and last time] <strong>Dana White <\/strong>allowed the fans to vote for<strong> Fight of the Night <\/strong>($100,000) bonuses.\u00a0 Fans voted <strong>GSP vs Koscheck <\/strong>the <strong>Fight of the Night <\/strong>but reporters and <strong>Dan White <\/strong>felt that the bonus should have gone to <strong>Sean Pierson vs Matt Riddle<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>White <\/strong>said he will &#8220;take care of them.&#8221;\u00a0 Fans also voted bonuses to <strong>Mac Danzig<\/strong> for his <strong>KO of the Night <\/strong>of <strong>Joe Stevenson<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Jim Miller<\/strong> earned <strong>Submission of the Night <\/strong>for his kneebar on <strong>Mark Bocek<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Georges St. Pierre closed Josh Koscheck&#8217;s eye and the year with a win at UFC 124.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s take<\/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-5039","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\/5039","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=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5041,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions\/5041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}