{"id":6240,"date":"2011-12-29T22:35:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T02:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2011-12-29T22:35:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T02:35:39","slug":"ufc-141-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6240","title":{"rendered":"UFC 141 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z122911ufc141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Tomorrow night<\/strong>, that<\/span>&#8216;s right the pay-per-view breaks tradition and airs on a <strong>Friday<\/strong>, we have one of the most <strong>highly anticipated MMA cards<\/strong> of the year when <strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong> enters the octagon against <strong>Alistair Overeem<\/strong> at <strong>UFC 141<\/strong>.\u00a0 So, let&#8217;s look at the<strong> top three fights<\/strong> and <strong>my predictions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jon Fitch vs. Johny Hendricks.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> In the last few years <strong>Fitch<\/strong> has been able to beat everyone except the champ.\u00a0 <strong>Fitch<\/strong> grinds out wins.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not fighting the champ.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction: Fitch by unanimous decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Nate Diaz vs. Donald Cerrone<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> This should be an <strong>excellent fight<\/strong>.\u00a0 Both guys are <strong>tough<\/strong>.\u00a0 Neither cares for the other.\u00a0 <strong>Nate Diaz<\/strong> comes across as a thug, but <strong>wins fights<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Cerrone<\/strong> is definitely the <strong>good guy<\/strong> in this fight&#8230; even if he wears a <strong>black cowboy hat<\/strong> [which, by the way, <strong>Diaz knocked<\/strong> from his head at the weigh-ins].<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:\u00a0 Cerrone wins a tough battle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thoughts: Lesnar<\/strong> is the <strong>underdog<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Overeem<\/strong> is considered perhaps the <strong>hardest striker in the UFC<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> has had <strong>trouble against strikers<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> is a <strong>world class wrestler<\/strong> and will want to take <strong>Overeem<\/strong> down.\u00a0 I have no doubt that he will.\u00a0 I just wonder if he&#8217;ll be able to keep him down.\u00a0<strong> Frank Mir<\/strong> thinks that <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> will win.\u00a0 I trust <strong>Mir&#8217;s opinion<\/strong>, but&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction:\u00a0 Overeem by TKO.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow night, that&#8216;s right the pay-per-view breaks tradition and airs on a Friday, we have one of the most highly<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6240","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\/6240","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=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6241,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}