{"id":6242,"date":"2011-12-31T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2011-12-31T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T15:00:56","slug":"ufc-141-results-and-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6242","title":{"rendered":"UFC 141 Results and Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: arial;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z123111ufc141.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"334\" \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Last night<\/span> <strong>UFC 141<\/strong> provided fights that shocked a lot of people.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s look at the results&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jon Fitch vs. Johny Hendricks.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nPrediction:<strong> Fitch by unanimous decision.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Result:<strong> Hendricks won via 12 second KO<\/strong> making me<strong> 0-1 <\/strong>for the night.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Nate Diaz vs. Donald Cerrone<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong>Prediction:<strong> Cerrone wins a tough battle.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Result: <strong>Diaz won <\/strong>a<strong> unanimous decision <\/strong>making me<strong> 0-2 <\/strong>for the night.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Brock Lesnar vs. Alistair Overeem<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong>Prediction:<strong> Overeem by TKO.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Results: <strong>Overeem won<\/strong> via <strong>TKO<\/strong> due to strikes in <strong>round one<\/strong> making me <strong>1-2<\/strong> for the night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Final Thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only person who had a <strong>worse night<\/strong> than me <strong>[1-2]<\/strong> was <strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong>.\u00a0 Even<strong> Fitch<\/strong> could argue his loss was a lucky punch.\u00a0 <strong>Brock<\/strong> and I, though, just got badly spanked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some are <strong>arguing<\/strong> that the <strong>Fitch<\/strong> <strong>fight<\/strong> was <strong>stopped early<\/strong>.\u00a0 They make the point that <strong>Fitch<\/strong> was <strong>still fighting back<\/strong> when the fight was stopped.\u00a0 While that is <strong>true<\/strong>, he was <strong>fighting the ref<\/strong> since <strong>Hendricks<\/strong> had already been <strong>declared the winner<\/strong> and had <strong>walked away<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s no secret that <strong>Dana White<\/strong> didn&#8217;t like <strong>Fitch&#8217;s fighting style<\/strong> and called it <strong>boring<\/strong> even though <strong>Fitch<\/strong> was beating everyone in front of him.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll bet <strong>Dana<\/strong> is glad that this loss will <strong>put a stop<\/strong> to all of the questions that <strong>White<\/strong> was getting about a <strong>title shot<\/strong> for <strong>Fitch<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was glad to see that <strong>Cerrone<\/strong> and <strong>Diaz<\/strong> had a <strong>mutual respect<\/strong> for each other after their <strong>3 round war<\/strong>.\u00a0 I wonder though, if <strong>Cerrone<\/strong> had won, would <strong>Diaz<\/strong> have shown the <strong>same respect<\/strong> that he received from <strong>&#8220;the Cowboy&#8221;<\/strong>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Lesnar fight<\/strong> ended the way I thought it would.\u00a0 <strong>No surprise<\/strong> there.\u00a0 The <strong>shock<\/strong>, at least for some, came when <strong>Brock announced<\/strong> his <strong>retirement<\/strong> before leaving the octagon to go to his dressing room.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not shocked or even surprised.\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 What was left for <strong>Brock<\/strong> in the <strong>UFC<\/strong>?\u00a0 <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lesnar<\/strong> had repeatedly shown he not only <strong>didn&#8217;t like to be punched<\/strong>, but that he<strong> couldn&#8217;t deal with strikers<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Cain Velesquez<\/strong> and <strong>Alistair Overeem<\/strong> destroyed <strong>Brock<\/strong>.\u00a0 Were they to fight <strong>Lesnar<\/strong>, both <strong>Junior Dos Santos<\/strong> and <strong>Shane Carwin<\/strong> would probably go in as favorites.\u00a0 [And yes, I know that <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> beat <strong>Carwin<\/strong> the first time they met in the cage.\u00a0 Would that happen again?\u00a0 I seriously doubt it.]\u00a0 <strong>Frank Mir<\/strong> [who split wins with <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> in two fights] and even <strong>Dan Henderson<\/strong> [a <strong>light heavyweight<\/strong>] had let it be known that they&#8217;d <strong>welcome a fight<\/strong> against <strong>Lesnar<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Who was left for <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> to fight that he could beat?\u00a0 All of the <strong>top contenders<\/strong> had his number.\u00a0 Suppose <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> fought <strong>Mir<\/strong> again and won.\u00a0 Would that put <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> closer to a <strong>title shot<\/strong>?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 What if <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> fought <strong>Henderson<\/strong>?\u00a0 If he won, which is questionable, he&#8217;d have beaten a <strong>light heavyweight<\/strong>.\u00a0 If <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> fell victim to <strong>Hendo&#8217;s punching power<\/strong>, it would be more evidence of <strong>Lesnar&#8217;s inability<\/strong> to <strong>take a punch<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, with it clear that <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> would be out of the hunt for a<strong> title shot<\/strong>, what&#8217;s he to do?\u00a0 The obvious answer is to <strong>retire<\/strong> and go back to the <strong>WWE<\/strong> where he can make a <strong>ton of money<\/strong> by just working the big event pay-per-views.\u00a0 What&#8217;s even better for <strong>Brock<\/strong> is that he&#8217;ll know going in that he&#8217;s going to win.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Alistair Overeem<\/strong> gets the next title shot against <strong>Junior Dos Santos<\/strong>.\u00a0 THAT should be a great fight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night UFC 141 provided fights that shocked a lot of people.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s look at the results&#8230;. 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