{"id":6386,"date":"2012-02-05T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2012-02-05T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T14:03:31","slug":"ufc-143-results-and-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6386","title":{"rendered":"UFC 143 Results and Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z020512ufc143.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"519\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">Last night <strong>UFC 143<\/strong> was held.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s take a look at <strong>the results<\/strong> of the three top fights:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Josh Koscheck<\/strong> defeated <strong>Mike Pierce<\/strong> via <strong>Split decision<\/strong> (28-29, 29-28, 29-28)<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thoughts<\/span><\/em>: <strong>Koscheck<\/strong> is perhaps the <strong>most disliked fighter<\/strong> in the <strong>UFC<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Koscheck<\/strong>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/mma-cagewriter\/ufc-143-crowd-against-him-josh-koscheck-takes-044736569.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>the <em>self-proclaimed<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> &#8220;<strong>most hated guy in MMA<\/strong>\u00a0 knows it, and loves to get the crowd riled up and booing.\u00a0 <strong>Split decision wins<\/strong> make it even easier for fans who already don&#8217;t like <strong>Koscheck<\/strong> to have another reason to hate him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fabricio Werdum<\/strong> defeated <strong>Roy Nelson<\/strong> via <strong>unanimous decision<\/strong> (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Thoughts<\/em><\/span>: I&#8217;m glad to see <strong>Nelson<\/strong> getting in better shape.\u00a0 He came in <strong>20 pounds lighter<\/strong> than his previous fights.\u00a0 As for <strong>Werdum<\/strong>, perhaps a battle with <strong>Frank Mir<\/strong> should be next.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong>Carlos Condit<\/strong> defeated <strong>Nick Diaz<\/strong> via <strong>unanimous decision<\/strong> (48-47, 49-46, 49-46)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Thoughts<\/em><\/span>: <strong>Condit<\/strong> came in with a <strong>perfect game plan<\/strong> consisting of lots of <strong>leg kicks<\/strong> and <strong>movement<\/strong>.\u00a0 He stuck to it and pulled off the <strong>upset victory<\/strong> and won the <strong>UFC interim welterweight championship<\/strong>.\u00a0 After the fight <strong>Diaz<\/strong> claimed he was done with <strong>MMA<\/strong>.\u00a0 My guess is that he&#8217;s not.\u00a0 It was his <strong>first loss<\/strong> after <strong>11 straight wins<\/strong> in a <strong>four year<\/strong> period.\u00a0 <strong>Diaz<\/strong> is just <strong>28 years old<\/strong> and love him or hate him, people enjoy watching his fights.\u00a0 He&#8217;ll be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night UFC 143 was held.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s take a look at the results of the three top fights: Josh Koscheck<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6386","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\/6386","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=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}