{"id":6800,"date":"2012-05-27T20:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T00:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2012-05-27T20:52:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T00:52:59","slug":"ufc-results-and-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=6800","title":{"rendered":"UFC Results and Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z052712ufc146.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>UFC 146<\/strong> on pay-per-view last night was an <strong>excellent<\/strong> card,\u00a0 Here are the results and my thoughts on the three top fights:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Roy Nelson vs Dave Herman<br \/>\n<\/strong>Prediction: <strong>Nelson<\/strong> by decision<br \/>\nResult: <strong>Nelson<\/strong> won via<strong> first round KO<\/strong> [51 seconds] [Making me <strong>1-0<\/strong> for the night]<br \/>\nThoughts: <strong>Nelson<\/strong> is a fan favorite with power and he showed it last night.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Cain Velasquez vs. Antonio Silva<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Prediction: <strong>Velasquez<\/strong> by TKO<br \/>\nResult: <strong>Velasquez<\/strong> by <strong>first round TKO<\/strong> [3:36] [Making me <strong>2-0<\/strong> for the night]<br \/>\nThoughts: <strong>Velasquez<\/strong> took Silva down and swarmed him with punches and elbows which opened up a cut producing one of the bloodiest bouts in memory. \u00a0<strong>Velasquez<\/strong> should be next in line for a title shot.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Junior dos Santos vs. Frank Mir<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Prediction: Although the odds are against him, <strong>Miir<\/strong> is my favorite fighter so in an <strong>huge upset special<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Mir<\/strong> by submission.<br \/>\nResult: <strong>JDS<\/strong> won via<strong> second round TKO<\/strong> [3:04 seconds] [Making me <strong>2-1<\/strong> for the night]<br \/>\nThoughts: <strong>JDS<\/strong> and<strong> Mir<\/strong> are both class acts with each praising the other after the fight.\u00a0 <strong>Mir<\/strong> couldn&#8217;t get <strong>JDS<\/strong> to the canvas and<strong> JDS<\/strong> was not willing to go there, so the fight remained a stand-up battle that ended as predicted.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Other thoughts:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Jason Mayhem Miller<\/strong> rocked <strong>CB Dollaway<\/strong> a couple of times but had no answer when <strong>CB<\/strong> took him to the mat and rode him for the remainder of the rounds.\u00a0 Of course <strong>CB<\/strong> couldn&#8217;t do much except ride, so it made for a boring match met with a lot of boos.\u00a0 <strong>CB won<\/strong> the decision and <strong>Miller<\/strong> was cut from the <strong>UFC<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><strong>Brock Lesnar<\/strong> was in the crowd and it was reported that he wanted to meet with <strong>Dana White<\/strong> causing speculation that <strong>Lesnar may want\u00a0 to return<\/strong> for another run.\u00a0 My guess is that if <strong>Lesnar<\/strong> was thinking about a return to the <strong>UFC,<\/strong> it would have been for a title shot if <strong>Mir<\/strong> had won.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC 146 on pay-per-view last night was an excellent card,\u00a0 Here are the results and my thoughts on the three<\/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-6800","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\/6800","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=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6801,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}