{"id":7537,"date":"2012-12-07T23:59:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T03:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7537"},"modified":"2012-12-08T06:19:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T10:19:46","slug":"ufc-fights-on-fx-and-fox-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7537","title":{"rendered":"UFC Fights on FX and FOX Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z120712ufc_fox5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial;\">If you like <strong>MMA<\/strong>, then you&#8217;re going to love Saturday night. \u00a0Starting at <strong>5pm<\/strong>, the <strong>UFC<\/strong> has <strong>preliminary matches<\/strong> airing on <strong>FX<\/strong>, and the <strong>main card<\/strong> on <strong>FOX<\/strong> starting at <strong>8pm<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial;\">The <strong>FX fights<\/strong> include:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PRELIMINARY CARD (FX, 5 pm ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Yves Edwards vs. Jeremy Stephens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Raphael Assuncao\u00a0vs. Mike Easton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ramsey Nijem vs. Joe Proctor<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Daron Cruickshank vs. Henry Martinez<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Marcus LeVesseur vs. Abel Trujillo<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nam Phan vs. Dennis Siver<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then at <strong>8pm<\/strong> we have <strong>UFC on FOX 5<\/strong> with one of the <strong>best fight cards of the year<\/strong> [and it&#8217;s on free-tv!]. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the <strong>line up<\/strong> with <strong>my predictions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Matt Brown vs. Mike Swick<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> Both of these guys come to fight. \u00a0<strong>Brown<\/strong> swings for the fences with each punch and <strong>Swick<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t mind a slugfest. \u00a0Could be the best fight of the night.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction: Swick takes the decision.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Rory MacDonald vs. B.J. Penn<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thoughts: Penn<\/strong> is back again with <strong>his same old<\/strong>, &#8220;I took this fight seriously and am in the best shape of my life&#8221; spiel.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction: Penn loses steam and the fight.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Alexander Gustafsson vs. Mauricio &#8220;Shogun&#8221; Rua<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> Do not miss the first round. \u00a0<strong>Rua<\/strong> will come out blazing.<br \/>\n<strong>Prediction: If Gustafsson can weather the storm, he should earn the decision.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Benson Henderson vs. Nate Diaz for the title!<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> I am a <strong>Ben Henderson<\/strong> fan, but not so much for <strong>Diaz<\/strong>. \u00a0However, I do respect the fighting ability of <strong>Diaz<\/strong>. Both <strong>Henderson<\/strong> and <strong>Diaz<\/strong> are warriors. \u00a0This is gong to be the <strong>fight of the night.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Prediction: Henderson by decision [but I wouldn&#8217;t bet the house on it].\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like MMA, then you&#8217;re going to love Saturday night. \u00a0Starting at 5pm, the UFC has preliminary matches airing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-7537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537","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=7537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7542,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7537\/revisions\/7542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}