{"id":7578,"date":"2012-12-09T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7578"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:47:51","slug":"ufc-on-fox-5-results-and-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7578","title":{"rendered":"UFC on FOX 5 Results and Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z120912ufc_fox5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial;\"><strong>Dana White<\/strong>, like most <strong>MMA <\/strong>fans (I say most, because if your fighter lost you might feel differently), must have loved the fights Saturday night. \u00a0We were presented with an action-packed card that started at <strong>5pm<\/strong>, with the <strong>preliminary matches<\/strong> airing on <strong>FX<\/strong>, and the <strong>main card<\/strong> on <strong>FOX<\/strong>\u00a0immediately following 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> included:\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<\/strong> winning by<strong> TKO <\/strong>in the first over<strong> Jeremy Stephens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Raphael Assuncao <\/strong>winning by<strong>\u00a0unanimous decision<\/strong> over<strong> Mike Easton<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ramsey Nijem <\/strong>earning a<strong> unanimous decision<\/strong> win over<strong> \u00a0Joe Proctor<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Daron Cruickshank<\/strong> won by<strong> KO<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>over<strong> Henry Martinez <\/strong>in round 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abel Trujillo <\/strong>won by<strong> TKO <\/strong>over\u00a0<strong><strong>Marcus LeVesseur<\/strong><\/strong> in round 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dennis Siver <\/strong>won by<strong> unanimous decision <\/strong>over\u00a0<strong><strong>Nam Phan<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then the main event\u00a0<strong>UFC on FOX 5<\/strong>. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the <strong>results<\/strong>\u00a0with <strong>my predictions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Matt Brown vs. Mike Swick<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Prediction: Swick<\/strong> takes the<strong> decision.<br \/>\nResult: Matt Brown won<\/strong> by 2nd round KO making me<strong> 0-1 for the night.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rory MacDonald vs. B.J. Penn<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Prediction: Penn loses <\/strong>steam and the fight.<br \/>\n<strong>Result: Penn lost<\/strong> by unanimous decision making me <strong>1-1 for the night.\u00a0<\/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>Prediction: <\/strong>If<strong> Gustafsson <\/strong>can weather the storm, he<strong> should earn the decision.<br \/>\nResult: Gustafsson won <\/strong>by unanimous decision making me<strong> 2-1 for the night.\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>Prediction: Henderson <\/strong>by<strong> decision.<br \/>\nResults: Henderson won <\/strong>by unanimous decision making me<strong> 3-1 for the night.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>Final Thoughts:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong>Abel Trujillo <\/strong>is a beast. \u00a0He repeatedly stuffed takedowns by an undefeated Olympic Gold medal winning wrestler. \u00a0His punches could take down walls and he never tired. \u00a0This is a kid to watch. <strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong><strong>Daron Cruickshank<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>has skills. He was throwing punches with evil intentions, but also brutal kicks and spinning backfists. \u00a0I look to see him on the main card and fighting tougher competition soon.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong>Mike Swick <\/strong>didn&#8217;t look healthy. \u00a0He still has ground skills, but looked like he had a ways to go to be back to his former self.&#8217;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong><strong>Matt Brown&#8217;s <\/strong><\/strong>win streak continues. \u00a0He displayed a nice mix of punches and grappling in earning the win over <strong>Mike Swick<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">BJ Penn<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> needs to either <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">get serious<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> and <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">go back down to 155<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> or <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">retire<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">. \u00a0No more announcing he&#8217;s retired and then taking months off only to say, he wants to be considered the best pound-for-pound fighter and is coming back to show the world&#8230; only to lose.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rory MacDonald <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">owned<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\"> BJ Penn<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> last night. \u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">MacDonald<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> has a bright future. \u00a0I would caution him against showboating. \u00a0Not only is it foolish, it will quickly turn the fans against him. \u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">MacDonald<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> has a bright career ahead of him. \u00a0After his total destruction of <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">BJ Penn<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">, <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">MacDonald<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> called out <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carlos Condit<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> [the only person to ever beat <\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">MacDonald<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">]. \u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dana<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">, make the fight!<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Man, did<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Benson Henderson <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">look great! \u00a0He dominated every aspect of his fight against<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Nate Diaz <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">last night, easily winning every round. \u00a0That&#8217;s not to say that<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Diaz <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">was not in competitive. \u00a0He was. \u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diaz<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> is always dangerous. \u00a0A couple of times<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Diaz<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> was able to lure<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Henderson<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> into a bad position, but each time<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Henderson<\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\"> found a way out and continued to dominate the round. \u00a0Big Congrats to<\/span><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\"> Ben Henderson!\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dana White, like most MMA fans (I say most, because if your fighter lost you might feel differently), must have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-7578","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\/7578","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=7578"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27662,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7578\/revisions\/27662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}