{"id":8115,"date":"2013-04-21T07:05:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T11:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8115"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:47:51","slug":"ufc-on-fox-resultse3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=8115","title":{"rendered":"UFC on FOX Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z042113ufc_onfox7.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last night the <strong>UFC<\/strong> along with <strong>FX<\/strong> and <strong>FOX<\/strong> put on a great\u00a0night of fights. \u00a0Let&#8217;s look at <strong>my predictions<\/strong> and <strong>the results<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nate\u00a0Diaz<\/strong>\u00a0vs.\u00a0<strong>Josh Thomson<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Prediction:<\/strong> <strong>Thompson<\/strong> with a <strong>decision win<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<b>Result: Thompson won\u00a0<\/b>by <strong>TKO<\/strong> at 3:44 of the 2nd, making me <strong>1-0<\/strong> for the night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Matt Brown<\/strong>\u00a0vs.\u00a0<strong>Jordan\u00a0Mein<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Prediction:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Brown<\/strong> with a <strong>decision win<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<b>Result: Brown won\u00a0<\/b>by\u00a0<strong>TKO<\/strong>\u00a0at 1:00 of the 2nd, making me 2<strong>-0<\/strong>\u00a0for the night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Frank Mir<\/strong>\u00a0vs.\u00a0<strong>Daniel\u00a0Cormier<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Prediction<\/strong>: Mir wins via <strong>stoppage<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<b>Result: Cormier\u00a0won\u00a0<\/b>by<strong> unanimous decision<\/strong>, making me <strong>2-1<\/strong>\u00a0for the night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Benson Henderson<\/strong>\u00a0vs.\u00a0<strong>Gilbert Melendez<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Prediction: Henderson wins<\/strong> via <strong>decision<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<b>Result: Henderson won\u00a0<\/b>by <strong>split decision<\/strong>\u00a0at 3:44, making me <strong>3-1<\/strong>\u00a0for the night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Final thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>Josh Thompson<\/strong> stuck to his game plan and it paid off. \u00a0Diaz tried to lure him into a brawl, but <strong>Thompson<\/strong> was content to get in, score and get out. When they did stand and mix it up Thompson was getting the best of it. Well played, <strong>Josh Thompson<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Matt Brown<\/strong> looked amazing and made what should have been a tougher fight look fairly easy. \u00a0<strong>Brown<\/strong> took some shots, but would not be denied. \u00a0Can&#8217;t wait to see who Matt &#8220;The Immortal&#8221; Brown fights next.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Mir vs Cormier<\/strong> should have been a better fight. \u00a0<strong>Cormier<\/strong> was content to push <strong>Mir<\/strong> against the cage and do little. \u00a0<strong>Mir<\/strong> had no answer. \u00a0In the third round Mir began to light up <strong>Cormier&#8217;s<\/strong> midsection with kicks, but by then it was too little, too late.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Henderson<\/strong> and <strong>Melendez<\/strong> put on a fight! \u00a0It was <strong>five grueling rounds<\/strong> of back and forth action. \u00a0There were a lot of boos when the decision was announced. \u00a0I had it <strong>3-2<\/strong> for <strong>Henderson<\/strong>, but except for two of the judges (who split 2-1 for <strong>Henderson<\/strong>), it sounded like everyone else saw it<strong> 3-2<\/strong> for <strong>Melendez<\/strong>. \u00a0Rematch, anyone?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night the UFC along with FX and FOX put on a great\u00a0night of fights. \u00a0Let&#8217;s look at my predictions<\/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-8115","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\/8115","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=8115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27660,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8115\/revisions\/27660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}