Official MMA Thread mk. 2

Here it is. Talk about MMA.
 
Dan Henderson is signing with Strikeforce 
 
This weekend (the 12th) is UFC 107. The card is as follows: 
 

• Lightweight Championship bout:   B.J. Penn (c) vs.   Diego Sanchez
• Heavyweight bout:   Frank Mir vs.   Cheick Kongo
• Welterweight bout:   Jon Fitch vs.   Mike Pierce
• Lightweight bout:   Kenny Florian vs.   Clay Guida
• Heavyweight bout:   Paul Buentello vs.   Stefan Struve

• Middleweight bout:   Alan Belcher vs.   Wilson Gouveia
• Lightweight bout:   Matt Wiman vs.   Shane Nelson
• Welterweight bout:   Johny Hendricks vs.   Ricardo Funch
• Middleweight bout:   Rousimar Palhares vs.   Lucio Linhares
• Welterweight bout:   DaMarques Johnson vs.   Edgar Garcia
• Welterweight bout:   Kevin Burns vs.   TJ Grant

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" @Korg: damn it korg you beat me to it. "

more than likely

"Here it is. Talk about MMA.
 
Dan Henderson is signing with Strikeforce. Hopefully we get to see him fight Mousasi, because he'd just tear through Jake Shields like a wet tissue. 
 
This weekend (the 12th) is UFC 107. The card is as follows: 
 
                             

Main Card

• Lightweight Championship bout:   B.J. Penn (c) vs.   Diego Sanchez
• Heavyweight bout:   Frank Mir vs.   Cheick Kongo
• Welterweight bout:   Jon Fitch vs.   Mike Pierce
• Lightweight bout:   Kenny Florian vs.   Clay Guida
• Heavyweight bout:   Paul Buentello vs.   Stefan Struve

Preliminary Card

• Middleweight bout:   Alan Belcher vs.   Wilson Gouveia
• Lightweight bout:   Matt Wiman vs.   Shane Nelson
• Welterweight bout:   Johny Hendricks vs.   Ricardo Funch
• Middleweight bout:   Rousimar Palhares vs.   Lucio Linhares
• Welterweight bout:   DaMarques Johnson vs.   Edgar Garcia
• Welterweight bout:   Kevin Burns vs.   TJ Grant

 

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" I still don't know what MMA is.  : ( "

My predictions:
BJ should beat Diego TKO, KO, Sub... lots of ways he can do it.
Hopefully Kongo KTFO Mir (likely to be Mir by Sub though) 
Fitch beats Pierce by unanimous decision. 
Florian TKOs Guida (via GnP- elbows) 
Struve submits Buentello  
  
Some decent under card fights, anyone know if they are going to air them live before the PPV? I heard they werent... 

Also wanted to add that I'm pumped to see Dan Henderson vs Gregard Mousasi. They should let Dan fight Shields first, so he can win the middleweight title. Then hold a PPV supercard with Henderson vs Mousasi for the light heavy belt, and Fedor vs Alistair Overeem for the heavyweight title.

" anyone know if they are going to air them live before the PPV? I heard they werent...  "

By the way these are all going down this month. 
  

Official fight card

Main Card

• Middleweight bout: Cung Le vs. Scott Smith
• Lightweight Championship bout: Josh Thomson(c) vs. Gilbert Melendez(ic)
• Middleweight bout: Ronaldo Souza vs. Matt Lindland
• Middleweight bout: Robbie Lawler vs. Trevor Prangley
• Heavyweight bout: Muhammed Lawal vs. Mike Whitehead

Preliminary Card

• Light Heavyweight bout: Scott Lighty vs. Antwain Britt
• Lightweight bout: Daisuke Nakamura vs. Bryan Travers
• Lightweight bout: Alexander Crispim vs. AJ Fonseca
• Featherweight bout: Luis Mendoza vs. Juan Nunez
• Lightweight bout: Alex Trevino vs. Bobby Stack

  Official Fight Card

  Main Card

• Lightweight bout: Donald Cerrone vs. Ed Ratcliff
• Lightweight bout: Anthony Njokuani vs. Chris Horodecki
• Bantamweight bout: Joseph Benavidez vs. Rani Yahya
• Bantamweight bout: Takeya Mizugaki vs. Scott Jorgensen

  Undercard

• Lightweight bout: Bart Palaszewski vs. Anthony Pettis
• Lightweight bout: Muhsin Corbbrey vs. Zach Micklewright
• Featherweight bout: Tyler Toner vs. Brandon Visher
• Bantamweight bout: Brad Pickett vs. Kyle Dietz
• Featherweight bout: Jameel Massouh vs. Erik Koch

Other Announced Matchups

These matches have been reported as finalized by sources, but have not yet been added to the card on WEC.tv.

• Bantamweight bout: John Hosman vs. Chad George

K-1 bouts

K-1 MAX

• Masato vs. Andy Souwer

K-1 KOSHIEN 62kg Class Tournament Semi-Finals

• Hiroya vs. Masaaki Noiri
• Shota Shimada vs. Katsuki Ishida

K-1 KOSHIEN 62kg Class Tournament Reserve Fight

• Tsukasa Fuji vs. Tatuya Kusakabe

K-1 KOSHIEN 62kg Class Tournament Finals

• Winner of Hiroya vs. Masaaki Noiri vs. Winner of Shota Shimada vs. Katsuki Ishida

MMA bouts

DREAM Super Hulk Grand Prix 2009 Finals

• Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou

Heavyweight Bout

• Satoshi Ishii vs. Hidehiko Yoshida

Possible Participants

Possible participants as described by FEG executive Sadaharu Tanigawa and DREAM EP Keiichi Sasahara.[13 ]

• Badr Hari
• Jerome Le Banner
• Alistair Overeem
• Shinya Aoki
• Tatsuya Kawajiri
• Kazushi Sakuraba
• Hayato Sakurai
• Kiyoshi Tamura
• Norifumi Yamamoto

as far as UFC 107 goes... I only have hopes for some of the fights at hand... I would like to see Diego Sanchez beat BJ Penn... but I dont think he can... and I know Kongo is in trouble with Frank Mir... Kongo has No Ground Game... 

on another note... its good to see Cung Le back in action... everyone knows he is the Greatest Middleweight MMA Fighter in the World... jk

" on another note... its good to see Cung Le back in action... everyone knows he is the Greatest Middleweight MMA Fighter in the World... jk"

I want Diaz/Le, so I actually hope Cung Le wins.

" @King Saturn:  Fitch/Pierce and Florian/Guida should both be good fights (Fitch/Pierce will probably be a bit one-sided, but Fitch is usually fun to watch). As for Diego/BJ, I assume you just don't like BJ?
 
@King Saturn said:

" on another note... its good to see Cung Le back in action... everyone knows he is the Greatest Middleweight MMA Fighter in the World... jk"

I will laugh so hard if Scott Smith manages to KO him... "

I agree... Kenny Florian and Guida will be another great fight on the Card as well as Jon Fitch and Mike Pierce... and you are correct... I am not really a big BJ Penn fan... though I wasnt much of a fan of Diego Sanchez until his Insane Battle he had with Clay Guida...

lmao @ your second statement... that would be something if Scott gave Cung Le the Dan Henderson treatment... lol 

" I think Diaz will submit Le easily "

"  lmao @ your second statement... that would be something if Scott gave Cung Le the Dan Henderson treatment... lol "

I don't know about that, I see going the way of Guillard/Diaz.

" I don't know about that, I see going the way of Guillard/Diaz. "

" @Korg: I know, I just see the fight playing out simular to that one. "

They should just have sheilds fight him.

" They should just have sheilds fight him. "

• Couture/Coleman
• Little Nog/Vera
• Marquardt/Sonnen
• Serra/Trigg

"Anybody have word on when Overeem's gonna defend that title. "

" @killermike said:

" I think Diaz will submit Le easily "

  I would hope for TKO via 400 punches, a la Shamrock/Diaz 
 
@King Saturn said:

"  lmao @ your second statement... that would be something if Scott gave Cung Le the Dan Henderson treatment... lol "

Henderson is in Strikeforce now. Imagine Henderson/Le. "

" oh gawd... that would be Jaw Shattering... for Cung Le at least... oh wow... so its possible we could see Gergard Mousasi vs Dan Henderson ?  "

@killermike

" Overeem is getting huge! He's gotta be on roids. "

" @King Saturn said:

" oh gawd... that would be Jaw Shattering... for Cung Le at least... oh wow... so its possible we could see Gergard Mousasi vs Dan Henderson ?  "

It's not only possible, it's pretty likely. I'm hurt that you didn't read my OP, btw."

" mir or kongo? "

well Frank Mir has a better overall game than Kongo... Kongo is a Mad Crazy Striker... but his Ground Game is suspect... possibly Non Existant... lol where as Mir has solid Jiu Jitsu skills... so I am afraid if Mir gets Kongo on the ground... the fight could end in favor of Mir rather quickly...

" Do people not like Overeem in K-1? When he got stopped by Hari there was an awful lot of celebrating going on. "

Kongo is gonna get subbed.

" MMA has to become more mainstrem for that to happen first. "

MMA needs to get sanctioned in New York. That would be huge. Massachusetts is an excellent step in the right direction, but New York would be a huge break for MMA.

" MMA needs to get sanctioned in New York. That would be huge. Massachusetts is an excellent step in the right direction, but New York would be a huge break for MMA. "

" at the rate MMA is growing in its popularity... I believe getting sanctioned in New York shouldnt be that far away from us in the near future...  "

" @King Saturn said:

" at the rate MMA is growing in its popularity... I believe getting sanctioned in New York shouldnt be that far away from us in the near future...  "

I added this to the OP, but everyone who wants to help make this happen should check out this site:  http://www.mmafacts.com/ "

Why'd Dan Henderson sign with Strikeforce?

" Why'd Dan Henderson sign with Strikeforce? "

What do you guys have to say to this?
 
 @Baldy said:

" You act as though MMA fights arn't staged. "

" What do you guys have to say to this?
 
 @Baldy said:

" You act as though MMA fights arn't staged. "

"

"@Static Shock said:

" What do you guys have to say to this?
 
 @Baldy said:

" You act as though MMA fights arn't staged. "

"

ah... I take it Baldy is of relation to Klandicar "

I figured that.