Well, it is official that Cro Cop has signed the largest contract in UFC history, the exact figures have not been revealed but what is known is that he will be getting paid more than any other UFC fighter in the history of the company. The contract is a six fight contract.
Both Rampage and Cro Cop will debut in February making the card perhaps the most talent packed card in UFC history.
UFC 66 happened tonight and there was an awesome upset, Keith Jardine scored a technical knock out over Forrest Griffin in the first round with only 30 seconds left. Jardine had lost a very controvercial decision during the summer against Stephan Bonnar, most felt that Jardine took that fight. Jardine in the post fight interview said that Bonnar was the tougher fight. It will be interesting to see where he goes from here since I do think that they just expected Forrest to go through him in order to put him up as a contender. Personally I feel that Jardine will see Bonnar again in a rematch, and after that perhaps a fight against Rashad or Bisping, then Babalu or Tito if he wins those; though I would like to see him go up against Tito or Babalu in his next fight.
On the midcard Andrei Arlovski took out a no name in the first round. Jason Macdonald defeated Chris Leben by submission; Jason Macdonald first became recognized for his upset victory over Ed Herman earlier in the fall. The main event had Chuck Liddell TKO Tito in the 3rd round; though Tito did fairly good, if it had gone to a 5 round decision, Tito might have actually won; Tito definately took the second round.
Tonight Fedor vs. Mark Hunt (the guy who defeated Cro Cop a short while back); Fedor will win. The interesting fight will be Nog vs. Barnett, Nog has to prove that his fight against Barnett last time was just a fluke, if he can win this convincingly, then he will have proven that.
EDIT:
Shockwave,
I only saw the two main fights of PRIDE Shockwave which just occured (Japanese time). Fedor beat the hell out of Hunt and then submitted him. Nog also dominated Barnett all the way through (looks like it was just a bad night before when he lost the split decision). It was a very convincing victory, I feel this does place him still as #2 since he has yet to be convincingly defeated by anyone except Fedor, and he has fought EVERYONE.
I read the opinions of Shockwave on Sherdog.com and it seems that overall it was a spectacular PPV, anyone who is not saying best MMA event of all time are listing it as clearly the best of 2006.
Some other interesting results are: Akihiri won a split decision over Yuki Kondo; Shogun won a decision over Nakamura; Fujita KO'd a 2 time Olympic Wrestling champion (96/00); James Thompson (a Brit) won an upset victory over Yoshida by TKO.
I won't be able to catch it on PPV tonight, but with the rave reviews it has been getting, a DVD purchase will be in the future if I can't find all the fights online. There were some PRIDE Bushido brand fights mixed in there as well, those are always entertaining.
Both Rampage and Cro Cop will debut in February making the card perhaps the most talent packed card in UFC history.
UFC 66 happened tonight and there was an awesome upset, Keith Jardine scored a technical knock out over Forrest Griffin in the first round with only 30 seconds left. Jardine had lost a very controvercial decision during the summer against Stephan Bonnar, most felt that Jardine took that fight. Jardine in the post fight interview said that Bonnar was the tougher fight. It will be interesting to see where he goes from here since I do think that they just expected Forrest to go through him in order to put him up as a contender. Personally I feel that Jardine will see Bonnar again in a rematch, and after that perhaps a fight against Rashad or Bisping, then Babalu or Tito if he wins those; though I would like to see him go up against Tito or Babalu in his next fight.
On the midcard Andrei Arlovski took out a no name in the first round. Jason Macdonald defeated Chris Leben by submission; Jason Macdonald first became recognized for his upset victory over Ed Herman earlier in the fall. The main event had Chuck Liddell TKO Tito in the 3rd round; though Tito did fairly good, if it had gone to a 5 round decision, Tito might have actually won; Tito definately took the second round.
Tonight Fedor vs. Mark Hunt (the guy who defeated Cro Cop a short while back); Fedor will win. The interesting fight will be Nog vs. Barnett, Nog has to prove that his fight against Barnett last time was just a fluke, if he can win this convincingly, then he will have proven that.
EDIT:
Shockwave,
I only saw the two main fights of PRIDE Shockwave which just occured (Japanese time). Fedor beat the hell out of Hunt and then submitted him. Nog also dominated Barnett all the way through (looks like it was just a bad night before when he lost the split decision). It was a very convincing victory, I feel this does place him still as #2 since he has yet to be convincingly defeated by anyone except Fedor, and he has fought EVERYONE.
I read the opinions of Shockwave on Sherdog.com and it seems that overall it was a spectacular PPV, anyone who is not saying best MMA event of all time are listing it as clearly the best of 2006.
Some other interesting results are: Akihiri won a split decision over Yuki Kondo; Shogun won a decision over Nakamura; Fujita KO'd a 2 time Olympic Wrestling champion (96/00); James Thompson (a Brit) won an upset victory over Yoshida by TKO.
I won't be able to catch it on PPV tonight, but with the rave reviews it has been getting, a DVD purchase will be in the future if I can't find all the fights online. There were some PRIDE Bushido brand fights mixed in there as well, those are always entertaining.
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