UFC 100 did not disappoint, it was full of great fights, rowdy fans and a little bit of drama. Here are the results at a glance.
Jon Fitch beat Paulo Thiago via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
Brock Lesnar beat Frank Mir via technical knockout at 1.48, round two
Georges St Pierre beat Thiago Alves via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-44, 50-45)
Dan Henderson defeated Michael Bisping via knockout at 3.20, round two
Yoshihiro Akiyama defeated Alan Belcher via split decision (30-27, 28-29, 29-28)
Mark Coleman defeated Stephan Bonnar via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Jim Miller defeated Mac Danzig via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
Jon Jones defeated Jake O'Brien via submission (D'Arce choke) at 2.43, round two
Dong-Hyun Kim defeated T.J. Grant via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-26)
Tom Lawlor defeated CB Dolloway via submission (guillotine choke) at 55 seconds, round one
Shannon Gugerty defeated Matt Grice via submission (guillotine choke) at 2.36, round one
The drama came in a couple different fashions. Dan Henderson worked Michael Bisping and a few fans thought that last punch he landed after Bisping was already out was a bit uncalled for. If you ask me it was just his way of getting the last word in. Bisping sort of set it up by running his mouth a little too much before the fights.
I had picked Thiago Alves to beat Georges St Pierre. I really thought he was going to be the upset pick. While it did go the distance, unfortunately Thiago wasn't able to win even one round. I am happy to see he was able to go the distance and look forward to seeing their next opponents. In my opinion, the 170 lb weight class is a bit shallow compared to the other weight classes.
Yikes the drama-rama of the night award goes to Broke Lesnar (aka Nacho Libre). After beating Frank Mir Brock managed to showcase the WWE still left in him by running his mouth. He said something about a horse shoe up the bum, flipped off the 11,000 or so fans that were booing him and then proceeded to say he was going to go drink a Coors Light not a Bud Light because Bud Light won't pay him. And if that weren't enough he closed his speech by saying something about getting on top of his wife...
The lesson learned tonight my friends is there is always a winner and a loser. But in some cases even the winners are losers. Behavior like Brock's will only tarnish the image of a sport that has been fighting for so long to be more mainstream. It's a shame when a publication as great as MSNBC doesn't really showcase MMA and yet when it does it's highlight is Brock's bad behavior.
To be fair, Brock did apologize during his post fight interview with ESPN MMALive. I'm guessing he got a good talking to after his stupidity. I was also reminded by a fellow MMA writer who said "Don't forget he's new to the sport, give him time." Point made but Brock needs to remember he's no longer in the WWE. MMA/UFC fans are a little smarter and a smidgen classier.
I pushed UFC Fantasy all week. How did you guys do? I ended up at 112 out of 24865...
I can't wait for UFC 101. Philly bound. We should have a tweet up! Don't forget you can follow me at twitter.com/mmahotstuff
Grice lost. You list him as a winner.
Posted by: a | July 12, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Tarnish the image of the sport...come on man every sport has it's morons....Mike Tyson said all sorts of stupid stuff and people ate it up...Brocks no different....he was still jacked after the fight and then you put a mike in front of him...he made a mistake ...he'll learn...Also how many new eyeballs has he brought to the sport...a lot by looking at the ppv buys when he's on the card...he's a cash cow
Posted by: Dennis | July 12, 2009 at 08:37 AM
mir ran his mouth tons in the weeks building towards the fight, brock had every right to run his after he remodeled mir's face.
Posted by: will | July 15, 2009 at 09:27 PM
* be happy together is good enough. I am not asking for things that I could never get.
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