UFC 79

[Chips]

Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy I can't wait for this one.

The Ice Man vs. The Axe Murderer

Georges St.Pierre vs. Matt Hughes

Lyoto vs. Soko's Safari Punch

This main card is pretty amazing... Except there's Rich Clementi on it, but oh well!

My picks: Chuck over Wandy (the Pride Curse)
GSP by domination
Lyoto by great decision

Edit: Here you go, Remyo.

Interim welterweight championship bout: Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre
Light heavyweight bout: Chuck Liddell vs. Wanderlei Silva
Light heavyweight bout : Lyoto Machida vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
Lightweight bout: Rich Clementi vs. Melvin Guillard
Heavyweight bout: Eddie Sanchez vs. Soa Palalei

Preliminary Card

Light Heavyweight bout: James Irvin vs. Luis Cane
Welterweight bout: Tony DeSouza vs. Roan Carneiro
Lightweight bout: Nate Mohr vs. Manvel Gamburyan
Middleweight bout:Dean Lister vs. Jordan Radev
Lightweight bout: Doug Evans vs. Mark Bocek

[Blarg]

Wand
GSP
probably Machida, this is a really interesting fight and the one I'm most uncertain of who will win

[Semitry]

Wand, GSP and Soku! Great card.

What Pride curse? Pride guys own the middle, lhw and soon hw titles. Crocop and Shogun lost but the same can be said of UFC with GSP, and Chuck. Probably a few more upsets around in 2k7.

[Remyo]

Bastard you beat me, but you fail for lacking the full card, just like epical did.
Interim welterweight championship bout: Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre
Light heavyweight bout: Chuck Liddell vs. Wanderlei Silva
Light heavyweight bout : Lyoto Machida vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
Lightweight bout: Rich Clementi vs. Melvin Guillard
Heavyweight bout: Eddie Sanchez vs. Soa Palalei

Preliminary Card

Light Heavyweight bout: James Irvin vs. Luis Cane
Welterweight bout: Tony DeSouza vs. Roan Carneiro
Lightweight bout: Nate Mohr vs. Manvel Gamburyan
Middleweight bout:Dean Lister vs. Jordan Radev
Lightweight bout: Doug Evans vs. Mark Bocek


as always picks bolded, matt hughes will have another belt and possibly GSPs arm to bring home with him. Also, if the chuck from the last 2 fights shows up silva will kill him.

[noblemountain]

Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre
Wanderlei Silva vs. Chuck Lidell
Lyoto Machida vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
Rich Clementi vs. Melvin Guillard (he's gotta be due.....right?)
Eddie Sanchez vs. Soa Palalei
James Irvin vs. Luis Cane
Tony DeSouza vs. Roan Carneiro
Nate Mohr vs. Manvel Gamburyan
Dean Lister vs. Jordan Radev
Doug Evans vs. Mark Bocek


hughes by annihiliation...the man's a beast and he knows he only has a couple of fights to leave people talking about him forever. silva by tko in the 2nd...too much pressure on these guys to have the match of the century, lidell gets knocked out by a wild punch while trying to be too aggressive. machida by sub in the 2nd. clementi by the hand of god coming down to give him a freaking victory to make up for all those highlight tapes he's getting knocked out on. sanchez by armbar...lister by any submission he damn well pleases.

[Chips]

What Pride curse? Pride guys own the middle, lhw and soon hw titles. Crocop and Shogun lost but the same can be said of UFC with GSP, and Chuck. Probably a few more upsets around in 2k7.

The Spider isn't a Pride fighter. But by "Pride Curse," I mean, whenever there's lots of hype surrounding top Pride fighters coming into the UFC, they lose (Shogun, Crocop, Nog's disappointing bout, etc).

[XxSlusherxx]

I haven't been exited about a UFC card in a long time, but I am absolutely pumped for tommarow night.

[Einherjar]

Nog was fighting Heath who is another Pride fighter for what the 4th time? If anything I'd say Heath suffered the Pride curse you speak of. He looked like shit when he came to the UFC, but if you watch his Pride fights he's really fun to watch. As for Shogun, he didn't take Forrest seriously and won't make that mistake again, when he comes back it will be to kill people.

GSP will win. He was training for the Olympic trials in wrestling when Serra got injured so he's in shape and ready to stuff Matt Hughes on takedowns.

Wanderlei by brutal knockout.

Sokoudjou by knockout as well. Everybody is picking Machida by his usual decision, and I'm going cheer for this fight to not go the distance.

Sanchez and Guillard to round off my main card picks.

[Chips]

Nog was fighting Heath who is another Pride fighter for what the 4th time? If anything I'd say Heath suffered the Pride curse you speak of. He looked like shit when he came to the UFC, but if you watch his Pride fights he's really fun to watch.

Big Nog should have lost that match if Heath wasn't retarded.

[Blarg]

I'm getting pumped, just a few more hours. There is a good all access of Wanderlei's training for the fight on daily motion if anyone wants to watch it.

[Semitry]

What Pride curse? Pride guys own the middle, lhw and soon hw titles. Crocop and Shogun lost but the same can be said of UFC with GSP, and Chuck. Probably a few more upsets around in 2k7.

The Spider isn't a Pride fighter. But by "Pride Curse," I mean, whenever there's lots of hype surrounding top Pride fighters coming into the UFC, they lose (Shogun, Crocop, Nog's disappointing bout, etc).

The Spider use to be a Pride fighter and sure there's a lot of hype around top Pride fighters, but there's also a lot around UFC guys that got knocked out too (Liddell by a Leprechaun, GSP, Sylvia..). Nog's debut was great, dominated the whole thing save a kick to the head which he was able to recover from.

And tonight should be awesome. Best card on paper in a loong time from the UFC.

[Chips]

Anderson Silva had like three fights in Pride. By that logic, Wanderlai is a UFC fighter.

[Semitry]

Anderson Silva had like three fights in Pride. By that logic, Wanderlai is a UFC fighter.

He's had at least 5 and was in Pride a lot longer then the UFC. Of course as time goes by the fighters that come to the UFC from other organization become more UFC fighters but when Silva joined the UFC he was known as a Pride fighter.

[Chips]

Anderson Silva had like three fights in Pride. By that logic, Wanderlai is a UFC fighter.

He's had at least 5 and was in Pride a lot longer then the UFC. Of course as time goes by the fighters that come to the UFC from other organization become more UFC fighters but when Silva joined the UFC he was known as a Pride fighter.

According to Sherdog, Anderson had 4 fights in Pride. And Wanderlai had fought in UFC 20 against some bum Tony Petarra

[Semitry]

Anderson Silva had like three fights in Pride. By that logic, Wanderlai is a UFC fighter.

He's had at least 5 and was in Pride a lot longer then the UFC. Of course as time goes by the fighters that come to the UFC from other organization become more UFC fighters but when Silva joined the UFC he was known as a Pride fighter.

According to Sherdog, Anderson had 4 fights in Pride. And Wanderlai had fought in UFC 20 against some bum Tony Petarra

I count 5, and he was on loan to Cage Rage while still in Pride too. Wanderlei also fought Tito Ortiz in the UFC.

Loss Ryo Chonan Submission (Flying Scissor Heel Hook) PRIDE - Shockwave 2004 12/31/2004 3 3:08
Loss Daiju Takase Submission (Triangle Choke) PRIDE 26 - Bad to the Bone 6/8/2003 1 8:33
Win Carlos Newton TKO (Strikes) PRIDE 25 - Body Blow 3/16/2003 1 6:27
Win Alexander Otsuka Decision (Unanimous) PRIDE 22 - Beasts From The East 2 9/29/2002 3 5:00
Win Alex Stiebling TKO (Cut) PRIDE 21 - Demolition 6/23/2002 1 1:23

[noblemountain]

Loss Ryo Chonan Submission (Flying Scissor Heel Hook) PRIDE - Shockwave 2004 12/31/2004 3 3:08

greatest sub ever.

wanderlei fought 3 times in ufc...lost to tito and vitor belfort and beat paterra.

[Chips]

Ohhh, I forgot about his loss to that flying scissor hook. I assumed that he only fought four because they weren't grouped together

[Remyo]

spoilers be here:


Mark Bocek vs. Douglas Evans
Bocek by split decision


Roan Carneiro vs. Tony DeSouza
Carneiro by TKO(strikes) in round 2



Jordan Radev vs. Dean Lister
Lister by unanimous decision


Nate Mohr vs. Manvel Gamburyan
Manny Gamburyan by submission (ankle lock) Rd. 1

Luis Arthur Cane vs. James Irvin
Cane DQ'd because of illegal knee to grounded opponent, Irvin awarded win; Rd 1

Rich Clementi vs. Melvin Guillard
Clementi by the hand of God(and Guillards total lack of ground game) winner by Rear Naked Choke rd. 1



Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou vs. Lyoto Machida
Machida by submission(Arm triangle) in round 2

Soa Palelei vs. Eddie Sanchez
Sanchez winner TKO(ref stoppage) rd 3


Wanderlei Silva vs. Chuck Liddell
Liddlel wins unanimous decision

Matt Hughes vs. Georges St. Pierre
GSP wins via submission (arm bar) rd 2

[Semitry]

Soku vs Mach
Soku tapped

[Azkarin]

How long until Liddel and Silva?