UFC 99, strikeforce, WEC brown v faber

[Blarg]

Both strikeforce and WEC have cards this weekend and they are both very good. Since UFC 99 is just one week later I figured I would just make it now.

STRIKEFORCE This saturday June 6 at 7pm pacific. Catch a online stream if you don't get Showtime.

Catchweight 182lb bout: Robbie Lawler vs. Jake Shields
Heavyweight bout: Andrei Arlovski vs. Brett Rogers
Catchweight 179lb bout: Nick Diaz vs. Scott Smith
Welterweight bout: Phil Baroni vs. Joe Riggs
Light Heavyweight Bout: Kevin Randleman vs. Mike Whitehead

Undercard fight worth checking out
Light Heavyweight bout: Rafael Cavalcante vs Mike Kyle

I hope Robbie destroys Jake, I really don't like him and he needs to be humbled. Arlovski should win as long as he doesn't get touched on that chin of his. Diaz always makes a good fight and with someone who can take a ton of shots in Smith it will be interesting if Diaz goes for a submission or drops 100 strikes a second onto Smith and eventually tko's him. Randleman fight will probably be boring, likely just a wrestling match. Baroni v riggs should be a fun brawl (or at least for the first round as Riggs may go to the ground) but not really all that interesting outside of that. Cavalcante is an exciting up and comer.


WEC 41 This sunday at 6pm pacific on Versus network or your favourite online stream.

Featherweight Championship bout: Mike Brown vs. Urijah Faber
Featherweight bout: Jose Aldo vs. Cub Swanson
Lightweight bout: Donald Cerrone vs. James Krause
Featherweight bout: Jens Pulver vs. Josh Grispi

Really excited for the main event, I see Brown winning this fight more often than not. I think Faber has to move in and out really quickly and I see him sooner or later getting hit with something big and being in trouble. Aldo has been wrecking people like crazy and is awesome to watch. Cerrone usually brings an all action kind of fight. Pulver just isn't there anymore and even though I know next to nothing about Grispi I just see him eventually winning.


UFC 99 June 13 at 12pm pacific (it's in germany so that is why it is so early). This is a PPV so catch a stream if you can't see it otherwise.

Catchweight (195 lb) bout: Rich Franklin vs. Wanderlei Silva
Heavyweight bout: Cheick Kongo vs. Cain Velasquez
Welterweight bout: Mike Swick vs. Ben Saunders
Welterweight bout: Marcus Davis vs. Dan Hardy
Lightweight bout: Spencer Fisher vs. Caol Uno
Heavyweight bout: Mostapha Al-turk vs. Mirko Cro Cop Filipović

Preliminary card

Lightweight bout: Terry Etim vs. Justin Buchholz
Lightweight bout: Dennis Siver vs. Dale Hartt
Welterweight bout: Paul Taylor vs. Peter Sobotta
Lightweight bout: Paul Kelly vs. Rolando Delgado
Heavyweight bout: Denis Stojnic vs. Stefan Struve
Welterweight bout: John Hathaway vs. Rick Story

I really really really want to see Wanderlei win but Rich can strike rather well and Wands chin hasn't been the best as of late. Cain is having the hardest fight of his career but I really like this guy and think he can be really really good. He should be able to hang in the standup and can just wrestle Cheick down if things don't go well in the standup. Davis v hardy is a good grudge/hate fight and I see Davis getting some form of tko. Swick v saunders should be exciting but I'm really excited to see if Cro Cop is back in some form or other. Hope to see Turk's head fly into the stands by a nice head kick.

[Chips]

Shields, Arlovski, Faber, Silva

[Epical]

Wow Andrei, lol.

Sylvia vs Arlovski: loser retires.

[FNH]

awesome news Machida v. Shogun at UFC 104!

[Ohemgee]

Wow Andrei, lol.

Sylvia vs Arlovski: loser retires.

This

Heavyweight has become such a bleh class.

[noblemountain]

Catchweight 182lb bout: Robbie Lawler vs. Jake Shields
Heavyweight bout: Andrei Arlovski vs. Brett Rogers
Catchweight 179lb bout: Nick Diaz vs. Scott Smith
Welterweight bout: Phil Baroni vs. Joe Riggs
Light Heavyweight Bout: Kevin Randleman vs. Mike Whitehead

Undercard fight worth checking out
Light Heavyweight bout: Rafael Cavalcante vs Mike Kyle

I had your same picks pretty much and all of them lost besides Riggs. lol

I expected Diaz to win, but let's see if he can beat his hardest opponent...the piss cup.

[Day]

Lets hope so, I'd hate to see that fight tainted.

[Gryffes]

Diaz tested positive for Cannabis fgs it's not like he roids. He's super anal about his diet.
Diaz is looking fantastic. I'd love to see Diaz vs GSP.

The problem is Diazs' weakest area is his wrestling, his striking and groundgame are tremendous. GSPs' greatest strength is his wrestling he could pretty much blanket Diaz to victory.


Shogun is going to get wrecked. He lost to forrest, and beat Mark Coleman ( lol ) and a retired Chuck.

Basically he got the title shot because everyone is busy and the UFC wants to feed an aggressive striker to Lyoto to give everyone else a chance to play catchup.

Shogun is going to get annihilated.

[noblemountain]

Diaz tested positive for Cannabis fgs it's not like he roids. He's super anal about his diet.
Diaz is looking fantastic. I'd love to see Diaz vs GSP.

The problem is Diazs' weakest area is his wrestling, his striking and groundgame are tremendous. GSPs' greatest strength is his wrestling he could pretty much blanket Diaz to victory.

Yes, we know what he tests positive for. I was merely stating that he does it a lot...and one thing I know is that if I were going to fight, I'd lay the fuck off and keep all my money. Then again, I'm not an idiot.

What is "fgs" anyway? Is that retard shorthand for "fags"?

[Gryffes]

What is "fgs" anyway? Is that retard shorthand for "fags"?

for gods sake.

[noblemountain]

for gods sake.

I have never seen that. I honestly thought you were resorting to name-calling over a Nick Diaz piss test. lol

[Chips]

Diaz tested positive for Cannabis fgs it's not like he roids. He's super anal about his diet.
Diaz is looking fantastic. I'd love to see Diaz vs GSP.

The problem is Diazs' weakest area is his wrestling, his striking and groundgame are tremendous. GSPs' greatest strength is his wrestling he could pretty much blanket Diaz to victory.

Diaz deserves to be nowhere near GSP in the cage, he'd get absolutely ruined. In fact, that's probably why he's not in the UFC, since he'd get wrecked by most UFC's welterweight division: Fitch, Hughes, Kim, Davis, Alves, Koscheck. I'd even go as far to say that Ben Saunders stands a chance (we'll see after the Swick/Saunders fight).

[Gryffes]

Diaz deserves to be nowhere near GSP in the cage, he'd get absolutely ruined. In fact, that's probably why he's not in the UFC, since he'd get wrecked by most UFC's welterweight division: Fitch, Hughes, Kim, Davis, Alves, Koscheck. I'd even go as far to say that Ben Saunders stands a chance (we'll see after the Swick/Saunders fight).

He's not in the UFC because when his UFC contract expired he walked away for the significant upgrade in pay to fight in pride, and once pride was done he came back to fight for another organisation that pays better.

He beats everyone you listed except Fitch and Alves who I think he beats but have a good chance.

[Blarg]

He's not in the UFC because when his UFC contract expired he walked away for the significant upgrade in pay to fight in pride, and once pride was done he came back to fight for another organisation that pays better.

He beats everyone you listed except Fitch and Alves who I think he beats but have a good chance.

To be fair he lost his last 3 fights in the ufc, it's not as if he wrecked everyone and then left for pride. He has gotten a lot better since then though so it's hard to know how he would do now but I think he would be a top 10, maybe just outside the top 5 but not a champion.

[noblemountain]

He's not in the UFC because when his UFC contract expired he walked away for the significant upgrade in pay to fight in pride, and once pride was done he came back to fight for another organisation that pays better.

He beats everyone you listed except Fitch and Alves who I think he beats but have a good chance.

Loss Sean Sherk UFC 59 4/15/2006
Loss Joe Riggs UFC 57 2/4/2006
Loss Diego Sanchez TUF 2 Finale 11/5/2005
Win Koji Oishi UFC 53 6/4/2005
Win Drew Fickett UFC 51 2/5/2005
Loss Karo Parisyan UFC 49 8/21/2004
Win Robbie Lawler UFC 47 4/2/2004
Win Jeremy Jackson UFC 44 9/26/2003


The kid is a good fighter, I'm not saying he's not, but to say he was kicking ass in the division is a bit of an overstatement. He has improved quite a bit since then, but not enough for me to believe he can beat GSP.

[FNH]

and 2 of those opponents he has wins on have massively improved also, lawler and fickett.

[Blarg]

bunch of streams got taken down for WEC but I found one that uses a PW so it may be safe, pm me if you want it.

[tyven]

lil evil

[noblemountain]

lil evil

time for jens to hang it up...such an awesome guy too, sad to see him lose like that.

[Blarg]

God damn Aldo has got power everywhere.