UFC 80: Rapid Fire :: 1/19, Newcastle [R]

[Bison1997]

Live Matches

B.J. Penn vs. Joe Stevenson (for vacant lightweight title)
Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Fabricio Werdum
Marcus Davis vs. Jess Liaudin
Jason Lambert vs. Wilson Gouveia
Kendall Grove vs. Jorge Rivera

Taped Matches

Antoni Hardonk vs. Colin Robinson
Paul Kelly vs. Paul Taylor
James Lee vs. Alessio Sakara
Per Eklund vs. Sam Stout


-- Don't do drugs, kids.

-- That said, Penn/Stevenson should be worht the price of admission here.

-- Grove/Rivera could be a interesting fight. Rivera got a ton of face time on TUF - thing is, dude needs to win a few fights to keep his head about water in the actual UFC.

Thoughts on the show? May not be able to catch this one live, but we'll see.

[mintone]

The whole main card has interesting fights if not big name fighters.

I'm a fan of Gouveia, he's fun to watch.

[TheSlipperyOne]

Is this going to be a PPV from England?

[Bison1997]

Is this going to be a PPV from England?

Yep - live at 3 PM EST, but that didn't go so well the last time they tried it, so they're going to rebroadcast the PPV at the normal time of 10 PM EST.

[TheSlipperyOne]

Congrats to BJ Penn for being only the 2nd man in UFC history to win the belt at two different weight classes.

I'm glad I didn't pay for this because I didn't care about any of the other fights but BJ absolutely demolished Stevenson. BJ has decided he wants to cement his legacy as one of the greats and he looks like he will. When Sherk comes back from his suspension I think BJ will beat him too. He went right at Daddy standing then took him down when he wanted to finish it. Sick skills this guy has.

[Bison1997]

Congrats to BJ Penn for being only the 2nd man in UFC history to win the belt at two different weight classes.

I'm glad I didn't pay for this because I didn't care about any of the other fights but BJ absolutely demolished Stevenson. BJ has decided he wants to cement his legacy as one of the greats and he looks like he will. When Sherk comes back from his suspension I think BJ will beat him too. He went right at Daddy standing then took him down when he wanted to finish it. Sick skills this guy has.

I only caught the second round of the main event, as I was coming from a friend's Birthday Party, but yeah Penn looked really up for this one. Stevenson had been steamrolling people at 155 and Penn dominated him and made it look easy.

When Penn's motivated, he's extremely hard to beat. The Sherk match should be fun.

[mintone]

The Sherk match should be fun.

For Penn. Not for Sherk.;):p:D

[pupusa3000]

Yeah, I missed this one, but from what I've heard, BJ dominated hard.

That Sherk vs BJ will be very interesting. But I think Sherk has more of a chance then you think...but then again this is a post roids Sherk :p

Also anyone hear that having beat Gonzaga, Werdum is contender for HW after the Sylvia / Nog fight?

[Bison1997]

Also anyone hear that having beat Gonzaga, Werdum is contender for HW after the Sylvia / Nog fight?

If you're over 205, you could be a HW contender after Sylvia/Nog. That's a really thin division right now.

Dana must be praying that Brock Lesnar wins convincingly next month. :D

[pupusa3000]

Yeah, whats up with that? There was a time when it looked like the UFC HW division was looking like THE growing division. Now with no Couture, Crocop not looking good, Gonzaga losing 2 in a row, Arlovski no where to be found. Heath not looking good. Its real thin.

I think that Kongo should actually get a shot before Werdum.

That said, yeah Dana is betting BIG on Lesnar. And part of me wants Mir to wreck Lesnar because of that :D

[jmoto]

hA!

[K:theCore]

I wonder how much blood, Joe Daddy lost in this one? Ive never seen such a bloodbath. BJ puts him in a RNC hold and blood is literally spurting out of Joe's head with each heart beat. Amazing

Best part was when BJ licked each glove at the end as a symbol of victory. That was SICK and I loved it!!!

WAR PENN!!!!!