LIVE MATCHES * Forrest Griffin vs. Tito Ortiz * Anthony Johnson vs. Josh Koscheck * Phil Baroni vs. Amir Sadollah * Luiz Cane vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira * Dustin Hazelett vs. Karo Parisyan TAPED MATCHES * Marcus Davis vs. Ben Saunders * Paulo Thiago vs. Jacob Volkmann * Kendall Grove vs. Jake Rosholt * Brian Foster vs. Brock Larson * Fabricio Camoes vs. Caol Uno * Jason Dent vs. George Sotiropoulos -- Yeah, this card's definitely missing that Lesnar/Carwin main event. Mono's a bitch. -- Still should be fun, though - I remain unconvinced that Ortiz still has enough to fight at the top level at 205, even though he swears that he's a new man following his back surgery. -- Koscheck/Johnson could be a real fight, too. Can Kos get it to the ground without taking too many bombs? Can Johnson keep it standing long enough to get in one of those bombs? -- Hopefully Sadollah beats the shit out of Baroni. -- TUF has gone a long way towards bringing in fighters, hasn't it?
Forest vs Tito 2 isn't a very compelling match is it. Should get good PPV buys though. Koscheck is cocky enough to think he is a good standup fighter, so hopefully he'll try and outstrike Rumble and gets KTFO. Most looking forward to Lil Nog' versus Cane. I love both Nogueira's and think Lil Nog is a more exciting fighter actually.
FYI, Kendall Grove vs. Jake Rosholt and Marcus Davis vs. Ben Saunders will both be broadcast live on Spike TV before the PPV starts.
I'm juiced for Rumble vs Koscheck, has the potential to be a great fight. Here's to Koscheck getting ktfo!
The Parisyan and Hazelett has been scratched. Apparently Karo did something, because Dana White sent this twit over the internet, “Karo Parisyan has fucked over the UFC, the fans and his opponent again!!! He will not be fighting saturday or ever again in the UFC!!”...hmmm
Dana then sent the following two tweets: If I was Hazelett, I'd be pissed - he had to have started cutting already, too. Happy that he's getting his full winner's purse.
Totally. I never seen Cane run before. He fought & beat some tuff opponents. Your fellow countryman didn't look too shabby either
I know there was some beef between Josh Koscheck & Dan Hardy, but I wondered if this really happened:
It did, just not in this order. Dan Hardy did that after Kos called him out. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKThjBGspdk"]YouTube- Dan Hardy making fun of Koscheck[/ame]
Dooda, I got too caught up in Le Arse vs Chelsea match up, that I didn't read your post until today. Now Zuffa has already took off the vid. It was just of the War of Words between Hardy vs. Koscheck right. I can see why. Koscheck seems to be real tight w/ Swick. Remember the incident on the first TUF. That was because Leben called out Swick. Well he didn't call him out, but reminded him that he knocked him out . Kos felt he had to stand for him. I think they are both members of American Kickboxing. I don't know if Hardy can withstand Kos gnp. That is if Kos uses his gnp. He feels he has to stand & throw punches. Should make the 170 weight class a bit more interesting, cause no one can beat GSP.
Kos baiscally said he's the number one contender and not Hardy and he believes he deserves a shot against Hardy to decide who gets to face GSP. Hardy then came out and said Kos was like a peice of turd that wouldn't flush away I'm starting to think Hardy's next match after GSP should be Kos would make for one heated battle.