UFC Fight Night 40: Brown vs. Silva (5/10)

[CPT]

May 10, 2014 | U.S. Bank Arena | Cincinnati, Ohio

main CARD
FOX Sports 1, 10 p.m. ET
Matt Brown vs. Erick Silva
Lorenz Larkin vs. Constantinos Philippou
Daron Cruickshank vs. Erik Koch
Neil Magny vs. Tim Means
Soa Palelei vs. Ruan Potts
Chris Cariaso vs. Louis Smolka

preliminary CARD
FOX Sports 1, 8 p.m. ET
Ed Herman vs. Rafael Natal
Kyoji Horiguchi vs. Darrell Montague
Yan Cabral vs. Zak Cummings
Johnny Eduardo vs. Eddie Wineland

preliminary CARD
Preliminary card, 6:30 p.m. ET
Manny Gamburyan vs. Nik Lentz
Justin Salas vs. Ben Wall
Anthony Lapsley vs. Albert Tumenov

Card up to date as of 4/27.

[CPT]

This is the next event on the UFC's schedule. My balls are tingling in anticipation.

[REDDzone]

Brown/Silva would be a perfect opening fight of a main card.

[SDM]

Hmmmm. A number of fighters I really like on this card...

Montague, Wineland!!!!, Salas, Means...

[REDDzone]

Means is back? Cool. Talk about a dude who "loses" fights after dishing out ass whoopings...

[SDM]

Dude needs to eat a burger. If I can see your ribs and you punch and get punched for a living, you're trying to get a physical advantage by fighting in a lower weight class. I hate the principle of it. I would never bully smaller children.

But I like watching him fight.

[REDDzone]

Dude needs to eat a burger. If I can see your ribs and you punch and get punched for a living, you're trying to get a physical advantage by fighting in a lower weight class. I hate the principle of it. I would never bully smaller children.

But I like watching him fight.

Idk if that's necessarily true. Maybe it is for him but look at a guy like Condit. You can see his ribs and I definitely don't think he should be at MW. I think its just a body style thing. For example no matter what i do I'm going to be more Condit than Hendricks.

[SDM]

I only really have a problem with it, being serious, when guys walk around 30+ pounds above their weight class.

[REDDzone]

I only really have a problem with it, being serious, when guys walk around 30+ pounds above their weight class.

Joe Rogan argues that it goes against the spirit of martial arts. Honestly, thinking of such fights as Rumble Johnson vs Charlie Brenneman...kind of hard to disagree.

[GoRapstheoriginal]

This is tonight. Bump! ! ! ! Hope for some exciting fights!

[Jasen777]

Wait, Brown is a 2-1 underdog?

[Wo1verine]

Wait, Brown is a 2-1 underdog?

He's only got a punchers chance, i think..

[Wo1verine]

Man, i know we fight fans should be happy for a free card on TV, and that big names don't always mean better fights, but i wish they'd do a better job on these 'fight nights' with regards to bigger names.

While Brown vs. Silva may end up being a great fight - On paper this is a very underwhelming main event.

[Wo1verine]

LOL @ Palelei kissing the ref after the KO

[Wo1verine]

Silva needs a haircut.

[duppyy]

Awesome fight. I told my friend Brown would win by triangle in 2nd as a joke, almost happened lol.

[duppyy]

Hilarious costume lol.

[Marcus]

Matt brown is a **** monster.

[GSP]

Surprised the finish took so long...........Brown looked really vulnerable he was crumbling after every hit to the body. Mein and Wonderboy hurt him badly to the body too he just has a glass body lol. Still not convinced hes an elite fighter sorry. Top 10 ww for sure but not in the Hendricks/Lawler class and is also below Woodley/Lombard/Rory

No surprise Erick lost knew he wouldnt do much a long time ago. Stick a fork in em hes done and hes no spring chicken either will be 30 by the next time he fights. Huge bust

[Susan]

Jesus Matt Brown is out of his mind. Great heart and determination in that man.