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Date: May 8, 2010
Venue: Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada




Main Card
Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Lyoto Machida (c) vs. Mauricio Rua
Welterweight bout: Josh Koscheck vs. Paul Daley
Lightweight bout: Sam Stout vs. Jeremy Stephens
Heavyweight bout: Kimbo Slice vs. Matt Mitrione
Middleweight bout: Patrick Côté vs. Alan Belcher

Preliminary Card
Middleweight bout: Tim Credeur vs. Tom Lawlor
Welterweight bout: Marcus Davis vs. Jonathan Goulet
Welterweight bout: TJ Grant vs. Johny Hendricks
Heavyweight bout: Joey Beltran vs. Chad Corvin
Welterweight bout: Yoshiyuki Yoshida vs. Mike Guymon
Middleweight bout: Nick Catone vs. John Salter

Pretty good.

A lot of stand-up fights. The UFC is going to become a C-class kickboxing organization with all this pressure to stand and bang. Why I watched Frankie Edgar and BJ Penn box for 30 minutes on Saturday, I'm not sure. I skipped Carlos Quintana vs Andre Berto to do so.

Looking forward to the 2nd installment of Machida v Rua....hopefully Rua wins (just like he should have the 1st time).

The top 3 fights look awesome to me the rest of the main card is meh.

Couple interesting names on the prelims though, so overall, pretty good card. And the thing about this card that's most exciting is that it is more stand-up fights versus LnP wrestlers.

rooting for machida on this one. I think he'll make major changes for this one with rua, whereas idk what rua will do differently this time except more leg kicks.

I think Machida is going to try and take Rua down, Rua looked unphased by Machidas akward style. In the ground game I say they are a tie in BJJ, but if Shogun gets on top it will be lights out for Machida.

Am I the only one super intrigued by Belcher vs. Cote?

Belcher/Cote is a good test for Cote, and while I'm rooting for him I don't know if he can really beat him.

Mini-Hendo Hendricks!

Hopefully this card is not boring like UFC 112

Machida over Rua
Koscheck over Daley
Stephens over Stout
Slice over Meat Head
Cote over Belcher

Credeur over Lawlor
Davis over Goulet
Hendricks over Grant
Beltran over Corvin
Catone over Salter
Yoshida over Guymon

Cammo101 wrote:Am I the only one super intrigued by Belcher vs. Cote?

Yeah I like that fight a lot.

Ring rust could be a big factor though, Cote hasn't fought in ages.

Yeah, Cote's been ages.

This is Belcher's 11th UFC fight, somehow. I would have figured...4th.

I am pretty confident that Machida will finish Rua. You arent going to beat someone like Machida with leg kicks twice.

Anyone who thinks Shogun will win should consider putting money on him. He's a decent underdog at about +140 right now (Machida is -200).

Belcher fight will be good.

Remember, he's on the greatest of all time, just ask: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhhLF_oyu-I

I like Rua to win. People think Lyoto is going to figure him out this time, but I don't think that is going to be the case. Shogun did a great job mixin up the attack and machida was just too reserved to get anything done. I think Shogun's aggressiveness and varied attack will lead him to another boring 5 round descision.

Otherwise,

Daley VIA KO
Stout VS Stephens I'm not sure about... I probably lean towards Stephens but Sammy's looked pretty good recently... da well, Stephens by TKO.
I'll take slice by KO
Cote definetely wins, Belcher stinks.

Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Lyoto Machida (c) vs. Mauricio Rua (Shogun)
Welterweight bout: Josh Koscheck vs. Paul Daley (Daley)
Lightweight bout: Sam Stout vs. Jeremy Stephens (Stout)
Heavyweight bout: Kimbo Slice vs. Matt Mitrione (Kimbo)
Middleweight bout: Patrick Côté vs. Alan Belcher (Cote)

Preliminary Card
Middleweight bout: Tim Credeur vs. Tom Lawlor (Lawlor)
Welterweight bout: Marcus Davis vs. Jonathan Goulet (Davis)
Welterweight bout: TJ Grant vs. Johny Hendricks (Hendricks)
Heavyweight bout: Joey Beltran vs. Tim Hague (Hague)
Welterweight bout: Yoshiyuki Yoshida vs. Mike Guymon (Yoshida)

spykelee wrote:I like Rua to win. People think Lyoto is going to figure him out this time, but I don't think that is going to be the case. Shogun did a great job mixin up the attack and machida was just too reserved to get anything done. I think Shogun's aggressiveness and varied attack will lead him to another boring 5 round descision.

Otherwise,

Daley VIA KO
Stout VS Stephens I'm not sure about... I probably lean towards Stephens but Sammy's looked pretty good recently... da well, Stephens by TKO.
I'll take slice by KO
Cote definetely wins, Belcher stinks.

Did we watch the same fight? Shogun's attack was limited to vicious leg kicks, the only exchanges where all initiated by Lyoto and that played a large role into how much Shogun was able to land those leg kicks. I Think Lyoto will either put Shogun on the ground or go back to his reserved strategy and forces shogun to do something other than leg kick which will play into Lyoto's counter-striking.

Anyway, my picks:
Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Lyoto Machida (c) vs. Mauricio Rua
I've got Lyoto by TKO, he won't let Shogun just stalk and land leg kicks all fight again be it by forcing shogun to be more aggressive or by taking Shogun down.

Welterweight bout: Josh Koscheck vs. Paul Daley
I'd love ot see Daley pull it off because he's a great athlete with monster power, still think Kos is just too good of a wrestler if he doesn't try to stand and bang with Daley.

Lightweight bout: Sam Stout vs. Jeremy Stephens
Stout, should be a fun fight and stout's a tough guy.

Heavyweight bout: Kimbo Slice vs. Matt Mitrione
I'm hoping Kimbo beats the **** out of meathead, although Mitrione does have some nasty power and he moves better than kimbo.

Middleweight bout: Patrick Côté vs. Alan Belcher
I'm going with Belcher, kid's an athlete and pretty damn tough, just can't go with the ring rust for Cote.

On the prelims I really can't wait to catch the Credeur fight, dude can fight.

spykelee wrote:I like Rua to win. People think Lyoto is going to figure him out this time, but I don't think that is going to be the case. Shogun did a great job mixin up the attack and machida was just too reserved to get anything done. I think Shogun's aggressiveness and varied attack will lead him to another boring 5 round descision.

Otherwise,

Daley VIA KO
Stout VS Stephens I'm not sure about... I probably lean towards Stephens but Sammy's looked pretty good recently... da well, Stephens by TKO.
I'll take slice by KO
Cote definetely wins, Belcher stinks.

Agreed.