UFC 116 - July 3

Gold Chain · Post #1 » by **Gold Chain** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:25 pm

July 3, 2010 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Main card

Heavyweight Championship bout: Brock Lesnar vs Shane Carwin
Middleweight bout: Wanderlei Silva vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama
Welterweight bout: Chris Lytle vs. Matt Brown
Light Heavyweight bout: Krzysztof Soszynski vs. Stephan Bonnar
Lightweight bout: George Sotiropoulos vs. Kurt Pellegrino

Preliminary card (Spike TV)
Heavyweight bout: Brendan Schaub vs. Chris Tuchscherer
Middleweight bout: Kendall Grove vs. Goran Reljic

Preliminary card
Middleweight bout: Gerald Harris vs. Dave Branch
Welterweight bout: Daniel Roberts vs. Julio Paulino
Heavyweight bout: Jon Madsen vs. Karlos Vemola

jTF2 · Post #2 » by **jTF2** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:20 pm

very 'top heavy' card. I could care less about half these fights.

Wandy/Akiyama is really hard to predict. I think wandy can pull out the decision but it'll be a war IMO. Wandy will need surgery again and Akiyama will never be the same again :wink:

cowboyronnie · Post #3 » by **cowboyronnie** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:42 pm

Ooh, that's rough having to put those two heavyweight bums on the prelim broadcast. That undercard is real sparse.

Branch is a Renzo black belt, I'm reading. No small feat.

Pellegrino's not the test I wanted Sotoripoulous to face. It's OK.

High 5 · Post #4 » by **High 5** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 12:49 am

The odds are in favor of all 5 main card fights being entertaining. I'm looking forward to it.

Gold Chain · Post #5 » by **Gold Chain** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:05 pm

Pretty interested in the Wanderlei Silva vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama fight.

I think Brock beats Carwin in the M.E.

Post #6 » by **damo[23]** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:47 pm

Actually think this will be a fun card.

The Main event is obviously an epic, that probably will last no more than 4:59 seconds.

Wandy vs Aky could be a fun one, and looking forward to seeing George S again.

The lights out vs brown and krystof vs bonnar fights, while not "huge" fights, should be good fillers to watch. Neither are typical main card fights, but they are the sort of fights you see on undercards and would have happyily, and often rather have watched on the main card. I cannot see Lytle vs Brown disappointing, both of those guys go out as if its their last day on earth.

Disappointed that the Harris vs Branch fight is not on the Spike prelim, I think that could be a fun one.

But its a card that will get ragged with "I wont buy it" and "look UFC with another weak card", but probably like the past couple of events, it will be a good night on what looks like a "less than stellar" card.

Looking forward to it myself.

Posey H8er · Post #7 » by **Posey H8er** » Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:02 pm

I can't wait to see Geroge Sot. as well. He's grown to be one of my favorite fighters. Sexyama vs Wanderlei will be a war, there is no doubt about it. And Brock vs Carwin will answer a lot of questions. This card isn't deep but it doesn't have to be. I'm pumped.

Cammo101 · Post #8 » by **Cammo101** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:31 am

Dunham, Sot, and Jim Miller all need to be tested against top lightweights IMO.

Nemesis21 · Post #9 » by **Nemesis21** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:45 am

Cammo101 wrote:Dunham, Sot, and Jim Miller all need to be tested against top lightweights IMO.

Post #10 » by **CPT** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:10 am

Cammo101 wrote:Dunham, Sot, and Jim Miller all need to be tested against top lightweights IMO.

You don't get much more top than Tyson Griffin unless you're getting into the Penn/Edgar/Florian mix. Which Dunham may very well have to do now.

There's a bit more room between Joe Stevenson and that group, as far as George S is concerned, but the guys in between are Dunham, Sot, and Miller themselves.

Miller could definitely use a step up, but he's already fought Gray Maynard and lost.

Cammo101 · Post #11 » by **Cammo101** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:02 am

CPT wrote:
Cammo101 wrote:Dunham, Sot, and Jim Miller all need to be tested against top lightweights IMO.

You don't get much more top than Tyson Griffin unless you're getting into the Penn/Edgar/Florian mix. Which Dunham may very well have to do now.

There's a bit more room between Joe Stevenson and that group, as far as George S is concerned, but the guys in between are Dunham, Sot, and Miller themselves.

Miller could definitely use a step up, but he's already fought Gray Maynard and lost.

I'm saying all three deserve a shot at Penn, Edgar, Florian, Sherk or Maynard.

Nemesis21 · Post #12 » by **Nemesis21** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:07 am

If Sot wins next fight, I'd like to see a fight between him and Dunham.

Post #13 » by **CPT** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:04 pm

Cammo101 wrote:
CPT wrote:
Cammo101 wrote:Dunham, Sot, and Jim Miller all need to be tested against top lightweights IMO.

You don't get much more top than Tyson Griffin unless you're getting into the Penn/Edgar/Florian mix. Which Dunham may very well have to do now.

There's a bit more room between Joe Stevenson and that group, as far as George S is concerned, but the guys in between are Dunham, Sot, and Miller themselves.

Miller could definitely use a step up, but he's already fought Gray Maynard and lost.

I'm saying all three deserve a shot at Penn, Edgar, Florian, Sherk or Maynard.

Dunham...yes. He passed his big test in Tyson Griffin, might as well keep moving up. I could see a Joe Stevenson/Clay Guida kind of fight being next though.

George Sot...okay. He beat Joe Stevenson, but he is probably still a fight or two away from getting in that top 5 mix.

Miller...no. His wins since he lost to Maynard are not that impressive. Plus, I think he loses handily to any one of those guys, save maybe Sherk. He's already lost to Edgar and Maynard. A fight against Sotiropoulos would make some sense though. Then the winner would have a legit case to be in a #1 contender fight against one of those top 5 guys.

Posey H8er · Post #14 » by **Posey H8er** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:30 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyrh-oVO-4[/youtube]

Post #15 » by **blkout** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:37 pm

Really looking forward to this. Especially Sotiropoulos (obviously). I have a feeling Grove vs Reljic might be pretty good.

I agree with CPT re: George. I think he needs to win this, then take another step up and if he can win that then take one of the top 5.

SDM · Post #16 » by **SDM** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:05 pm

BLKOUT wrote:Really looking forward to this. Especially Sotiropoulos (obviously). I have a feeling Grove vs Reljic might be pretty good.

I agree with CPT re: George. I think he needs to win this, then take another step up and if he can win that then take one of the top 5.

Agreed on Grove v. Reljic.

Nemesis21 · Post #17 » by **Nemesis21** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:12 pm

Wanderlei suffered an injury, will not fight at UFC 116

http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/06/22/w ... f-ufc-116/

Posey H8er · Post #18 » by **Posey H8er** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:48 pm

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/6/22/15 ... out-of-ufc

Leben is now in vs Akiyama.

Nemesis21 · Post #19 » by **Nemesis21** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:51 pm

Posey H8er wrote:http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/6/22/1531028/wanderlei-silva-injured-out-of-ufc

Leben is now in vs Akiyama.

If true, as a fan of Leben, that is not a good fight for him. I see Akiyama taking that one.

Nemesis21 · Post #20 » by **Nemesis21** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:51 pm

Leben confirms.

http://www.bjpenn.com/profiles/blogs/bj ... sive-chris