UFC 149: Faber vs. Barao (July 21st)

Gold Chain · Post #1 » by **Gold Chain** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:59 pm

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
Champ Jose Aldo vs. Erik Koch (for featherweight title)
Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Thiago Silva
Cheick Kongo vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Thiago Alves vs. Siyar Bahadurzada
Michael Bisping vs. Tim Boetsch

PRELIMINARY CARD
Mitch Clarke vs. Anton Kuivanen
Court McGee vs. Nick Ring
Bryan Caraway vs. Mitch Gagnon
Antonio Carvalho vs. George Roop
Ryan Jimmo vs. Anthony Perosh

Updated.

Post #2 » by **Headliner** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:00 pm

July 21st. Won't have to wait long!

Gold Chain · Post #3 » by **Gold Chain** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:18 pm

I've come to realize Zuffa press conferences are mere suggestions.

Aldo - for sure fighting in Calgary. Wait, now he's fighting in Brazil.
Silva/Sonnen - It's in front of 80.000. Wait, we'll fly him down to insult the country more and hype the fight, then move it to Nevada.

That's just the last week. lol

Post #4 » by **CPT** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:04 pm

Big fight for Calgary. Kind of surprising.

Post #5 » by **singh_shady** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:28 pm

CPT wrote:Big fight for Calgary. Kind of surprising.

Yeah wow, I might drive down to see this. Rory Macdonald needs to come out to the Bret Hart theme music

SDM · Post #6 » by **SDM** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:13 pm

Expect Jason MacDonald on this card.

Gold Chain · Post #7 » by **Gold Chain** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:25 pm

You get bet your bottom dollar this fight will have some rough boys in attendance.

The Fort contains a lot of dudes with a ton of cash, not many chicks, and surrounded by a lot of like-minded guys, and they're going to be coming for the drive.

Expect beer to be pounded at high levels. lol

SDM · Post #8 » by **SDM** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:30 pm

^ Yep. Not enough money in the world to entice me to watch MMA live in Calgary. It's going to be an unrelenting douchefest.

Post #9 » by **CPT** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:32 pm

Aldo vs. Koch is going to be on this card, not Brazil. Apparently Aldo needs the extra time.

With that news, I would be surprised to see Jones/Hendo remain here.

UFC on Fox is on August 4, so it could end up there.

UFC 150 is in Denver on August 11, but Bendo/Edgar has already been tapped for that show (though nothing is official). Maybe they go for 2 title fights on UFC 150, but having 2 title fights on a show in Denver seems a bit weird (as it would in Calgary). Could also flip flop the fights and put Bendo/Edgar on Fox and Jones/Hendo on UFC 150.

Gold Chain · Post #10 » by **Gold Chain** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:36 pm

Oh, f'k, yeah.
Thiago Silva vs Shogun Rua in Calgary.
Violence!
http://mmajunkie.com/news/28469/thiago- ... algary.mma

REDDzone · Post #11 » by **REDDzone** » Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:41 pm

muay thai clash.

I favor Shogun by...being better. Although if he's still eating out of a straw from the Hendo fight, that may change.

Posey H8er · Post #12 » by **Posey H8er** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 5:13 am

Alves vs Akiyama? way to send Sexy out of the UFC in beatdown style. ouch.

Shogun has had a lot of time off, and hopefully he is fully healed, motivated, and healthy going forward. i don't like my Shogun's gassed or slugglish...

Post #13 » by **CPT** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:42 am

Weird that this card is getting (or is rumoured to get) so many Brazilian big names.

Aldo, Shogun, Big Nog, T. Silva, Alves.

Must be really trying to get that one Brazilian guy in Calgary to go.

NZB2323 · Post #14 » by **NZB2323** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:45 pm

I see Shogun vs. Silva as a mismatch.

I would've liked to have seen Silva fight Rampage. Rampage always complains about not fighting guys that fight like him, and seeing as how it's his last fight, why not let him fight someone else that is slow and will stand there and trade with him?

I would've liked to have seen Shogun fight Rashad or Gus.

REDDzone · Post #15 » by **REDDzone** » Wed May 9, 2012 12:49 am

Siyar Bahadurdaza vs Alves

Siyar replaces Akiyama.

source: mmajunkie. tough tough fight for Siyar in my mind.

Gold Chain · Post #16 » by **Gold Chain** » Wed May 9, 2012 3:02 am

REDDzone wrote:Siyar Bahadurdaza vs Alves

Siyar replaces Akiyama.

source: mmajunkie. tough tough fight for Siyar in my mind.

NIce..

Post #17 » by **CPT** » Wed May 9, 2012 6:17 am

Like that fight a LOT.

SDM · Post #18 » by **SDM** » Wed May 9, 2012 6:13 pm

I approve. This frees up Akiyama for a shot at Condit's belt.

Gold Chain · Post #19 » by **Gold Chain** » Wed May 9, 2012 6:28 pm

This could be a card of the year.

What in the hell is Koch's game plan? Aldo is a destroyer.

We got any Prairie people out here? Anyone thinking of going?

cowboyronnie · Post #20 » by **cowboyronnie** » Wed May 9, 2012 10:11 pm

CPT wrote:Weird that this card is getting (or is rumoured to get) so many Brazilian big names.

Aldo, Shogun, Big Nog, T. Silva, Alves.

Must be really trying to get that one Brazilian guy in Calgary to go.

I noticed that. Americans might not want to fight in Canada for tax reasons? Brazilians have to travel to NA anyways?

Brazilians have set up a few MMA gyms in Canada as well for some reason. Respectable fighters/ trainers like Andre Dida. There's a new Chute Boxe-affiliated gym in TO as of last month, in fact.