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Machida KO’s Evans at UFC 98

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Lyoto Machida made Rashad Evans pay dearly for his slow-start tendencies. Lyoto’s Karate background, stance and skills continue to make him a difficult opponent to deal with, as his 14-0-0 record shows. It only took 2 rounds for Machida to breakdown Rashad Evans with his fantastic accuracy and quick strikes. They say speed kills, but all of the speed that Evans posses didn’t help him in this bout. Evans seemed confused, hesitant and apprehensive to make moves against Machida’s awkward, but effective fighting style. A very good fight and Machida is going to be hard to beat.

The UFC 98 card wasn’t the best but had a few flashes of excitement. However, the fight I most looked forward to seeing: Matt Hughes vs. Matt Serra, was a bit of a snoozer. Matt Hughes won, but I was hoping for a painful knockout or submission by Hughes as I’m not a fan of the overly vocal, Matt Serra. Both seemed a little slugging in the Octagon, but although Matt Hughes spoke of retirement earlier, he mentioned in a post fight interview that he "wasn’t going anywhere".

Upcoming events:
UFC 99 – June 13, 2009 – Franklin vs. Silva
UFC 100 – July 11, 2009 – Lesnar vs Mir

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UFC 97 – Slow Beatdowns

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

I’ve been MIA this month, with way too many things going on, but I am still alive.

I’m back with an entry about the UFC card that went down last weekend in my birth town of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. UFC 97 didn’t really have a lot of fights that I was interested to see. As you know I’m not a big fan of Chuck Liddell’s and I knew that Anderson Silva was going to handle Thales Leites.

It is apparent that after his knockout loss to Mauricio Rua, Chuck is probably at the end of his fighting journey. He’s had a great career, held the championship belt and even beat the hell out of Tito Ortiz… What more can you ask for? He seemed gun-shy in his fight and couldn’t get off with his punches, although I think he should have been trying to kick more. Although Rua beat Chuck, I’m still not overly impressed with either. It should be interesting to see him fight younger, skilled talent like Evans, Machida and even crazy Quinton Jackson.

The main event of Silva vs. Leites was truly a letdown. Leites was outclassed in the octagon and had no idea how to handle Anderson "The Spider" Silva. Silva was too fast, too crafty and too accurate for Leites and really anyone else in that division for now. I feel bad for Anderson, because he always wants to put on a good show for the fans and this was surely not it, as the crowd was booing more than cheering the entire 5 round decision.

With UFC 97 done, I’m looking forward to UFC 98 on May 23, 2009. Predictions of the main fights go like this:

Rashad Evans vs. Lyoto Machida – Evans by 3rd round knockout.
Matt Hughes vs Matt Serra – Hughes by 2 round knockout (earlier I hope though, cause I can’t stand Matt Serra!)

With several decent fights on the undercard, UFC 98 looks and should be a better event than UFC 97!

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Rashad Evans says: "Good-night Chuck!"

Monday, September 8th, 2008

I have never been a fan of Chuck Liddell’s as I really never thought he was that good of a fighter. Although I really enjoyed when he knocked the hell out of Tito Ortiz, a guy I really don’t like. But on September 6th, I picked the upset by Rashad “Sugar” Evans to not only win the fight against Liddell, but to knock him out in the second round and some people still owe me some money for that one! UFC 88 offered a decent fight card with Rich Franklin winning a good TKO over Matt Hamil and of course the beautiful over-hand right thrown by Rashad that left Chucky-Boy seeing stars. Rashad is normally a slow starter in the Octagon, but I knew Chuck did not have the tools to deal with the agility and fast hands of Rashad. People for some reason thought it would be the usual, “try to take Chuck down all night” affair, but for Rashad to win, he had to take it to Chuck and take it to him hard. He did just that and surprised a lot of his critics and especially Chuck Liddell. I’m not sure if Rashad Evans is champion material yet, because his fight game still has holes. Although he is very quick and strong, he is missing the submission skills that can take him to the next level. Kevin Randleman and even Quinton “Rampage” Jackson lacked the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to have true longevity although both were champions in the UFC. Guys, pay a visit to one of my favorite fighters: Antonio Nogueira and I guarantee all 3 of you will be extremely difficult to beat. Congratulations Rashad, enjoy the great win and keep the intensity up and keep striving to win that UFC belt!