Just watched the fights last night after being away on the weekend and was a little surprised by a couple of the fights in how they played out.
The Chris Beale (TUFer) flying knee KO will be replayed quite a bit or put into the UFC wired shows l'd imagine. NO idea how his opponent was even giving a 1 fight contract unless that was the only guy they could find as he's got a pretty meh record with all his wins bar 1 over people with losing records... l wouldnt have watched this fight unless l read about the knee truth be told.
Danny Casitillo doesn't get enough love l dont think, hes 7 and 3 or 8 and 3 now apparently and he had a nice ko over Brennerman who will most likely be cut but isn't the worst fighter in the world he just can't take getting hit. Danny usually puts on half decent fights and should be given a gate keeper type roll putting him in there against some more stand up guys to have a semi exciting fuel / facebook fight.
Didn't watch the Duke vs.... the other chick fight as that didn't interest me at all. Apparently the winner of the fight called out rousey which sounds pretty stupid. Hopefully cyborg vs rousey happens instead of carano vs rousey but l doubt Dana will want to take a chance and have his wannabee cash cow getting her head kicked in by cyborg.
l know its boring match making but give castillo gomi, they're both coming off a win and both no where near getting top tier fights so let them have at it. Should be fun....
Good to see Joe benavidez (Spelling?) get a nice win over a half decent guy. He's cleary the best guy bar mighty mouse at 125 so maybe him and dodson can fight it out for a title shot. Not sure if anyone wants to see johnson vs benavidez 3 though, l dont....
Nice win for Holloway, he's young and already had 8 fights according to good old sherdog. Still needs to step his ground game up and probably fill out a little more so he doesn't get bullied as much but he'll be a top 10 guy at some point.
Jim miller picked up a pretty nice guillotine win. l'll be honest l've got no idea who his opponent was so l guess they wanted to give him a W, either that or his original opponent got hurt or something similar.. Hell always be a top 10 guy but l doubt he'll break into the top 5 again.
Not sure why Rockhold called out bisping after beating boestch, l guess he wanted a high profile win and he saw what kennedy did to him so l guess he thinks he'll do the same. Woulnd't mind seeing him fight someone a little higher on the totem pole, even a rematch with kennedy might work even if it is a step back... Either that or... no idea, Jacare maybe or the loser of the title fight but that seems like quite a way away but with his broken toe the timing might work out.
Phil Davis looked like dog shit against Johnson, like bazza said he called out jon jones all week saying how he beat Gus and Gus nearly beat him so with MMA Math he'd beat jones than proceeded to get beaten by AJ. If he cant get a take down which he seems to struggle with against anyone who's wrestled his stand up just looks clunky and weak even for all his physical advantages he has. Good to see rumble pick up a win and wouldn't mind seeing him against little nog so he can get another W or even Shogun l guess.... Shogun would be a pretty fun fight and as for Davis l honestly think he might get cut, he's not the most fun to watch and l guess they'd be paying him a pretty penny as well.
Jones vs glover was a little meh. l wonder how many times jones has poked someone in the eye though and he's never lost a point though... How can you extend your arm with your band open to push on the guys face than not lose a point when he pokes them in the eye.... He shouldn't even get a warning next time, just take a point away from him straight away its getting a little annoying now. Glover did try his best and was swinging for the fences when he needed to l just dont think he had it in him that night.