April 10, 2010 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Anderson Silva vs Demian Maia
B.J. Penn vs Frankie Edgar
Matt Hughes vs Renzo Gracie
Terry Etim vs Rafael dos Anjos
Preliminary Card
Alexander Gustafsson vs Phil Davis
Paul Taylor vs John Gunderson
Nick Osipczak vs Rick Story
DaMarques Johnson vs. Brad Blackburn
Paul Kelly vs Matt Veach
In terms of big names, this is a pretty nice fight card. Watching Anderson Silva and BJ Penn fight is always a thing of beauty and Matt Hughes is a welterweight legend in the UFC.
In terms of competitiveness and relevance, however, this is an absolutely terrible card. BJ Penn is an 8:1 favorite and his fight will not even be close. Demian Maia wouldnt even be fighting if not for Vitor Belfort getting injured and that fight also will not be close at all. Matt Hughes is obviously over the hill and washed up and is completely irrelevant to the modern day welterweight picture right now.
Weird how Penn and Hughes first fought back in 2004. Now Penn is one of the best p4p in the world and in his prime, sky is the limit, who knows what he has yet to accomplish. While Hughes is gone in to obscurity making cameos in some high profile but largely irrelevant fights.
Penn is 31 and just peaked. Hughes is 36 and more focused on his family now than fighting. Those 5 years at that age probably has a dramatic effect on your body.
Yeah this card was good until Belfort dropped out I really will enjoy watching BJ Penn and Anderson Silva demolish Maia and Edgar.And I have never seen Renzo fight so that should be great but honestly this really doesnt have a great undercard tho I would really love to see Munoz ko Grove
i agree watching anderson and BJ is always great. AS/BJ - generally always both provide entertaining fights with great standup and/or ground. Their fights are def more entertaining than GSP's style and better for the fans anyhow. It would be interesting to see BJ and Matt Hughes fight a rubber match at 170, although i dont like Matts chances these days.
Well who thinks Maia will just lay down and spread his legs and we will have another fight where Anderson Silva will be considered boring by all the people who know crap about MMA will say he is boring?
Gotta love it. Silva has another title fight. Penn gets another title fight.
And seriously, is Hughes gonna have to fight every Gracie because he tapped the best one? This may only be the second time he's fighting one, can't remember off hand, but come on. That fight is only happening to capitalize on the names, just my opinion.
As long as the Silva fight is not a repeat of the Leties one i will be happy. Its obvious Maia wants it on the ground but hopefully he will try to take Silva down or try to get in close enough to pull guard instead of dropping to his back ever time Silva comes near him like Leties did. He managed to throw Sonnen on his head straight into a triangle so he dose have takedowns. He will probably get KO in the process of trying to get it to the ground though.
This seems like it will be a much better event that the previous 2. I was disapointed with a lot of the recent fights :sarcastic12: Hopefully this will turn it around.
Has everyone seen this beast that is Ferrari World? Looks like the thing could just take off and fly away.
That is friggin great looking cant wait to see it on ppv next saturday almost tempted to order it live and then go do something saturday night I cant stand the foreign ppv bc I cant stay off the sites long enough and if people wanna come over to watch they can at 10 with the power of DVR And I agree Maia does stand a better chance than Leties did his BJJ is better and he is a more agressive fighter and remember Leites got his title shot by a fluke w vs Marquardt and beating McFederies.I mean at least Maia has beat McDonald and actual #1 Contender Chael Sonnen very easily that throw into triangle chock was awesome.Penn vs Edgar doesnt really excite me besides getting to see BJ pick apart Edgar (but Im glad its Edgar and not Maynard)
Oh by the way what do you guys do on events like this watch them live or wait til 10 I am really tempted to buy this one live and if people wanna come over and watch it then they can come at 1 or I will play it for them later
Watching Countdown to UFC 112 on Directv's 101 station and I must say they really do great on these I am pumped for saturday the countdowns do a great job of making the fights seem like their gonna be enjoyable.Really liking Penn he really doesnt seem to be talking crap just ready for a scrap.And with all the talk of Maias ground game it makes me think what if Maia gets Silva down but thats a big WHAT IF.I do gotta say I really like Renzo ready for Renzo vs Hughes as well
Ordered it when I woke up cant wait to see two of the best p4p fighters in the world hopefully they get a challenge which this forum has made me think they do this place has got me alot more excited than I was for this ppv.
I'm not so sure about the BJ decision. Gracie wasn't up to Matt. What's with Anderson? He has clowned around a lot before and been evasive but tonight, he was a putz. Annoying to watch.
I definitely thought that Penn was beaten. Edgar was too fast for him and did much more damage.
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