Saturday, September 6, 2008

UFC 88: Breakthrough results

I wasn't able to watch all of the fights of UFC 88: breakthrough because of some technical problems. The PPV was nice although its not as good as I expected

Results

Welterweight bout: Matt Brown vs. Dong Hyun Kim
- Kim defeats Brown by split decision (29-28,28-29,2928)
comments: I didn't saw the fight because of technical problems. Well congratulations to kim anyways.

Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt vs. Martin Kampmann
-Marquardt defeats Kampmann via TKO at 1:22 of round 1
comments: A great fight even if I didn't saw the whole fight due to technical problems(AGAIN). after a couple of seconds I saw the results and Nate won. When I saw the replay, Kampmann was owned by Marquardt.

Middleweight bout: Dan Henderson vs. Rousimar Palhares
- Henderson defeats Palhares by unanimous decision
comments: Henderson brought his A game against Palhares. He almost got the TKO win against Palhares in the last 5 seconds of round 3! Great fight

Light Heavyweight bout: Rich Franklin vs. Matt Hamill
-Franklin defeats Hamill by TKO at 0:39 of round 3
comments: This 2 guys are great fighters. Both guys from Ohio are also good buddies. The fight was paused when Franklin had a cut on his eyelid then after the fight Franklin owned his buddy! Great fight

Light Heavyweight bout: Rashad Evans vs. Chuck Lidell
- Evans won via KO at 1:51 of round 2
comments: Well, too bad for Lidell, he have to wait longer for his title shot. Evans has a lot of patience on the fight and very calm as a fighter but all he do in the 1st round was ran ran and ran. After Lidell missed a right uppercut,Evans countered a strong right hook punch and Lidell was KO unconcious for 2 minutes. After the match Dana White congratulated Evans(well, OBVIOUSLY Dana is not happy! haha) and Evans wife came and gave Evans a hug. The crowd was divided into half, the one side is cheering for Evans and the other side is booing Evans. After the match Lidell was in tears and was overhead saying he was going to "Hang it up".


- Now whats next for Lidell? Maybe a match between one of a top 10 fighters in Light Heavyweight division! Forrest Griffin the Light Heavyweight champ? probably soon but not Lidell's next opponent. Quinton Jackson? Maybe if Jackson fixed his several problems. Lyoto Machida? Malamang di papayag si Dana White na mangyari to! hehe. Wanderlei Silva? good match! Keith Jardine? NAH! Brandon Vera? hmmm ewan ko lang.

- Whats next for Evans? Title match against Forrest Griffin? Pwede! Lyoto Machida? It could be a boring match because Lyoto and Rashad are counter fighters.




Now I can't wait for UFC 89 because Brandon "the truth" Vera has a fight!

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