UFC 120: Bisping vs Akiyama

Preliminary card
Light Heavyweight bout: James McSweeney vs. Fabio Maldonado
Lightweight bout: Spencer Fisher vs. Kurt Warburton
Lightweight bout: Paul Sass vs. Mark Holst
Light Heavyweight bout: Steve Cantwell vs. Stanislav Nedkov
Heavyweight bout: Rob Broughton vs. Vinicius Queiroz
Light Heavyweight bout: Cyrille Diabaté vs. Alexander Gustafsson

Main card
Welterweight bout: James Wilks vs. Claude Patrick
Heavyweight bout: Cheick Kongo vs. Travis Browne
Welterweight bout: John Hathaway vs. Mike Pyle
Welterweight bout: Dan Hardy vs. Carlos Condit
Middleweight bout: Michael Bisping vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama



Thoughts?

I'll watch this one because it is free, but I am not really excited about any of these fights. I hope that hell Bisping gets his face punched off, but I am not sure how Akiyama is in a main event. He is coming off of a loss to Leben, so should Leben be in this fight?

Because Akiyama is sexy, therefore he gets the main event.

Only fight I'm looking forward to on this card is Hardy/Condit. Should be FOTN IMO.

For me this is like the mid-card to Lesner vs. Cain, next Sat.

Bisping and Hardy to take the fights.

Welterweight bout: John Hathaway vs. Mike Pyle: Hathaway is said to be a rising star, but I can't remember much about him right now. I am sure that I have seen him fight, but I don't remember him.
Welterweight bout: Dan Hardy vs. Carlos Condit: Dan Hardy will probably out strike Condit and he has something to prove after being decimated by GSP.
Middleweight bout: Michael Bisping vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama: This match up gives Bisping another chance to win in his home country. Akiyama seems to gas out by the 3rd RD, so cardio will probably favor Bisping and win him the fight. I still don't think Akiyama should be in a main event, after tapping out to Leben in his last fight, but I really don't like Bisping because he is constantly running his mouth. The Wolf's Liar needs to stop whinning about wrestlers taking them to the ground and do something about it. Shut your mouth and learn how to stay on your feet and learn how to get off the mat. Basically, learn some wrestling skills.

Concrete Jesus wrote:

Welterweight bout: John Hathaway vs. Mike Pyle: Hathaway is said to be a rising star, but I can't remember much about him right now. I am sure that I have seen him fight, but I don't remember him.

Hathaway beat up Diego when he returned to WW.

Concrete Jesus wrote:

Welterweight bout: Dan Hardy vs. Carlos Condit: Dan Hardy will probably out strike Condit and he has something to prove after being decimated by GSP.

Too much is made of Dan Hardy's striking. To my knowledge, Hardy doesn't have a lot of TKOs or KOs in the UFC, but everybody keeps talking about his striking. On the flip side, Condit showed in his last fight with The Waterboy, that he has very diversed striking and a solid chin. I still take Condit to win wherever he wants to.

Concrete Jesus wrote:

Middleweight bout: Michael Bisping vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama: This match up gives Bisping another chance to win in his home country. Akiyama seems to gas out by the 3rd RD, so cardio will probably favor Bisping and win him the fight. I still don't think Akiyama should be in a main event, after tapping out to Leben in his last fight, but I really don't like Bisping because he is constantly running his mouth. The Wolf's Liar needs to stop whinning about wrestlers taking them to the ground and do something about it. Shut your mouth and learn how to stay on your feet and learn how to get off the mat. Basically, learn some wrestling skills.

His cardio is definitely suspect. I wonder whether the fact that he's so well-diversed in terms of his stardom has any effect on his cardio. He's so famous in Japan and he does so many things like singing and stuff, I think that might take time away from his training and therefore his gas tank. Bisping has pillow hands, so if Sexy doesn't gas, he should be able to take it.

Dan Hardy just got rocked by Condit. Hardy has lost 2 in a row, maybe now he will shut the fuck up.

Doubt it. He'll always be talking.

Dan Hardy had the best post fight interview ever. Joe Rogan: "What happened out there?" "What caused you to lose the fight?" Dan Hardy: "I got punched in the face."

Yeah I was expecting a larger reaction from the crowd for that answer, I guess some people missed it or something.