My Thoughts On UFC: Fight For The Troops Event
by Kelvin Hunt on Dec 11, 2008 12:03 AM EST
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Needless to say again, I'm still super pissed that I couldn't attend this event being that it took place 40 minutes from my house :( . Oh well on to the fights.
Jim Miller vs. Matt Wiman-I thought this was a very good fight to open the show, and Jim Miller really impressed me. I thought him taking the fight on short notice would affect him more, but I was dead wrong. He gave Matt Wiman the business and then some, while his striking was much better than I thought it would be. I give props to Wiman though, he took large amounts of damage and still kept coming. Give me Frankie Edgar vs. Jim Miller 2 please....
Tim Credeur vs. Nate Loughran-Yo, either Loughran has titanium in his chin or Credeur has pillows for fists. Credeur was hitting that dude with BOMBS and Loughran kept shaking them off. I'll admit that Credeur has improved since being on TUF, but I don't ever see him being a factor in his weight division. Good fight though with pretty much constant action.
Steve Cantwell vs. Razzak Al-Hassan-How come when I saw Hassan standing in the octagon during the fight introductions I could tell he had absolutely NO ground game. In fact, I called my dad and told him that very thing! I did like how he came to fight as wasn't passive, but it was clear that he wasn't ready to be in the octagon at this stage in his career. Cantwell didn't look bad, and with time could evolve into a very solid fighter. Damn that armbar was DEEP and what the hell was Joe Rogan doing saying something was broken everytime he got the chance? I'm like Joe we know it's broken, you don't have to keep saying it.
Mike Swick vs. Jonathan Goulet-I told you Swick had something to prove and was going to take him out fast.
Ben Saunders raped Brandon Wolff...that dudes face looked like some cartoon ish with that big lump on his forehead. Those knees reminded me of Rampage/Wanderlei for a split second! That was an absolute ass whipping....damn. I also thought it was classy of Saunders to put all of his fight gear up for auction, donating the money to the Intrepid Fund.
Josh Koscheck vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida-Koscheck was cautious as I anticipated, but JESUS did that right hand come outta nowhere? The second right hand was on some Knockout Kings shit...lol. I never expected him to put Yoshida away like that. He definitely has a little more leverage with the UFC after this big win, not to mention him saving their asses by taking the Alves fight on short notice.
Overall, I thought the show was good and it was for a great cause. I thought the UFC(or whoever did it) did a great job of putting together those informative pieces on the soldiers that had been affected by TBI and other injuries. I thought showing Matt Hughes and Rich Franklin visiting the soldiers depicted the MMA community in a very positive light, and it'll be interesting to see how much money was raised because of this event. The fighters pleading with everyone to donate money to the cause was great. I also would like for you guys to send prayers up for Corey Hill(MMA4Real contributor Charles Walker's twin!) in hopes of a speedy recovery for him. I understand the broken leg he suffered was pretty bad. I thought the crowd was pretty good, although I did hear a tad of booing during a couple of the fights. Also, that referee in the Bruno/Reese fight was horrible. All in all I thought the North Carolina crowd did me proud! What are your thoughts on the show?
P.S. If you haven't donated any money yet and are able to do so, please do it and make me proud of my MMA4Real readers!
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It was a good show. Normally I hate all the filler material between fights, but in this case it was cool because the majority of it was for a good cause. I will always be a supporter of our military.
I actually thought Miller would pull off the victory via submission and by no means thought he would put such a beating on Wiman.
I also had Credeur winning via sub, but he put on a pretty good striking demo as well. Just one question about this fight: Would Miragliotta had stopped the fight towards the end of the second had it been Kimbo throwing those unanswered bombs?
I had Cantwell winning via TKO, but yet again I chose the victor but not the method of victory. For some reason my daughter was still up, and since she is at an age now where she repeats a lot of things, we generally watch what we say around her. But when Cantwell pulled “The Razor’s” arm back and snapped it, the expected “Oh shit” came out of my mouth. Luckily my little girl didnt repeat that. One last thing: did anyone else think that al-Hassan looked like Adebisi from the HBO show “Oz,” except with hair and no beanie?
The only fight of the night that I was able to call the win with the method and round correctly was Swick TKO’ing Goulet in the first. I have no idea how Goulet continues to get fights televised fights in the UFC. I know he got that TKO against Hironaka the last time out, but come on. The guy has one of the worst chins in the sport. Plus he’s 4-4 now in the UFC. Maybe thay can send him to the WEC so that way Condit will have someone else to fight besides Larson and Prater.
Finally, I thought Koschek would pull out a decision win due to the short amount of time between fights. Was I wrong. That was some highlight reel shit right there. I’d like to see him fight Fitch next, but I know they wont fight each other, and I think that is total bullshit. I understand not wanting to fight guys you train with, but if you feel that strongly about it, switch divisions!
A couple of final questions about the whole show: Everlast, really? I thought they were trying to GET donations.
Also, is there a line on weather or not Rogan got baked last night prior to the broadcast, being that it was on a military base?
by Felix on Dec 11, 2008 6:29 AM EST reply actions
One last thing: Is it just me, or does Koschek looks like a train jumping hobo? He should start walking to the cage carrying a stick over his shoulder with a bandana tied on the end to carry stuff in.
by Felix on Dec 11, 2008 7:11 AM EST reply actions
Them Miller boys ain’t no joke! They’re jumping up the ladder quickly. Other than that, decent night of fights but I’m glad the focus was on the troops and the cause and not just the fights. Rogan and Goldberg constantly reiterating it was a good look so that people would actually realize it’s not just a free fight show but there’s a bigger reason for the show. Other than that, no huge surprises, Koscheck KOing Yoshida came out of nowhere but when I saw the way Yoshida was letting Koscheck back him down, I knew it was a matter of time before Kos threw something lethal and either hurt him or set him up for a takedown…oh well, I picked Yoshida, but we now know his chin ain’t all that
oh yeah and did you see the Corey Hill breakage…OUCH!!!!
by Charles Walker on Dec 11, 2008 9:52 AM EST reply actions
Yo son, those two right hands Kos threw would have dropped anybody!
by Kelvin on Dec 11, 2008 11:45 AM EST reply actions
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