UFC132
UFC132 featuring a great card of fights headlined by the UFC Bantamweight Championship title fight between Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber. The card featured the following fights:
Carlos Condit vs Dong Hyun Kim
Ryan Bader vs Tito Ortiz
Matt Wiman vs Dennis Siver
Wanderlei Silva vs Chris Leben
Dominick Cruz vs Urijah Faber
Carlos Condit vs Dong Hyun Kim
I predicted Condit for the win in this fight and he didn't disappoint after a brief exchange on the feet and ground Condit threw a flying knee which connected right on Kim's chin knocking him down for Condit to finish the fight with strikes.
Ryan Bader vs Tito Ortiz
What a shock, after a minute of range finding, out of nowhere Ortiz drops Bader, jumped on him and finished him with a guillotine choke. Tito's first win in years and Baders second successive defeat. Tito seems to pull out the w when his back is to the wall. Surprised and not surprised by the result. Well done to Tito.
Matt Wiman vs Dennis Siver
Scrappy fight with some good exchanges, Wiman constantly trying to get the takedown throughout with Siver displaying excellent takedown defence. Wiman opened Siver up with brutal elbows. Close decision win by Siver. Some suspect judging perhaps?
Wanderlei Silva vs Chris Leben
Blink and you'd miss it, as expected both came out swinging. Wanderlei got caught by a left by Leben that rocked him and Leben pounced upon him and finished him quickly with strikes. Wanderlei has called out Vitor Belfort prior to tonight, Vitor would murder him like he did in their first fight.
Dominick Cruz vs Urijah Faber
Busy fight, high pace throughout. I felt that Faber had the better of the standing exchanges, dropping Cruz several times. Cruz did get a few takedowns. It was a very close fight that went the distance, I had Faber shading it slightly but Cruz got the nod and retained his title. How one judge scored the fight 45-50 to Cruz I will never know.
They need to sort the judging out, it's costing fights and damaging credibility of MMA. There has been spate of bad calls, two alone tonight. Other than the judging this was an excellent card of fights with some wonderful finishes and a five round title fight that was a fight from start to finish not five rounds of lay 'n' pray.
I'm looking forward to catching some of the prelims online later. Awesome action apparently. Best card of the year, lived up to expectations.
After watching both boxing and MMA tonight I can easily see why boxing is on the decline and MMA is gaining popularity.
What a boring fight between David Haye and Wladimir Klitschko. The fight went ad I expected with Wladimir dominating with the jab and landing the better punches. It strikes me that Haye can sell and talk up a fight but isn't in the same class as the Klitschko's. Vitali would have battered him tonight. Perfect end would have been a KO by Wladimir to shut Haye up after all the shit he has talked.
