UFC 76 Predictions

[Ablate]

Main Card Bouts:
-Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Forrest Griffin
-Chuck Liddell vs. Keith Jardine
-Diego Sanchez vs. Jon Fitch
-Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Lyoto Machida
-Tyson Griffin vs. Thiago Tavares

Preliminary Bouts:
-Matt Wiman vs. Michihiro Omigawa
-Diego Saraiva vs. Jeremy Stephens
-Rich Clementi vs. Anthony Johnson
-Christian Wellisch vs. Scott Junk

[Shokar]

Griffin, Liddell, Sanchez, Tavares. Don't know Nakamura or Machida, so no guess there.

[Timestretch]

I was going to make this same post, but about tonights Fight Night on Spike =p.

I say:

SHOGUN
LIDDELL
SANCHEZ
MACHIDA
GRIFFIN

[Ablate]

You really think Sanchez is going to beat Fitch?

[Soushia]

"My predicition for the fight...pain" :smile_ok:

[sema]

I never heard of Jon Fitch. Whats he done? Which org is he from?

Edit: ah so his latest bouts have been UFC fight nights and UFC.

[Vaildez]

JARDINE
SHOGUN
SANCHEZ
MACHIDA
TAVARES

[Timestretch]

I never heard of Jon Fitch. Whats he done? Which org is he from?

Edit: ah so his latest bouts have been UFC fight nights and UFC.

He's ranked #7 right now in his weight class, and Diego is ranked 6. It shoul dbe a great fight. Diego has a lot to prove.

[Shokar]

Didn't Jardine just get whooped by Alexander??

[Ablate]

Whooped isn't the word I'd use :)

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Jardine+Alexander/video/x23fhu_houston-alexander-vskeithjardine_sport

[Silver]

"My predicition for the fight...pain" :smile_ok:

Mr. T 4t3hw1n.

[Shokar]

Yah, that is what I remembered.

[Vaildez]

alexander is a beast.. but i still see jardine winning an upset.

[Ablate]

I think chuck is gonna wtfpwn Jardine.

[Vaildez]

jardine is waaaaaay underated... which is why he got this fight

[Vaildez]

same with bonner.

[Spiker]

Main Card Bouts:
-Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Forrest Griffin
-Chuck Liddell vs. Keith Jardine
-Diego Sanchez vs. Jon Fitch
-Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Lyoto Machida
-Tyson Griffin vs. Thiago Tavares

Preliminary Bouts:
-Matt Wiman vs. Michihiro Omigawa
-Diego Saraiva vs. Jeremy Stephens
-Rich Clementi vs. Anthony Johnson
-Christian Wellisch vs. Scott Junk

I think Chuck will beat Jardine, but the match will take longer than it should.
Chuck will do his normal careful style counter-punching, land something really hard, but then safely not capitalize, until the guy has recovered.

I think Jon Fitch against Diego, will be the fight of the night, with Diego winning.

Forrest will put on a good show, but I don't know that he will win. I just hope he get's hit in the face early, because he wakes up and fights like he means it after that. I haven't seen Shogun, but his reputation is pretty good. I pick Shogun to barely win.

[Timestretch]

I think Chuck will beat Jardine, but the match will take longer than it should.
Chuck will do his normal careful style counter-punching, land something really hard, but then safely not capitalize, until the guy has recovered.

I think Jon Fitch against Diego, will be the fight of the night, with Diego winning.

Forrest will put on a good show, but I don't know that he will win. I just hope he get's hit in the face early, because he wakes up and fights like he means it after that. I haven't seen Shogun, but his reputation is pretty good. I pick Shogun to barely win.


Here's a really well done highlight reel of some of his fights.

http://www.free-fights-videos.com/file/62-mauricio-quotshogunquot-rua-highlight-video.html

[Ablate]

Too bad we won't see those stomps or soccer kicks eh? I wouldn't want to be Forrest Griffin tomorrow night.

[Timestretch]

Too bad we won't see those stomps or soccer kicks eh? I wouldn't want to be Forrest Griffin tomorrow night.

My friend was just invited by Dr. Alamo to fly to Anaheim Sat afteroon on a private jet, to return home right after the fight.

Lucky bastard!

[Timestretch]

By the way, I predict the Griffin v Tavares fight will be the fight of the night. Both those guys are insane and set an unbelievable pace.

[Vaildez]

personally I think jardine lidell will be the fight of the night

[Ablate]

I think Shogun Griffin will be the fight of the night.

[Ablate]

Couture's Picks: I think Randy is cracked out for this one.

http://www.thefightnetwork.com/news_detail.php?nid=4904

[Shokar]

Couture's Picks: I think Randy is cracked out for this one.

http://www.thefightnetwork.com/news_detail.php?nid=4904


I don't know. Randy's been pretty accurate with his picks the last few times he was commentating.

[Ablate]

He's actually 4-1 on 73, and 3-2 on 74. He calls the big fights and people think he's the golden one, but he isn't even close to 100%.

[Ablate]

I think you lose on fight of the night Timey, that fight was gayballs to the max,

[Ablate]

3 out of 5 correct so far

[Ablate]

Ohhhh shit lol, Fitch coming out to Johnny Cash's cover of Rusty Cage!
Griffin to Dropkick Murphy's

[Ablate]

Shogun looks like fucking shit.

[Ablate]

Fuck me, if I was sure about 2 fights, it was the 2 I got wrong.

[Vaildez]

hah i win the jardine pick

[Ablate]

Jardine/Liddell would have to be fight of the night imo.

Shogun/Griffin was pathetic
Nakamura/Machida sucked
Fitch/Sanchez was just OK
Griffin/Tavares sucked my dick

[Vaildez]

I thought the griffin fight was really good.

[Ablate]

I can't believe shogun gassed and got choked the fuck out.
I can't believe Liddell-Jardine went 3 fucking rounds.

Also it's kind of sad they named this shit UFC76:Knockout, and not a single person got knocked out, in fact if not for Shogun's screw up it would have 5 decision bouts.

[Timestretch]

I think you lose on fight of the night Timey, that fight was gayballs to the max,

I couldn't disagree more...the transitions in that fight were awesome. Both those guys put on a jiu jitsu clinic. Griffin was a freakin animal.

[Ablate]

I still thought Fitch/Sanchez was a better fight, but truth be told, I didn't feel like watching ANY of those fights a second time today.

[Timestretch]

I just read Griffin and Tavares was voted fight of the night and each guy got an additional 40k. Forrest got knockout/submission of the night, another 40k for him too.

[Timestretch]

If Lidell doesnt retire, I think we see Lidell v Shogun in '08.

[Vaildez]

i still hate griffin cause i thought he lost the decision to guida