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UFC 120 (10/16 O2 Arena in London)
By Zach Arnold | October 14, 2010
Spike TV will air it both on East and West coasts from 8 PM to 11 PM. I hate this delay.
Dark matches
- Lightweights: Spencer Fisher vs. Curt Warburton
- Lightweights: Paul Sass vs. Mark Holst
- Light Heavyweights: Steve Cantwell vs. Stanislav Nedkov
- Heavyweights: Rob Broughton vs. Vinicius Queiroz
- Light Heavyweights: Cyrille Diabate vs. Alexander Gustafsson
Main card
- Welterweights: James Wilks vs. Claude Patrick
- Heavyweights: Cheick Kongo vs. Travis Browne
- Welterweights: John Hathaway vs. Mike Pyle
- Welterweights: Dan Hardy vs. Carlos Condit
- Middleweights: Michael Bisping vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama
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Solid card. I’m interested in basically every main card fight along with Diabate/Gustafson on the prelims.
Bisping, Hardy, Hathaway, Kongo, & Patrick. I don’t know enough about Browne to pick him, so I could be making a bad pick there. Oh, and Diabate wins.
Browne is going to wreck Kongo.
Paul Sass is definitely one to watch for the future as well.
Any particular reason for the Diabate interest? Just as an exciting fighter? Unfortunately he’s not really a prospect at this point as he’s nearing 40 (and has terrifically bad wrestling).
Anyone know the deal with Broughton…I have to think this is probably a local attraction, UK-only deal (not that multi-fight deals mean much!). I guess if he wins he may be decent fodder for one of their prospects.
He’s not a bad fighter at all. He’s been struggling in the past with the reality that he wasn’t making enough money from fighting to go full time, but since his run in M-1 he’s got in much better shape.
For a fella his size, he’s got a gas tank on him – he’s coming off a one-night, 8-man tourney and didn’t look to bad at the end of it.
As for his style, he’s your typical Brit banger, good hands, good power, good chin. He should roll through Queiroz; the dudes this guy has beat have a combined 6-15 record. Easy pickings.
Thanks for the rundown Brad! Sorry shoulda clarified, I know the Bear from his Cage Rage days when he was making a run up their HW ladder, only to get derailed by a Tedoradze beating. He was a pretty huge dude and agreed that he had a pretty strong gas tank for a guy that big and solid brawler. IIRC his rasslin’ sucked pretty terribly, so if he sticks around the UFC for any length of time he’ll take a hearty whooping.
I just wondered what spurned the UFC to bring him in (i.e. anything other than the fact that he’s a popular local brit fighter), as I hadn’t heard much about him in a long time…but didn’t know about the 1-night tourney which is pretty decent(thought it looks like he rolled through stalwarts like MegaPunk and Neil Wain!).
The other reason being a deal with the Wolfslair…they got him, Warburton and Blackledge in around the time that the Rampage situation was resolved 🙂
No particular reason for liking him. I know he’s not a top fighter. I also enjoy watching Jared Hamman and Matt Mitrione. It’s pretty obvious that neither has a shot at being a world champion, but their fights are fun to watch for what they are.
Sounds like they’re going to have a lively crowd on their hands.
I might not even watch this on cable. Bisping will dance his way to a decision.
I know James Wilks is on the main card because he’s technically a TUF winner, but goddammit, I would much rather see Diabate. The guy just knocked out Banha.
this card is stupid. I don’t know who the guys on the prelims are at all not including spencer. the main card only has one good fight in hardy and that other guy, and just for a second i thought he was fighting shields.
Hopefully Diabate-Gustaffson gets on air.
Random fight predictions (and I’m actually runnign pretty hot lately):
-Fisher via TKO rd. 2
-Cantwell via dec.
-Broughton via TKO
-Gustaffson via upset KO (making Luiz Cane look even more like a flash in a pan)
-Wilks via sub (I have a feeling Patrick is gonna go for that guillotine one too many times, and let James pull something off)
-Kongo via TKO
-Hathaway via dec. (Stronger, bigger, and a better wrestler)
-Hardy via dec. (Kind of a coin flip)
-Bisping dec.
I’ll be cheering on for Fabio Maldonado in hopes that I never ever have to hear about James McSweeney again. Pretty much feels like a fight Night event more than a PPV.
***OFF-TOPIC***
This is an interview with Keith Kizer that I just heard. Guess it just came out today. If what he’s saying is true, Nevada does WAY more in training and preparing its commission inspectors than other commissions I’m aware of.
http://tinyurl.com/2af6cuu
Well, compared to ca apparently we all do.
🙂