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UFC 124 on 12/11 in Montreal at the Bell Centre
By Zach Arnold | December 11, 2010
Undercard matches
- Lightweights: Pat Audinwood vs. John Makdessi
- Welterweights: TJ Grant vs. Ricardo Almeida
- Middleweights: Joe Doerksen vs. Dan Miller
- Welterweights: Matt Riddle vs. Sean Pierson
- Middleweights: Jesse Bongfeldt vs. Rafael Natal
- Lightweights: Mark Bocek vs. Dustin Hazelett
Main card
- Welterweights: Thiago Alves vs. John Howard
- Lightweights: Joe Stevenson vs. Mac Danzig
- Lightweights: Jim Miller vs. Charles Oliveira
- Heavyweights: Stefan Struve vs. Sean McCorkle
- UFC Welterweight title match: Georges St. Pierre vs. Josh Koscheck
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Pretty lousy card, but most of the big headliner ones are. Oh well. Interested to see how Oliveria does but aside from that I’m not too thrilled. Bocek/Hazelett and Miller/Doerkson could be really entertaining tilts that involve something other than wide right hand leads and left hooks, but since neither is scheduled to actually be on TV…..
The rest of the PPV card has the potential to be really exciting…. But it is absolutely not of high enough quality for a PPV.
UFC 125 & 126 are fantastic PPV cards. This one doesn’t even compare to those.
Agree with both of you guys. It would’ve been nice if they kept this date a UFN, and put the headliners on the NYE card for a big PPV. Oh well, should be some exciting fights at least. Everybody wave bye bye to Danzig.
Noooooooooo!!!
Jose Aldo is rumored to be “out” or a little more positive “the fight is in jeopardy” for UFC 125.
Come on…they JUST gave him the belt (don’t get me started on that point) and now another champ (might be) is on the shelf.
i’m glad i get to see the undercard … makes it worthwhile for me
This is a boxing card; huge main event, and lackluster undercard.
I will watch just for the main event (good thing it is a title fight, or else GSV-Kos would get the same amount of time as the highly anticipated Audinwood-Makdessi showdown)
My thoughts exactly. But everyone is buying this card for one fight and they know that. Plus they’re not worried about selling out the house as they’ve got the hometown boy and Canada is still UFC-starved in terms of live events.
The undercard and prelims could very well be exciting fights but they really lack in terms of do I care about these fights/fighters or the fights having any real impact on the top end of a division(outside of Alves-Howard).
Wild…did anybody see that Toby Imada made it to the finals of the Shoot Boxing S-Cup after coming in as a last minute replacement for Charles Bennett?
He KO’d his opening round opponent (Shootboxing’s ace champ) Umeno literally at the 3:00 mark of the last round and then decisioned Andy Souwer before finally succumbing to Buakaw in the finals. WORLD.CLASS.STRIKER! (tm J.Rogan)
This guy loves throw a wrench in every tournament he’s in!
So that’s where Buakaw went to! I noticed he never fights for K-1 MAX anymore. Probably has something to do with K-1 screwing him over via the constantly changing rules on knees in the clinch. Awesome to hear about Toby Imada. I didn’t know he is that good of a striker. I know Shoot Boxing allows submissions, so I figured that would be the way he would win, but he really won by a TKO then a points win (probably using striking) against Andy Souwer of all people? DAMN! I hope these fights hit Youtube soon enough.
“I know Shoot Boxing allows submissions, so I figured that would be the way he would win, but he really won by a TKO then a points win (probably using striking) against Andy Souwer of all people?”
He won the decision based on some slick judo throws actually.
AH! Very nice! Whatever works, and is legal, eh?
What a lame main event.
You’d have to be a real TUF fanboy to buy this just for the main event.
Luckily the rest of the card is just as acceptable/mediocre, making it still an arguably purchasable product.
BTW: Has anyone else read the new Rosen article “Solving Stalling in 5 Easy Steps”?
He’s a pretty brilliant fellow, but this is just bizarre.
Almost aggressively so.
The main event is lame?
/sarcasm?
I feel like this is a sorta easy fight by the terms of the competition in the division in so much as Koscheck does nothing as well as GSP in any arena in MMA. He’s more competitive than Hardy, but that doesn’t mean a lot either. He’s probably not as competitive as Fitch or Alves and I see him taking a big beating. But its the kind of fight that does something for GSP in the history books I suppose and its a great setup for GSP/Shields, which I think is unquestionably the biggest challenge he’s had since the Fitch fight.
If enough fans buy this card, the UFC will water down cards even further and have more UFN material sold as PPV’s.
We’ll go form 30+ events to 40 or 50 truly mediocre events.
But I guess that was the point of the merger, to create three new stars. Next, they’ll be creating new weight classes and awarding intermin belts just like in boxing…
People have been saying that for YEARS everytime the UFC puts on a subpar undercard to it’s PPV. And year after year, the UFC still puts on loaded cards during the year as well.
And the UFC doesn’t seem so anxious to add weight classes outside of the established 8…. (They ignore Super Heavyweight, and for good reason).
Get real, 45.
UFC does every single thing that sank boxing in the late 90’s. Every single one of them.
IMO, both RobThom & Gaelin are actually spot on in their assessments of tonight’s card.
The main event is almost certain to be five rounds of almost entirely ground work with little chance of a finish. A longer version of the contest from a few years back.
I like Koscheck, but styles-wise he actually has less of a chance against GSP than did Alves or even Hardy. As slim as they were, there was a bit of puncher’s chance with them, but much less so with Kos unfortunately.
The undercard?
To my expectations it lies somewhere between an indifferent “meh” & a gutteral “ugh”.
NOTHING I’d ever contemplate shelling out $50 for.
ESPECIALLY at this time of year.
That’s the GSP I know and love. Awesome to watch him use the jab.
Fun event overall.
Great show, everyone brought it and the UFC closed the year on a great note interesting to see how many buys this gets the buzz online was insane.
Aint watched the UFC yet but Khan v Maidana was a great fight!!
GREAT night of fights on HBO!
Khan/Maidana was phenomenal.
I tbought Ortiz won by 2-3 rounds. Nevada judges showing they can’t get any fights right. At least Kizer can use that to s a defense. His outfit is grossly incompetent across the board. Not just in MMA.
Great night on Showtime and Fox Sports too. All the boxing cards delivered huge.
Anything really worth seeing outside the main event for UFC 124?
Not really. Some good single performances, but none that were back and forth. Pierson vs. Riddle proved to me that RIddle is gonna hurt himself in the long run by not taking his first four or five fights outside of the UFC. He shouldn’t lose to a guy who only has a good jab.
I thought Ortiz also won by two rounds. Someone needs to blow up the NSAC and start over.
I think if Khan would’ve stayed to the body early in the fight he would’ve finished it.
I think ortiz is done. His just not got the fighters spirit or instict. He made his fight a lot harder than it had to be and after he quit v Maidana his comments suggested his heart aint in it if the going gets tough. There saying they could do Ortiz v Maidana 2 but I think Maidana wins easily.
Maidana fights like a man who’s life is on the line every time he gets in there. Showed it against Khan where he turned what looked like it was gonna be a 4 minute assault into a 12 round war he very nearly won. I agree totally with you – Ortiz fights worse now, and merely being defensive isn’t going to get you past Maidana.
I think Tim Bradley would be able to beat Maidana because he has the pure skill to outbox him for 12 rounds without gassing out, but I can’t see Devon Alexander (who faded down the stretch in his last fight), Ortiz, or most of the 140lb contenders being able to do it right now. Khan did because he built up a huge lead. I’m not certain he could in a rematch.
I know a lot of people want to see Khan vs. the big 2’s winner, but I’d rather see Khan vs Ortiz.
I’m actually quite stunned at Khan’s relatively low level of defensive skills. For a guy with such amazing quickness, he fails to see and do anything about some pretty obvious punches (should be pretty obvious punches for that level a fighter, that is). I really wonder what’s up there.
Like the uppercut on the inside? He got hit with it repeatedly. You think maybe stamina came into play? Because Maidana got more and more accurate as the rounds went on. Even the winging hooks started to land as the fight went on.
140 is so deep and so lacks a single dominant presence that you can really make a ton of interesting, legitimate contests there with barely any effort. Ortiz I think gets raped. Doesn’t have Khan’s athleticism and lost his willingness to bang out. Without that, you can’t get Khan out of there. Instead you become a punching bag.
I actually will put a bet down on Ortiz to win by KO (he’d be a huge dog if they fought of course). His power at 140 is just kind of unreal at points, and Khan can be hit. If that one-two lands I think Khan gets in serious trouble.
That bet will be mostly because hed be a huge dog. Just want to reiterate that.
What you think of the bantams Alan?
Or anyone else who saw em.
I thought Agbeko looked much improved from their last fight. However I don’t know if I agree with the Mares decision. I do think he’ll beat Agbeko though.
Maybe Vic can just fight the winner of Donaire-Montiel if that ever happens…
I thought Mares totally deserved it. He dug himself a hole early, but did he ever work his way out – Vic was running on empty those last few rounds…close decision, but Vic is on of the biggest whiners in the game.
Khan fight was a beauty too – those body shots were soul crushing. I don’t understand why he didn’t zero in, coulda made it a short night, but Maidana is a gamer.
Only complaint is that I wanted to strangle those referees. You’re the third man, not the main attraction…
A great night of boxing and a vintage dominating performance by probably the most skilled, complete and p4p best mma fighter in the world today.
Great fights, both of ’em. Darchinyan just couldn’t put hurt on Mares, which I gotta admit surprised me. Guess he can’t take that monster flyweight power up to Bantam. As for Agbeko, he fought brilliantly.
Its a strange situation at 118 because you have #3-6 basically dueling amongst themselves (and how great a fight is Perez/Darchinyan, BTW?) and then #1 and #2 fight early next year. And then you have a whole assortment of other notables – Kameda, Moreno, Eric Morel.