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Junior dos Santos, Cain Velasquez, Roy Nelson take care of business at #UFC 146
By Zach Arnold | May 26, 2012
Event: UFC 146 (Saturday, May 26th)
Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada
TV: FX for prelims, PPV for main card
Dark matches
- Featherweights: Mike Brown (-150, 3 to 2 favorite) defeated Daniel Pineda after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Light Heavyweights: Glover Texeira (-220, 11 to 5 favorite) defeated Kyle Kingsbury in R1 in 1’53 with an arm-triangle.
- Lightweights: Paul Sass (+170) defeated Jacob Volkmann in R1 in 1’54 with an triangle arm-bar.
- Welterweights: Dan Hardy (-115) defeated Duane “Bang” Ludwig in R1 in 3’51 by TKO.
- Middleweights: CB Dollaway (EVEN) defeated Mayhem Miller after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Lightweights: Jamie Varner (+400) defeated Edson Barboza in R1 in 3’23 by TKO.
- Featherweights: Darren Elkins (+200) defeated Diego Brandao after 3R by unanimous decision.
Main card
- Heavyweights: Stefan Struve (-130) defeated Lavar Johnson in R1 in 1’05 by arm-bar.
- Heavyweights: Stipe Miocic (-160, 8 to 5 favorite) defeated Shane Del Rosario in R2 in 3’14 by TKO.
- Heavyweights: Roy Nelson (-220, 11 to 5 favorite) defeated Dave Herman in R1 in 51 seconds by KO.
- Heavyweights: Cain Velasquez (-400, 4 to 1 favorite) defeated Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva in R1 in 3’36 by TKO.
- UFC Heavyweight title match: Junior dos Santos (-500, 5 to 1 favorite) defeated Frank Mir in R2 in 3’04 by TKO (punches).
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Event: UFC on Fox 3 (Saturday, May 5th)
Venue: Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey
TV: Fox (all network affiliates)
Dark matches
- Middleweights: Karlos Vemola defeated Mike Massenzio in R2 in 1’07 by submission (choke).
- Bantamweights: Roland Delorme defeated Nick Denis
- Featherweights: Dennis Bermudez defeated Pablo Garza after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Lightweights: Danny Castillo defeated John Cholish after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Bantamweights: Louis Gaudinot defeated John Lineker in R2 in 4’54 by choke.
- Welterweights: John Hathaway defeated Pascal Krauss after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Flyweights: John Dodson defeated Tim Elliott after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Lightweights: Michael Johnson defeated Tony Ferguson after 3R by unanimous decision.
in R1 in 4’59 by submission (choke).
Main card
- Heavyweights: Lavar Johnson defeated Pat Barry in R1 in 4’38 by TKO.
- Middleweights: Alan Belcher defeated Rousimar Palhares in R1 in 4’18 by TKO.
- Welterweights: Johny Hendricks defeated Josh Koscheck after 3R by split decision.
- Lightweights: Nate Diaz defeated Jim Miller in R2 in 4’09 by submission (choke).
Event: UFC on Fuel 3 (Tuesday, May 15th)
Venue: Patriot Center (Fairfax, Virginia)
TV: Fuel
Dark matches
- Bantamweights: Azamat Gashimov defeated Alex Soto after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Bantamweights: Johnny Eduardo defeated Jeff Curran after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Lightweights: Rafael dos Anjos defeated Kamal Shalorus in R1 in 40 seconds with a choke sleeper hold.
- Lightweights: TJ Grant defeated Carlo Prater after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Lightweights: Cody McKenzie defeated Marcus LeVesseur in R1 in 3’05 by submission (choke).
- Middleweights: Brad Tavares defeated Dongi Yang after 3R by unanimous decision.
Main card
- Middleweights: Tom Lawlor defeated Jason MacDonald in R1 in 50 seconds by KO.
- Light Heavyweights: Igor Pokrajac defeated Fabio Maldonaldo after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Bantamweights: Yves Jabouin defeated Jeff Hougland after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Lightweights: Donald Cerrone defeated Jeremy Stephens after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Welterweights: Amir Sadollah defeated Jorge Lopez after 3R by split decision.
- Featherweights: The Korean Zombie defeated Dustin Poirier in R4 in 1’07 with a choke.
Event: Strikeforce Heavyweight GP tournament finals (Saturday, May 19th)
Venue: HP Pavilion (San Jose Arena)
TV: Showtime
- Gian Villante defeatedDerrick Mehmen after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Carlos Augusto Filho defeated Virgil Swicker after 3R by unanimous decision.
- Isaac Vallie-Flagg defeated JZ Cavalcante after 3R by split decision.
- Chris Spang defeated Nah-Shon Burrell in R1 in 3’25 by TKO.
- Rafael Feijao defeated Mike Kyle in R1 in 33 seconds by choke.
- Strikeforce Lightweight title match: Gilbert Melendez defeated Josh Thomson after 5R by split decision.
- HW GP tournament finals: Daniel Cormier defeated Josh Barnett after 5R by unanimous decision to win the tournament.
On a recent edition of Chronicle Live on Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area, Daniel Cormier said the winner of the Cormier/Barnett fight would have a “plus-one” situation where they would fight a UFC fighter next.
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A good night of fights, from both visual and emotional perspective. The only exception are the Nelson and Hardy victories, which renew the UFC lease on these guys. Both are overrated fighters who however, like Vitor Belfort, are able to deliver that occasional charismatic KO for the cameras that makes a spasm run up some fans and Dana White’s leg. Lavar exposed as a nobody. Barbosa stuffed. Miller–retired or fired? Velasquez back. That extra punch on Mir at the end–priceless.
My fight picks have really sucked lately. Went .500 this time lol.
Glover was worth the wait.
Darn good event I thought.