UFC 72 Falls Flat

Were you looking for excitement in the main card bouts? Well, I'm sure you're still looking because UFC 72 fell flat with me and I'm sure quite a few others too.

Let's start off with Franklin & Okami shall we... Franklin needs another Anderson Silva to kick the living shit out of him. What a panzy ass coward who doesn't bring the fight to the fighter. I hope they give Franklin another chance at Silva because I'll be rooting for the fighter with the most fight in him and that's not and never will be "Gun Shy" Franklin.

Franklin fought to not lose as opposed to fighting to win. It's that kind of fighting style that brought Randy Couture out of retirement to kick the bejesus out of Tim Sylvia.

Okami appeared to be relaxed and also fought in a stand-offish manner which pissed me off quite a bit. I mean, if I wanted to watch "Dancing with the Stars" then I'd watch it on free TV as opposed to pay per view.

Okami woke up and realized that he was actually in a fight in round 3. Unfortunately, by that time it was too late and the unanimous decision win went to 'Fucked Face' Franklin. Boooo!

More of the same with Forrest Griffin & Hector Ramirez. Fighting from the perimeter to 'not get hit'. Forrest was also gun shy since he got knocked the fuck out by Jardine at UFC 66. Karma's a bitch 'cause Jardine received the same fate at UFC 71 against Houston Alexander but I digress...

Forrest fought to not lose instead of bringing the fight to fight to win. I definitely blame Forrest for the poor display of MMA in the octagon. In fact, let's not call what we saw "mixed martial arts", instead let's refer to it as a lesser form called Ultimate Fighting.

I don't blame Hector Ramirez at all. He looked a bit out of shape but underneath he had enough conditioning to go the full 15 minutes with Griffin an not require a stretcher to exit the Odyssey arena in Belfast, Ireland.

Hector probably appreciated the plane ride out of East Los Angeles over the pond to Ireland the most because he didn't seem all too interested in the fight, the fight HE was in!

Very sad display of mixed martial arts from the headlining bouts but rather a mediocre showing of the lesser form called - Ultimate Fighting.

The fight of the night belongs to Tyson Griffin and Clay Guida. I don't know what it is about Clay Guida but man, he is exciting and very different from any other cat you've ever seen.

These dudes were bringin' it to each other relentlessly and gave the UFC fans a proper display of mixed martial arts as opposed to Ultimate Fighting. I'm lovin' the 155lb weight class and I'll go on record now to say that it has more depth in terms of talent than any other weight class in the UFC today.

I watched Tyson and Clay a second time because I thought Clay was robbed by the split decision loss to Griffin however, I do agree with the overall decision and that fight would make a good case for a draw. Let's hope we see those two go at it again sometime soon.

Ed Herman also put on a good show. Notice that I said Ed and not Scott Smith. Herman pretty well dominated Smith in the first round and gave him a vicious gash from his right elbow across the top bridge of his nose that bled profusely into Smith's eyes while Herman was in top control.

Round 2 starts and Herman continues to dominate Smith then finally ends the misery and applies a rear naked choke that didn't warrant any attempt at defense from Smith as he seemed to gladly tap out and be done with Herman and his elbows.

I mentioned in a previous post that the UFC 72 fight card was a piece of Irish shit and unfortunately, I was right. Then again, there are those that may say that UFC 72 was great, those would be the same people who love the Affliction T-shirts too I suppose 'cause those are shit too and gots ta go.

Ahhh... on a brighter note, my fight predictions were perfect as I picked the winners for all the fights. This is a first for me and now I rank in the top 10% at MMAPlayground.com (#610 out of 6291 with a 63% win rate)

Enter Rocky anthem music... Getting stronger!!!!