UFC 129 Randy Couture vs Lyoto Machida Predictions

UFC 129, which will be on April 30th will have two great legends of the sport face off. One, is known as Capt. America (A.K.A Randy Couture), a Greco Roman Wrestler the other one has a similarity to Ryu from Street Fighter (A.K.A Lyoto Machida) and he has a karate background.

If you have been following mma, your first guess should be that the Wrestling guy will hold the Karate guy down and not let him get back up. But, and if you have been following, you will know that Lyoto is excellent at staying to his feet and if he does get taken down he can literally pop back up. That will mean that both fighters have to keep it standing which is the main strength of Lyoto Machida.

Now, the other major weapon that Randy has is pinning Lyoto up against the fence and he might do that a few times to Machida, but, I don't expect him to keep him there for long as Machida is an escape artist in the ring.
I predict that Machida will KO randy in the second round of the event.

But.... As Always...
Good luck to both of these Gentleman and
class acts!

Brock Lesnar vs Jr. Dos Santos UFC 131

When UFC 113 comes, we have two big heavy weights for the main event, Jr. Dos Santos vs Brock Lesnar after the Ultimate Fighter 13 is concluded. This should be a much watch because it should answer some questions like, has Lesnar's striking approved since he lost his title to Cain and will Jr's wrestling and takedown defense be up to Lesnar's level?

If Dos Santos can keep it standing, this will be his game to win but if Lesnar can use his striking to set up take downs then I see him rolling through the fight with a UD. If Lesnar only tries to go for take downs and does not use any striking then he will be too predictable and sooner or later be TKOed or KOed.

I am going to go with Dos Santos on this fight. He is a natural wrestler and his striking is as good as it gets for a heavy weight. Then again, I can see Brock winning a TKO or UD if his striking has improved!

Good luck to both gentleman and we will see what questions these fighters can answer in the RING!

MMA and Guitar Hero

This is a Photoshop I did for those people who like guitar hero and MMA!

Rashad Quits Greg Jackson's Gym

Rashad is so mad that Jon 'Bones' Jones challenged him that he is now mad at Greg Jackson as well.

Here are Rashad's words "You can't say you are not going to have anything to do with it when you are a big part of the reason why the situation originated. That's like spilling a glass of milk and then walking away and saying that you don't want to have anything to do with it. You f**kn spilled the milk...so you're at least going to help clean it up right?"

My view is, Greg can't control what everyone of his fighters say and does, and that I think it should be a great match up between Bones and Rashad. I will tell you all who I am picking later!




May both fighters have their best training camps yet!

UFC 128 Rua vs Jones Afterthoughts

Not only did Jon Jones win UFC 128 when he beat Rua, but he chased down a robber who could have been armed with a gun and so Dana called him Jon "Kick Ass" Jones!

So, I reported that Jones would win against Rua and I was correct. Ring Rust and being injured may have effected Rua, but after seeing the fight, I believe Jones would have won no matter what.

In the first round, Jones landed a frightening knee and from there everyting went down hill for the ex-light heavy weight champion. The match ended in what appeared Shogun tapping to lethal strikes.

On another note Faber won his UFC debut against Wineland via UD. Schaub KOed the Crocop into UFC retirement and Marquardt crushed Miller all the way to a UD!

Congrats the winners and those who lost for trying their very best!

UFC 129 GSP vs Jake Shields

No THIS IS NOT WHAT I FORESEE 

No THIS IS NOT WHAT I FORESEE 

 The Photoshop is for humor only. I do not foresee Jake Shields out striking GSP. Jake Shields is at best an average striker with little power in his hands but GSP is a well groomed striker with some power in his hands from what I've seen (although, I have not seen him knock anyone out as of late.)

 For George to win this he may want to keep it standing as the grappling-department  is Jake Shield's butter zone, and yes, he appears to be even better at grappling than GSP. 

 The question is, can Jake Shields take GSP down? It is possible! Jake was able to take down Dan Henderson when he defended his StrikeForce Middle Heavy Weight  belt, so I would say yes.

Nevertheless, its going to be 5 rounds of GSP doing his thing I believe. Although Shields might be able to take GSP 2 or 3 times down, GSP can also force a take down and put up a stand up clinic that only a handful of fighters can defend against in the MMA world. 

Remember, Shields is tough and took a solid hit from Henderson and so my reasoning tells me that GSP will cruise his way to a Unanimous Decision victory over Shields!

Also, for questioners, I do not expect to see the the Shields that fought Kampmann to show up, so Shields should be healthy.

Looks like the gay MMA fans will have a great ride! LOL! Just kidding!

Good luck to both fighters in their training camps!

 

Dan's H-Bomb

Dan Henderson's H-Bomb

This Photoshop is an honor of Dan Henderson's power, a power that he unleashes in his right handed fist dubbed the H-bomb. The H-bomb is a quick right hand that sent Michael Bisping to the Canvas and Rafael Cavalcante from which Dan won the Strikeforce light heavy weight championship.