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UFC 123; Rampage vs. Machida, Penn vs. Hughes III
Topic Started: Nov 15 2010, 03:12 PM (803 Views)
aguywithaname
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No rest for UFC fans these days, with UFC 123 coming up this Saturday

Main Card:
Light Heavyweight Bout: Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs. Lyoto Machida.
Welterweight Bout: Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn
Middleweight Bout: Gerald Harris vs. Maiquel Falcão
Light Heavyweight Bout: Phil Davis vs. Tim Boetsch
Lightweight Bout: George Sotiropoulos vs. Joe Lauzon
Spike TV Prelims:
Welterweight Bout: Matt Brown vs. Brian Foster
Middleweight Bout: Aaron Simpson vs. Mark Munoz
Preliminary Card:
Welterweight Bout: Karo Parisyan vs. Dennis Hallman
Lightweight Bout: Edson Barboza vs. Mike Lullo
Lightweight Bout: Paul Kelly vs. TJ O'Brien
Lightweight Bout: Tyson Griffin vs. Nik Lentz
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My thoughts:

-Machida is a terrible stylistic match-up for Rampage. Rampage will try to counterpunch and Machida will just pick him apart over the course of 15 minutes.
-BJ Penn is interrupting Matt Hughes' hunting season for this fight. A fatal mistake. Hughes via wrestling.
-I know CropDuster loves him some Gerald Harris, and the guy he's facing has a bunch of knockouts, so this should be a barnburner.
-Woohoo! Phil Davis!
-In the matchup of two of the worst nicknames in the sport, I'm taking J-Lau in an upset over G-S(p)ot.
-Only Nik Lentz has the power to keep Tyson Griffin from being on the Spike prelims or maincard. That said, he just doesn't have anything to put Griffin in any trouble.
-Parisyan vs. Hallman should be quite the grapplefest.
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Fun fact: BJ Penn is training with Minnesota's own Joey and Jake Clark for this fight, as he used to for some of his prior fights. Gotta cheer for Penn!
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Machida is on his way back to the top, needs this one.
BJ got the MN on his side, might be enough grappling to take Hughes. I was never overimpressed with Hughes's standup.
Gerald Harris is a G. He used to post on the old MMA forum on TheMat.com. Always seemed real cool and down to earth, and even moreso on TUF. Get some, Hurricane.
PhilDav has a tremendous upside that we're all seeing come alive now.
J-Lau is the man, but Soto is pretty sound. That will be a fun tactical bout.
Griffin is gonna give Lentz alot to handle, but wish the best for him.
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Wow. The fights were good- besides the third round of Falcao/Harris, that was just weird- but once I read that Tyson Griffin lost on the undercard, I don't there was a period of more than five minutes where I wasn't pissed off during the fights. Lauzon losing to lead off the card, BJ knocking out Hughes, Gerald Harris getting lit up for the better part of two rounds. Yikes.

On the other hand, Lauzon vs. Grumpy George picked up Fight of the Night, so Lauzon now has seven Fight Night bonuses, tying him with Chris Lytle for most in UFC history. (Then again, Lytle is fighting Carlos Condit next, which has Fight of the Year potential).
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