UFC 124

John "Doomsday" Howard - Thiago "Pitbull" Alves
2 Strikers who like to stand and bang. For all I know, John Howard may be the only pure striker Thiago Alves has ever faced in the UFC. So far, he has been facing wrestlers. And they're top-flight wrestlers too at that like GSP, John Fitch and Matt Hughes.

Not these wrestlers.

This fight showed that precision striking always outclasses power-strikes, as you would clearly see in the main event. But if you would ask me, I would always pick the jazz bass over the precision bass. And just as I've predicted, whoever feels that his stand-up isn't working would decide to take it to the ground first. And Howard was that dude. He tried the take-downs 'till he was down on the judges scorecards.


Mac Danzig - Joe "Daddy" Stevenson
These guys should have been scrapped from the UFC roster a couple of events ago. With a win-loss record similar to the Los Angeles Clippers, who would not want to give 'em the pink slip, right?

Well apparently, Dana White wants his fighters goin' down swingin'. Which was what Joe Daddy was doin' when he got knoced the fuck out by a Danzig hook, while backpedaling! Chuck Liddell lives!


Charles Oliveira - Jim Miller
We all knew that this was gonna be MIller time. Apparently, Oliveira didn't get the memo.

Charles should have the superior grappling(w/that kinda' last name, he better be a blackbelt!). But what happened was pretty bizaare. After a hurried scramblefest, the animal known as Jim Miller got a hold of Oliveira's leg and presto! We got to relive Mir-Lesnar I all over again(remember the kneebar?)!


Matt Riddle - Sean Pierson
If there was a robbery during this event, this was it. I don't know why Matt Riddle always ends up in the undercard. Man this guy eats punches in bunches for lunch while smilin' and will gobble a head kick for dessert and still hook you up with her hot sister(if he had one) after the program. He's that type of fighter! But still I don't know why he was fighting this Pierson guy(sorry, can't remember where I watched this dude) in an undercard bout. Another one of 'em Joe Silva mystery match-ups.

It was plain to see that Pierson was connecting more solidly. Riddle even ate a hook to the jaw while doin' a half-hearted flying knee, therefore dropping like a sack of potatoes.

The thing that I like most about Riddle is his ability to absorb punishment, and still dish out some of his own. Which was what he did from the 2nd round onwards. Though I think that it wasn't enough to steal round 3. But still, a win is a win. It's like all the people behind the scorecards suddenly all turned Russian judge on Pierson. Well I guess he's Canadian, that's why.


Sean "Big Sexy" McCorkle - Stefan "Skyscraper" Struve
This fight had a funny trivial stat. These 2 dudes make up the tallest combined height among all the fights that went down in the UFC. But it doesn't matter because for me, these 2 are as irrelevant to the UFC heavyweight division as Apollo Creed is to the WBO/IBF heavyweight division or somethin'.

Sean was bein' overly-hyped by Joe Rogan(as always), just because of that 1st round submission of Mark Hunt. We were unaware that someone the likes of Struve would be the one to put a stop to Joe's overrating.


Mark Bocek - Dustin Hazelett
If there was a fighter who would win because his last name sounds like the last name of the fighter in the blue corner og the main event, then it's Mark Bocek. I was actually rooting for Bocek because he's game, and also because Hazelett eeriely looks like a carbon copy of Tamdan "Barncat" McCrory.

Looks aside, I was predicting a Bocek win because Hazelett only has jits to offer while Bocek has a lot more in his arsenal. It's like showin' another guy your dick when he has his own dick too.

The strange thing was that instead of Bocek winning via a predictable decision or via strikes, he actually slapped on a triangle choke while dishing out some elbows to the head. Hazelett should be the one doin' that, right? Is today opposite day?


Josh Koscheck - GSP
If you wanna' get rich quick, then you should've bet your entire house and let it ride on a GSP win. This dude's pretty scary! BEsides the fact that he's a genetic freak, he's also under the Greg Jackson camp.

For all you giblets not in the know, Greg Jackson is a master game planner. For the Thiago Alves fight, GSP used superior wrestling. For the BJ Penn fight, he utilized take downs again to tire Penn's arms or somethin' like that. And in this match, since Koscheck is one of the purest and most decorated douchebags, err, wrestlers, GSP used superior striking.

And by striking, I meant boxing. I don't know if GSP hung out at the wild card gym in LA, but I do know that GSP trained his boxing under world-renowned trainer Freddy "The Cock" Roach(just made up that nom de guerre). If BJ Penn and GSP boxed right now, I don't know if GSP would still end up with a bloody nose(like in their 1st encounter). Maybe BJ might end up with a broken orbital(just like Kos). That's because of the newest weapon that GSP got from the Cock. The left jab.

This may sound cliche, but this PPV has been a great night of fights nonetheless.



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