anyone heading out to catch UFC 123 tonight?

the fight card
* Light Heavyweight bout: United States Quinton Jackson vs. Brazil Lyoto Machida[1]
* Welterweight bout: United States Matt Hughes vs. United States B.J. Penn[1]
* Lightweight bout: United States Tyson Griffin vs. United States Nik Lentz[1]
* Middleweight bout: United States Gerald Harris vs. Brazil Maiquel Falcão[1]
* Middleweight bout: England Aaron Simpson vs. Japan Mark Muñoz[1]
* Welterweight bout: Armenia Karo Parisyan vs. Germany Dennis Hallman[1]

* Matt Brown vs. Rory MacDonald[3]
* Tim Boetsch vs. Phil Davis[4]
* TJ O'Brien vs. Paul Kelly[5]
* Joe Lauzon vs. George Sotiropoulos[6]
* Mike Lullo vs. Edson Barboza[7]

 

my guesses for the 2 main fights:

Machida over Jackson
Hughes over Penn

 

syyyyyyyyyyyyyke

 

bleh Hughes just wanted a quick paycheck and Machida should've won that decision. He won rounds 1 and 3. Jackson didn't do anything to Machida in round 1

 

Yay for Vallejo's own Mark Munoz!

 

GSP baby!!! Wooooo!!

 

Catch weight fight with the spider?

 

Now you're talking! But I don't think GSP would step up in weight to fight Silva. That was a great fight he put on. Very technical and sticking with the jab paid off big time.

 

He said in an interview that he had big plans... no big plans at 170 right now.

 

"I fought GSP and all I got was this lousy broken orbital socket..."

 

Since we've got evidence of GSP's handiwork of turning Kos into a Cyclops, here's a a rare shot of Josh landing on George...


But here's my fave of the nite...

 

I remember that punch they even showed it in slow motion as Josh caught him flush in the face. His ears wiggled back and forth.

 

hahahaha he looks like one of the Nogueira brothers now!

 

UFC 126... Holy smokes this is a stacked card!!! At yesterday's press conference, lots of palpable tension. The boys look hungry!

My picks so far...
Silva vs Belfort (rooting for Vitor, but The Spider gets the edge b/c I'm concerned w/ Vitor's extended lay-off)
Jones vs Bader (Bones is more dynamic & Greg Jackson has been putting together some serious game plans lately)
Griffin vs Franklin (I had to decide this one by coin flip; too close for me to call & this should be a great fight w/ 2 really likeable guys)
Ellenberger vs Rocha (as long as he keeps it standing; doubt if he balloons another eye like he did to Howard in his last one though)
Torres vs Banuelos
Cerrone vs Kelly
Mendes vs Omigawa (pulling for Omigawa, too... but Chad's had some really strong showings as of late himself)
Taylor vs Ruediger (I need Paul to win this so we can finally say "Adios, amigo!" to Gabe... I just can't get over his stint on TUF)
Yamamoto vs Johnson (too bad I don't facebook b/c I heard this is being streamed on there)
Kingsbury vs Romero
Pierce vs Robertson

I'll update these later as I've got to head out now.