Return of the Blog! Highlight Reels and Future Deals

Sorry for the long break! I haven't felt like writing, and that's the honest truth. I've had plenty to write about though, and this new edition of BenClarkMMA will be featured in the highlight format.

Lets see, since November 30th...

Strikeforce: Hendo vs Babalu II, 4 December 2010

Get real. No one likes Strikeforce, especially when they release promotionals without a complete card. Herschel Walker probs fought the Ghost of Christmas future that night. Who knows?

Please, Scott Coker, CEO and failure-king of Strikeforce. Take notes from ANYBODY ELSE promoting Mixed Martial Arts, please. You SUCK! I hate your events, your champions are GARBAGE (besides maybe Nick Diaz) and you WISH. Yes, you just wish. Why would you put on this supposedly "great" fight night on the same night as your bigger, meaner, brother the UFC's TUF finale? You are so dumb. How did you figure you'd get ratings? Why am I addressing you when you obviously don't read my blog? Shut up....


TUF 12 Finale, 4 December 2010

Jonathan Brookins defeated Michael Johnson for the Ultimate Fighter Season 12 6 figure contract and glass trophy

                                                 Sweet! He always wanted a glass square.

It was obviously a decision, as both fighters are strong wrestlers, and respect eachothers stand up, plus trained under GSP all season and knew the ins and outs of each others games. Good on them, they bored the crap out of me. Just kidding, but  not really.

The best fight on that card was Nam Phan vs. Leonard Garcia, in the UFC's first ever live-aired Featherweight bout.

                    Phan, shown here showing Garcia the monster in his trunks, note the facial expression of horror, because Phan is that much Man.

I'm a damn Nam Phan fan, and unfortunately he got robbed. However, Dana White in his infinite wisdom and awesomeness declared an immediate rematch, and hopefully Nam Phan can get his win back. However, it was an awesome fight, one that everyone enjoyed watching more than the main event.

Anyway.

UFC 124: St-Pierre vs Koscheck II, 11 December 2010

"I'm gonna hit you, riiiiight here"

The above quote is from none other than Josh "Probably Won't Fight Again" Koscheck, uttered while pointing at the Champs chin on national T.V. talking smack. However, as you can see by the picture above, Joshua got a rude reminder as to why you shouldn't say anything outrageous to GSP in regards to fighting him. Because he WILL ground you. LITERALLY. Like your dad. GROUND YOU. Josh couldn't fly home to California, because of a fracture to his orbital bone, rendering his flight home impossible, because a change in air pressure would kill him/hurt real bad.

      This bearded Gentleman demonstrates what would happen to Kos at 30,000 feet.

For 5 straight rounds, GSP laid a beat down on Koscheck unlike any seen before. He broke his face with jabs! From the first round forward, GSP would glide in, pop a couple shots to silly boy Josh's face, and then back out while Kos would throw a couple haymaker style punches that didn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of hitting him, because he couldn't see out his right eye. LOL?

Félicitations au champion, Georges St-Pierre pour une autre défense victorieuse de son titre!!!

Also at UFC 124,

Sean McCorkle may look like he's winning here, but he didn't. That 6'11" guy on the bottom of this picture reversed, and put on a clinic of ground and pound, winning by TKO in the first round. I can't find a picture of this, however, so you'll just have to take my word for it. Or look up the stats.

Moving right along....

WEC 53: Henderson Vs Pettis, 16 December 2010 

Here.

That's all you need to see.

UFC 125: Resolution,  1 January 2011

In what I expected to be the badassest card ever, this did not disappoint. It was chock full of hard hitting fights, and balls-to-the-wall MMA action that I am so addicted to.

Clay Guida Vs. Takanori Gomi. I had Gomi picked out for this fight. I thought Guida was going to get knocked out. In the first round, Guida decided to say "Forget getting knocked out, I think I'll guillotine this PRIDE legend into submission. Seeya!"

Dong Hyun Kim vs Nate Diaz was also amazing. I had Stun Gun winning, and he did, but by decision. I thought it would be a bit more one sided, however, Nate Diaz put up a fantastic fight, and even for a minute it looked like he knocked Kim out with knees to the face. But he didn't apparently, because Kim was technically a downed opponent with his hand on the ground. Wuss. Anyway, 2 rounds to 1, Kim. The third round is where Nate Diaz almost came back and knocked the Korean back to the mean streets of Seoul.

                                             I mean, look at this Thug straight outta Stockton.


Oh yeah. Brandon Vera got his ass beat. It was Thiago Silvas come back fight and this is what happened..

After the nap, we had Brian Stann Vs. Chris Leben.

This fight was awesome. Chris Leben always swings for the fences and Brian Stann is a rough tough can't get enough US Marine, OOORAH!

Anyway. Despite allegiance to the Beloved Corps, I picked Leben to win this fight, simply because he's a monster. I was wrong. Initially, Chris Lebens iron chin helped him recover from 3, count 'em THREE monster strikes to the face where Stann would have KO'd any other living man. It wasn't happening. Chris Leben just kept getting back up, because Screw Brain Cells.

Damn.

And the Maaaaaain EVENT, of THE EEEEVENING!

This fight rocked my socks off. The first round, it was a miniature version of Velasquez vs Lesnar, where the challenger Maynard was beating the epic snot out of the champ, Frankie Edgar. But Frankie Edgar is made of bouncy ball, and every time he got knocked down, he literally back flipped back up and redefined "roll with the punches"

                                          No. This isn't from the Jersey Shore, it's Toughness Incarnate.

Anyway. After the first round, which everyone scored 10-8 for Maynard, I think the Champ won the rest of the fight, giving him the edge to win a decision, a close one, but still a win. However, the Judges declared it a draw. Edgar retained his title, but didn't win. I was kinda bummed that I didn't see a finish in that first round. It was sick and twisted how bad Maynard put the hurt on Edgar. Mmm mm mm. Shaking my head.

Still. Best fight I've seen in a long while.

Welp, folks, there you have it. The highlights of the last almost 2-months in MMA. Sure, there have been other events in other promotions, but none that I've watched and/or care about. Why? Because Bellator is whack, and DREAM hasn't held a fight since forever.

Upcoming events are UFC: Fight for the Troops 2, which features the main event of Melvin Guillard vs Evan Dunham. Guillard is winning a 3 fight win streak, and Dunham is coming off his first loss ever to Sean Sherk at UFC 119. I think Dunhams going to win this one, probably by submission. Considering 7 of 8 losses that belong to Guillard are via submission, it isn't too tough to see that happening, because Dunham has 6/11 wins by submission.

And it looks like he knows what he's doing while he's standing up too. Hmm....

Also, the SAME EXACT NIGHT AS A UFC EVENT...STRIKEFORCE: NO ONE CARES 43

 Why is that one guy highlighted, and a single glove on Nick Diaz, but the rest is black and white. I HATE STRIKEFORCE! I'll throw them a bone; I would watch Nick Diaz fight Evangelista Santos, other than that, Dexter is the only reason to watch Showtime at all.

                                                "Strikeforce: Dex Vs Strikeforce " promo poster


And soon after that is UFC 126: Silva Vs. Belfort. Silva, defending his title for the 543rd time, and Belfort coming out of seemingly nowhere, fighting once in the UFC after a huge hiatus, and he fought at a 195 pound
catchweight against Rich Franklin at UFC 103. Why on earth this man has a shot at the title confuses me, but it doesn't matter. Silvas going to kick him in the teeth, his lights will go out, and finally the rightful contender, Yushin Okami, can get his shot. I'm not too sure what the main event of UFC 122 was all about then, Marquardt and Okami fought for #1 contendership, and then bang, all of a sudden, this old geezer (Belfort fought at UFC 3 or something ridiculous. He's been around man) is figthting the pound for pound best. Whatever!

Anyway, dear readers, That concludes the highlights and heads-ups for this entry. I will try to write more. I promise.

                                           $5 to the person who guesses which person I am on this poster.