UFC on Versus 2 Picks – Jones vs Matyushenko

July 30th, 2010admin

UFC on Versus 2: Jones vs. Matyushenko

Location: San Diego, Calif.
Venue: San Diego Sports Arena
Broadcast: Versus

MAIN CARD

• Jon Jones vs. Vladimir Matyushenko
• Mark Munoz vs. Yushin Okami
• Jake Ellenberger vs. John Howard
• Takanori Gomi vs. Tyson Griffin

PRELIMINARY CARD

• Paul Kelly vs. Jacob Volkmann
• DaMarques Johnson vs. Matthew Riddle
• James Irvin vs. Igor Pokrajac
• Mike Massenzio vs. Brian Stann
• Darren Elkins vs. Charles Oliveira
• Rob Kimmons vs. Steve Steinbeiss

Jon Bones Jones is back, and so is free UFC on tv!  UFC on Versus 1 was a huge success and I’d imagine this will be as well.

There is no possible way that I feel Jon “Bones” Jones will ever lose to Vladimir Matyushenko (barring a weird disqualification).  Even if the +400 tempts you, no chance.  Maty is old, Jones and young and just too good.  This is a lock.

In my opinion, one of the most overated fighters ever had to be Takanori Gomi.  Though I enjoy watching his fighting style, I don’t think he was ever that great, and was overjoyed when Diaz “beat” him.  Tyson Griffin has since evolved into a great fighter and should have no trouble simply “outskilling” Gomi.

Here is an upset to take a look at, Mark Munoz definately has a chance to win over Yushin Okami.  Okami still doesn’t try to finish, and Munoz definately has both the wrestling and GnP skills for a decision win here.

Here is another upset possibility, how is John “Doomsday” Howard an underdog here?  This guy is Knockout of the Night potential and he is an underdog vs Ellenberger who still hasn’t proven much in the octagon so far?  Take Doomsday for sure here.

Another upset potential in the preliminaries is Demarques Johnson over Matthew Riddle

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UFC 116 Picks

June 27th, 2010admin

Bet on UFC 116: Lesnar vs. Carwin HERE!

Location: Las Vegas
Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena
Broadcast: Pay-per-view and Spike TV

MAIN CARD

• Champ Brock Lesnar vs. interim champ Shane Carwin (heavyweight title-unification bout)
• Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Chris Leben
• Matt Brown vs. Chris Lytle
• Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzysztof Soszynski
• Kurt Pellegrino vs. George Sotiropoulos

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)

• Brendan Schaub vs. Chris Tuchscherer
• Seth Petruzelli vs. Ricardo Romero

PRELIMINARY CARD (Un-aired)

• Kendall Grove vs. Goran Reljic
• Dave Branch vs. Gerald Harris
• Forrest Petz vs. Daniel Roberts
• Jon Madsen vs. Karlos Vemola

The July UFC bout in Las Vegas is usually the 2nd biggest card of the year behind the New Year’s bought.  Though it looks to be a pretty decent card, there is no “WOW” big name factor other than the main card, though the main card should be a beauty.  Would also like to apologize for not getting in my strikeforce Fedor vs Werdum picks in, a play on Fabricio would have been very nice!

Brock Lesnar vs Shane Carwin is a matchup that many mma fanatics have been waiting for.  The 2 biggest fists in mma will battle it out.  I have said all along that I hate picking fighters that have been on the shelf for a long time due to injury, ring rust is huge in mma, and I will follow that advice again in this fight.  The odds should be more even, so taking Carwin here is definately my choice.

Akiyama vs Wanderlai would have been a sweet fight, but vs Leben should be a great fight as well.  Sexyama didn’t look the greatest against Belcher and won a very close fight.  In contrary to the long layoff, can somebody come back after 2 weeks (not an easy fight vs Aaron Simpson)?  I would take Akiyama here.

Matt Brown vs Chris Lytle is a fight that is too hard to bet on.  Both are unpredictable and inconsistent.  At times you see potential top fighter candidate fighters, and at other times you just see brawlers.  May the best man win this fight, but I will go with Matt Brown.

Stephan Bonnar vs. Krzysztof Soszynski part 2 will hopefully be entertaining as part 1.  Can’t really ever see Bonnar winning another fight, and much like Keith Jardine should be out of the UFC (although Dana White promised to never fire Bonnar).

George Sotiropoulos has looked amazing his last few fights, and his winning ways should continue against a tough opponent in Kurt Pellegrino.

My underdog bet of the night is definitely Chris Tuchscherer over Brandon Schaub though.  Tuchscherer is tough, and should easily KTFO TUF runner-up Schaub.  At +250, do it!

Dumbass of the night will have to go to Kendall Grove, who decided to diss UFC and SpikeTV over the radio and therefore losing his spot in the Spike televised undercard portion.  Feel bad for Relic though.

UFC 115 Picks

June 10th, 2010admin

UFC 115: Liddell vs. Franklin

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Venue: GM Place
Broadcast: Pay-per-view and Spike TV

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)

• Chuck Liddell vs. Rich Franklin
• Patrick Barry vs. Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
• Martin Kampmann vs. Paulo Thiago
• Ben Rothwell vs. Gilbert Yvel
• Carlos Condit vs. Rory MacDonald

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)

• Mac Danzig vs. Matt Wiman
• Evan Dunham vs. Tyson Griffin

PRELIMINARY CARD (Not televised)

• David Loiseau vs. Mario Miranda
• Peter Sobotta vs. James Wilks
• Ricardo Funch vs. Claude Patrick
• Jesse Lennox vs. Mike Pyle

Will this finally be Chuck Liddell’s swan song?  How rocking will Vancouver’s first ufc be.  We’ll find out this saturday night.

If not for the opportunity to fight Tito Ortiz again, Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell would have already hung up his 5oz gloves.  Come the main event of UFC 115, Rich Franklin will be sure to put Chuck into permanent retirement.  Chuck has looked slow and easily ktfo lately so it would be tough to bet on him.  Take Rich in this fight.

I have always thought Paulo Thiago was overated but he has proved me wrong.  Martin Kampman failed miserably his last fight.  I would have to go with Thiago in this fight, he just finds ways to win.

Another guy I thought was vastly overated was Big Ben Rothwell.  So what if he was IFL champ, those guys stunk.  Now Yvel is all show, but I’m confident he pulls off the upset in this one.

I never thought Pat Berry would be a favourite over Mirko Cro Cop.  I was prepared to take Pat as the underdog, and will still take him as the favourite.  Cro Cop is no more.

Carlos Condit as an underdog over Rory Macdonald is a very good pick here.  Simply some bad luck in his previous fights, but this guy can fight.  Look for him to rebound here.

For the preliminary SPIKE TV events, I still don’t like betting on fighters who are coming back from major injuries, so I would go with Wiman over Danzig, and Tyson Griffin should beat Evan Dunham easily.

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UFC 114 Picks

May 29th, 2010admin

UFC 114: Rampage vs. Evans

Location: Las Vegas
Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena
Broadcast: Pay-per-view

MAIN CARD

• Rashad Evans vs. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson
• Michael Bisping vs. Dan Miller
• Todd Duffee vs. Mike Russow
• Jason Brilz vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
• John Hathaway vs. Diego Sanchez

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)

• Dong Hyun Kim vs. Amir Sadollah
• Efrain Escudero vs. Dan Lauzon

PRELIMINARY CARD (Not televised)

• Melvin Guillard vs. Waylon Lowe
• Luiz Cane vs. Cyrille Diabate
• Joe Brammer vs. Aaron Riley
• Jesse Forbes vs. Ryan Jensen

One of the most anticipated grudge matches will finally happen tonight at UFC 114, Quentin “Rampage” Jackson vs Rashad “Sugar” Evans, and it should be a good one.

The main event Rampage vs Evans is as close as you can get.  Rashad can try and take him down, hump him to death, except Rampage has great takedown defence.  Rashad can also use a stick and move strategy which may work.  On the other hand Rampage is pure power, and we haven’t seen Rashad take shots very well.  This would be a pure coinflip bet, and would probably take Rampage regardless of his longer layoff.

Bisping vs Miller is another close fight, but I think I will have to go with the Count on this fight.  Bisping has much better striking than Miller and should be able to catch him with a few shots for points and win a decision.

Even though Todd Duffee has considered himself overated, he should be the real deal and will destroy Mike Russow.

Lil Nog vs Brilz, no point in even talking about this fight.  Would have really liked to have seen him vs Forrest.

Don’t really know too much about John Hathaway so I can’t go against Diego, and Escudaro and Sabdollah should win their prelim fights.

All favourites for UFC114

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Strikeforce St.Louis Heavy Artillery Picks

May 15th, 2010admin

Strikeforce St. Louis: Heavy Artillery

Location: St. Louis, Mo.
Venue: Scottrade Center
Broadcast: Showtime

MAIN CARD

• Champ Alistair Overeem vs. Brett Rogers (for heavyweight title)
• Andrei Arlovski vs. Antonio Silva
• Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza vs. Joey Villasenor
• Roger Gracie vs. Kevin Randleman
• Antwain Britt vs. Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante

PRELIMINARY CARD (un-aired)

• Justin DeMoney vs. Jesse Finney
• Lyle Beerbohm vs. Vitor Ribeiro
• Darryl Cobb vs. Booker DeRousse
• Mike Chandler vs. Sal Woods
• Lee Brousseau vs. Fransisco France
• Tom Aaron vs. Erik Steenberg
• Matt Ricehouse vs. Greg Wilson

Firstly a reminder to all Canadians that Stikeforce on Showtime is available to Rogers customers for free right now on SuperChannel.  There is currently a free promotion that is running for the next 2 months, so hopefully that will extend to next month’s Fedor fight as well.  You might have to call in to Rogers to get this activated.

This strikeforce event in St.Louis: Heavy Artillery will likely act as a redemption event.  After the chaos and disappointments of the previous CBS event, Scott Coker will need this to be a good fight night to put Strikeforce back into the good books for mma fans.  UFC is countering with a very impressive Fight Night Special for free on spiketv.  Spike TV presents a special telecast of 2010’s most action-packed mixed martial arts fights, including the heavyweight showdown between Shane Carwin and Frank Mir and the unforgettable slugfest between Leonard Garcia and Chan Sung Jung (aka “The Korean Zombie”)  in “UFC’s Ultimate Fights” on Saturday, May 15 (10:00 PM – 12:30 AM ET/7:00 PM – 10:30 PM PT).

Featured bouts include:

o    Shane Carwin vs. Frank Mir (UFC 111) in a battle for the interim UFC heavyweight crown
o    Leonard Garcia vs. “The Korean Zombie”, Chan Sung Jung (Aldo vs. Faber) in
“The greatest fight I’ve ever seen!” according to Joe Rogan
o    Mark Munoz vs. Kendall Grove (UFC 112) in a matchup of middleweight contenders that earned “Fight of the Night.”
o    Terry Etim vs. Rafael Dos Anjos (UFC 112) in a hard-fought contest between rising lightweights
o    Matt Serra vs Frank Trigg (UFC 109) in a match between two veterans.
o    Nate Diaz vs Rory Markham (UFC 111) in Diaz’ debut at welterweight
o    Paulo Thiago vs Mike Swick (UFC 109) in a fight that moved one man up the ladder of the welterweight division.

Onto  the Strikeforce Picks

Alistair Overeem has been untouchable the last few years, but he has also been ducking a lot of tough fighters.  Brett Rogers will be his toughest opponent since holding the belt, and I think the underdog Rogers will take home the belt tonight.  We really haven’t seen Overeem need to take a punch lately, and with the punching power of Rogers, its a strong possibility that Overeem will go down.

Glass jaw Arlovski will attempt to redeem himself with a tough match against Antonio Silva.  Andrei has played the giant killer role before in beating Tim Sylvia, but I don’t think he has much of a chance against Big Foot here. Plus Silva is an underdog in this fight, great pick opportunity!

Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza over Villasenor is a no contest.  Way too good of a BJJ game for Jacare.

Kevin Randleman kinda sucks now, and I’d only take him at +1000 over anybody

Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante should win over Atwain Britt in a close fight.

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There is also a Shine Fights event featuring Din Thomas vs Ricardo Mayorga tonight that you can bet on.