UFC 116 Picks

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.

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