UFC 117 Picks

August 5th, 2010 admin

UFC 117: Silva vs. Sonnen

Date: Aug 07, 2010

Location: Oakland, Calif.
Venue: Oracle Arena
Broadcast: Pay-per-view

MAIN CARD

  • Champ Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen (for middleweight title)
  • Thiago Alves vs. Jon Fitch
  • Rafael dos Anjos vs. Clay Guida
  • Ricardo Almeida vs. Matt Hughes
  • Junior Dos Santos vs. Roy Nelson

PRELIMINARY CARD

  • Dustin Hazelett vs. Rick Story
  • Phil Davis vs. Rodney Wallace
  • Tim Boetsch vs. Todd Brown
  • Charlie Brenneman vs. Johny Hendricks
  • Christian Morecraft vs. Stefan Struve
  • Dennis Hallman vs. Ben Saunders

The trash talking from Chael Sonnen can finally stop, and lets see if he can back up his talk.   I don’t think I will ever bet against Anderson Silva.  Even with the sweet +300, and the thought of the Spider facing his toughest and strongest wrestling based opponent yet, its still hard to go against the talent of Anderson.  Even though I would like to see somebody lay a beating on him for his dumb antics vs Demian Maia, I still don’t see him losing.

Ricardo Almeida shouldn’t have too much problems with the aging Matt Hughes.  Matt fought a terrible Gracie last fight, which in turn made him look awesome.  Don’t let that fool you, Ricardo is no joke.

Clay Guida vs Rafael dos Anjos is a very even fight, I have no idea who to choose here.  I would stay away from this one, but maybe give Guida a slight edge as he can surely eek out a win because of his never die always moving foward attitude.

I think we will see the real Thiago Alves again when he takes on Jon Fitch.  He will avenge his first UFC lost and setup a rematch vs GSP (after GSP dominate Koscheck 2 times!)

Roy Nelson vs Junior Dos Santos is the fight i’m looking foward to the most.  This one should be a lock for Junior, even though Roy continues to impress and slam naysayers.  I never thought he was any good either, but he can definately surprise you and definately has some skills.  Still, JDS is a stud, and we’ll see him fight for the title next after Brock Lesnar vs Cain Vasquez.

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One Response to “UFC 117 Picks”

  • Schaufensterfiguren says:
    August 9, 2010 at 12:57 pm

    Good fight and good event all together Saturday night. I’d like to see Silva move up now. I’m much more interested to see him fight guys like Shogun, Rampage, Evans, etc than staying at 185.