UFC 125 Resolution
 

MAIN CARD

Champ Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard
UFC Lightweight Championship
Chris Leben vs. Brian Stann
Thiago Silva vs. Brandon Vera
Takanori Gomi vs. Clay Guida
Nate Diaz vs. Dong Hyun Kim
PRELIMINARY CARD

Marcus Davis vs. Jeremy Stephens
Dustin Poirier vs. Josh Grispi
Mike Brown vs. Diego Nunes
Phil Baroni vs. Brad Tavares
Daniel Roberts vs. Greg Soto
Antonio McKee vs. Jacob Volkmann

Excellent card from top to bottom..

War Leban

I always enjoy watching Diaz and Guida fight. Silva and Vera are my pick for fight of the night. For some reason Edgar v. Maynard doesn't do it for me though.

Guida/Gomi, Diaz/Kim, Tavarez/NY Bad Ass, Davis/Stephens, Stan/Leban

This is gonna be a top notch card top to bottom..

Guida vs Gomi is going to be a hot fight, and, assuming it doesn't end quickly, could very well be fight of the night. The whole card, minus the main event, looks really good though.

Sadly, I expect the main event to be very similar to Florian vs. Maynard. Basically, Edgar is better standing, so Maynard will take him down, and keep him down.

Edgar is a good wrestler though.. Much better than KenFlo..

Baroni is still under contract?

He signed a new contract in 2009 and lost to Amir Sadollah.. He was supposed to fight again but got injured.. This will be his second fight back in the UFC after his time in Pride, Elite XC, and Cage Rage..

Hopefully, as I actually like Edgar, and I'm not a huge Maynard fan.

Sorry but iam not looking forward to the main event, neither of those fighters intrest me in the slightest bit.Iam looking forward to hte Nick Diaz vs DHK and Clay vs Gomi.Those 2 have potential KO/Sub/Fight of the night.

Leben always puts on great fights win or lose and Thiago vs Vera should end in a KO.

I have
DHK via split
Gomi via 3rd round tko
Leben via 1st round KO
Thiago vs 2nd round TKO

Frank Edgar vs. Gray Maynard
i was 100% positive that Kenny Florian was going to manhandle Gray Maynard, and Maynard dominated him. Maynard has already beaten Edgar once. Maynard has a considerable size advantage over Edgar. i think Edgar has a definite advantage in striking, but i though that would have made the difference for Florian. i dont know if Maynard is a better wrestler than Edgar, but he still has the size/strength. this should be a tough title defense for Edgar. playing the odds, i'll go with Maynard.

Chris Leben vs. Brian Stann

i have not really followed the career of Brian Stann. he was a WEC light heavyweight champion. if Stann was known to be a pedigreed or even solid wrestler, it would look better for him. he is probably a better technical striker than Leben, but leben is hard to hurt, and hits frickin hard. i just have a feeling that Leben is the one to watch here.

Thiago Silva vs. Brandon Vera

Skillset wise, and on paper, this definitely favors Brandon Vera. and, IMHO, Thiago Silva's technical striking is over-rated. i aint knocking his power though. just sayin' he moves pretty slow. his best technique is to hunt people down, get them on the ground (on the bottom) and utilize his devastating ground and pound. Vera's advantages are that he's like six and a half feet tall, an accomplished Muay-Thai kick boxer Greco-Roman wrestler. all that being said, Thiago Silva has just been much more consistent than Vera. it seems that Vera has been under the gun for quite some time now, and still hasnt been able to put together a string of victories. Silva, i think, is just destined to be a higher level competetor than Vera. on a side note, personally, i always look forward to seeing Thiago fight and i never look forward to seeing Vera fight. so with heart and mind i am picking Thiago Silva on this one.

Dong Hyun Kim vs. Nate Diaz

Nate Diaz all day every day.

Clay Guida vs. Takanori Gomi

wow. this one is probably going to be sold as "fireworks." TBH, i dont look forward to seeing Guida fight like i used to, nor do i often root for him. to play the odds on this one, i'll say that Gomi most likely will not be able to knock Guida out, and eventually will get smothered by Guida - allowing Guida to grind out a victory. who knows.

alright. so there's my picks. pretty decent card, btw. i think that all cards should be of at least this quality.

yea but where did that wrestling take him last time he fought maynard?

Not very far, but Edgar is miles better than in than in their previous encounter, this whole fight depends on whether or not Maynard can get this thing to the ground, if not Maynard is in for a long night of eating combos.

He doesn't need to outwrestle him, he just needs to use his speed and range to avoid the takedown.

Maynard has Edgars' number just like how Edgar had BJ's number

How can you say that based on ONE decision win that happened almost three years ago??

No Respect

in edgars defense, he beat sherk who is probably one of the best and biggest wrestlers in the division. However sherk didnt even go for a takedown until the third round where he did end up getting them.

Didn't Edgar get right back up though?

Also don't get rattled over any of Naitch's posts, he is fucking terrible in everything he talks about.

The Naitch is an amazing poster and human being..

You are greatly misrepresenting his abilities. Seriously I wanna stab myself in the knee whenever I accidentally read one of his thread titles.

Damn @ the Edgar/Maynard decision. That was a close fight.

Gonna have to say Maynard should have gotten that W

Maynard got whored. How could Edger possibly have gotten a 48-46?

Edgar/Maynard/Pettis MMA triple threat

DO IT

IN A CAGE!!! wait a minute....

I think the draw was the right call personally, I had rounds 1 and 3 for Maynard, round 1 being 10-8 and the rest for Edgar. Edgar deserved to keep the title, the way he recovered from that first round, but Grey didn't necesarilly deserve to lose. Thus, it was a draw.

I agree with Dale.

As do I. First round is obviously 10-8. But after that, Edgar looked great. At best, Maynard gets the 3rd.

With that said, this fight was WAY more entertaining than I expected, so major major props to both fighters.

Leban :'(

I knew Stann was a beast and him dropping down after the Davis loss will be good for his UFC run.. I see him getting a title shot in the next year..

I thought Edgar won the last 4 rounds.

I can see why you'd think that, but to me the third round was a pick'm. Frankie landed more shots, but Gray landed the heavier blows and got that key takedown at the end. It killed me, but I knew he stole the round.

Edgar landed more shots, and had a couple takedowns in the third round as well I believe.

I hate the whole, "he landed the harder shots" argument, I can see if the striking numbers are close than it's good to use, but when you are being cleanly outstruck volume wise, unless you knock the other guy out the harder shots don't mean shit, it just means you like to plant and throws hooks and over hands, of course Maynard landed the harder shots, all he does is try to knock your head off with every punch, and even after rocking Edgar on numerous occasions couldn't put him away.

Also Randy Couture is the fucking man, LOVED him in Maynard's corner. So fucking badass.

This is one of those main event fights where you legitimately feel like "these 2 are the motherfucking best in the world." I mean Maynard's striking while a little rudimentary and reliant on his brute power, is VASTLY improved especially from the Nate Diaz fight, where I though he looked fucking terrible. You mix that with insane conditioning (to recover from not putting Frankie away and shake off the "adrenaline dump" shows what he's all about) and top class wrestling, and you have an absolute fucking machine.

Then you have Frankie Edgar, who is just a freak. He's undersized and other than that poor first round, he was not getting bullied by the bully. He's pure class, he moves so quickly, his conditioning makes me cry, and he proved his wrestling is the tops of the division, and he outstruck bj fucking penn.

I think watching the fifth round, where both guys were shrugging off one anothers takedowns and pretty much were forced into striking was one of the coolest things I've seen. Just top class stuff all around.

Seriously, people love to talk shit that the UFC doesn't have the best fighters in light weight blah blah blah. Well... Gil Melendez, Eddie Alvarez, Kawajiri and Aoki have NEVER EVER been in a fight like both of these guys. Don't get me wrong, they've seen some wars, but this was just a whole other level. They've never even fought guys close to the level of a Maynard or Edgar.

I don't think Frankie got the takedown in round three. It was at the end of round 2, and then he got 2 in round 4.

Edgar was outlanding Maynard but it wasn't like GSP outlanding Koscheck in the round. And Maynard HURT Edgar with his shots more in the round, doing more damage. I'm pretty sure he wobbled him. He then finished the round in dominant position.

Now I'm not saying I disagree with you, if I was at ringside judging the fight I probably would have given the round to Edgar as he landed most of the strikes and was just better than Maynard, BUT I knew they'd give it to Maynard based on what I said. Also I was biased towards Frankie so I figured the reason I'd have given the round to him was because of that, I had to back off of that and see the round for what it was.