UFC 102
 

Probably old news, but here's the main event.

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HOly shit. Thats a big match up.

Couture and Nogueira is something I've wanted to see for a while. Not surprised about Silva/Jardine. I know Silva was who they wanted to line up against Forest before they decided to go with the Anderson fight.

Yeah, should be awesome.

Rest of the card is looking like this tentatively.

Randy Couture vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Keith Jardine vs. Thiago Silva
Demian Maia vs. Nate Marquardt
Matt Hamill vs. Brandon Vera
Chris Leben vs. Jake Rosholt

Sick fuckin card.

Damn straight.

I'm especially looking foward to Maia vs. Marquardt.

I like the cards without a championship match in them.... MORE FIGHTS!

Maia vs. marquardt will be very interesting to see. Marquardt should probably keep this fight standing. Because if Maia gets into any kind of range to grab Nate, he's gonna get his fifth Submission of the Night.

It's gonna be a good fight...I just hope a different Big Nog turns up (As opposed to the one that turned up against Mir)

Supposedly that Nog was sick.

Staph infection + flu + something else if I remember correctly

Also I get the feeling Nog underestimated Mir for that fight...

Good grief, these are some other matches being thrown around for this card. The prelims and two other rumored fights.


Preliminary Card
Middleweight bout: Wilson Gouveia vs. James Irvin
Heavyweight bout: Junior dos Santos vs. Justin McCully
Middleweight bout: Nick Catone vs. Mark Munoz
Lightweight bout: Matt Veach vs. Evan Dunham

Other Announced Matchups
Heavyweight bout: Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Chris Tuchscherer
Heavyweight bout: Todd Duffee vs. Mike Russow

Absolutely SICK card. May be the best care top to bottom I've seen.

However I will say, 101 has a ton of interesting matches as well. First time I'm actually PAYING for three cards back to back to back on my on. (although I'll probably have a bunch of people over and split the cost like we normally do, but we don't usually order every month).

Don't know why Dana even bothers with Leben anymore.

It's because he has heavy hands and a decent chin in addition to a loud personality. You always get a bang fest and potential for knockout of the night with Leban. Rather he's doing the knocking out or getting knocked out, the potential is there. He's a good filler guy.

Leben isn't bad by any means, and is coming off a Main Event loss. (+ everything HBM2K said). Also I reckon Gouvia V Irvin will be on the main card

I dunno.... I think it ha to do more with the refs actually stopping it. At the time they were getting prerssure for letting fights go long and nog had been knocked down two or three times and took a couple unanswered shots which has been normal for him since like 2002

If you actually look up the history of big Nog, you'd think it's definitely because of the infections.

He produces exciting fights and there probably isn't 10 guys better than him in the UFC.

Theres barely that many better than him in and out of the ufc

Well, the reason I brought this up is because he failed a drug test shorlty after his Bisping fight which he still lost. They were making such a big deal about how "this is a new and improved Chris Leben" when he looked basically the same. I like the guy and at one point I thought that he might become the next big thing but it seems like he just stands in his own way most of the time.

Actually he did look "new and improved". Leben looked like a beast coming into the Bisping fight...

A drugged up beast.

How does someone look like a drugged up beast when NOBODY knew he was on steroids?

that is what he got caught with? i thought e had street drugs in his system for some reason... well anyway I guess I can see why one would look new and improved if they were on roids

At least one person knew.

He looked waaay bigger and more cut than the last few times I saw him before that.

Well he thought he got it out of his system before so literally nobody knew.

He looked in real good shape when I saw him last week. Hopefully it's natural this time.

He knew there was a risk, however small, of it being in his system.

I'm going by what he said. You are probably right but until I can read minds, I'll believe the guy. It's not like he denied it later or anything.

He only admitted because he got caught. Hardly noble.

Not saying that either. He could have done a Sean Sherk and denied it until he was blue in the face though.

I see the point you are making, but I just don't think it matters whether they admit it or not. The test results have you by the balls.

With sherk theres a lot of different things to consider. One, there was an unusual amount of fighters who tested positive that fight and question as to whether tests were compromised came into question. Two, he was taking a million pills, and while this is a weaker argument, he could have very well taken two or more things that alone are legal and harmless, but together work synergistically to create the type of steroid found in his system and since there is almost no research done to see what suppliments do when mixed together, that is entirely possible.

The main thing to consider is that if he choses to blame the supplements, the commissions all say it is a fighter's responsibility to monitor what goes into their own body.

No your right, and I dont think he has blamed the suppliments, however if he did it willingly, he has balls considering he let the all access show tape him taking fist fulls of pills

fighters sometimes take banned substances to speed up healing processes and such, and plan to have them out and clean in time.

Surely they should test everyone before and after their fights, and if its +ive, then stamp 'dumbfuck' on their heads and send them packing. Surely its only when there is no way of sneaking by it is truely career suicide.