The UFC usually saves its best card for its year-end show and this year is no different. On the card for UFC 92 is Forrest Griffin vs. Rashad Evans, Antonio "Minotauro" Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Frank Mir and Wanderlei Silva vs. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.
NOTE: I will not be able to watch the show until Monday night at the earliest. The mother fucker who ruins even the slightest bit of the action for me will get put in a Peruvian necktie. That means no text messsages SCZA. Thank you for respecting my wishies.
All three fights could main event a PPV card. I think they're all more intriguing than the main event at UFC 93, Rich Franklin vs. Dan Henderson.
I made my picks (complete with method and time of victory) for our Fantasy UFC game e-mail me if you want it, but I happened to see the odds on the fights and thought I would post my thoughts here.
Wanderlei Silva is a 6:5 favorite over Rampage Jackson. I'll take Silva in this one. Both guys are strikers who hit very hard. But Rampage seems to be too much of a wildman. He'd still be champion if he had a better strategy against Griffin instead of standing there and let Griffin chop his legs out. And following his subsequent mental breakdown I can't be certain how much Rampage wants to fight.
Minotauro Nogueira is a 7:2 favorite over Frank Mir.
I was really surprised that Mir this big of an underdog. I do expect Nogueira to win because he has great jewjitsu especially for a man of his size, but I really thought this one would have been a near coin-flip.
Forrst Griffin is a 7:5 favorite over Rashad Evans. I really like Evans. I think some MMA purists don't like him but he has much more skills than Griffin. Griffin is great but I'm not sure he'll be able to do any damage to Evans who should be able to the fight he wants, which is usually the recipe for victory.
All of my holiday traveling (1500+ miles) has thrown me off my fantasy game. I'll be in next time.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I was unable to order this at Special-K's parents house because they didn't have a cable box. Her brother and I actually bought the online streaming version and watched it on his computer. It would have been a good experience, but the connection (wireless) was too slow, so it kept pausing, or blurring every 20 seconds. Bleh. I'm planning on watching the whole thing again because I think I know exactly what happened, but missed a lot of details.
Picks (this doesn't ruin anything for you)...I had picked Rampage, cuz I think Wanderlei is past his prime, Nogueira cuz he's a beast that can't be stopped, and Griffin...sorta just because I like him...skill wise, I think it's pretty close.