UFC 109 Predictions + Live Thread

sonic.trip

Well its almost time for another one roll on Sat night! Predictions?

Main Card

* Light Heavyweight bout: Randy Couture vs. Mark Coleman
* Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt vs. Chael Sonnen
* Welterweight bout: Mike Swick vs. Paulo Thiago
* Middleweight bout: Demian Maia vs. Dan Miller
* Welterweight bout: Matt Serra vs. Frank Trigg

Preliminary Card (Spike TV)

* Lightweight bout: Mac Danzig vs. Justin Buchholz
* Lightweight bout: Melvin Guillard vs. Ronnys Torres

Preliminary Card

* Lightweight bout: Phillipe Nover vs. Rob Emerson
* Light Heavyweight bout: Brian Stann vs. Phil Davis
* Heavyweight bout: Tim Hague vs. Chris Tuchscherer
* Heavyweight bout: Rolles Gracie vs. Joey Beltran

I think the Swick v Thiago should be a great fight, tough one to call. Putting a 10euro acc on the 4 I most fancy serra, maia, marquardt and couture

DrPhilG

Damn! I came in thinking I had good picks and find out you're almost identical.

The only one I differ on is Nover vs Emerson. I think Nover will take that one. Stann vs Davis is a close one and I'm sure Stann is the bookie's favourite but I think Davis could get the upset.

mailburner

couture
serra
thiago
marquardt
maia

thiago is 7/4 with boyles and i think
its a huge price
i fancy thiago strongly to beat swick.
if fact i dont see what swick can do
to beat thiago and i think he'll be
exposed again tho maybe not in
the same fashion as with hardy

pablohoney87

Is it just me or is Sonnen officially the biggest prat in mma.
Lines like "Camp is for kids"(referring to training camp)
He also claims Anderson silva speaks perfect english and just doesnt respect the fans enough to speak it.

mailburner

pablohoney87 wrote: »

Is it just me or is Sonnen officially the biggest prat in mma.
Lines like "Camp is for kids"(referring to training camp)
He also claims Anderson silva speaks perfect english and just doesnt respect the fans enough to speak it.

having just watched the countdown he certainly does appear
to be a prat.
I'll enjoy watching marquardt destroy him even more now

JJayoo

Hiya guys, just wondering will most of the bookies take bets on ufc events, would be fun to throw 10euro on

rovert

JJayoo wrote: »

Hiya guys, just wondering will most of the bookies take bets on ufc events, would be fun to throw 10euro on

Most of the main ones, PaddyPower in particular:
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/ufc-mma

Pride Fighter

sonic.trip wrote: »

Well its almost time for another one roll on Sat night! Predictions?

Main Card

* Light Heavyweight bout: Randy Couture vs. Mark Coleman
* Middleweight bout: Nate Marquardt vs. Chael Sonnen
* Welterweight bout: Mike Swick vs. Paulo Thiago
* Middleweight bout: Demian Maia vs. Dan Miller
* Welterweight bout: Matt Serra vs. Frank Trigg

Preliminary Card (Spike TV)

* Lightweight bout: Mac Danzig vs. Justin Buchholz
* Lightweight bout: Melvin Guillard vs. Ronnys Torres

Preliminary Card

* Lightweight bout: Phillipe Nover vs. Rob Emerson
* Light Heavyweight bout: Brian Stann vs. Phil Davis
* Heavyweight bout: Tim Hague vs. Chris Tuchscherer
* Heavyweight bout: Rolles Gracie vs. Joey Beltran

I think the Swick v Thiago should be a great fight, tough one to call. Putting a 10euro acc on the 4 I most fancy serra, maia, marquardt and couture

Agree with most. I think Coleman will surprise the world and get the win and Paolo Thiago will annihilate Swick.

Lord Muck

Coleman to beat Couture..would have loved to see this fight 10 years ago,still better late than never

Nate the great to beat Sonnen

Thiago and Maia to have submission victories

Please God let Serra win , i hate Trigg.

Lord Muck

Lord Muck wrote: »

Coleman to beat Couture..would have loved to see this fight 10 years ago,still better late than never

Nate the great to beat Sonnen

Thiago and Maia to have submission victories

Please God let Serra win , i hate Trigg.

Defo fancy Coleman to beat Randy, Randy should have lost his last fight to Vera while Coleman had a decent win, 1/4 for Randy just isn't right IMO

bret69

All the Coleman predictions are making me nervous, do people really think he'll beat Randy?

I've an accumulator on Couture, Marquardt, Maia and Serra.

dicey1664

really cant see coleman beating randy, hes just got take down and ground and pound, randy was able to get back up and revearse lesner when they fought so should be able to do the same to the smaller coleman. reckon hell keep him against the cage and get a decision, would love a knock out though:D

rovert

dicey1664 wrote: »

really cant see coleman beating randy, hes just got take down and ground and pound, randy was able to get back up and revearse lesner when they fought so should be able to do the same to the smaller coleman. reckon hell keep him against the cage and get a decision, would love a knock out though:D

Id dance a jig if Coleman won but the guy has no knees left and questionable cardio.

PRIDE GP 2000 was ten LONG years ago.

^ Stating the obvious

rovert

Nice read and an interesting note on the influence the Dublin crowd had over the fate of Coleman's UFC career:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news;_ylt=ApBHPYkQ0sIljDjZdGFb5_w9Eo14?slug=dm-coleman020410&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Lord Muck

rovert wrote: »

Nice read and an interesting note on the influence the Dublin crowd had over the fate of Coleman's UFC career:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news;_ylt=ApBHPYkQ0sIljDjZdGFb5_w9Eo14?slug=dm-coleman020410&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

wow. i never knew that they both fought previously during their wrestling careers. This is probably the twentieth time i've wrote off Couture, but i still think he'll loose tonight.

Pride Fighter

rovert wrote: »

Id dance a jig if Coleman won but the guy has no knees left and questionable cardio.

PRIDE GP 2000 was ten LONG years ago.

^ Stating the obvious

Get ready to dance:D

bret69

Slightly off topic but does anybody know if you can bet on UFC in a paddypower store or is it just online?

davmol

bret69 wrote: »

Slightly off topic but does anybody know if you can bet on UFC in a paddypower store or is it just online?

Both.you can request teh odds in store and place the bet there too.You can really piss them off and get the person taking your bet to look up odds for a 6 fight accumulator while a huge line of punters queue up to bet on the dogs racing in 10 seconds time:D

rovert

davmol wrote: »

Both.you can request teh odds in store and place the bet there too.You can really piss them off and get the person taking your bet to look up odds for a 6 fight accumulator while a huge line of punters queue up to bet on the dogs racing in 10 seconds time:D

Thank god for the betting terminals in my local shop thats all Ill say! Im too embrassed to ask for odds on UFC.

Speaking solely on Randy i think he's extremely over-rated, his record should stand at 16-11 IMO(had Vera won the fight, abut apparently holding someone against the cage is deemed higher then devastating stand up), not the record of a 1/4 shot IMO.

He's barely fought a non-title fight since he was constantly given shots even after just losing the belt, his win resume is nothing to be scared of in the modern era, the likes of Chuck and Tito have been losing left/right and centre the past few years.

I'm not saying he has no chance, just i think this fight is a LOT closer then the bookies and most are calling it. And i say that on recent performances, Coleman ran Shogun close who to the masses beat the invincible Machida, then had a decent win against Bonner, while Randys coming off the back off two losses and a suspect win in his last.

If Randy was 5/2 i'd back him, but it's Coleman who is so ill be putting my money there as i think he has a great chance

JohnMac93

sorry guys but could someone tell me whats the craic is with this being televised. I'm with ntl so I just recently got espn... are they showing the main card fights?

rovert

JohnMac93 wrote: »

sorry guys but could someone tell me whats the craic is with this being televised. I'm with ntl so I just recently got espn... are they showing the main card fights?

Seems like it they showing the Prelims too:
http://tv.espn.co.uk/schedule/

Which is cool as I what to see if Tuchscherer reprises his role as Hans Moleman from UFC 102:

dicey1664

probably the most painfull kick ever

Martian Martin

I am baffled by the volume of people thinking Coleman has a good chance of beating Couture. Really.

Devastator

rovert wrote: »

Which is cool as I what to see if Tuchscherer reprises his role as Hans Moleman from UFC 102:

Pre lims already underway

Joey Beltran def. Rolles Gracie via TKO (strikes) -- Round 2, 1:31


Chris Tuchscherer def. Tim Hague via majority decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-28)


Sounds like couple of poor fights so far

rovert

lol audio issues

**** all people there even for an intermission

That_Guy

Mac Danzig wins by unanimous decision after a very very close 3 rounds. Good last 3rd round from Danzig.

Devastator

That_Guy wrote: »

Mac Danzig wins by unanimous decision after a very very close 3 rounds. Good last 3rd round from Danzig.

yeah. also thought

Melvin Guillard was bit lucky with that decisuion win. Thought the take downs may have lost him a few rounds

That_Guy

Devastator wrote: »

yeah. also thought

Melvin Guillard was bit lucky with that decisuion win. Thought the take downs may have lost him a few rounds

I didn't actually see that fight tbh. I'd be expecting Serra to do the job against Trigg next.

That_Guy

Serra wins by knockout. Caught Trigg on the jaw. Powerful punches.

scudzilla

Nice KO there by Serra, job well done


Good working link (for how long i don't know) here http://www.iraqgoals.net/ch3.html

scudzilla

What's with all the spoilers? The thread title says 109 live thread so i don't really see the need, if someone doesn't wanna see the results but comes in here then they've only themselves to blame

Lord Muck

delighted for serra. that should be the last we see of Trigg i reckon ....

That_Guy

Miller doing well to avoid those take downs. And that looked rather painful when Miller got hit in his.... you know what's.

Seifer

What was Miller's game plan? He didn't seem to do anything.

Devastator

That_Guy wrote: »

Serra wins by knockout. Caught Trigg on the jaw. Powerful punches.

yeah. no doubt he was knocked out.

Maia fight boring, nothing much happened. Cancelled each other out. Maia back with a win after that stunning Marqurt KO

Think the Swick/thaigo fight could be a cracker, fingers crossed.

dicey1664

scudzilla wrote: »

What's with all the spoilers? The thread title says 109 live thread so i don't really see the need, if someone doesn't wanna see the results but comes in here then they've only themselves to blame

totally agree, dont think theres any need at all

Seifer

Here's the Miller video Joe Rogan was talking about. It really looks like he's snapped his neck :eek:

rovert

Chune!

rovert

Awesome struggle of a fight there, this card so needed that one.

rizzla

Great fight. C'mon Chael, win me some money.

Lord Muck

that was a great fight, sonnen was a worthy winner

rovert

Enough with the spoiler tags plse

Seifer

Thought Nate was going to steal it with that late guillotine. I noticed the elbow that cut Chael when it first happened as it made a vicious sound you couldn't hear on the replays.
Tempted to go to bed now, this OAP fight is gonna be a snooze-fest.

rovert

AGE IN A CAGE!

dicey1664

really suprised thought Nate would have won it easy enough come on randy:D

rovert

A part of me dies whenever I see Coleman struggle to climb the steps in the Octagon these days.

rovert

Coleman is following an oddly familar pattern here

Seifer

That fight was stupid.
I wonder if Rogan and Goldberg were told to talk all the ****e they were. Randy's striking never looked better? Cause he was whaling on someone who didn't know what he was doing.

rovert

Seifer wrote: »

That fight was stupid.
I wonder if Rogan and Goldberg were told to talk all the ****e they were. Randy's striking never looked better? Cause he was whaling on someone who didn't know what he was doing.

His striking was pretty crisp in fairness regardless whether Coleman wasnt defending it.

Yay a Pro Wrestling angle there

dicey1664

randy was always going to get the job done,coleman is really really starting 2 show his age,should probably call it quits, what the fcuk is tito at