UFC on FX: Alves v Kampmann

El Guapo!

This is on Friday night/Saturday morning and it has kinda went under the radar and been over-shadowed by Edgar-Henderson.
Bit of a poor card in my opinion but there is a couple of interesting fights including the Flyweight semi-finals. I think Benividez will end up Flyweight champ. He's 15-2 with both of his losses coming against Cruz.

In the main event I'll have to go with Kampmann. He has great kickboxing and a long reach and I think he'll use it to pick Alves off from the outside.

Jake Hecht is on this card too so I hope he does well again.


Full card below:



Main card

• Welterweight bout: Thiago Alves vs. Martin Kampmann[1]
• Flyweight bout: Joseph Benavidez vs. Yasuhiro Uru****ani[1]
• Flyweight bout: Demetrious Johnson vs. Ian McCall[1]
• Middleweight bout: Court McGee vs. Constantinos Philippou[1]

Preliminary card (Fuel TV)

• Light Heavyweight bout: James Te Huna vs. Aaron Rosa[1]
• Light Heavyweight bout: Anthony Perosh vs. Nick Penner[1]
• Featherweight bout: Cole Miller vs. Steven Siler[1]
• Middleweight bout: Kyle Noke vs. Andrew Craig[1]
• Welterweight bout: TJ Waldburger vs. Jake Hecht[1]
• Featherweight bout: Mackens Semerzier vs. Daniel Pineda[1]

Preliminary card (Facebook)

• Heavyweight bout: Oli Thompson vs. Shawn Jordan

* I'll edit this post with the channel details when it's all available. Nothing showing up on UPC yet but it should be on FX at around 2am Saturday morning. *

Mellor

Ah, was about to point out the days were wrong. But when I quoted it it had changed.


The UFC have introduced Sudden Death Rounds for the Fly-weights bracket fights. Good move. It's not a great card, far pooer compared to 127 and 110, both in the same arena the alst two years.

I'm hoping they'll have a few promos in in Sydney in the lead up.

El Guapo!

Mellor wrote: »

Ah, was about to point out the days were wrong. But when I quoted it it had changed.


The UFC have introduced Sudden Death Rounds for the Fly-weights bracket fights. Good move. It's not a great card, far pooer compared to 127 and 110, both in the same arena the alst two years.

I'm hoping they'll have a few promos in in Sydney in the lead up.

Yeah I only remembered it was Friday night and tried to do a sneaky edit. Thanks for pointing it out lol

I wonder why they put on such a poor card for an international event. It's along the line of the cards they usually put out for the "Fight for the Troops" events.
Although in saying that, you can never judge a card on face value.

CageWager

Its on ESPN at 3am Saturday morning

Mellor

Dean09 wrote: »

Yeah I only remembered it was Friday night and tried to do a sneaky edit. Thanks for pointing it out lol

It was half to make sure I was seeing correctly, and half to get the the cheap brag that im going (re-brag there obv)

CageWager wrote: »

Its on ESPN at 3am Saturday morning

That sounds about right. It's normal for main cards to start at 2pm in sydney, so thats 3am in Ireland. (friday night/saturday morning)

The prelims start at 1am, and are prob on facebook.

If I heard any tweets from Dana about give-aways or promos I'll post here for those of us in Sydney.

karl bracken

Any word on the weigh in's or anything else happening in the lead up to this?

10AM start on the tickets, thats pretty early!

Mellor

karl bracken wrote: »

Any word on the weigh in's or anything else happening in the lead up to this?

10AM start on the tickets, thats pretty early!

Yeah, and hour earlier that last year.

I'd say the weigh-ins will be in StarCity on Friday afternoon. i hope so. Homebush is too awkward to get to. I'll post if I hear further.

MrStuffins

I think people are overlooking how awesome this Flyweight tourney is gonna be! I can't wait!

Mellor

Fight Week events
http://www.facebook.com/events/198528396914552/


A bit annoyed that the Weigh-in is out in AllPhones. I won't make that.
But the other media stuff looks good. I can walk to The Light Brigade in paddington from my appartment.

Roar

Fingers crossed for Cork MMA Clinic's Jake Hecht, looking for his second UFC win following that great stoppage of Rich Attonito before Christmas

The Bored One

The flyweights are definitely what im looking forward to on this card, Im quite curious what that division will look like. Probably it will involve blur marks from the speed. Eventually John Dodson will reach a speed of 88 miles an hour and then travel back in time to 1955. Hilarity ensues.

horsemeat

You heading to the event Mellor?

Main event should be pretty good. Hopefully the pitbull will be back to his ferocious best.

The flyweights will be great wars too, they've just haven't had the benefit of the UFC marketing machine to get people interested in them yet. Come the end of 2012 and a couple of fights people will start to enjoy the division and appreciate the smaller class.

Mellor

horsemeat wrote: »

You heading to the event Mellor?

Yeah, doesn't bother me that its an FX card. I can't wait.
I'll miss a lot of the fight week events due to work, which is a shame as I live right bedside those locations. Arianny and Ben Henderson are down on one of my local Beaches tomorrow. But I'm hoping to get to Cain Velasquez tonight.

Xlami

Enjoy it Mellor. Think the 125 tournament will be unbelievable. Hopefully Mighty Mouse can take it.

Mellor

Got to the bar straight after work. I think a lot if people were stuck in traffic as there wasn't much crowd.
Met Cain Velasquez, Chad Mendes and Mike Pyle. Was expecting to be rushed through. But the crowd stayed small at the start and I was able to stand around and chat away. They were more than happy to take photos.
Cain says he's fighting Mir in the summer. Maybe late May. Spoke to Pyle about the Kampman fight. He's in his corner on Saturday.

pauldoo

Mellor wrote: »

Got to the bar straight after work. I think a lot if people were stuck in traffic as there wasn't much crowd.
Met Cain Velasquez, Chad Mendes and Mike Pyle. Was expecting to be rushed through. But the crowd stayed small at the start and I was able to stand around and chat away. They were more than happy to take photos.
Cain says he's fighting Mir in the summer. Maybe late May. Spoke to Pyle about the Kampman fight. He's in his corner on Saturday.

Mir v Cain will be a cool fight, Mir will have to get his finger out. Did you ask him about the JDS fight?

Mellor

pauldoo wrote: »

Mir v Cain will be a cool fight, Mir will have to get his finger out. Did you ask him about the JDS fight?

What was I supposed to say.
I hardly think he has forgotten about it. Like wise, I wasn't gonna bring up the Aldo fight with Mendes.

The first loss for both guys, and it was both their most recent fights.


A bit annoy that I forgot to keep an eye on twitter. First person outside the pub to shout aussie aussie aussie got sign gloves and a jersey signed by the full card. I even seen Pyle going outside to get ready and didn't know what for.
Only new to twitter but missed my chance there.

Leeg17

Is anyone watching this?

Quite decent first fight just there..

Daniel Pineda won via arm-bar

There's a cool new feature on ufc.tv where you can hop back to previous matches during certain points ie submission / start of rounds etc.

Hide the Rum

I'm watching, what a sub from Waldburger!

Looking forward to Cole Miller's fight.

MrStuffins

Had no idea the prelims were on so early. Nice!

THis next fight is all Cole Miller. Can't see Siler getting anywhere near a win here.

Edit: Cole Miller is ridiculous for 145!

Zero-Cool

Will the main card be on ufc.tv too for free?

Hide the Rum

Round 1 to Siler. 2 was close, Miller might have taken it.

MrStuffins

I had it 1-1 and Siler taking RD.3 until the final minute.

I reckon Cole might've edged it now. Either way, great fight!

Hide the Rum

Didn't expect that, thought Cole edged it too. He should stick with 155 and do the grudge match with Cowboy.

MrStuffins

Super fight. Delighted with the result. Roundswise I thought Cole would've taken it but overall (Pride style) I thought Siler had the best of it!

themandan6611

Siler looks like a prick, true story

MrStuffins

Strange stoppage there, 1 second left in the round!

Zero-Cool

I was fully sure that Kimura would finish it!

Zero-Cool

I wish the ref would STFU!

Easy Rod

sheehy83 wrote: »

I wish the ref would STFU!

I came on just to post the same thing! So annoying.

That was a good fight from the heavies, Jordan was impressive.

MrStuffins

Nice win for Te Huna there!

Hide the Rum

Killer instinct from Te Huna, very nice.

Kurz

Fair play to Court McGee, nice to see the Amish getting involved in MMA.

Hide the Rum

Flyweight tournament! Here we go!

Roar

bullsh!t call. No way did Johnson win that - I had McCall first and third rounds.

Denners.ie

Delighted - maybe if McCall was concentrating on what he was doing instead of shouting to the fans for the last 30 seconds he may have had a chance to finish it.

MrStuffins

Yeah me too, but such a close fight! Perhaps McCall should've concentrated on finishing the fight rather than acting the maggot!

bmcc10

Not very likeable McCall is he..Still thought he done enough.

Hide the Rum

Missed round 1 but that smelled like BS. Uncle Creepy almost had the finish, don't know why he let DJ stand up at one point in r3.

MrStuffins

Wait.............

6 draws?

Leeg17

WOAH!

Hide the Rum

MrStuffins wrote: »

Wait.............

6 draws?

I'm guessing it's japanese judges.

Is Alves/Kampmann 5 rounds or what? They've been on and off lately.

Leeg17

Hide the Rum wrote: »

I'm guessing it's japanese judges.

Is Alves/Kampmann 5 rounds or what? They've been on and off lately.

Presume so, it being a main event..

Kurz

I'm guessing that now Uri****ani will fight McColl around the same time as Benavidez fights Johnson, and the winner will get the next title shot. So there is a good enough opportunity for some retribution from McColl's standpoint.

It will be nice to follow the narrative of this division.

Kurz

Hooray, boards' language filter thinks the Japanese guy's name is a swearword.

MrStuffins

AFAIK it's 3 rounds.

They originally made all numbered events Main Events 5 rounds, with Fight Night and the likes being 3 rounds.

But from now on, all Main Event contracts will be signed on for 5 rounds.

Leeg17

MrStuffins wrote: »

AFAIK it's 3 rounds.

They originally made all numbered events Main Events 5 rounds, with Fight Night and the likes being 3 rounds.

But from now on, all Main Event contracts will be signed on for 5 rounds.

Thanks for pointing that out Stuffins

It never came into my head that it was a non-numbered event.

I'm going to miss my UFC on a Saturday for a few weeks

MrStuffins

Yeah, I remember there used to be a UFC just once every 6 weeks or so.

These days if there isn't a card for 3-4 weeks it's like it's been ages! Withdrawls start setting in! :P

Kurz

For what it's worth, the last "UFC on Fox" had a five round main event. I don't know what they'll be doing here but I wouldn't rule five rounds out. Saying that, it's 03:37 now and would be a strange time to put on a 25 minute fight.

MrStuffins

Kurz wrote: »

For what it's worth, the last "UFC on Fox" had a five round main event. I don't know what they'll be doing here but I wouldn't rule five rounds out. Saying that, it's 03:37 now and would be a strange time to put on a 25 minute fight.

Very true about the last FOX card. Evans v Davis.

Tonight though will definitely be 3 rounds as they can't change it once the contracts have been signed.

But after the controversy over Sanchez v Ellenberger a couple of weeks, Dana White announced ALL Main Events will be 5 rounds.

Hide the Rum

Gonna have to get dug into Bellator for the next 6 weeks.

Here comes the light heavyweight that's fighting Kampmann :P