UFC in Japan

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Really looking forward to this. Some cracking fights on this card.

Light Heavyweight Wanderlei Silva vs. Brian Stann
Heavyweight Mark Hunt vs. Stefan Struve
Lightweight Takanori Gomi vs. Diego Sanchez
Middleweight Yushin Okami vs. Hector Lombard
Featherweight Mizuto Hirota vs. Rani Yahya
Welterweight Dong Hyun Kim vs. Siyar Bahadurzada

Preliminary Card
Middleweight Riki Fukuda vs. Brad Tavares
Bantamweight Takeya Mizugaki vs. Bryan Caraway
Lightweight Cristiano Marcello vs. Kazuki Tokudome
Bantamweight Alex Caceres vs. Kyung Ho Kang
Welterweight Marcelo Guimaraes vs. Hyun Gyu Lim

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFC_on_Fuel_TV:_Silva_vs._Stann

Gomi vs. Sanchez should be a war and can't wait to see Mark Hunt make Struve go all wobbly. Stun gun vs Bahadurzada should be a good battle aswell.

scudzilla

This just looks soooo wrong




meanwhile.........................C'MON WANDY

ASJ112

Anybody know what time this starts at ?

smilerf

It's not tv live is it

xtal191

Espn 2am

Be like Nutella

yeah dyin for this
good scraps on this card

check out Wandy's fantastic jumping knee during the Open workout

http://www.sherdog.com/pictures/gallery/event/50495/201441/

CZ 453

Prelims look good too.it says 00.40 on ufc.com for the facebook prelims

CZ 453

Be like Nutella wrote: »

yeah dyin for this
good scraps on this card

check out Wandy's fantastic jumping knee during the Open workout

http://www.sherdog.com/pictures/gallery/event/50495/201441/

Some height on that knee...like a spring...boing

welkin

Thought it was 2am us time? That would make it 7am here?

CZ 453

welkin wrote: »

Thought it was 2am us time? That would make it 7am here?

No defo 2am our time.12.40am facebook free prelims

CZ 453

http://uk.ufc.com/event/FUEL8/watch?id=order-now-button

Mellor

It's on Sunday in Japan. It'll sit live at a normal UFC event timeslot

scudzilla

Hahaha, Anik goes to interview Gyu Lim, has a japanese interpreter next to him, asks his question but the woman just looks shocked, Gyu Lim is Korean so had to get another interpreter!!

Great KO though

sonic85

are the last two prelims going to be shown on the main card? its nearly two o clock the televised broadcast is due to start but mizugaki caraway and fukuda tavares havnt fought yet

CZ 453

On facebook still there anyway.I'd say it will be on espn as well

CZ 453

sonic85 wrote: »

are the last two prelims going to be shown on the main card? its nearly two o clock the televised broadcast is due to start but mizugaki caraway and fukuda tavares havnt fought yet

yeah on espn and facebook there now.espn is ahead by a few seconds

sonic85

yeah it seems to be on both. screw it im off to bed then so - il just sky+ it

Professey Chin

Damn that means a lot to Mizugaki!

scudzilla

Chinpool wrote: »

Damn that means a lot to Mizugaki!

yeah, even though i had it 29-28 to Carraway

cunnifferous

Misugaki giving one of the funnier post-fight interviews

ShaneU

What a crybaby (wouldn't say that to his face though :pac:)

welkin

Anyone have a stream?

The Clown Man

Dong Hyun Kim is just so amazingly good at what he does. He has perfected his own style.

Kinda dull though.

scudzilla

The Clown Man wrote: »

Dong Hyun Kim is just so amazingly good at what he does. He has perfected his own style.

Kinda dull though.

Bit like my posts on boards

scudzilla

When Lombard kicked and Okami caught it, Okami's neck was sticking out a mile, a great target yet Lombard didn't see it. Big flaw in his game

The Clown Man

scudzilla wrote: »

Bit like my posts on boards

Boom!

I ****ing hate baking soda...

Mellor

scudzilla wrote: »

When Lombard kicked and Okami caught it, Okami's neck was sticking out a mile, a great target yet Lombard didn't see it. Big flaw in his game

Lombard is a pretty high level grappler I doubt he "didn't see" it. There's a huge amount of other factors here.

All in though, unimpressed by Hector. Never a split decision.

scudzilla

Mellor wrote: »

Lombard is a pretty high level grappler I doubt he "didn't see" it. There's a huge amount of other factors here.

All in though, unimpressed by Hector. Never a split decision.

I had Gomi for a sure fire 29-28 win, those pesky judges.

Did you see what i was on about, was in the first minute of the fight, he caught his leg and his neck was just sticking out for a second or 2, would have been so easy to latch on but didn't even attempt

CZ 453

Is there such thing as a lazy knock out? The punch was lazy.The knock out was lazy.The ref was lazy.....

alanrebelsw

Lethal..this is a fight..

scudzilla

I FCUKIN LOVE WANDY :D:D:D:D:D

alanrebelsw

Wandy the warrior

scudzilla

Think i was the only 1 in our fantasy to pick Hunt & Wandy

weemcd

Blown away with the last 2 fights on the card, fights like these make it worth sitting up to all hours of the night just to see it happen.

scudzilla

From Dana's Twitter

Firstly FON=Wandy vs Stann KO= Wandy and Hunt!!!! Both win 50k


Then Co main and Main event were AMAZING!!! Hunt, Struve, Stann and Wandy deliver big!!!!! Thank u all 4 of u

DrPhilG

A night of terrible judging. And a terrible performance by Struve. Not to take away from Hunt but IMO Struve was sloppy and careless during the first round.

Mr. Loverman

DrPhilG wrote: »

A night of terrible judging. And a terrible performance by Struve. Not to take away from Hunt but IMO Struve was sloppy and careless during the first round.

Yep, Struve looked totally amateur.

He barely used his size and reach advantage. It's as if he had no plan for the fight. Weird!

riffmongous

Hunt is awesome, and his interviews are so awful

"Mark, I gotta ask, you got an improved ground game, seemed like you were more than willing to go to the grond with Stefan Struve here tonight"
"....Yeah...."
"So Mark can you.."


I'm thrilled for Silva but pretty disappointed for Stann, I wouldn't be surprised if he retires soon enough.

pauldoo

Great stuff from Wandy, i was going to put money on stann winning by KO but the odds were awful. didnt see wandi doing considering his chin is so bad these days but glad he did. that bit were he waved stann on and then clocked him was brilliant.

Struve was a joke, never uses his size to his advantage, didnt seem to bothered in this fight.

Yeah the stun gun is very dull to watch, doesnt have the exciting ground game some of the grapplers have.

Maybe Hendo v Wandy is up next!! In Japan, im sure it would be a big seller

Raekwon

I recorded it on UPC because I hate the ads on the Fox/Fuel cards but the f**king thing stopped half way through the Struve vs Hunt fight :mad:

I've just read that the last two fights were pretty epic too so fairly gutted with missing them.

By the way Gomi was absolutely robbed against Sanchez. How can somebody that controlled the fight, pushed the pace, stuffed most take down attempts and out strike his opponent lose a decision?

Be like Nutella

haha same thing happened me... nearly punched the telly.

just got a torrent on KAT.

Delighted for Hunt and Wandy... both warriors. Stann is a very brave fighter, feel bad for him could be the end. He's so tough and does some things well but he's all about landing lucky punches during flurries.

Hope Wandy retires now if he has enough money put away which I'd guess he does. Go out with a win and on a buzz in Japan where the legend began. Don't want to see him get out-gassed and killed in a couple of fights against younger better guys.

22 Pride wins and 5 UFC wins is amazing. Hope he hangs up the gloves after this.

GTR63

Anyone else's Sky+ cut out at the start of the 3rd Round of Hunt vs Struve?
Missed the Main Event and the end of that fight.
F**K

riffmongous

Who'd have thought it a few years ago?

TherapyBoy

Raekwon wrote: »

I recorded it on UPC because I hate the ads on the Fox/Fuel cards but the f**king thing stopped half way through the Struve vs Hunt fight :mad:

I stayed up til 3am watching it but had it set up to record also. I realised that the event was going to run past the end of the recording so stopped it and set it to record until 6:30am, just to be sure. Just watched the last few fights there & it stopped recording just as Hunt/Struve finished. So much for technology making life easy!! :pac:

It's being shown again on ESPN on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. I think it starts around 11:30pm Tuesday.

DrPhilG

I just think Struve totally looked past Hunt. He talked a lot of crap during the week about how he was going to finish him in the first round and felt that he should be a top contender if he did.

He could and should have submitted Hunt in the first but he was terribly careless. Then Hunt started lighting him up in the second and he just lost himself.

Hunt is a bit of a legend after his 6 or 7 fight losing streak, then coming into the UFC and finding himself on a big winning streak but let's be honest, he's never going to be a champion. He's a fun fighter though, wouldn't mind seeing him fight someone like Nelson.

Ray von

Some highlights here:

Wandi v Stann

http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/3/3/4058530/wanderlei-silva-vs-brian-stann-full-fight-video-ufc-on-fuel-tv-8

Struve v Hunt

http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/3/3/4058954/mark-hunt-vs-stefan-struve-full-fight-video-ufc-on-fuel-tv-8

welkin

Never thought I'd admit it but I was feeling rather uncomfortable watching the knockouts of Struve and Stann.

They were too brutal. And Dana going ape****e about them on Twitter.

The last round of Struve/Hunt looked it was in slow-motion. Hardly what you'd consider two supreme gladiators fighting in the pinnacle of combat sports.

And the Stann/Wandi match was a blood sport. They just seemed to agree to keep punching each other until one got knocked out.

Where was the skill in either?

people were having a go off me last week about saying the Machida fight was FOTN but look at the guy - he's poetry in motion. Give me watching Machida dodging and counter-striking to that sort of barbarity any day.

scudzilla

welkin wrote: »

Never thought I'd admit it but I was feeling rather uncomfortable watching the knockouts of Struve and Stann.

They were too brutal. And Dana going ape****e about them on Twitter.

The last round of Struve/Hunt looked it was in slow-motion. Hardly what you'd consider two supreme gladiators fighting in the pinnacle of combat sports.

And the Stann/Wandi match was a blood sport. They just seemed to agree to keep punching each other until one got knocked out.

Where was the skill in either?

people were having a go off me last week about saying the Machida fight was FOTN but look at the guy - he's poetry in motion. Give me watching Machida dodging and counter-striking to that sort of barbarity any day.

New to the sport then??

welkin

scudzilla wrote: »

New to the sport then??

Hardly.

I just don't get any pleasure in watching knockouts like that.

And Gomi was absolutely robbed.

Seems to be far too regular with Greg Jackson fighters.

Tubbs4

With espn lately I started recording tge show after. The show was only 30 mins and caught the 1st round of wandy vs stann.
You think espn would cope on. Must start recording the next two shows after ufc.

Dermighty

The commentators are so sh!t