It sucked. That’s about it. First time I ever deleted a UFC event off my DVR immediately after watching it.
The Munoz / Grove fight was really good. I thought Grove looked excellent, until Munoz caught him, got top control, and then dropped the meat hooks taking the TKO. Kind of a classic UFC fight actually straight out of the UFC 50’s.
Rafael Dos Anjos, who I picked to win over Terry Etim, did really well. He was able to secure a great armbar to win.
The two title fights showed a very fast and agile Frank Edgar win a *shocking decision against BJ Penn. Essentially this looked like a boxing exhibition this fight. All the props to Edgar though, who is likely to run against some tough competition that will tie up and do some kind of action. BJ might have been hurt.
Anderson Silva did his best comical routine basically making Maia look silly. The crowd booed for at least 3 rounds straight. By the third round, Silva acted very lame, basically running around in circles, kicking ankles, kicking hands if Maia was on his back. Just showing complete an utter dominance BUT not doing anything other than presence. The fight sucked. Mirgliotta warned with a 1 pt deduction to Silva, but it was the friggin 5th round by the time they did this. Rogan mentioned the Pride yellow card system, and believe me there would have been a yellow card given in the first round. The guy is such a great fighter, who knows what the heck he is preserving here by going the distance with outclassed opponents. I read on Bloody Elbow that Dana said he doesn’t even want to see GSP vs Silva. Guess what? I never wanted to see it. Silva could beat GSP, but I don’t want to see Silva disrespect the sport anymore. They should give Silva cans only and create his own circus.
Waste of money to watch this card and you don’t hear me say that ever.
What made it worse was that they showed 1 under card bout. Show the prelims please UFC, this is where the fighters try to move up. They are hungry and are exciting.