UFC 126 Undercard Predictions

Preliminary card Welterweight bout: Mike Pierce vs Kenny Robertson Mike Pierce is one of the most underknown and underappreciated welterweights. I’ve got Pierce winning this. Light Heavyweight bout: Kyle Kingsbury vs Ricardo Romero For whatever reason, Romero seems to pull out the victories at the end of the day. I lean towards Romero here in […]

Preliminary card

Welterweight bout: Mike Pierce vs Kenny Robertson

Mike Pierce is one of the most underknown and underappreciated welterweights. I’ve got Pierce winning this.

Light Heavyweight bout: Kyle Kingsbury vs Ricardo Romero

For whatever reason, Romero seems to pull out the victories at the end of the day. I lean towards Romero here in the underdog position.

Lightweight bout: Paul Taylor vs Gabe Ruediger

Taylor should eat Ruediger up as Ruediger is rather poor on his feet, but good on the ground and Taylor is excellent on the feet and mediocre on the ground. Taylor should win this fight via decision.

Preliminary card (Facebook Stream)

Bantamweight bout: Norifumi Yamamoto vs Demetrious Johnson

Kid Yamamoto against a guy I don’t know. I go with Yamamoto everytime.

Preliminary card (Spike TV)

Featherweight bout: Chad Mendes vs Michihiro Omigawa

I know Mendes is likely to win, but you can’t write off Omigawa so easily either. Mendes is -357 to Omigawa at Intertops. With crazy skewed odds I’ll go with Omigawa.

Lightweight bout: Donald Cerrone vs Paul Kelly

This is going to be a great fight. Kelly is tough as nails, Cerrone is as well. I don’t think Cerrone has faced someone as strong as Kelly yet. I think Kelly wears em down and takes the decision.

Main card

Bantamweight bout: Miguel Torres vs Antonio Banuelos

Miguell Torres is likely to win, but I’m avoiding this due to the odds being out of bounds.

Light Heavyweight bout: Jon Jones vs Ryan Bader

This is my favorite fight on the card. I got Jon Jones winning this fight. Intertops has it -357 for Jones and +240 for Bader.

Welterweight bout: Jake Ellenberger vs Carlos Eduardo Rocha

One of the best fighters to bet on is Ellenberger. However, this fight is tricky. Rocha is a absolute jiu-jitsu ace and has a ton of leg related sub victories. I’m passing here as I think Rocha could pull off an insane upset. However, the oddsmakers look like they are thinking like me and Ellenberger is not such a large favorite in this one.

Chris Horodecki Hopes to Close Out WEC Career ‘With a Bang’

Filed under: WEC, FanHouse ExclusiveCanadian lightweight Chris Horodecki is set to take a step up in competition this Thursday when he faces three-time WEC title challenger Donald Cerrone at WEC 53 in Glendale, Ariz.

For the 23-year-old out of London,…

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Canadian lightweight Chris Horodecki is set to take a step up in competition this Thursday when he faces three-time WEC title challenger Donald Cerrone at WEC 53 in Glendale, Ariz.

For the 23-year-old out of London, Ontario, a win over Cerrone would almost certainly guarantee himself a UFC roster spot alongside close friends, training and business partners Mark Hominick and Sam Stout.

In an exclusive interview below, Horodecki talks about fighting Cerrone on the last-ever WEC card, “fighter years,” the UFC’s announcement to run a show in Toronto and much more.

End of an Era: WEC’s Final Event Provides Rare Moment for Reflection

Filed under: WECGLENDALE, Ariz. – As of today, the WEC is still their home. By Friday morning, it will just be a memory.

The WEC fighters and staff, they know this. At least, they know it in a hypothetical sense, the way you know that nothing lasts fo…

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GLENDALE, Ariz. – As of today, the WEC is still their home. By Friday morning, it will just be a memory.

The WEC fighters and staff, they know this. At least, they know it in a hypothetical sense, the way you know that nothing lasts forever. But when the final fight is over at WEC 53 and the little blue cage is taken apart and packed away for the last time, that’s when it’s going to get real.

Even with as much as they’ve thought about this day over the past couple months, nobody can be sure exactly how that moment will feel when it arrives.

“I think it’s going to be kind of bittersweet,” said WEC lightweight champion Ben Henderson. “It’s already bittersweet to me now. I try not to think about it too much, but it’s already pretty bittersweet to me. It’s been great. It’s been a great ride.”

Donald Cerrone: I Feel Like I’m on the Chopping Block

Filed under: WECGLENDALE, Ariz. – Donald Cerrone may not be meeting his old pal Jamie Varner for a third time when the WEC rolls out its final event on Thursday night, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t thinking about each other.

“I would love that fi…

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GLENDALE, Ariz. – Donald Cerrone may not be meeting his old pal Jamie Varner for a third time when the WEC rolls out its final event on Thursday night, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t thinking about each other.

“I would love that fight again, and again, and in the parking lot, and wherever I can get it,” Cerrone said at Tuesday’s WEC 53 open workouts. “But it’ll come in due time. Hopefully he wins his next fight and I can see him in the UFC. I plan on whipping his a– every chance I get, so I don’t ever plan on letting him dictate one round or one second of any fight ever again.”

It’s a sentiment that’s likely shared by Varner, who recently described Cerrone as a “lonely, uneducated hillbilly” in an interview with MMA Fighting. But while Cerrone admitted he wasn’t aware of that latest salvo, even he seems to be on the verge of acknowledging that the time might have come for him to finally move on from that rivalry after winning a unanimous decision in their last meeting.

Some habits, however, die hard.

Donald Cerrone Ruins ‘Evolution 1’ Main Event Due to Backstage Brawl

(Only the immortal can truly become "best friends forever." Photo courtesy of facebook.com/cowboycerrone)
This is not the best way to make an impression with your new employer. As first reported by the Na Koa MMA Show, WEC lightweight conte…

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(Only the immortal can truly become "best friends forever." Photo courtesy of facebook.com/cowboycerrone)

This is not the best way to make an impression with your new employer. As first reported by the Na Koa MMA Show, WEC lightweight contender Donald Cerrone was involved in a backstage brawl with a heavyweight headliner at the first event put on by Evolution Combat Sports Championship, this Saturday in Clovis, New Mexico. According to Na Koa…

The brawl was apparently about a young lady now dating Donald Cerrone who used to date the main event fighter of the evening Marcus Sursa. [Ed. note: Not Brittney Palmer. Possibly this chick.] Comments were exchanged after Sursa returned from a trip to the rest room and Cerrone was overseeing the warm-ups of several Jackson MMA fighters on the card…some words were exchanged by the two and then a shove followed by Cerrone throwing a punch causing a laceration on the eye of Sursa, who responded with a punch cutting the lip of Cerrone.

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Horodecki to Face Cerrone at WEC 53

(Chances are this one isn’t going to decision.)
It looks like Mark Hominick won’t be the only Team Tompkins product who will get a step up in competition for his next WEC fight.
Chris Horodecki is slated to take on former WEC number one light…


(Chances are this one isn’t going to decision.)

It looks like Mark Hominick won’t be the only Team Tompkins product who will get a step up in competition for his next WEC fight.

Chris Horodecki is slated to take on former WEC number one lightweight contender Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone at WEC 53 on December 16 in Phoenix, AZ.

The news was first reported by MMAWeekly, and CagePotato.com has since been able to confirm the bout with a source close to the fight.

16-2 in his five-year MMA career, "The Polish Hammer" was knocked out in dramatic fashion in his WEC debut by Anthony Njokuani, but rebounded with a pair of wins over Danny Downes and Ed Ratcliffe. Cerrone will arguably provide the 23-year-old London, Ontario native, who was the face of thew now-defunct International Fight League with his toughest test to date.

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