UFC Betting Sites – The Best MMA Online Bookies
UFC best betting sites and the best MMA odds and gambling news
Here are some of our photo highlights from UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber 2. Photographs by Silton Buendia.
*Photos by Silton Buendia
Here are some of our photo highlights from UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber 2. Photographs by Silton Buendia.
Our host, Steve Cofield met up with George Sotiropoulos as he prepares to move past his first professional loss at UFC 127 against Dennis Siver. Sotiropoulos will now face Raphael dos Anjos at UFC 132..
Our host, Steve Cofield met up with George Sotiropoulos as he prepares to move past his first professional loss at UFC 127 against Dennis Siver. Sotiropoulos will now face Raphael dos Anjos at UFC 132. Cofield asks Sotiropoulos about the top Lightweights having off nights and losing their fights when it seems a shot at the title is on the line. Sotiropoulos says, “It’s a big mess right now. The guys who are up there…I think we’re all still up there, it’s just changed the timing of everything.”
Sotiropoulos was supposed to fight Evan Dunham who pulled out due to injury, but he thinks dos Anjos may be more dangerous than Dunham. Cofield also has a little fun poking at Wanderlei Silva‘s plastic surgery and asks what Sotiropoulos would get done.
Watch GEORGE SOTIROPOULOS ADMITS 155 CONTENDERS ARE A MESS RIGHT NOW on RawVegas.tv
(Video courtesy of ESPN)
There’s a long running argument that there are different levels of Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belts, which is often backed by how competitors do against others of the same rank.
According to Rafael Dos Anjos, he feels that he is on another level than fellow BJJ black belt George Sotiropoulos, whom he faces Saturday at UFC 132.
“His style is dangerous; it has some techniques and positions that are dangerous, but not too much. It’s ABC jiu-jitsu,” he told ESPN, describing his own style as “traditional” jiu-jitsu. “Eddie Bravo’s style uses half guard,” dos Anjos said. “[My BJJ coach, Roberto] “Gordo” [Correa de Lima] made the half guard!”
(Video courtesy of ESPN)
There’s a long running argument that there are different levels of Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belts, which is often backed by how competitors do against others of the same rank.
According to Rafael Dos Anjos, he feels that he is on another level than fellow BJJ black belt George Sotiropoulos, whom he faces Saturday at UFC 132.
“His style is dangerous; it has some techniques and positions that are dangerous, but not too much. It’s ABC jiu-jitsu,” he told ESPN, describing his own style as “traditional” jiu-jitsu. “Eddie Bravo’s style uses half guard,” dos Anjos said. “[My BJJ coach, Roberto] “Gordo” [Correa de Lima] made the half guard!”
While their submission win ratios are similar (Sotiropoulos has 8/14 to Dos Anjos’s 7/14 wins via sub) their styles are decidedly different.
A black belt under John Will since 2002, Sotiropoulos, who is also a 10th Planet Jiu-Jitsu brown belt under Eddie Bravo, is a half-guard/rubberguard player who is very hard to submit as evidenced by his fight with Shinya Aoki in which he refused to tap to the Japanese submission specialist’s relentless vicious ankle-lock and knee-bar onslaught.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/JustinThoj)
Dos Anjos, who is a black belt under de Lima is more of a top player (which is a rubber guard stylist’s dream) who isn’t against calling it quits when push comes to shove. Remember he tapped to a Clay Guida headlock in his last bout because of a jaw injury and he did the same when caught in a heel hook by Andre Galvao in the Brazilian ADCC trials in 2007.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/felipepcs)
Dos Anjos hasn’t really demonstrated the control on the ground that G-Sots did against fellow black belts Joe Stevenson and Kurt Pellegrino, so to say he’s superior may be a bit of a stretch, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see if he’s just blowing smoke up all of our asses on Saturday night.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
Even if you aren’t looking forward to the main event of Saturday’s UFC 132: Faber vs. Cruz this upcoming long weekend, there is much more to excite you about this card even with BJ Penn and Jon Fitch out with injuries.
Check out what goodness 132 has in store for you and the remainder of the countdown show after the jump.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
Even if you aren’t looking forward to the main event of Saturday’s UFC 132: Faber vs. Cruz this upcoming long weekend, there is much more to excite you about this card even with BJ Penn and Jon Fitch out with injuries.
First you have the “Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em Robot” competition between Wanderlei Silva and Chris Leben. What’s not to love about watching these two go balls to the wall trying to knock the other’s head off?
Then you have Tito Ortiz’s retirement party possible last UFC fight against Ryan Bader. Tito claims he’s in better shape and healthier physically than he’s been in years, which will dramatically reduce his options when it comes to excuse-making after the bout, so he better hope he wins, especially when he calimed in the preview show that “he’s fighting for his legacy, his family and his life” against Bader.
You’ve also got a sure-to-please welterweight match-up between undefeated (sorry Karo) Korean fighter Dong Hyun Kim and Carlos Condit. When have we ever seen either of these two fight conservatively or boring? I can’t remember either, but it must not be often if at all or else we’d know it.
Even the prelim card is worth watching.
George Sotiropoulos vs. Dos Anjos probably would have been on the main card in place of Denis Siver-Matt Wiman if G-Sots hadn’t lost to Siver in his last bout at UFC 127. And Shane Roller vs. Melvin Guillard has the potential for either Submission of the Night or Knockout of the Night, depending on who wins it.
Even further down on the card are guys like former WEC featherweight champ Brian Bowles and undefeated prospect Brad Tavares. The card is stacked from top to bottom as is the preview show, which is well worth watching.
Check out the rest of it below, courtesy of our friend Zombie Prophet from IronForgesIron.com.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
Even if you aren’t looking forward to the main event of Saturday’s UFC 132: Faber vs. Cruz this upcoming long weekend, there is much more to excite you about this card even with BJ Penn and Jon Fitch out with injuries.
Check out what goodness 132 has in store for you and the remainder of the countdown show after the jump.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
Even if you aren’t looking forward to the main event of Saturday’s UFC 132: Faber vs. Cruz this upcoming long weekend, there is much more to excite you about this card even with BJ Penn and Jon Fitch out with injuries.
First you have the “Rock ‘Em, Sock ‘Em Robot” competition between Wanderlei Silva and Chris Leben. What’s not to love about watching these two go balls to the wall trying to knock the other’s head off?
Then you have Tito Ortiz’s retirement party possible last UFC fight against Ryan Bader. Tito claims he’s in better shape and healthier physically than he’s been in years, which will dramatically reduce his options when it comes to excuse-making after the bout, so he better hope he wins, especially when he calimed in the preview show that “he’s fighting for his legacy, his family and his life” against Bader.
You’ve also got a sure-to-please welterweight match-up between undefeated (sorry Karo) Korean fighter Dong Hyun Kim and Carlos Condit. When have we ever seen either of these two fight conservatively or boring? I can’t remember either, but it must not be often if at all or else we’d know it.
Even the prelim card is worth watching.
George Sotiropoulos vs. Dos Anjos probably would have been on the main card in place of Denis Siver-Matt Wiman if G-Sots hadn’t lost to Siver in his last bout at UFC 127. And Shane Roller vs. Melvin Guillard has the potential for either Submission of the Night or Knockout of the Night, depending on who wins it.
Even further down on the card are guys like former WEC featherweight champ Brian Bowles and undefeated prospect Brad Tavares. The card is stacked from top to bottom as is the preview show, which is well worth watching.
Check out the rest of it below, courtesy of our friend Zombie Prophet from IronForgesIron.com.
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
(Video courtesy of YouTube/IronForgesIron)
UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber 2 features some incredibly exciting fights throughout the entire card. This isn’t just a night to order the Pay-Per-View—this is a night to sit down for six hours and watch the preliminary fights on Facebook and Spike TV a…
UFC 132: Cruz vs. Faber 2 features some incredibly exciting fights throughout the entire card. This isn’t just a night to order the Pay-Per-View—this is a night to sit down for six hours and watch the preliminary fights on Facebook and Spike TV as well.
While there are intriguing match-ups throughout, including a Bantamweight title fight, this card, more than any other, will seriously alter the Lightweight Division.
Dennis Siver vs. Matt Wiman, Melvin Guillard vs. Shane Roller, George Sotiropoulos vs. Rafael dos Anjos and Anthony Njokuani vs. Andre Winner are all fights that contain potential major players in the division.
I’ve made my predictions already, but let’s take a look at who could potentially match-up the best with the top of the division.