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UFC 129 Aftermath: The 10 Best Fights to Make Post-UFC 129

Bleacher Report’s Danny Acosta:UFC 129 brought viewers Georges St-Pierre’s welterweight record sixth title defense by snapping Jake Shields’ six year, 15-fight win streak with a five-round unanimous decision.A UFC record of 55,000 at the Rogers …

Bleacher Report’s Danny Acosta:

UFC 129 brought viewers Georges St-Pierre’s welterweight record sixth title defense by snapping Jake Shields’ six year, 15-fight win streak with a five-round unanimous decision.

A UFC record of 55,000 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada this past Saturday also watched Jose Aldo retain the UFC featherweight crown in a 25-minute Fight of the Night against Canadian challenger Mark Hominick and Lyoto Machida emphatically ended UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture’s storied career with a first round knockout. 

Here are 10 bouts fans may find kicking around UFC matchmaker Joe Silva’s desk in the aftermath of UFC 129. 

 

1) Georges St-Pierre vs. Nick Diaz

While Georges St. Pierre continued the most dominant run in welterweight history at UFC 129, “Rush” did so with his fourth consecutive decision. Striking with Jake Shields for 25-minutes did little to spark interest in the St-Pierre-Anderson Silva super-fight outside of notching the requisite “W.”

Silva has finished all but two of his eight UFC title fights, while St-Pierre has only finished two of six—the last in January of 2009. Non-committal in his post-fight interview about moving up 15-pounds to face the most devastating finisher in UFC history, it’s likely “GSP” maintains his position at welterweight.

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UFC 129 Results: Rory MacDonald and the Top 25 Fighters 25 or Younger

Bleacher Report’s Andrew Mahlmann:A couple of times a year it is important to take a close look at who the young up and comers are in the sport.Although it is a sport that is in it’s infancy, time can pass quite quickly for those of us paying close att…

Bleacher Report’s Andrew Mahlmann:

A couple of times a year it is important to take a close look at who the young up and comers are in the sport.

Although it is a sport that is in it’s infancy, time can pass quite quickly for those of us paying close attention.

We have seen tons of young dynamos rise up and entrench themselves into the spotlight, but for every batch maturing into veterans, there is a new batch hungrier and more talented than the last.

Some are practically veterans by the age of 25, while others are hot prospects with unlimited potential.

These are the top 25 MMA athletes that are 25 years or younger.

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UFC 129 Results: Rory MacDonald and the Top 25 Fighters 25 or Younger

A couple of times a year it is important to take a close look at who the young up and comers are in the sport.Although it is a sport that is in it’s infancy, time can pass quite quickly for those of us paying close attention.We have seen tons of young …

A couple of times a year it is important to take a close look at who the young up and comers are in the sport.

Although it is a sport that is in it’s infancy, time can pass quite quickly for those of us paying close attention.

We have seen tons of young dynamos rise up and entrench themselves into the spotlight, but for every batch maturing into veterans, there is a new batch hungrier and more talented than the last.

Some are practically veterans by the age of 25, while others are hot prospects with unlimited potential.

These are the top 25 MMA athletes that are 25 years or younger.

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UFC 129: Jake Shields Hopes for Another Shot at Belt Before Retirement

Bleacher Report’s Michael Evans:Jake Shields clearly wanted to get Georges St-Pierre to the ground at UFC 129 and he tried to do just that for a round or so.  Then, at some point, he lost focus and decided to try and trade shots with the champion…

Bleacher Report’s Michael Evans:

Jake Shields clearly wanted to get Georges St-Pierre to the ground at UFC 129 and he tried to do just that for a round or so.  Then, at some point, he lost focus and decided to try and trade shots with the champion.  It was a horrible idea and Shields never got back into the fight at all.

It was the first loss for Jake Shields in over six years and clearly he was not happy with his performance after the fight. 

MMAjunkie.com was there to get his thoughts. Shields told MMAjunkie, “Obviously I’m not happy. I went in there, and I came up short. Georges has great stand-up, and he kept me away. I couldn’t get him down. He did a great job of stuffing my shots.”

Shields failed to close the distance, get the clinch and take the fight to the ground.  He admitted that he was no match for the boxing and overall standup prowess of the champion. “I guess I need to go back, work on my boxing, and get better,” Shields admitted. 

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Falling Action: Best and Worst of UFC 129

Filed under: UFCFor those of us who tuned in all the way from the Facebook prelims to the Spike prelims to the pay-per-view card, UFC 129 made for a long and sometimes repetitive night.

There’s not necessarily anything wrong with that. A good knockout…

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For those of us who tuned in all the way from the Facebook prelims to the Spike prelims to the pay-per-view card, UFC 129 made for a long and sometimes repetitive night.

There’s not necessarily anything wrong with that. A good knockout is still a good knockout the second (and third) time you see it, just like ‘UFC Central’ is still an ‘MMA Live’ rip-off whether you’re watching on a laptop or a TV. But am I alone in feeling just a tad overwhelmed by it all?

When you attend a live UFC event, it’s a full evening’s worth of entertainment to begin with. But when you sit through it all from home and still end up rewatching several of those fights again later in the night, at some point they all blur together in the mind. Granted, the UFC can’t assume that its entire audience is hardcore enough to tune in early, but at a certain point it becomes difficult to keep straight who did what to who, and when. Or maybe I’m just easily confused.

Now that we’ve all had a while to digest and decompress Saturday night’s action, let’s look at the big winners, losers, and everything in between after UFC 129.

UFC 129 Live Blog: Jose Aldo vs. Mark Hominick Updates

Filed under: UFCTORONTO — This is the UFC 129 live blog for Jose Aldo vs. Mark Hominick, a featherweight bout on tonight’s pay-per-view at the Rogers Centre.

Aldo (18-1) is making his UFC debut after successful WEC featherweight title defenses last y…

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Jose Aldo vs. Mark Hominick is the co-main event on the UFC 129 fight card.TORONTO — This is the UFC 129 live blog for Jose Aldo vs. Mark Hominick, a featherweight bout on tonight’s pay-per-view at the Rogers Centre.

Aldo (18-1) is making his UFC debut after successful WEC featherweight title defenses last year against Urijah Faber and Manny Gamburyan. Hominick (20-8) has won his last five fights and earned a title shot by stopping George Roop in January.

The live blog is below.