UFC 131: Junior Dos Santos and What’s Next for the WinnersBleacher Report’s Michael Magoulis:Although many considered UFC 131 to be a fairly lackluster card due to the debuts of three fighters on the main card, it still featured several big contender …
UFC 131: Junior Dos Santos and What’s Next for the Winners
Bleacher Report’s Michael Magoulis:
Although many considered UFC 131 to be a fairly lackluster card due to the debuts of three fighters on the main card, it still featured several big contender matchups in the Featherweight, Middleweight, and Heavyweight divisions.
Chris Weidman, Sam Stout, Donald Cerrone, Dave Herman, Mark Munoz, Kenny Florian and Junior Dos Santos all walked away with big wins on Saturday night. All of them significantly raised their stock and a few of them may now be in line for title shots.
UFC 131 Results: Mark Munoz Gearing Up for Big Run After Win over Demian MaiaBleacher Report’s Elliot Olshansky:In all likelihood, there were two No. 1 contenders crowned on Saturday night at UFC 131.Obviously, in the main event, Junior dos Santos co…
UFC 131 Results: Mark Munoz Gearing Up for Big Run After Win over Demian Maia
Bleacher Report’s Elliot Olshansky:
In all likelihood, there were two No. 1 contenders crowned on Saturday night at UFC 131.
Obviously, in the main event, Junior dos Santos confirmed his status as the No. 1 contender to Cain Velasquez for the UFC Heavyweight Championship, as the injured champion was brought into the Octagon to congratulate the TUF 13 coach on his win and set the matchup for later this year.
Also, with Kenny Florian’s success in his featherweight debut with a unanimous decision victory over Diego Nunes, all signs are pointing to a matchup with Jose Aldo for the UFC Featherweight Championship.
Mark Munoz didn’t earn a No. 1 contender spot for his middleweight victory over former top contender Demian Maia, but the former NCAA Champion wrestler sent a strong signal that he’s heading in that direction in one of the night’s best fights. Furthermore, a quick survey of the UFC landscape at 185 pounds shows that Munoz’s time as a contender could be coming sooner rather than later.
UFC 131 Results: Shane Carwin’s Bloody Face Photos After Fight with Dos SantosBleacher Report’s Nick Caron:Photos of Shane Carwin’s face following a bloody war with Junior dos Santos in the main event of UFC 131 are beginning to flood in, and Bleacher …
UFC 131 Results: Shane Carwin’s Bloody Face Photos After Fight with Dos Santos
Bleacher Report’s Nick Caron:
Photos of Shane Carwin‘s face following a bloody war with Junior dos Santos in the main event of UFC 131 are beginning to flood in, and Bleacher Report is here to compile them in one easy-to-use photo slideshow!
In what was on of the most amazing displays of heart we have ever seen in the Octagon, Carwin narrowly escaped a first-round TKO when he took dozens of shots directly to the face from one of the UFC’s most heavily handed punching specialists.
“The Engineer” fought back in the second round and even looked like he might take that round, but it wasn’t enough as he was eventually smacked around some more by dos Santos in each of the final two rounds of this fight.
What one almost has to wonder is that, with the UFC’s new initiative to include five rounds in even non-title main events in the future, would this fight have made it to five rounds?
Referee Herb Dean even stopped the bout with only a couple minutes left in the third round to make sure that Carwin could continue. Though the doctor determined that he could, it was pretty obvious that Carwin had taken a crazy amount of damage and would need some help from the medical staff after the fight.
So let’s take a closer look at the brutal cuts and bruises that Shane Carwin will be dealing with tonight and for the foreseeable future.
(I’m only giving this face-off a 6 out of 10, since Velasquez didn’t have his championship belt with him, and his teammates weren’t in the background throwing middle-fingers at the crowd. Props: UFC.com)
With Cain Velasquez‘s shoulder injury taking him out of action for all of 2011 (so far), Junior Dos Santos was forced to keep busy with a coaching gig on The Ultimate Fighter and a #1 contender fight against Brock Lesnar Shane Carwin. Any number of misfortunes could have befallen Cigano in the interim, but he managed to keep his spot at the front of the line, and will face Velasquez later this year in the heavyweight title fight that should have happened all along. (By the way, Velasquez’s return on October 8th in Houston isn’t guaranteed yet, due to his health status.)
(I’m only giving this face-off a 6 out of 10, since Velasquez didn’t have his championship belt with him, and his teammates weren’t in the background throwing middle-fingers at the crowd. Props: UFC.com)
With Cain Velasquez‘s shoulder injury taking him out of action for all of 2011 (so far), Junior Dos Santos was forced to keep busy with a coaching gig on The Ultimate Fighter and a #1 contender fight against Brock Lesnar Shane Carwin. Any number of misfortunes could have befallen Cigano in the interim, but he managed to keep his spot at the front of the line, and will face Velasquez later this year in the heavyweight title fight that should have happened all along. (By the way, Velasquez’s return on October 8th in Houston isn’t guaranteed yet, due to his health status.)
The line is so close that you won’t get rich betting on Velasquez even though he’s technically the underdog. (For the unfamiliar, those “-” numbers are the amount of dollars you’d have to risk to bring home a $100 profit.) But it says a lot about the perception of where these guys stand in relation to each other. The champion has been out of sight, and thus, out of mind. And again, Dos Santos’s wrestling defense and late slam-takedowns against Carwin demonstrated that he’s more than just a pair of hands, and can beat a wrestler at his own game. Will Velasquez still be able to threaten JDS in that area? Because I’d give the striking edge to Dos Santos, easily.
UFC 131 Results: Dave Herman and the Top Culture Club Songs He Could UseBleacher Reports Karlo Silverio III Sevilla:Don’t shoot me!Blame Dave Herman.He started it last Saturday night with his walk-in music, prior to his demolition of Jon-Olav Einemo…
UFC 131 Results: Dave Herman and the Top Culture Club Songs He Could Use
Bleacher Reports Karlo Silverio III Sevilla:
Don’t shoot me!
Blame Dave Herman.
He started it last Saturday night with his walk-in music, prior to his demolition of Jon-Olav Einemo, and the song’s been humming in my head till now.
I’ve been dreaming of the 80’s in my sleep the past two nights, which central figure is a singing, cross-dressing 50-year-old male Brit.
And, I’m sure it won’t really hurt to know this: it’s Boy George’s 50th birthday this June 14! (Happy birthday!)
Enough intro, and let’s get on this testosterone-filled slide show about walk-in songs for real men.
UFC 131 Results: Ranking the Top 10 Heavyweights in the UFCBleacher Report’s Sean SmithSaturday’s UFC 131 was a big event for the heavyweight division, as the main event between Junior dos Santos and Shane Carwin produced a new No.1 contender to meet…
UFC 131 Results: Ranking the Top 10 Heavyweights in the UFC
Bleacher Report’s Sean Smith
Saturday’s UFC 131 was a big event for the heavyweight division, as the main event between Junior dos Santos and Shane Carwin produced a new No.1 contender to meet UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez.
Meanwhile, the UFC added two more exciting heavyweights to the mix in the Fight of the Night between Dave Herman and Jon Olav Einemo. Herman was able to finish Einemo, but not before Einemo delivered some punishment.
Let’s takes a look at where dos Santos and Carwin now stand in the UFC’s heavyweight ladder.
In all likelihood, there were two No. 1 contenders crowned on Saturday night at 