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‘UFC Fight for the Troops 2’ Aftermath: Screw It, How About a 10-Man Battle Royale for the Lightweight Title?

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Credit where credit is due: Melvin Guillard absolutely steamrolled Evan Dunham last night. He came out and simply blitzed the former lightweight golden boy …

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Credit where credit is due: Melvin Guillard absolutely steamrolled Evan Dunham last night. He came out and simply blitzed the former lightweight golden boy with his speed, clipping him with an early right hand that Dunham never appeared to recover from. By the time Guillard put a fork in him a couple minutes later with a trio of knees along the fence – the last, clearly illegal one “just a technicality” the broadcast team immediately assured us – he’d managed to further scramble the already muddy lightweight ranks. Now watch Anthony Pettis lose to Clay Guida at the “TUF 13” finale and George Sotiropoulos lose to Dennis Siver at UFC 127 and we’ll really be in trouble.

However — (*clears throat*) – let’s not get carried away here. Let’s not get too crazy. Let’s not do the thing we seem to always do when a guy wins a big fight and start to completely overvalue Guillard based on this one performance. What he proved with his beating of Dunham on Saturday night was either one of two things. One, it could be that Greg Jackson is helping him to finally harness the physical tools he’s possessed from the beginning and has Guillard on the verge of becoming something special in the lightweight division. Or two, he was just a terrible match-up of styles for Dunham.

‘UFC Fight for the Troops 2’ Live Results and Commentary

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The fighters are locked and loaded. We can only assume that by now Evan Dunham has eased off the bender he no doubt went on after his beloved Ducks shit the bed in the BCS championship. Obviously, Melvin G…

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The fighters are locked and loaded. We can only assume that by now Evan Dunham has eased off the bender he no doubt went on after his beloved Ducks shit the bed in the BCS championship. Obviously, Melvin Guillard has found a suitably enormous wristwatch to complement his main event status. The troops have surely been drinking all day and we the audience have once again collectively decided to ignore the obvious irony of benefitting the survivors of traumatic brain injury with a show where the desired outcome often includes closed head trauma. In other words, as Bruce Buffer might say, it’s time.

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Give a Listen to The Bum Rush Episode 14 with Special Guests Cody McKenzie, Melvin Guillard and Pat Barry

With Ben on vacation this week, Mike takes the wheel of the show with Chad riding shotgun. Besides running through some of the week’s top news, the guys run down Saturday night’s UFC Fight for the Troops card which will feature our three guests on t…

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Suddenly, The Idea of Fighting Seems ‘Very Stupid’ to Pat Barry

Filed under: UFCPat Barry may be the only fighter in the UFC who’s willing to admit it, but he’s pretty sure he’s not the only one who feels it.

When his impending fight against Joey Beltran at the UFC’s Fight for the Troops 2 finally began to seem a …

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Pat Barry may be the only fighter in the UFC who’s willing to admit it, but he’s pretty sure he’s not the only one who feels it.

When his impending fight against Joey Beltran at the UFC’s Fight for the Troops 2 finally began to seem a little more real this week, he wasn’t exactly feeling eager to get in there and slug it out. More like eager to get it over with.

“Honestly, I don’t think it’s anything new or particular to me,” Barry said. “I think most guys feel this, but they won’t tell you. Hell man, I can admit it. It’s the week of the fight; I don’t want to fight no more. You know? [Laughs] It’s like all of a sudden, the idea of fighting is very stupid.”

UFC Fight Night Fight For The Troops 2

Televised Fight Card Lightweight bout: Evan Dunham vs Melvin Guillard Should be an awesome fight. Dunham has more weapons and Guillard has been susceptible to being subbed. It seems though he has improved this tremendously since being RNC’d by both Joe Stevenson and Rich Clementi. However, Nate Diaz did sub him more recently. However, Guillard […]

Televised Fight Card

Lightweight bout: Evan Dunham vs Melvin Guillard

Should be an awesome fight. Dunham has more weapons and Guillard has been susceptible to being subbed. It seems though he has improved this tremendously since being RNC’d by both Joe Stevenson and Rich Clementi. However, Nate Diaz did sub him more recently. However, Guillard has shown ability to defend and his power is tremendous. Dunham is someone though who has shown to absorb an amazing amount of punishment and still be able to finish a fight/comeback. I think he is going to need that because Melvin has an extremely dangerous attack.

My best estimate is that Guillard will avoid the submission and win this fight and beat up Dunham bad. It will be a good fight though. Guillard is +170 on Intertops

Heavyweight bout: Matt Mitrione vs Tim Hague

I don’t really have an opinion on this other than I like the improvement I’m seeing in Mitrione. I will go with him.

Featherweight bout: Mark Hominick vs George Roop

The question will be is Hominick going to be able to get inside and work his hands? The lanky George Roop has great kicks and submissions. The height and reach is going to be a problem for Hominick. While Hominick is a grizzled veteran, Roop is no newbie, but he has gotten so much better in his last few fights. Like I said, Roop is going to give Hominick problems for sure. If you like taking underdogs, Roop here is decent.

Heavyweight bout: Pat Barry vs Joey Beltran

Barry needs a win. Why not bring in another stand up slugger in the Mexicutioner, Beltran? Beltran is a tough sob, really tough. I’ve seen him get his ass worked and then comeback and win. Barry has the tools to destroy heavyweight’s lower limbs. He has had some problems though such as broken hands.
I want Pat Barry to win, so I’ll say it. He is favored, if this line goes to even I like it better.

Lightweight bout: Cole Miller vs Matt Wiman

If Wiman doesn’t catch Miller’s chin, then Wiman is not likely taking a decision in this imo. I lean toward Miller winning. Close fight though.

Preliminary card (Facebook.com live stream)

Lightweight bout: Cody McKenzie vs Yves Edwards

Cody McKenzie is like the early Matt Hughes of 2011. A one trick pony, but he does it REALLY well. McKenzie has won his last 10 fights via his modified guillotine choke; not including the fights he won on TUF show.

Yves however is a extremely grizzled veteran and a master of jiu-jitsu. I’m going to guess, that Yves will win this fight. If by some miracle Cody submits Edwards with his guillotine again, I will be utterly blown away. However, I would take Cody here if the odds were right.

Welterweight bout: DaMarques Johnson vs Mike Guymon

I want Guymon to win.

Preliminary card

Featherweight bout: Mike Brown vs Rani Yahya

If you never have seen Yahya his fighting style is best described as Monkey. He will crawl on the guy and you cannot shake him off. However, Brown brings good jiujitsu skills himself with excellent boxing. Something Yahya lacks bigtime. Yahya doesn’t have a standup attack other than smother.

No picks for the fights below

Lightweight bout: Waylon Lowe vs Willamy Freire

Welterweight bout: Charlie Brenneman vs Amilcar Alves

Bantamweight bout: Will Campuzano vs Chris Cariaso