UFC 131 Results: Shane Carwin’s Face Left a Mess After Loss to Junior Dos SantosBleacher report’s Jason Schielke:Junior dos Santos versus Shane Carwin was projected as a huge fight at heavyweight and possibly the biggest fight in the division for the y…
UFC 131 Results: Shane Carwin’s Face Left a Mess After Loss to Junior Dos Santos
Bleacher report’s Jason Schielke:
Junior dos Santos versus Shane Carwin was projected as a huge fight at heavyweight and possibly the biggest fight in the division for the year.
The fight didn’t really heat up like predicted until a minute left when JDS rocked Carwin and almost TKO’d Carwin. Carwin left with a bloody mess of a face.
The second saw JDS picking apart Carwin until around two minutes to go when Carwin rocked JDS and had him backpeddling away. Then JDS was able to recover and land a nice headkick late in the third.
Surprisingly this went to a third round and this saw Carwin press JDS more, but still was unable to get anything done. JDS was able to take what was thrown and throw the jab that he had been using the entire fight. The fight was then stopped around a minute left to check out Carwin’s vision which was bloodied, but Carwin chose to continue. Then surprisingly, JDS took Carwin down twice towards the end of the fight to finish out the round.
UFC 131 Results: Junior Dos Santos vs Shane Carwin: Round OneThe main even on the UFC 131 fight card featured a heavyweight battle between two of the most feared strikers in all of MMA, Junior dos Santos and Shane Carwin. Carwin is known as th…
UFC 131 Results: Junior Dos Santos vs Shane Carwin: Round One
The main even on the UFC 131 fight card featured a heavyweight battle between two of the most feared strikers in all of MMA, Junior dos Santos and Shane Carwin. Carwin is known as the more powerful puncher while Dos Santos is the faster puncher.
Both fighters entered the cage with records of 12-1 with only three of those fights going past the first round.
The first round ended with Carwin taking a beating at the hands of Dos Santos, and his face is a bloody, swelling mess as the second round began.
As the round progressed Carwin looked like he had recovered from the beating, but he was still looking rough.
Carwin then tagged Dos Sanrtos, proving that he had recovered and still had power.
Carwin then ate a big head kick from Dos Santos as the round ticked down.
Dos Santos ended the second round up two rounds to zero.
UFC 131 Results: Jon Olav Einemo vs. Dave HermanBleacher Report’s Elliot Olshansky:He takes his nickname from a well-known comedian, but Dave “Pee-Wee” Herman showed himself to be no one to laugh at as he scored a TKO victory over Jon-Olav Einemo at UF…
UFC 131 Results: Jon Olav Einemo vs. Dave Herman
Bleacher Report’s Elliot Olshansky:
He takes his nickname from a well-known comedian, but Dave “Pee-Wee” Herman showed himself to be no one to laugh at as he scored a TKO victory over Jon-Olav Einemo at UFC 131.
The decorated Norwegian grappler showed his strength in the first round, taking Herman down and showing strong work on the ground, and appeared to have Pee Wee on the run in the second. However, Herman was able to catch Einemo coming in with a knee, and followed with a series of punches that felled the mammoth Norwegian. Einemo was able to get back to his feet, but Herman was on a roll, and he dropped Einemo again, and pounced on top and pounded out the victory.
For a fighter who was added to the card after Brock Lesnar was forced out with diverticulitis, it was all he could ask for in a UFC debut.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – From the opening moments of Saturday night’s heavyweight main event, it seemed almost as if Junior dos Santos‘ left hand was magnetically attracted to Shane Carwin‘s face.
By the time it was all over and dos Santos had won the unanimous decision victory in dominant fashion, UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez had plenty of footage on the dangerous jab that will likely be coming his way some time in the fall.
“Much respect for Cain Velasquez,” dos Santos said after winning the No. 1 contender bout at UFC 131. “But Cain, I’m coming for you.”
With the win, dos Santos essentially earned the title shot he’d already been promised last summer after beating Roy Nelson, only this time he also proved that he has the chops in the wrestling department as well as the striking.
Carwin wasted little time trying to get him to the mat in the first round, but throughout the bout dos Santos either shrugged off the takedown attempts or popped right back up after being put down. Perhaps most surprisingly, he even managed two takedowns of his own in the final frame.
His most dominant moments came in the final minutes of the first round, however. After battering Carwin with jabs and left hooks, dos Santos dropped the former interim heavyweight champ and then hammered him with a barrage of left hands that had referee Herb Dean very close to stopping the fight. Dos Santos even looked up at Dean at one point during the assault, as if wondering what was taking him so long to jump in and wave it off.
“Yeah, because I was getting tired,” dos Santos said in the post-fight press conference. “And he didn’t stop the fight, so I asked him, ‘Hey, stop it, man.’ And he said, ‘Keep going, keep going, keep going.’ And then Shane made a good defense, but I think it was the right decision by the referee, because you saw Shane Carwin go back [to] standing and fighting with me. It was a good decision.”
Junior dos Santos tries to finish Shane Carwin late in the first at UFC 131 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Junior dos Santos lands a left hand against Shane Carwin at UFC 131 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Shane Carwin makes a last ditch effort late in the third round at UFC 131 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Carwin barely managed to survive the first round, and when he came out for the second the effects of that barrage were etched into his face. At one point Dean paused the bout to let the doctor look at his swollen, bloodied face and the cuts around his eyes. But Carwin gamely soldiered on and finished the fight, perhaps earning a moral victory by proving that he has not only the cardio, but also the fortitude to go the distance.
“It was a nasty first round and Shane Carwin’s a very tough guy,” said UFC president Dana White. “When you get big guys in there that are hitting as hard as they both are, it’s impressive to see it go three rounds.”
By the time the final horn sounded, though, we hardly needed to look at the judges’ scorecards to know who the winner was. While dos Santos looked like he’d barely been touched, Carwin had the face of a man who’d gotten the worst of a high-speed car wreck.
The victory marked dos Santos’ biggest win to date in his MMA career, but the Brazilian acknowledged that his toughest test will likely come in the form of Velasquez, who’s widely considered the world’s best heavyweight.
“I think my biggest challenge is coming, because Cain Velasquez is the champion and he deserves that. He proved he is very good, so I will be ready for him.”
And while White said he was impressed by dos Santos’ win over Carwin, he also added that he thinks the challenger will be in for a different type of fight when he finally gets his chance to vie for the heavyweight title, which White estimated would happen approximately five months from now, if all goes according to plan.
“Let me tell you, I got to say he’s going to have his hands full. He’s not going to be able to…all these guys he’s been fighting he’s been beating up early, and then he gets to lay back a little a bit. He’s not going to be able to lay back [against Velasquez]. It’s going to be five rounds against Velasquez, and Velasquez will be in his face every minute of it, throwing punches, slamming him on the ground. That fight’s going to be a war.”
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – From the opening moments of Saturday night’s heavyweight main event, it seemed almost as if Junior dos Santos‘ left hand was magnetically attracted to Shane Carwin‘s face.
By the time it was all over and dos Santos had won the unanimous decision victory in dominant fashion, UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez had plenty of footage on the dangerous jab that will likely be coming his way some time in the fall.
“Much respect for Cain Velasquez,” dos Santos said after winning the No. 1 contender bout at UFC 131. “But Cain, I’m coming for you.”
With the win, dos Santos essentially earned the title shot he’d already been promised last summer after beating Roy Nelson, only this time he also proved that he has the chops in the wrestling department as well as the striking.
Carwin wasted little time trying to get him to the mat in the first round, but throughout the bout dos Santos either shrugged off the takedown attempts or popped right back up after being put down. Perhaps most surprisingly, he even managed two takedowns of his own in the final frame.
His most dominant moments came in the final minutes of the first round, however. After battering Carwin with jabs and left hooks, dos Santos dropped the former interim heavyweight champ and then hammered him with a barrage of left hands that had referee Herb Dean very close to stopping the fight. Dos Santos even looked up at Dean at one point during the assault, as if wondering what was taking him so long to jump in and wave it off.
“Yeah, because I was getting tired,” dos Santos said in the post-fight press conference. “And he didn’t stop the fight, so I asked him, ‘Hey, stop it, man.’ And he said, ‘Keep going, keep going, keep going.’ And then Shane made a good defense, but I think it was the right decision by the referee, because you saw Shane Carwin go back [to] standing and fighting with me. It was a good decision.”
Junior dos Santos tries to finish Shane Carwin late in the first at UFC 131 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Junior dos Santos lands a left hand against Shane Carwin at UFC 131 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Shane Carwin makes a last ditch effort late in the third round at UFC 131 on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Carwin barely managed to survive the first round, and when he came out for the second the effects of that barrage were etched into his face. At one point Dean paused the bout to let the doctor look at his swollen, bloodied face and the cuts around his eyes. But Carwin gamely soldiered on and finished the fight, perhaps earning a moral victory by proving that he has not only the cardio, but also the fortitude to go the distance.
“It was a nasty first round and Shane Carwin’s a very tough guy,” said UFC president Dana White. “When you get big guys in there that are hitting as hard as they both are, it’s impressive to see it go three rounds.”
By the time the final horn sounded, though, we hardly needed to look at the judges’ scorecards to know who the winner was. While dos Santos looked like he’d barely been touched, Carwin had the face of a man who’d gotten the worst of a high-speed car wreck.
The victory marked dos Santos’ biggest win to date in his MMA career, but the Brazilian acknowledged that his toughest test will likely come in the form of Velasquez, who’s widely considered the world’s best heavyweight.
“I think my biggest challenge is coming, because Cain Velasquez is the champion and he deserves that. He proved he is very good, so I will be ready for him.”
And while White said he was impressed by dos Santos’ win over Carwin, he also added that he thinks the challenger will be in for a different type of fight when he finally gets his chance to vie for the heavyweight title, which White estimated would happen approximately five months from now, if all goes according to plan.
“Let me tell you, I got to say he’s going to have his hands full. He’s not going to be able to…all these guys he’s been fighting he’s been beating up early, and then he gets to lay back a little a bit. He’s not going to be able to lay back [against Velasquez]. It’s going to be five rounds against Velasquez, and Velasquez will be in his face every minute of it, throwing punches, slamming him on the ground. That fight’s going to be a war.”
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — MMA Fighting spoke to Junior dos Santos following his win over Shane Carwin at UFC 131 about his performance, whether he thought the fight should have been stopped in the first round, Carwin’s cardio in the bout and his upcoming fight for the title against heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — MMA Fighting spoke to Junior dos Santos following his win over Shane Carwin at UFC 131 about his performance, whether he thought the fight should have been stopped in the first round, Carwin’s cardio in the bout and his upcoming fight for the title against heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez.
Rocha landing some good strikes and kneesRocha with a takedown attempt, Cerrone stuffs it.Cerrone stuffs another takedown.Rocha lands a good right. Cerrone keeps up the legkicks.Cerrone stuffs another takedown and gets one of his own.Cerrone still gett…
Rocha landing some good strikes and knees
Rocha with a takedown attempt, Cerrone stuffs it.
Cerrone stuffs another takedown.
Rocha lands a good right. Cerrone keeps up the legkicks.
Cerrone stuffs another takedown and gets one of his own.
Cerrone still getting the better of the standup Throws in a push kick.
Rocha asks Cerrone to go the ground. Cerrone has none of it.
Cerrone stuffs another takedown. Wins round 2 10-9 on my card
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – From the opening moments of Saturday night’s heavyweight main event, it seemed almost as if 
