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This weekend in Australia, the UFC comes to you live on FX from the Allphones Arena in Sydney. Although there is a complaint of this card lacking “star power,” there is sure to be some excitement.A number of prospects, fighters making their debuts and …
This weekend in Australia, the UFC comes to you live on FX from the Allphones Arena in Sydney. Although there is a complaint of this card lacking “star power,” there is sure to be some excitement.
A number of prospects, fighters making their debuts and established veterans grace this card, making it one of the most underrated cards to be put on in a while.
Here are five reasons you cannot miss this event, which promises fireworks.
This Friday night, Thiago “Pitbull” Alves and Martin “The Hitman” Kampmann will come off of recent wins in 2011 to face each other at UFC on FX 2 live from the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia.Featuring Ian McCall vs. Demetrious Johnson and Joseph …
This Friday night, Thiago “Pitbull” Alves and Martin “The Hitman” Kampmann will come off of recent wins in 2011 to face each other at UFC on FX 2 live from the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia.
Featuring Ian McCall vs. Demetrious Johnson and Joseph Benavidez in the UFC Flyweight Tournament semifinals, as well as Court McGee vs. Constantinos Philippou, and a fairly-loaded undercard filled with international talent, UFC on FX 2 in Sydney looks to pick up where UFC on FX 1 in Nashville left off.
As usual, we’re pretty amped up for this card and we like the ways this could turn out, but as is protocol for us in the MMA world, there’s a little bit of information that we might need to keep in mind as we look ahead to this card.
The predictions are on the house. Here’s hoping they turn out better than the first attempt.
Four months after the first submission victory of his UFC career, crowd-pleasing welterweight slugger Thiago Alves returns to action against Martin Kampmann in the main event of UFC on FX 2 at the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia. [Ed. note: North Americans can catch the show on Friday night starting at 9 p.m. ET, while those poor Australian bastards have to drag their asses out of bed on Saturday morning to see it. LOL @ you sheep-fuckers!] Will Alves add another win to a resume that already includes big names like Josh Koscheck, Matt Hughes, Karo Parisyan, and Chris Lytle? Check out these GIFs of the Pitbull in action and start getting hyped up…
Four months after the first submission victory of his UFC career, crowd-pleasing welterweight slugger Thiago Alves returns to action against Martin Kampmann in the main event of UFC on FX 2 at the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia. [Ed. note: North Americans can catch the show on Friday night starting at 9 p.m. ET, while those poor Australian bastards have to drag their asses out of bed on Saturday morning to see it. LOL @ you sheep-fuckers!] Will Alves add another win to a resume that already includes big names like Josh Koscheck, Matt Hughes, Karo Parisyan, and Chris Lytle? Check out these GIFs of the Pitbull in action and start getting hyped up…
Joe Silva is a remarkably good matchmaker. He can take two guys you’ve never heard of, put them in the octagon and watch as they tear the house down. It’s a pretty rare thing that he misses when it comes time to put together a card. But som…
Joe Silva is a remarkably good matchmaker. He can take two guys you’ve never heard of, put them in the octagon and watch as they tear the house down. It’s a pretty rare thing that he misses when it comes time to put together a card.
But sometimes he hits an absolute home run.
For UFC on FX 2, he put together a headliner that is certain to clear the fence.
Welterweights Martin Kampmann and Thiago Alves are both known for putting on can’t-miss scraps, a pair of top-10 guys who come for war and usually end up spilling a little crimson. For fans of the standup game, this is about as good as it gets in MMA.
Both guys are also underrated grapplers, even if fans aren’t likely to see much in the way of a ground attack from either guy in Australia. Kampmann has perhaps the most underrated ground game in the division, and Thiago Alves holds a jiu-jitsu brown belt that really doesn’t get enough attention. Should they choose to engage there, it’s bound to be just as exciting.
But a big question heading into their meeting is whether or not they’re serious contenders at 170 lbs. Alves already had a crack at Georges St-Pierre and lost, while Kampmann has come close but been unable to get over the hump to get himself into the cage with the champ.
Realistically, any questions about the legitimacy of either man should be thrown out the window. Both have survived in the upper echelon of a wrestling-heavy division for years now, and they’ve done it with exciting fights and a penchant for producing entertaining violence.
All of Kampmann’s UFC losses have come to top-10 guys, and he was actually smashing guys as an undersized middleweight before he made the drop. Alves is in the same boat, with his most questionable UFC loss coming to Rick Story. They’ve both fought the best guys out there, and their winning percentages suggest that they are among the best guys out there.
With the welterweight division in flux, now is as good a time as any for the winner of Kampmann-Alves to make his push for gold. Interim champion Carlos Condit is planning on waiting for GSP to unify the titles, so whoever comes out ahead on FX could be matched up with Jake Ellenberger some time in the late summer with an eye on locking in the first contender for the winner of GSP-Condit.
Johny Hendricks and Josh Koscheck are also lurking, and could be involved in the matchmaking pyramid as well.
Regardless of how it all plays out, there is one certainty: whichever man survives the inevitable barnburner at UFC on FX 2 is definitely a contender. Be it Martin Kampmann or Thiago Alves, they’ll be fully deserving of a chance to talk title with a win.
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With UFC 144 now a fond memory the focus must now be turned to UFC’s second FX card which will hit this Friday.The main event is a bout between Thiago Alves and Martin Kampmann, which is almost guaranteed to turn into a striking war and give the fans f…
With UFC 144 now a fond memory the focus must now be turned to UFC’s second FX card which will hit this Friday.
The main event is a bout between Thiago Alves and Martin Kampmann, which is almost guaranteed to turn into a striking war and give the fans fireworks. The winner isn’t in line for a title shot and that proves how stacked the division is.
There is so much talent crammed into the division that it might be a while before the winner even sees title contention. It would be ludicrous to try to rank most of the fighters who are in the division, but there is a certain pool of talent that keeps coming up.
Other than the two men who will face off against each other this Friday, here is the top talent at 170 pounds.
It’s become commonplace in the mixed martial arts world that everyone cuts weight.For some fighters, they see the ability to shed pounds of water as a science and added advantage come fight time. Don’t believe me? Ask Anthony Johnson. “Rumble…
It’s become commonplace in the mixed martial arts world that everyone cuts weight.
For some fighters, they see the ability to shed pounds of water as a science and added advantage come fight time.
Don’t believe me? Ask Anthony Johnson.
“Rumble” regularly competed as a welterweight, where he dwarfed all of his opposition. Several times, Johnson struggled to make the required 170-pound weight limit, prompting a move to the middleweight division, where his weighty concerns have followed him.
Johnson’s not the one who should take the full brunt of the backlash, so here are others who in the past have showed blatant disregard in making weight for their respective weight classes.
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