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After suffering back-to-back losses to Anderson Silva and Tim Boetsch, Yushin Okami was able to get back in the win column last night at UFC 150.Okami defeated up-and-comer Buddy Roberts by TKO in the second round of their fight.With the win, Okami is …
After suffering back-to-back losses to Anderson Silva and Tim Boetsch, Yushin Okami was able to get back in the win column last night at UFC 150.
Okami defeated up-and-comer Buddy Roberts by TKO in the second round of their fight.
With the win, Okami is now 4-2 in his last six fights.
Since the middleweight division is more stacked than ever, Okami will need to put together a few more wins in order to get back into title contention.
Here’s a look at the fights he should take next.
Saturday night’s fights were awesome. Seriously, I’m still reeling from the co-main and main events.The title fight essentially picked up right where Frankie Edgar and Benson Henderson left off at UFC 144. UFC 150 continued the streak of amazing lightw…
Saturday night’s fights were awesome. Seriously, I’m still reeling from the co-main and main events.
The title fight essentially picked up right where Frankie Edgar and Benson Henderson left off at UFC 144. UFC 150 continued the streak of amazing lightweight title fights.
The co-main event also delivered, with Melvin Guillard and Donald Cerrone bringing the most drama they could possibly fit in a 77-second time frame. The knockout was an epic end to a fantastic fight.
So, like every card, let’s take a look at the questions answered and lessons learned.
The rematch between Benson Henderson and Frankie Edgar was supposed to erase any doubts about the decision at UFC 144, but instead, fans left UFC 150 more puzzled than ever before. After another epic five-round battle Henderson was awarded another deci…
The rematch between Benson Henderson and Frankie Edgar was supposed to erase any doubts about the decision at UFC 144, but instead, fans left UFC 150 more puzzled than ever before.
After another epic five-round battle Henderson was awarded another decision over Edgar, but things were much closer this time around.
The former lightweight champ pushed the fight for all five rounds and even landed more significant strikes, according to FightMetric.com. In the end, two of the three judges weren’t convinced and handed “Smooth” the controversial split-decision.
A clearly disappointed Edgar looked on in complete shock and disappointment as Henderson walked away with his title for quite possibly the last time.
“It don’t matter. I thought I brought it to him, but congrats to Ben,” Edgar told UFC commentator Joe Rogan after the fight. “I’m upset, man. What are you going to do? I did [think I won]. I thought I brought it to him.”
In comparison to UFC 144, all UFC 150 did was further the fact that Henderson and Edgar are evenly matched.
People will likely scoff at the decision, but the fight really could’ve gone either way.
Edgar landed a few more strikes and dictated the pace of the entire fight. Henderson landed the heavier strikes and did more damage.
At UFC 144, Henderson did more damage and landed the most overall strikes.
The Henderson-Edgar rivalry closely mirrors the WEC title bouts between Dominick Cruz and Joseph Benavidez.
The first bout was closely contested, but the second fight was marred with a controversial split-decision.
MMA fans tend to have a short attention span.
Henderson already has back-to-back wins over Edgar. It’s hard to argue controversy when faced with consecutive defeats.
UFC 150 may not have delivered the desired conclusion, but it should be enough to close the chapter on an endless slew of rematches in the lightweight division. Amidst adversity in his last two fights, Henderson has proven to be a worthy UFC champion and lightweight king.
The road to the title is a long and tedious journey.
It can’t all be so smooth.
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For the second time this year, Benson Henderson and Frankie Edgar fought in one of the closest title fights in UFC history. The UFC 150 main event will likely go down in history with Lyoto Machida vs. Shogun Rua 1 and Carlos Condit vs. Nick Diaz as the…
For the second time this year, Benson Henderson and Frankie Edgar fought in one of the closest title fights in UFC history.
The UFC 150 main event will likely go down in history with Lyoto Machida vs. Shogun Rua 1 and Carlos Condit vs. Nick Diaz as the most controversial title-fight decisions in the last five years, and we need to see these two go at it one more time.
I get that the lightweight division has been clogged full of guys looking to get a title shot for nearly two full years now, but we can’t blame Edgar, Henderson or Gray Maynard for putting on such closely contested and incredible fights.
It seems like the vast majority of MMA fans, fighters and journalists alike all thought that Edgar had done enough to earn the nod last night, and “The Answer” deserves another shot to show the world that he is truly the lightweight champion.
Here are three reasons why the UFC should book yet another immediate rematch.
By Elias Cepeda
The rematch contained slightly less constant action than the first engagement but Benson Henderson and Frankie Edgar put on another technical, evenly-matched lightweight title fight Saturday night in the main event of UFC 150. Henderson also walked away with another decision win over the man he beat last February to win the championship belt.
Perusing twitter and the forums last night and today, to say nothing of Edgar’s complaints after the split decision was announced for Henderson, it appears that many fans and fighters believed that “The Answer” should have gotten the nod from the judges. This writer scored it for Henderson but only someone with an agenda could deny that it was a close, hard to score fight.
Henderson opened up quickly in the first round, landing quick kicks to Edgar’s lead calf, bruising and tripping him up. Edgar scored a take down in the stanza but got caught in a good guillotine choke attempt by Henderson, before escaping.
Henderson charged forward and age a right hand right to the chin from Edgar, dropping to the mat. From there, Edgar controlled Henderson on the ground for most of the rest of the round with a front head lock. Edgar worked to get his own choke in or move to the back but Henderson defended well and survived the round.
Rounds three and four were close in terms of strikes landed, as was round five. In the last round Henderson clearly closed most aggressively and finishing more emphatically with strikes.
When the decision was announced for Henderson, Edgar stormed away. He and his team acted like he was robbed.
He was not.
By Elias Cepeda
The rematch contained slightly less constant action than the first engagement but Benson Henderson and Frankie Edgar put on another technical, evenly-matched lightweight title fight Saturday night in the main event of UFC 150. Henderson also walked away with another decision win over the man he beat last February to win the championship belt.
Perusing twitter and the forums last night and today, to say nothing of Edgar’s complaints after the split decision was announced for Henderson, it appears that many fans and fighters believed that “The Answer” should have gotten the nod from the judges. This writer scored it for Henderson but only someone with an agenda could deny that it was a close, hard to score fight.
Henderson opened up quickly in the first round, landing quick kicks to Edgar’s lead calf, bruising and tripping him up. Edgar scored a take down in the stanza but got caught in a good guillotine choke attempt by Henderson, before escaping.
Henderson charged forward and age a right hand right to the chin from Edgar, dropping to the mat. From there, Edgar controlled Henderson on the ground for most of the rest of the round with a front head lock. Edgar worked to get his own choke in or move to the back but Henderson defended well and survived the round.
Rounds three and four were close in terms of strikes landed, as was round five. In the last round Henderson clearly closed most aggressively and finishing more emphatically with strikes.
When the decision was announced for Henderson, Edgar stormed away. He and his team acted like he was robbed.
He was not. But the intensity of feeling is quite understandable given how hard fighters work at this level in the sport and how well Edgar fought and how close the bout was.
Neither man would’ve been crazy to have heard the final horn and believed that he had won. Someone had to be disappointed. Fans of world-class fighters fighting technically were not.
Henderson will face Nate Diaz next. The future for Edgar is unclear.
It is a cruel world for number one contenders that have failed multiple times to beat the person who is now the champion. Sure, he clearly pushes Henderson to the limit and fights him as closely as anyone can, but Edgar will not just get an endless series of rematch opportunities.
Will Edgar start climbing the ladder again at lightweight or will the undersized fighter finally drop down to featherweight? If he chooses do go down to 145 pounds, UFC President Dana White says that he will not get an automatic title shot. He likely wouldn’t have to win more than a single fight at that weight before getting the chance to challenge for the belt, however.
“I think Frankie would have to fight somebody at [featherweight before challenging for the title there],” White said at the UFC 150 post-event press conference. “We’ve got that thing backed up, we’ve got all these [divisions] backed up for titles right now. That one’s backed up. And if I know Frankie like I do, I’m sure he’s gonna want to go down there and fight [for the title] right way.
“I’ll talk to him later and see what he wants to do.”
It has been asked many times before but what do you want to see Edgar do, taters? Should Edgar go to featherweight or come back for what he believes is his at lightweight?
Cerrone went and got some more fans
Lightweights Donald Cerrone and Melvin Guillard are friends. They used to train together. Last night they fought one another and it was brutally exciting.
Guillard landed a nasty left hook that hurt Cerrone early on, following up with knees to the body and head. Cerrone managed to hang on, maintain his composure and, when he hit a glancing kick to the head of Guillard, put his buddy on queer street.
Cerrone did not hesitate at all to follow up on his wobbled friend with a right hand that dropped and put Guillard out. The fight didn’t last much longer than a minute but it won Fight of The Night honors. We don’t disagree.
Cerrone also took home a separate bonus check for KO of the night. Wonder how much of that $120,000 bonus cash he can fit in that stylish cowboy hat of his.
Mr. Excitement wins again
Jake Shields won another technical grappling-heavy fight by decision last night where he dominated the action, never stopped moving or working to improve position and…most fans probably didn’t love watching it. That’s Shields’ curse – he’s damned good at grappling but fans who don’t train can’t appreciate what he’s doing while he’s doing it.
For his part, Ed Herman was a live dog in the submission wrestling-like contest – never letting Shields stay in a dominant position for very long. Herman probably should have focused on staying out of grappling range with Shields and tried to box him up on the feet, but he was the one who initiated much of the grappling action through the first two rounds.
When he did get Shields down, he couldn’t keep him there. When Shields got Herman down, he kept him there.
In the third round Herman had a sense of urgency and swung hard on the feet but that only opened him up to getting taken down again by Shields. Shields is back at middleweight and looked to have plenty of strength in the clinch and gas in the tank.
Perhaps he’ll climb further here than at welterweight. But he’ll always have trouble against elite fighters as long as he can’t set up his take down attempts well with strikes.
Middleweight Yushin Okami had to wait years longer than he should have to earn a shot at champion Anderson Silva but as soon as he did, he hit a two-fight losing streak. Last night he got his first win since 2010 by finishing Buddy Roberts in the second round via TKO.
We’ll see if Yushin has another run for the title in him. He rarely looks bad and opponents rarely look good against him.
Dennis Bermudez earned Submission of The Night honors from the under card with a standing guillotine finish of Tommy Hayden. Slick. $60,000-worth of slick.
After suffering back-to-back losses for the first time in his career, the pressure was definitely on Yushin Okami to walk away from UFC 150 with a victory. Buddy Roberts is unknown by the vast majority of MMA fans, and if Okami didn’t come out an…
After suffering back-to-back losses for the first time in his career, the pressure was definitely on Yushin Okami to walk away from UFC 150 with a victory.
Buddy Roberts is unknown by the vast majority of MMA fans, and if Okami didn’t come out and crush him, his days near the top of the division were over.
Fortunately for Okami, he was able to get the job done Saturday night.
In a vintage “Thunder” performance, Okami took his opponent down and beat him up over and over again, earning the stoppage in the second round.
The win puts Okami back on the right track in a middleweight division that is overflowing with title contenders, and he’ll likely face a decently big name in his next fight.
So where does Okami land on the middleweight ladder?
Probably a bit higher than a lot of people expect.
Okami has been one of the most underrated fighters in the UFC for a long time now, and he has wins over Mark Munoz and Alan Belcher to prove he can defeat top-level competition.
With an 11-4 UFC record, Okami has proven to be one of the best middleweights in the world over the last six years, and of his four losses, three have come at hands of Anderson Silva, Chael Sonnen and Rich Franklin.
Michael Bisping, Vitor Belfort and Chris Weidman are well above Okami in the rankings at this point, but Okami seems to fit right inside the bottom half of the top 10 alongside guys like Belcher and Brian Stann.
After suffering two straight losses prior to this win over Roberts, expect Okami to have to defend his turf against fighters trying to jump into the top 10, (like he failed to do against Tim Boetsch).
But if he earns a few more wins, Okami will quickly find himself back in the top five in the division and could eventually earn himself another middleweight title shot.
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