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Holy knockouts, Batman. UFC on FX 6 featured a hellacious lineup of preliminary fights, and fans were treated to a solid two-and-a-half hours of action from Gold Coast, Australia. With veteran fighters and rising stars alike looking to make t…
Holy knockouts, Batman.
UFC on FX 6 featured a hellacious lineup of preliminary fights, and fans were treated to a solid two-and-a-half hours of action from Gold Coast, Australia.
With veteran fighters and rising stars alike looking to make their mark in the land down under, who impressed, and who left the crowd wanting more?
Start the slideshow to see which matchups ruled the preliminary portion of the UFC on FX 6 fight card.
Hector Lombard is a scary dude.He looks like a comic book character and has the demeanor of a man who is very serious about fighting. Hurting people is his business, and business is good. Or at least it was. It was his business when he was in Bellator …
Hector Lombard is a scary dude.
He looks like a comic book character and has the demeanor of a man who is very serious about fighting. Hurting people is his business, and business is good.
Or at least it was.
It was his business when he was in Bellator beating on guys no one cared about, or when he was wailing on regional nobodies to the tune of only two losses in his first 35 pro fights.
Then he came to the UFC, and business sort of dried up.
Lombard lost to Tim Boetsch at UFC 149 in a performance that was quite fitting of a show that many suggested was the worst in the history of the promotion. He looked tentative and listless, and had a hard time with Boestch’s size and strength—something no one would have predicted prior to his debut.
Lombard will now fight closer to his adopted homeland of New Zealand—at UFC on FX 6—against Rousimar Palhares, a man of similar physical stature who is similarly without direction in the 185-pound division.
Should Lombard lose that fight—something that’s a real possibility given how quickly Palhares has been known to slap on a leg lock and go home with an easy win—there may not be a place for him in the UFC.
The reality would be that Lombard would be 0-2 in the promotion. That’s not flattering, and guys have been released for less.
He’s also making an absurd sum of money per fight, something that was likely a by-product of the hype he came on board with.
People truly felt he was one of the best in the world at 185 pounds, and that he could easily provide a challenge for Anderson Silva.
Losses to Boetsch and Palhares certainly wouldn’t support that claim.
There’s also his age. At nearly 35 years old, he’s entering that time in a career when a fighter shows up for work one night only to find out that he’s old.
Although he’ll perhaps need to be knocked out once or twice before that becomes a concrete concern, should he sit at 0-2 in the UFC, and on the wrong side of his prime, then there would be much to think about in terms of a potential release.
This isn’t to say that Lombard will be released with a loss. It’s not even suggesting that he’s going to lose. By rights, this should be a decisive and fairly easy win for him—if he can keep all of his knee ligaments intact long enough to pound out a W.
However, if he should run into trouble, if he should get caught with something or end up losing out on the judge’s scorecards, then the UFC should look long and hard at what they have in Hector Lombard.
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Ross Pearson and George Sotiropoulos have developed a healthy rivalry as coaches on The Ultimate Fighter: Smashes. Things will finally be settled between the two lightweights at UFC on FX 6, which essentially serves as the season finale of the reality …
Ross Pearson and George Sotiropoulos have developed a healthy rivalry as coaches on The Ultimate Fighter: Smashes. Things will finally be settled between the two lightweights at UFC on FX 6, which essentially serves as the season finale of the reality series.
In addition to the main event between the coaches from the show, UFC on FX 6 will include the finals of the two tournaments that ran during the first season of The Ultimate Fighter: Smashes.
At welterweight, Robert Whittaker will meet Brad Scott in a battle for a guaranteed UFC contract. Fellow British fighters Colin Fletcher and Norman Parke will do the same in the lightweight division.
Furthermore, Hector Lombard will attempt to bounce back from a loss in his UFC debut with a win over Rousimar Palhares on Friday. Palhares is also coming off of a disappointing loss to Alan Belcher in his most recent outing.
Shortly after the event concludes, Person, Sotiropoulos, Whittaker, Scott, Fletcher, Parke and several more of the night’s competitors will likely join a UFC official for a post-fight press conference. A live streaming feed of the post-fight press conference will be available on the above video player, so make sure to check back here to tune in.
After the press conference, stick with Bleacher Report for more on UFC on FX 6 and the rest of your MMA needs.
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One day, someone’s going to find the radioactive wolverine that bit Rousimar Palhares. Then, we can look to our scientists for the cure. But until that hero emerges, we, as a society, just have to be watchful.To put it another way, I don’t want to…
One day, someone’s going to find the radioactive wolverine that bit Rousimar Palhares. Then, we can look to our scientists for the cure. But until that hero emerges, we, as a society, just have to be watchful.
To put it another way, I don’t want to meet Rousimar Palhares in a dark alley. What if he hasn’t eaten yet that day?
Of course, when it comes down to it, I don’t want to meet any fighter in a dark alley. But these are the guys I really don’t want to meet in a dark alley. There are 10 of them in all.
List based on fighter style, personality and appearance.
Remember back in the WWF how there would be those matches that basically amounted to Razor Ramon vs. “This Guy We Found Outside K-Mart”? For whatever reason, that has basically been the direction the UFC has been taking its featherweight division in. F…
Remember back in the WWF how there would be those matches that basically amounted to Razor Ramon vs. “This Guy We Found Outside K-Mart”? For whatever reason, that has basically been the direction the UFC has been taking its featherweight division in.
For the first time ever, Zuffa has a very strong 145 lbs division on its hands.
It has a great champion in Jose Aldo. A strong top contender in Frankie Edgar. Then several top fighters behind Edgar, including Chan Sung Jung, Cub Swanson, Erik Koch, Hatsu Hioki and Clay Guida.
With that in mind, fans have to ask; what the hell is Joe Silva thinking right now?
In the last few months, we have seen some of the most absurd mismatches in UFC history pop up in the featherweight division. Dennis Siver vs. Nam Phan. Charles Oliveira vs. Eric Wisely. Raphael Assuncao vs. Issei Tamura.
Those were all bad, but tomorrow night on UFC on FX: Sotiropoulos vs. Pearson, we are seeing what is, perhaps, the single greatest mismatch in UFC history.
Chad Mendes will be fighting Yaotzin Meza.
If you just said “who?” in reaction to reading “Yaotzin Meza,” I can’t blame you. Meza is going to be making his UFC debut against Mendes. He has been primarily fighting in smaller southwestern promotions and has amassed a 19-7 record.
He is 7-1 in his last eight, but has not fought anyone especially noteworthy. He trains with The MMA Lab, home to Benson Henderson, Alex Caceres and Jamie Varner.
Chad Mendes, meanwhile, is unanimously ranked in the top 10 of the featherweight division. He is widely held in the top five.
He is 7-1 in the UFC and WEC and 12-1 in his MMA career (his lone loss coming against Jose Aldo). His most recent win came against Cody McKenzie in the form of a 30-second knockout. Suffice it to say tha Chad Mendes is very good.
In fairness, Meza was not Mendes‘ original opponent.
Mendes was originally slated to fight Hacran Dias. Dias is a solid up-and-comer, for sure, but he made his UFC debut at UFC 147 by beating Yuri Alcantara. Mendes vs. Dias was a questionable matchup. Dias, after all, is the sort of prospect a promotion should nurture, not throw to a fighter like Mendes.
With the way the featherweight promotion is right now, there are several incredibly compelling bouts that could have been made.
Chan Sung Jung is currently sitting without an opponent. A Jung vs. Mendes fight would be a downright great main event for a Fuel or FX card, and would be between two top fighters in a division that has its top contender status up in the air.
Darren Elkins, who is riding a four-fight winning streak over some very strong competition, is also twiddling his thumbs as you read this.
Robbie Peralta, who is 3-0 (1) between the UFC and Strikeforce, is waiting for a call from Joe Silva. Dennis Siver, who once again fought Nam Phan after beating Diego Nunes, fought six days earlier.
I could keep going on about how many actual, fair, logical matchups were passed on in favor of this. But here we are. Chad Mendes is going to fight against Yaotzin Meza.
Obviously, Yaotzin Meza could shock us. This is MMA. Crazy things can happen and Meza could knock Mendes out, make me look the fool and jump into the top ten in a split-second. That, though, is probably not going to happen, and I sincerely doubt the UFC is expecting anything close to this to happen.
Perhaps, and this is a reach and I know it, we might be looking at Jose Aldo officially jumping to the lightweight division after his fight with Frankie Edgar. With this in mind, the UFC might be looking to guarantee a title fight with Chad Mendes. Even then, this makes very little sense, with Clay Guida, Frankie Edgar, Chan Sung Jung and possibly Cub Swanson carrying more name value than him.
So yeah. Why is this fight happening? I have no idea.
It is, though, and that’s just ridiculous.
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UFC on FX 6 is about to go down in Gold Coast, Australia. The main event pits lightweights George Sotiropoulos against Ross Pearson, who coached against each other on a special season of The Ultimate Fighter matching British and Aussie fighte…
UFC on FX 6 is about to go down in Gold Coast, Australia. The main event pits lightweights George Sotiropoulos against Ross Pearson, who coached against each other on a special season of The Ultimate Fighter matching British and Aussie fighters.
This show goes beyond the main event, though. It’s a UFC on FX event, and therefore is a little more fortified than your average season finale.
So what fight is going to steal the show this Saturday (or Friday night for those watching in the U.S.)? Let’s break this down.
One of the TUF finals in particular holds some intrigue. Have you ever heard of Colin Fletcher? No? You should watch him fight. His tangle with Northern Ireland’s Norman Parke is not a sure-fire show-stopper, but Fletcher certainly is.
The final bout of the Fuel TV prelims once had big potential, back when it was Chad Mendes vs. Hacran Dias. But Dias got injured. Now it’s Yaotzin Meza, and a Knockout of the Night candidate.
Mike Pierce and Seth Baczynski could be another good one; talk about two guys who like to scrap. But that’s not the winner either.
No, the most likely show stealer comes to you courtesy of the middleweight division, in which Hector Lombard (31-3-1-1) takes on Rousimar Palhares (14-4).
Basically, these guys are mirror images of each other. Two musclebound mailboxes, each sporting their own unique brand of debilitating violence. One (Lombard) can punch through an engine block. The other (Palhares) can wrench telephone poles out of the ground with his legs.
The phrase “something’s gotta give” comes to mind. Will it be a highlight-reel knockout or a highlight-reel submission? No middle ground on this one. My spidey sense tells me Lombard and his judo base will be able to fend off Palhares’ takedowns and ferocious limb-lock submissions long enough to wreak his own havoc. I could be wrong, though. The fight is eminently winnable for Palhares.
Either way, there will be nothing wrong about this fight from a fan perspective. The ultra-aggressive Lombard, a longtime champion in the Bellator promotion, failed to impress in an uncharacteristically tentative UFC debut against Tim Boetsch. Palhares is coming off an embarrassing loss to top contender Alan Belcher.
Bottom line: Both men need a win, badly and now. They’re both going to come in frothy. It’s like locking two hyenas in a cage and poking them with rawhide swords. Someone’s going to end up with their back to the canvas.
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