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This is just for the bragging rights - maybe somewhere down the line, we'll make a contest out of it with big prize.

Who do you think would win in UFC 80?

B.J. Penn v Joe Stevenson
Gabriel Gonzaga v Fabricio Werdum
Jess Liaudin v Marcus Davis
Wilson Gouveia v Jason Lambert
Jorge Rivera v Kendall Grove
Antoni Hardonk v Colin Robinson
Paul Kelly v Paul Taylor
James Lee v Alessio Sakara
Per Eklund v Sam Stout

LAS VEGAS – It was a chilly night in Sin City, but the
action was white hot in The Pearl at the Palms Hotel & Casino where
Roger Huerta made the move from over-hyped Sports Illustrated cover boy
to iron-clad Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight contender.

Clearly
the fight of the night, Huerta and Clay Guida fought one of the highest
paced, most dynamic battles of the year. This fight was everything and
more that the hype promised.

Guida appeared poised on the brink
of victory as he dropped Huerta to his back in the second round, but
somehow Huerta dug deep into his heart and found a way to survive. Then
in the third round, Huerta shifted gears, yet again, rocked Guida and
then took his back and clamped down the fight-ending rear naked choke.

Huerta
was clearly overwhelmed with emotion after the fight, thanking God and
his mother before declaring, “I want to bring the UFC to Mexico.”

The
Ultimate Fighter welterweight finale went pretty much as expected, with
the bigger Tommy Speer trying to utilize his size and strength, while
Mac Danzig went for skill and technique. In short order, it was Danzig
that took Speer to the ground and quickly transitioned to his back to
sink in a rear naked choke.

Leading up to the finale, Danzig
made no bones about why he signed up for the hit reality series. He
wanted to win it all and build up his name to the legions of mixed
martial arts fans around the world. He easily did that on Saturday
night.

“I was really nervous going into this fight with Tommy,”
said Danzig after the fight, although it didn’t show in his performance.

Asked
if he would now drop back down to his usual weight of 155 pounds, the
new Ultimate Fighter winner stated, “Absolutely. I’m really happy about
jumping in the mix with (Roger Huerta and Clay Guida).”

In an
amazing battle of wills, John Koppenhaver and Jared Rollins bloodied
each other near the end of the first round, trading elbows on the
ground, and commenced to fight a see-saw battle of wills.

As
both fighters were cloaked in crimson, Rollins looked like he would end
it with a succession of brutal knees, but Koppenhaver was able to
reverse position on the ground and put Rollins out with a fight-ending
ground and pound assault.

“I didn’t want to have to fight him
tonight,” said Koppenhaver in tears after the fight. “I love him man.
He’s a tough, tough dude.”

A Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt
under the Machados, George Sotiropoulus, now training with UFC
welterweight champion Matt Serra, wasted no time getting Billy Miles to
the ground. Once there, he fixed himself on Miles’ back, locking in the
rear naked choke at 1:36 of round one.

“I knew that was his
weakness,” said Sotiropoulus of Miles’ ground game. “I knew once it was
on the ground it was going to be over.”

In the opening bout of
the live telecast on Spike TV, Dan Barrera and Ben Saunders fought a
fairly close back-and-forth affair early with Barrera trying to employ
a ground and pound attack, while Saunders went for the submissions. As
the fight progressed, Saunders took over and earned the unanimous
decision.

In the final preliminary bout, Troy Mandaloniz and
Richie Hightower gave fans an exciting slugfest. Hightower took charge
in the first half of the first round, landing some wide punches, along
with a succession of forearms and knees. But in the end, it was
Mandaloniz that caught Hightower walking into a stiff left jab,
dropping him to the mat, and then finishing him off with a couple of
hammerfists for the TKO.

Unable to compete in the semi-final
round due to injury, Matt Arroyo made up for it with by putting on a
submission clinic at the expense of John Kolosci at Saturday’s finale.
He attempted several submissions, finally finishing Kolosci with an
armbar late in the first round.

Roman Mitichyan’s fight in the
finale was even more short-lived than his injury prone stint during the
regular season, albeit this time in his favor. He immediately took
Dorian Price to the mat and dropped into a straight ankle lock that had
Price tapping almost immediately.

In the event’s opening bout,
Paul Georgieff knocked Jonathan Goulet down with a left hook about
halfway through round one, but it was Goulet that would call upon the
depth of his experience to put the fight away. After going down, he
grabbed Georgieff’s legs and put him on his back. The Canadian then
transitioned through various positions to Georgieff’s back and locked
on a rear naked choke, causing him to pass out.

Roger Huerta def. Clay Guida by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 0:51, R3
Mac Danzig def. Tommy Speer by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 2:01, R1
John Koppenhaver def. Jared Rollins by TKO (Strikes) at 2:01, R3
George Sotiropoulos def. Billy Miles by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 1:36, R1
Ben Saunders def. Dan Barrera by Unanimous Decision, R3
Troy Mandaloniz def. Richie Hightower by TKO (Strikes) at 4:20, R1
Matt Arroyo def. John Kolosci by Submission (Armbar) at 4:42, R1
Roman Mitichyan def. Dorian Price by Submission (Ankle Lock) at 0:23, R1
Jonathan Goulet def. Paul Georgieff by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 4:42, R1

You've seen the news that went back and forth between Randy and UFC. There seems to be some tension after Randy has been with UFC for a very long time and he's been inducted into Hall of Fame, currently holds the Heavyweight championship belt. And yet, he feels dissed by UFC and finally resigned. What do you think happened and who's telling the truth?

As with anything, I think the truth lies somewhere in between. UFC claims they've treated Randy right. Even had proof of payments to dispute what Randy claimed was his payout from UFC. Some sources say Randy feels he's not shown enough respect (or money) when UFC tried to pay Fedor more money than they've ever offered to Randy, who helped build UFC where it is today. From UFC's point of view, they were trying to pay whatever it takes to get the best heavyweight in the world, while Randy was already under contract. Why should Randy get upset someone else is getting a new contract while he's serving out what he volunteered signed earlier this year?

In my opinion, UFC has plenty of money now and they are just not sharing it equally with fighters. Yes, they pay six figures to top fighters but only a handful. The others pretty much get peanuts, even though they still have to train for weeks to prepare for the fight and the payout isn't enough for these guys to train full time.

Bottomline, Pay up, UFC.  

UFC 79 play by play results will be posted here during the UFC PPV.

 

UFC 79: DECEMBER 29, 2007 IN LAS VEGAS
venue: Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada

-Georges St. Pierre vs. Matt Hughes
-Chuck Liddell vs. Wanderlei Silva
-Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou vs. Lyoto Machida
-Dean Lister vs. Jordan Radev
-Manny Gamburyan vs. Nate Mohr
-Rich Clementi vs. Melvin Guillard
-Roan Carneiro vs. Tony DeSouza
-Doug Evans vs. Mark Bocek
-Eddie Sanchez vs. Soa Palalei

UFC has recently announced that Dan Henderson, who recently lost to Quinton "Rampage" Jackson in the light heavyweight devision will drop down to 185lbs to fight the current middleweight champion Anderson Silva.

Anderson Silva, who made his first debut in the UFC with 49 second Knock Out of Chris Leben has dominated all 5 of his UFC fights - finishing all of them with only 2 of them lasting into the second round.

Dan Henderson is a former Pride 185lbs division winner and can really fight at both middle weight and the light heavyweight. In fact, he was the first one to hold the title at both weight division. He was hoping to be the first one to hold both Pride and UFC belts, but unfortunately he lost the decision to Jackson, a close friend.

Enter Yushin Okami. He just signed an extension with UFC. He is the last one to have a disqualification win over Anderson Silva. Silva was disqualified for kneeing the downed opponent. Up to that point, Silva was winning the fight. Yushin has also been impressive with all his UFC fights, going 5-1 with his only loss coming to the former middleweight champion Rich Franklin. He almost pulled off a win at the end of the third round with a kimura but Rich barely escaped with the unanimous decision win.

I think Yushin would be the next in line at the title shot. 

RESULTS:
–Rashad Evans def. Michael Bisping by Split Decision, R3
–Thiago Silva def. Houston Alexander by TKO (Strikes) at 3:25, R1
–Karo Parisyan def. Ryo Chonan by Unanimous Decision, R3
–Ed Herman def. Joe Doerksen by KO (Punch) at 0:39, R3
–Frankie Edgar def. Spencer Fisher by Unanimous Decision, R3
–Thiago Alves def. Chris Lytle by TKO (Doctor’s Stoppage) at 5:00, R2
–Joe Lauzon def. Jason Reinhardt by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 1:14, R1
–Marcus Aurelio def. Luke Caudillo by TKO (Strikes) at 4:29, R1
–Akihiro Gono def. Tamdan McCrory by Submission (Armbar) at 3:19, R2

The Ultimate Fighting Championship announced that the first official match-up for UFC 81 taking place
Feb. 2 in Las Vegas will be the newly signed heavyweight Brock Lesnar versus the former heavyweight champion Frank Mir.

Lesnar is more known in the professional wrestling world than MMA. Mir was a former undisputed champion in the UFC heavyweight division few years ago, until he was seriously hurt the motorcycle accident - UFC had to strip him from his title due to not able to defend the belt. Since then, he made his return but not very good, 2-2 against some mediocre opponents. And his last fight wasn't even shown on PPV.

So, Brock is the new face of UFC while Mir is not more than a hasbeen and a sacrificial lamb for the new blood.

For Frank's sake, I hope he comes prepared and ruin Brock's debut like Forrest did to Mauricio Rua's debut. 

Welcome to MyMMAZone.com.

This is where all the fans of mixed martial arts can get together and build a community just for the mixed martial arts. We all know the popularity of myspace and how there are so many different groups within myspace dedicated to MMA. However, it's too big and also attracted too many spammers looking for a quick bucks, rather than wanting to become a part of a great community.

Well, we are about to change all that. We want this community to have all the benefits of social networking and the flexibility of customizing your profiles, but don't have the feeling of being lost amongst the millions and the hassle of constant spammers.

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