UFC Fight Night Play by Play
205 lbs.:
Houston
Alexander
(8-2) vs.
James
Irvin
(13-4)
Houston Alexander
ko'd with one superman punch. James Irvin tied the
quickest ko in history at :08 seconds of the first
round. Not sure wether the crowd was booing
Alexander, Irvin or the stoppage. Houston refuses to
believe it, but he went completely stiff for a couple
seconds. Good call by the referee.
155
lbs.:
Nate Diaz
(8-2) vs.
Kurt
Pellegrino
(11-3)
Round
1: Pellegrino comes out the stronger of the two. Cuts
Nate Diaz up with big elbows on the ground.
Kurt
takes Nate's back with 1:50 remaining in the round
but they scramble and as Nate gets back to his feet
and the round ends.
Round 2: Pellegrino take down into full guard, Nate
eats more elbows. Nate's got a real tight guard goes
for kimora. Kurt pops out of it. Pellegrino takes
Diaz' back as they get up to their feet, Kurt sweeps
for yet another takedown. Pellegrino got way to
confident on the take down. Nate applies the
guillotine as Kurt takes him down where he easily
switches up to a real tight triangle. Nate cheers and
double Fingers the Heavens before the fight is even
stopped. Nate diaz by triangle.
205
lbs.:
Matt
Hamill
(3-1) vs.
Tim
Boetsch
(7-1)
Round
1: Hamill looks confident takes Tim down with ease
and gets one leg out to half guard. Boetsch holding
on tight keeping him close. Can't get Hamill to full
guard. 2:30 fighters stand back up, Tim tries head
kick on Hamill followed by nice leg kick! by boetsch.
Tim looks good on his feet, nice knee at 1:30. Both
look extremely tired breathing through their mouths.
Boestch landing a huge knee cutting hamill's bottom
lip wide open. Hamill follows with right, counterd
with another knee by Boetsh who ends the round
strong. Hamill ends round blodied up.
Round 2: Bottom lip pratically hanging off his face
working front kick and right hook. Fight goes to the
mat, Hamill completely overwhelming Tim, working him
from the top Matt lands a flurry of punches to the
face. Holding Tim's head still and pounding him with
relentless punches with the rape choke in place as
Joe Rogan calls it. Strong Second round Victory for
MAtt Hamill.
Best fight so far!
170 lbs.:
Karo
Parisyan
(18-4) vs.
Thiago
Alves
(13-3)
Round 1: Karo with
the clinch and take down and side cotrol on the mat,
Alves scrambles to the cage, Parisyan gets the mount
than back to half guard. Alves up to his feet, Karo
still got the clinch and Thiago Alves breaks free.
Karo lands combo and front kick. Alves lands his
first leg kick but almost gets caught by Karo who
keeps switching his stance to avoid leg kick. They
exchange kicks. Karo with a nice foot sweep, scramble
in the clinch, round ends standing.
Round 2: Parisyan starts the round with head kick.
Alves ends it with a huge knee. Karo goes down and
the fight is stopped prematurely. Parisyan ate a few
shots after he hit the ground but was already
defending himself when the fight was stopped.
170 lbs.: Tommy Speer (9-2) vs. Anthony Johnson (4-1)
Anthony Rumble
Johnson Knocks out Tommy Speer at 51 Seconds of the
first round. It all started with a left head kick
immediately followed by a right knee. Takess him to
the fence and pummels him unconscious.
155 lbs.: Frank Edgar (8-0) vs.
Gray
Maynard
(4-0)
Slow boring
technical batttle. Maynard landing hard jabs. Edgar
landing punches in the 2nd round. Gray with two good
takedowns. Edgar works the kimora out of the 2nd
round. Round three exchange right hands, clinch,
combo by edgar. Maynard with two big take downs gets
the hook in from the back and looses it. Back to
their feet, another big take down for maynard
followed by mount to half guard, short elbows. Edgar
goes for the kimora ends up in north south and we're
off to the scorecards. I was not excited at all about
or by this fight.
155 lbs.:
Kenny
Florian
(7-3) vs.
Joe Lauzon
(16-3)
Round 1: Florian vs.
Lauzon under way, feelin each other out. Lauzon grabs
a kick thrown by Florian and takes him to the cage
then to the ground and lands in Kenny's guard.
Florian rains down a bunch of deadly elbows to the
top of Lauzons head who needs to tuck his head down
to avoid the punishment, redirecting the elbows to
the back of his head. Ref stands them up and warns
Florian about striking the back of the head. Kenny
takes Joe down again and scrambles to side control.
Joe works his way to his feet only to be taken down
again. Lauzon makes a few ankle lock attempts but is
unsuccessful.
Round 2: Florian early second round take down.
Florian full mount with nasty
elbows. Lauzon gets kenny to side control only to get
punished more.
Full mount again and again three times in total.
Fight ends with Kenny Florian in full mount dropping
repeated right hands to the ear and straight down to
the chin of Joe Lauzon at 3:30 of round 2.