UFC on Fuel TV: Barao vs. McDonald

[DixieDestroyer]

Here's the card for tomorrow's UFC on Fuel (7) card from jolly ol' England...

Main Card (Fuel TV)
Weight Class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Bantamweight	Renan Barão (ic)	vs.	Michael McDonald				[SUP]Note 1[/SUP]
Featherweight	Cub Swanson	vs.	Dustin Poirier
Light Heavyweight	Jimi Manuwa	vs.	Cyrille Diabaté
Welterweight	Gunnar Nelson	vs.	Jorge Santiago
Light Heavyweight	James Te-Huna	vs.	Ryan Jimmo
Welterweight	Che Mills	vs.	Matthew Riddle
Preliminary Card (Facebook)
Lightweight	Terry Etim	vs.	Renee Forte
Lightweight	Paul Sass	vs.	Danny Castillo
Featherweight	Andy Ogle	vs.	Josh Grispi
Middleweight	Tom Watson	vs.	Stanislav Nedkov
Bantamweight	Vaughan Lee	vs.	Motonobu Tezuka
Flyweight	Phil Harris	vs.	Ulysses Gomez

http://www.ufc.com/event/FUEL7#/fight

***The ol' Dixieland outlaw will be pullin' for McDonald, Poirier, Nelson, Jimmo, Riddle, Harris and Sass.

 

[Liverlips]

Watching the undercard on facebook right now. It is on Fuel at 3:00 today.

 

[Liverlips]

Phil Harris with the win! Good one as we need more white contenders at 125.

 

[Liverlips]

Watson-Nedkov was a war!

 

[Hawkeye2]

Grispi has no business being in MMA. He might have the worst ground game ever. UFC better cut him, because he is not smart enough to quit.

 

[Liverlips]

Grispi was an injury away from fighting Aldo. Thank God that didn't happen.

 

[Hawkeye2]

BJJ is pointless in MMA without wrestling or Judo. Grispi should just start doing grappling tournaments.

 

[Liverlips]

Good win for Ogle. Hope he becomes a player at 145 - he is only 24.

As for Josh, he fought better than in his previous 4 UFC fights. He is also 24 so best of luck to him in Bellator or Legacy or something smaller.

 

[Liverlips]

English fighters 4-0 so far.

 

[Liverlips]

"BJJ is pointless in MMA without wrestling or Judo. Grispi should just start doing grappling tournaments."

Yeah, Sass doing about as good as a pure BJJ can do in modern MMA (at least at the UFC level).

 

[Hawkeye2]

Sass needs to learn to avoid the takedown too. He's has range but his striking isn't up to par with most of the UFC.

 

[Hawkeye2]

I hope Jimmo, Porier, Nelson can win. I have them all favored

 

[Hawkeye2]

I have that 30-27 Riddle.

 

[Hawkeye2]

One bull**** caste-whore judge actually gave the fight to Mills. No way in hell did he win one of the first 2 rounds.

 

[Liverlips]

Yeah, maybe they have Adelaide Byrd over there. Easy win for an improving Matt Riddle.

 

[Liverlips]

Jimmo almost finished him in the first. Could be a draw.

 

[Liverlips]

Nope - Jimmo pissed away a win.

 

[Liverlips]

Nelson should get the decision. That being said, I would pick MacDonald over him at this point. Santiago is a journeyman and he stayed in there with Nelson.

 

[Old Scratch]

It was a good fight for Gunnar, he pretty much controlled and dominated the whole fight except the first few minutes where nothing much happened. Santiago dropped down from MW and Nelson should be fighting at LW.

 

[Old Scratch]

Sass needs to learn to avoid the takedown too. He's has range but his striking isn't up to par with most of the UFC.

I think he wants it on the ground though, the problem was he got slammed on his head and gassed himself going for so many sub attempts.

 

[Old Scratch]

Rooting for Cyrille on this one. He's been defeated by White fighters like Gustafsson already, and the other Black is undefeated and a "Brit."

 

[Hawkeye2]

Minawa got a bs win in his last fight though. He one the first round and than got controlled on the ground in the second and most likely would have lost the third to the ref stop it due to a cut that didn't look that bad.

 

[Liverlips]

The funny thing is, Sass showed decent standup. The days when you can win in the UFC with BJJ alone are long gone.

 

[Hawkeye2]

The Porier fight is one of those fights were 9/10 times Poirier wins, but tonight he losses. I think he's doing this so they don't make him face Aldo.

 

[Liverlips]

Damn - just like the Jimmo fight. Dustin had this won and got taken down. This was another one we should have taken but lost.