UFC 135: Jones vs. Rampage

[DixieDestroyer]

Here's the card for Saturday's UFC 135: Jones vs. Rampage from Denver.

Main Card

• Light Heavyweight Championship: Jon Jones (c) vs. Quinton Jackson
• Welterweight bout: Matt Hughes vs. Josh Koscheck
• Heavyweight bout: Travis Browne vs. Rob Broughton
• Lightweight bout: Nate Diaz vs. Takanori Gomi
• Heavyweight bout: Ben Rothwell vs. Mark Hunt

Preliminary Card (Spike TV)

• Lightweight bout: Tony Ferguson vs. Aaron Riley
• Middleweight bout: Nick Ring vs. Tim Boetsch

Preliminary Card (Facebook)

• Featherweight bout: Junior Assunção vs. Eddie Yagin
• Bantamweight bout: Takeya Mizugaki vs. Cole Escovedo
• Light Heavyweight bout: James Te Huna vs. Ricardo Romero

http://www.ufc.com/event/UFC135#/fight

***The ol' Destroyer from Dixieland will be pulling for "YOnes" over Rampage (lesser of 2 evils), Hughes (vs. mulatto Koschek), Rothwell (vs. poly Hunt), Riley & Assunção (White Brazilian vs. Filipino Yagin).

 

[Thrashen]

***The ol' Destroyer from Dixieland will be pulling for "YOnes" over Rampage (lesser of 2 evils), Hughes (vs. mulatto Koschek), Rothwell (vs. poly Hunt), Riley & Assunção (White Brazilian vs. Filipino Yagin).

I’d much rather see Jackson pummel Jones. At 33-years old and with 8 career loses, Rampage is tremendously damaged goods. Jones, of course, is the complete opposite. Rampage defeating Jones (especially via brutal KO) would derail the incredible “pushâ€￾ Jones is (deservedly, I suppose) receiving from the NegroCentric corporate media. To watch the heir apparent to Anderson Silva fall would be a very positive development.

Unfortunately, I think that Jones will win easily.

 

[Hawkeye2]

I feel the same way, Rampage is very beatable and Jones has been unstopable as of late.

 

[Liverlips]

Good win by Tim Boetsch at 185.

Neither Rob Broughton nor Travis Browne impressed me. Neither seems a legit top 10 guy.

 

[Liverlips]

Am viewing Bellator on TV and UFC on the Internet and am enjoying Bellator more!

 

[Liverlips]

Wow - Ben Rothwell looked TERRIBLE in losing to Mark Hunt.

 

[Hawkeye2]

I think Rothwell might be done. He has had a slew of health problems, mainly due to not taking care of himself. It is the same thing that ended Bobby Lashley's career earlier this year.

 

[Liverlips]

Matt Hughes was winning the round but got KO'd in the last few seconds of the round. Hope he retires as he is done.

 

[Hawkeye2]

Matt Hughes will probably retire after this fight. I don't get how he got a fight of this high caliber, He looked terrible against Penn. I don't think UFC will keep him around after two sloppy fights in a row.

 

[Liverlips]

Ugh ... can the night get any worse?

Joe Warren got KTFO in Bellator.

He needs to stop trying to qualify for the Olympics in wrestlling while bouncing around between 135 and 145 in Bellator. Joe needs better standup so he needs to forget about the Olympics for now and defend his 145 belt (which looks pretty stupid right now).

 

[Hawkeye2]

I knew Warren was going to lose, I actually thought Warren had lost his last two matches. His striking is garbage. Villa Is a way better wrestler too. Unfortunatly Villa is 40 so he doesn't have much of a future.

 

[Hawkeye2]

I don't see Rampage pulling this out. Jones has a big advantage training in the high altitude.

 

[Liverlips]

I find myself cheering for Rampage ... all it takes is one shot ...

 

[Liverlips]

Leg kicks are landing on Jones. Might have exposed a weakness for future opponents.

Rampage just so one-dimensional. I think I could have defended that rear naked better than Rampage.

 

[Anak]

After that fight I really like Machida's chances.

 

[Hawkeye2]

Next is Rashad vs Jones. Rashad is t****tter wrestler, but Jones is the better striker.

 

[Alpha Male]

It's irksome watching former greats like Hughes lose to fighters they would have decimated earlier in their careers. Is it me, or has the UFC lost its once great white presence? I haven’t followed it seriously in a couple of years - - not since the days when every single belt was held by a white - - so maybe our fighters just had bad night. If boxing, especially the heavyweight division, was seriously covered, UFC's growing Hispanic and black presence would be mitigated.

 

[Liverlips]

Yeah, whites are not as dominant as they once were in MMA. But we still do pretty good. Four or 5 of the top 10 p4p are still white and there are just so many great young white fighters that we will always be a major presence. I doubt we will ever hold all the belts again but you never know.

 

[Hawkeye2]

There are no white Americans in boxing because it has become a sport for thugs and prison inmates.

 

[Deacon]

Rampage was/is just in it for the money.

I can't believe people thought that bum would beat Jon Jones.