crazedfan

Yeah, we are. I don't play over at whatever site it is, so this is the only place I get to do predicitions. Er... When's UFC75?

Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs. Dan "Hollywood" Henderson - TKO, Round 4 Mirko Cro Cop vs. Cheick Kongo - KO, Round 2 Michael "The Count" Bisping vs. Matt Hamill - TKO, Round 2 Alessio "Legionarius" Sakara vs. Houston Alexander - TKO, Round 2 Marcus "The Irish Hand Grenade" Davis vs. Paul Taylor - TKO, Round 2 Terry Etim vs. Gleison Tibau - Submission, Round 2 Thiago Silva vs. Tomasz Drwal - TKO, Round 1 Dennis Siver vs. Naoyuki Kotani - Submission, Round 1 Anthony "The Crush" Torres vs. Jess "Joker" Liaudin - Decision

No idea if we're still counting this over here still, since most of us (if not all) are over at mmaplayground... but here's UFC 75 anyways: Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs. Dan "Hollywood" Henderson Mirko Cro Cop vs. Cheick Kongo Michael "The Count" Bisping vs. Matt Hamill Alessio "Legionarius" Sakara vs. Houston Alexander Marcus "The Irish Hand Grenade" Davis vs. Paul Taylor Terry Etim vs. Gleison Tibau Thiago Silva vs. Tomasz Drwal Dennis Siver vs. Naoyuki Kotani Anthony "The Crush" Torres vs. Jess "Joker" Liaudin

Suggestions on scoring changes: Rushing Yards and Receiving yards being different is bad. Make them either both 20 yards per point, or 10 yards, not both. I would also up passing yards to 40 per point, but that's my preference. Same with Defensive TDs, either make that worth 7 points also, or change the rest to 6.

USC has plenty of tough games this year. They could very well go undefeated, and they could just as easily lose 2 or 3 games.

On the heels of their first fighter rankings, comes Sherdog's Pound-for-Pound rankings!

Randy "The Natural" Couture© vs. Gabriel "Napao" Gonzaga - Decision Josh Koscheck vs. Georges "Rush" St. Pierre - Decision Joe "Daddy" Stevenson vs. Kurt Pellegrino - Submission, Round 2 Patrick "The Predator" Cote vs. Kendall "Da Spyda" Grove - Submission, Round 1 Renato "Babalu" Sobral vs. David Heath - Submission, Round 2 Marcus "Maximus" Aurelio vs. Clay "The Carpenter" Guida - Submission, Round 2 Alberto Crane vs. Roger "El Matador" Huerta - TKO, Round 2 Antoni Hardonk vs. Frank Mir - Decision Thales Lietes vs. Ryan Jensen - Submission, Round 1

UFC 74: Respect Randy "The Natural" Couture© vs. Gabriel "Napao" Gonzaga Josh Koscheck vs. Georges "Rush" St. Pierre Joe "Daddy" Stevenson vs. Kurt Pellegrino Patrick "The Predator" Cote vs. Kendall "Da Spyda" Grove Renato "Babalu" Sobral vs. David Heath Marcus "Maximus" Aurelio vs. Clay "The Carpenter" Guida Alberto Crane vs. Roger "El Matador" Huerta Antoni Hardonk vs. Frank Mir Thales Lietes vs. Ryan Jensen

Sherdog's first ever fighter rankings!

In as crazedfan.

Only with the big games is it ever a toss up in conference play, there's still obvious winners and losers each week. It's extremely easy to correctly pick 20 out of 21 games each week without spreads.

Spreads should be off for NFL, but on for NCAA. If you think otherwise, you're just a pansy.

<3 more Gina Carano.

Dammit, if I didn't miss UFC 72, I'd be in 3rd place now.

Well, just got back from UFC 73. There wasn't a super-awesome fight, but they were all solid. I'd say Nogueira/Herring was fight of the night, I thought in the first round it was going to be Gonzaga/Cro Cop II for a second, and Minotauro was still shaken for the last 30 seconds or so, but he ended up dominating the last two rounds. Herring was pretty much running away from him the last round and a half and had nothing left in the tank at all. Not all that strong a debut for Nogueira, but I can't wait until his next fight. Sherk/Franca was the worst fight of the night. Typical Sherk match, it was a bit better in person than I would imagine on TV, there were some nice reversals from Franca, but Sherk completely dominated and overpowered Franca. Franca landed a knee strike in just about every round when Sherk shot in, but it didn't do a thing, and he had a couple guillotine chokes in also, but Sherk survived and just sat on top of Franca the whole fight. Crowd got bored and started booing. Silva/Marquardt was good for while it lasted, Silva was so crisp and accurate with all his strikes, and when he had Marquardt on the ground, he just landed all his punches and the fight was over. And finally... Tito/Rashad. Very disappointed that it ended in a draw, but we'll likely get a rematch which is good, because the fight wasn't all that great. The crowd was ridiculous during the fight though, the reaction towards both fighters, especially Tito though, was deafening. Ortiz was, if I may borrow a wrestling term, super over, and the crowd was rabid both for and against him. None of the prelims were all that great, Edgar/Bocek was probably the best fight. Lytle scored a great submission for a win with almost like a reverse triangle sorta thing while getting his arm in a keylock or something at the same time. Saraiva/Gurgel was slow. Second round had some really good action, including a great slugfest, but the first and third were really slow and boring. And Bonnar/Nickels was a pretty standard affair. They also put on Florian/Robinson as the very last fight, I would imagine just in case both title fights went the distance and they wouldn't have had enough time at the end of the PPV, so probably about a third of the crowd ended up leaving after the Silva/Marquardt fight. But it was a good fight, both men had some nice, crisp tosses and throws. Also, I don't know if it was changed, but the fight was announced at the end as a win by TKO for Florian, it looked like Robinson was about to tap from strikes, but got knocked out before he could and the ref ended the fight. Florian called out Sherk basically after his win, asking the crowd, "Who wants to see lightweights finish their fights?" and said he wants another shot at the title. I think Huerta's probably ahead of him though.

Only 4 more days, and I'm at this live. You can all be jealous now. UFC Middleweight Championship: Anderson Silva© vs. Nate Marquardt - TKO, Round 4 UFC Lightweight Championship: Sean Sherk© vs. Hermes Franca - TKO, Round 3 Rashad Evans vs. Tito Ortiz - Decision Heath Herring vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira - Submission, Round 2 Kenny Florian vs. Alvin Robinson - Submission, Round 2 Stephan Bonnar vs. Mike Nickels - Submission, Round 1 Jason Gilliam vs. Chris Lytle - Submission, Round 1 Jorge Gurgel vs. Diego Saraiva - Decision Mark Bocek vs. Frank Edgar - Decision Also, Raistlin, you have both Evans and Ortiz bolded.

In UFC news, I got my tickets for UFC 73 today, w00t!

Jens Pulver vs. BJ Penn - Decision Roger Huerta vs. Doug Evans - TKO, Round 1 Allen Berube vs. Leonard Garcia -Submission, Round 1 Thales Leites vs. Floyd Sword - TKO, Round 2 Manvel Gamburyan vs. Nate Diaz - Decision Brandon Melendez vs. Joe Lauzon - TKO, Round 2 Cole Miller vs. Andy Wang - Submission, Round 2 Rob Emerson vs. Gray Maynard - Decision Matt Wiman vs. Brian Geraghty - TKO, Round 1

Sam Stout Vs. Spencer Fisher - Decision Roan Carneiro Vs. Jon Fitch - TKO, Round 1 Jordan Radev Vs. Drew McFedries - TKO, Round 2 Jason Black Vs. Thiago Tavares - TKO, Round 1 Forrest Petz Vs. Luigi Fioravanti - Decision Tamdan McCrory Vs. Pete Spratt - TKO, Round 2 Jeff Cox Vs. Gleison Tibau - Submission, Round 1 Anthony Johnson Vs. Chad Reiner - Submission, Round 2 Luke Caudillo Vs. Nate Mohr - TKO, Round 1

Well at least they're consistent...

Just letting you know, ticket prices for UFC events are staggering at best.

Chuck Liddell Vs. Quinton Jackson - KO, Round 3 Terry Martin Vs. Ivan Salaverry - Submission, Round 2 Josh Burkman Vs. Karo Parisyan - Decision Houston Alexander Vs. Keith Jardine - TKO, Round 1 Kalib Starnes Vs. Chris Leben - KO, Round 2 Thiago Silva Vs. James Irwin - Decision Sean Salmon Vs. Alan Belcher - Decision Jeremy Stephens Vs. Din Thomas - Submission, Round 1 Carmelo Marrero Vs. Wilson Gouveia - Submission, Round 2

I think GSP would destroy Koscheck...

Bwahaha, those GIFs rule.

Randy is also apparently going to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated soon as well. UFC and MMA in general is just absolutely exploding.