UFC on Fuel TV 6: Franklin vs. Le

Alright guys, here's the rules, you simply post your picks here. I don't see any need for it to be a secret, I doubt anyone is copying anyone's picks and no one is right 100% of the time anyway. So this is the honor system. Post your picks and the only rule is that there's no editing of your post the day of the event. If you post your picks early and decide you want to change a pick after the weigh-in, go ahead, just don't edit your post the day of the event.

Rich Franklin vs. Cung Le

Stanislav Nedkov vs. Thiago Silva

Dong Hyum Kim vs. Paulo Thiago

Mac Danzig vs. Takanori Gomi

Jon Tuck vs. Tiequan Zhang

Jeff Hougland vs. Takeya Mizugaki

 

I'm not one to pick after weigh-ins so I'll start off.

Franklin over Le

Silva over Nedkov

Kim over Thiago

Danzig over Gomi

Tuck over Zhang

Mizugaki over Houghland

 

After looking a few different sites, there seems to be some confusion over which fights are on the main card and which are the prelims, I've seen one site that shows the Mizugaki fight on the prelims and showing the Caceres fight on the main card. I'm not 100% certain so we'll see what happens with the Mazugaki fight as we get closer to the weekend. I'll edit that one if I need to.

 

haha, i remember folks were saying that ancient shamrock was going to walk through franklin. i thought he was a scrub too, but he turned out to have a pretty damn good career for a former school teacher.

 

MY pics are in

 

What do I get when I win?

 

Fame, fortune and riches if you bet with the bookies.

 

For the record, if you want to pick the round and the way the fight ends, that's cool but not a requirement. Obviously anyone that does that and manages to hit them all is clearly psychic. ::

 

Rich Franklin
Thiago Silva
Paulo Thiago
Takanori Gomi
Jon Tuck
Takeya Mizugaki

 

I do it just to see if I can guess it right , do you want how they win or straight up just who beats who?

 

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Damn, what an upset, Le looked fat, plodding,old and slow yet managed to catch Franklin with a knock out punch in the first round. Rich should be ashamed of himself

 

CUNGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Franklin is done. It's sad but the wars and the late career weight changes have finished him. The dude used to have a cast iron chin, but it hasn't been the same since getting drilled by Belfort.

The big winner of the night was probably Stun Gun who bounced back nicely from the injury loss to Maia. He easily out grappled a pretty good BJJ blackbelt in Thiago. It was possibly the biggest win of his UFC career, and he actually made it look easy.

And from a prospect standpoint, Jon Tuck was impressive. I liked the way he fought on TUF after dislocating his toe so it was good to see him have an actual UFC fight. Even though his opponent, Zhang Tiequan is essentially garbage, Tuck so the high level BJJ that got him the spot on TUF in the first place.

 

Sad to see Franklin lose like that. Le is not on his level as a MMA fighter, but all it takes is one punch. That was a sick KO though.

 

Just before this fight he was talking about a couple more fights and then he's ready to take on Anderson Silva again. He has some thinking to do. I doubt he retires.

 

:mut:

 

kim's very good. he graduated from an elite judo school in korea and has never been outgrappled. that loss to maia was kinda flukish and unfortunate, but he probably would've gotten cut had he lost to thiago. thiago's probably gonna get cut though.

 

How much mma/ufc do you have to watch to know that Rich Franklin is probably only one win away from fighting Anderson Silva, assuming it is the right win? The nature of the sport is that shot fighters and non-shot fighters are still vulnerable to getting brutally kayoed in any given fight.

While it's reasonable to think he's shot, it's also reasonable to believe otherwise, particularly if he picks up a quality win now.

 

true. wanderlei got knocked the fuck out by leben, but got a decent win over cung le in his very next fight, that got him to headline vs. franklin in brazil.

although, no way in hell would franklin have gotten a shot at silva considering he got completely obliterated in their first two outings. had he won though, he probably would've headlined another event against the likes of bisping or weidman.

 

even if he would have blitzed le, franklin would never get the chance to fight Anderson again unless he totally cleans up the challenger at mw. that means 2 years of wins vs the Weidman, Boetsh and Belcher of the world. Wasn't gonna happen in anyway.

. And I totally disagree with Tsplc that Franklin is shot, he may be slightly past his prime but I don't think he ever had a rock solid chin. just that he fought garbage opponents during his reign who couldn't catch him consistently. Imo Cung is far more shot than Franklin is. I know that it may seem strange considering he won in the 1st round but to me, that was the perfect definition of a lucky punch and he was looking awful up to then

 

Call REED Crazy, but he Thinks a Cung Le vs. Anderson Silva Bout would Be FUN (& Undeniably MARKETABLE) for as Looooooooooong as it Lasted...Silva's CONFIDENT Enough in his Own Skills to Conceivably Try to BEAT Cung Le @ his Own Game...

Silva TKO 2 in an ENTERTAINING Fight...

REED:hammert:

 

I like Cung Le, so I'd rather see him fight someone he actually has a chance of beating.

 

I feel ya, but I really don't see Cung Le competitive with anyone in the top 5 for a title shot. BUT, because of styles, I can see Le/Silva fun to watch while it lasts. And maybe, just maybe, for that fight he trains. And if you make the fight now, after that win over Franklin, it actually makes a bit of sense.

 

That was a beaut of a KO, and a nice right hook. CUNGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!