UFC 113: MAY 8, 2010 venue: Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Main Bouts (On Pay-Per-View): -Lyoto Machida (16-0; #1 Light Heavyweight) vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (18-4; #3 Light Heavyweight) -Josh Koscheck (14-4; #4 Welterweight) vs. Paul Daley (23-8-2; #5 Welterweight) -Jeremy Stephens (16-5) vs. Sam Stout (15-5-1) -Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson (4-1) vs. Matt Mitrione (1-0) -Alan Belcher (15-6) vs. Patrick Cote (13-5) Preliminary Bouts (Non-Televised): -Joe Doerksen (44-12) vs. Tom Lawlor (6-2) -Jonathan Goulet (22-10) vs. Marcus Davis (16-6) -Yoshiyuki Yoshida (11-4) vs. Mike Guymon (11-3-1) -Tim Hague (10-3) vs. Joey Beltran (11-3) -T.J. Grant (15-3) vs. Johny Hendricks (7-0) -Jason MacDonald (24-13) vs. John Salter (4-1) UFC 114: MAY 29, 2010 venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Main Bouts (On Pay-Per-View): -Rashad Evans (14-1-1; #2 Light Heavyweight)* vs. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (30-7; #4 Light Heavyweight)* -Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (18-3; #7 Light Heavyweight)* vs. Forrest Griffin (17-6; #8 Light Heavyweight)* -Michael Bisping (18-3) vs. Dan Miller (11-3) -Todd Duffee (6-0) vs. Mike Russow (12-1) -Diego Sanchez (21-3) vs. John Hathaway (12-0) Preliminary Bouts (On Spike TV): -Dong Hyun Kim (12-0-1) vs. Amir Sadollah (3-1) -Efrain Escudero (12-1) vs. Dan Lauzon (12-3) Preliminary Bouts (Non-Televised): -Melvin Guillard (23-8-2) vs. Thiago Tavares (14-3-1) -Luis Cane (10-2) vs. Cyril Diabate (15-6-1) -Joe Brammer (7-1-1) vs. Aaron Riley (28-12-1) -Jesse Forbes (11-4) vs. Ryan Jensen (14-6) UFC 115: JUNE 12, 2010 venue: General Motors Palace in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Main Bouts (On Pay-Per-View): -Chuck Liddell (21-7) vs. Rich Franklin (26-5) -Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic (26-7-2) vs. Pat Barry (5-1) -Martin Kampmann (16-3) vs. Paulo Thiago (13-1) -Carlos Condit (24-5; #10 Welterweight)* vs. Rory MacDonald (10-0) -Tyson Griffin (14-2) vs. Evan Dunham (10-0) Preliminary Bouts (Non-Televised): -Mac Danzig (19-7-1) vs. Matt Wiman (11-5) -Ben Rothwell (30-7) vs. Gilbert Yvel (36-14-1) -James Wilks (6-3) vs. Peter Sobotta (8-2) -Claude Patrick (11-1) vs. Ricardo Funch (7-1) -Mike Pyle (18-7-1) vs. Jesse Lennnox (11-2) ULTIMATE FIGHTER 11 LIVE FINALE: JUNE 19 ON SPIKE TV venue: The Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada -Ultimate Fighter 11 Finals -Chris Leben (19-6) vs. Aaron Simpson (7-0) -James McSweeney (4-4) vs. Travis Browne (9-0) -Spencer Fisher (23-5) vs. Dennis Siver (15-7) -John Gunderson (22-7) vs. Paul Taylor (10-5-1) UFC 116: JULY 3, 2010 venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada -Brock Lesnar (4-1; #2 Heavyweight)* vs. Shane Carwin (12-0; #3 Heavyweight)* -Wanderlei Silva (33-10-1) vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama (13-1; #10 Middleweight) -Roy Nelson (15-4) vs. Cheick Kongo (15-6-1) -Stephan Bonnar (11-7) vs. Krzysztof Soszynski (19-9-1) -Kurt Pellegrino (16-4) vs. George Sotiropoulos (12-2) -Nate Marquardt (29-9-2; #5 Middleweight)* vs. Alessio Sakara (15-7) -Jon Madsen (5-0) vs. Karlos Vemola (7-0) UFC ON VERSUS 2: AUGUST 1, 2010 venue: EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah -Jon Jones (10-1; #8 Light Heavyweight) vs. Vladimir Matyushenko (24-4) -Joe Stevenson (31-11) vs. Takanori Gomi (31-6) -John Howard (14-4) vs. Jake Ellenberger (22-5) UFC 117: AUGUST 7, 2010 venue: Oracle Arena in Oakland, California -Anderson Silva (26-4; #1 Middleweight & #5 Light Heavyweight)* vs. Chael Sonnen (24-10-1; #2 Middleweight)*†-Jon Fitch (22-3; #2 Welterweight)* vs. Thiago Alves (16-6; #3 Welterweight)* UFC 118: AUGUST 28, 2010 venue: TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts -Frankie Edgar (12-1; #1 Lightweight)* vs. B.J. Penn (15-6-1; #2 Lightweight)* -Randy Couture (18-10) vs. James Toney (0-0) -Kenny Florian (13-4; #5 Lightweight) vs. Gray Maynard (9-0; #8 Lightweight) -Joe Lauzon (18-5) vs. TBA TFK
Dana is really being an idiot IMO. Way too many events lately which is watering down the cards. They need to go back to 1 card a month to ensure stacked cards.
QFT UFC 115, the VS card, TUF finale are pretty crappy. The rest are decent. I'm really stoked for Rampage/Rashad and Toney/Couture. There are other solid fights like Koschek/Daley and Fitch/Alves and Carwin/Lesnar. I'm looking forward to those as well. I'm kind of surprised that Jon Jones isn't fighting someone of a higher caliber. It does look like they are trying to make him the poster boy for the VS network fights.
I'm definately not complaining. They are all decent cards. I'm just used to the stacked cards of the past between both UFC and Pride.
My biggest complain is that there will be 3 PPVs in 35 days ( UFC 113, 114, 115) and then again another 3 within 2 months with UFC 116,117,118.:doh:
right there with you Joe. way to many in such a short amount of time. Half of the fights on those PPV's should be on versus or spike. Bob is right on as well. If they pulled back the reins to one a month and filled in with fight night shows on Spike and VS they would be much better cards. No one complains of C and B fighters on free cable, but when you put them on PPV's people get the feeling they are getting robbed.
BJ is getting an RE pretty quick and I really thought Couture V Toney was a joke. Gotta agree with BnW - one of the attractions to the UFC was the stacked cards - it's almost as bad as boxing these days.
