UFC Fight Night 24: Nogueira vs. Davis

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Main Card

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Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Phil Davis
Dan Hardy vs. Anthony Johnson
DaMarques Johnson vs. Amir Sadollah
Leonard Garcia vs. Chan Sung Jung

Preliminary Card

Alex Caceres vs. Mackens Semerzier
Jon Madsen vs. Mike Russow
John Hathaway vs. Kris McCray
Sean McCorkle vs. Christian Morecraft
Mario Miranda vs. Aaron Simpson
Johny Hendricks vs. T.J. Waldburger
Nik Lentz vs. Waylon Lowe​

This is on March 26th and is free!

It is huge that we are getting Lil Nog vs Phil Davis for free, I would pay to see that. Davis is one for the future and I believe that he can be a contender for the LHW title. I think that he will beat Lil Nog here and hopefully he gets another big challenge for his next fight. I really want to see Jones vs Davis for the title.

Dan Hardy, after losing his title shot against GSP, he is coming off another loss against Condit. Johnson is coming off a loss to Josh Koscheck. Both fighters are up there in the welterweight division and a win here will put them back onto the PPV cards.

What do you think of the card?

 

[Deezy]

Phil Davis is being groomed into the next Jon Jones, which means Lil Nog is goiong to be used as a stepping stone, since Tito bitched out of a fight again. Lil Nog couldn't handle Baders takedowns, and I don't see him beign able to handle Mr Wonderfuls.

Leonard Garcia has atleast another rematch to look forward to after this one. They had an epic slugfest that duped a bunch of people into watching Faber lose to Aldo. Should be good, Garcia actually gets a decent training camp instead of short notice fights. Korean Zombie should've learned how to put his hands up to protect himself.

Anthony Johnson better make weight, that dude is a legit heavyweight. Dan Hardy........meh.

 

[Dademo]

I can't wait for KZ vs. Garcia II, and I don't expect much different from the first.

I like Phil Davis, do I think he is the next Jon Jones? (Weird to say) No, but I see him dominating Lil Nog in this fight and then maybe taking on Bader or someone in the top 10 in that division. I think Lil Nog is in the top 10 in the LHW division though.

This is do or die for Dan Hardy though, although he does get people riled up for him fighting his talk, he hasn't been doing much before this fight.

 

[Deezy]

•Phil Davis def. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
•Anthony Johnson vs. Dan Hardy via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)
•Amir Sadollah def. DaMarques Johnson via submission (strikes) - Round 2, 3:27
•Chan Sung Jung def. Leonard Garcia via submission (twister) - Round 2, 4:59

So Phil Davis shows that he is still a work in progress and Lil Nog did look alot better than he did in his last two fights, but still when Davis switched from double leg to single leg takedowns, it spelled the end for Lil Nog in the fight. Wasn't terribly exciting, but it was a solid main event. Davis should get another top ten in his next fight, preferably one he could takedown, since it was evident that striking wasn't his strong suit.

Dan Hardy, better work on his takedown defense and sweeps if he wants to ever be successful in the UFC again. His ground game was nothing more than working for a kimura and you're not going to get it on someone as strong as Johnson. Johnson looked to be in good condition and after a year and a half long layoff, showed no real signs of rust.

Amir and Darkness had a good scrap going before Demarques got tired and got beat up by Sadollah, bare in mind that DeMarques took the fight on two weeks notice. Did pretty good for himself.

Zombie and Garcia didn't repeat their first encounter, but had a good little fight before KZ got it to the ground, Garcia didn't have an answer and got twisted into tapping. Looked like an Abdominal Stretch.

 

[Dademo]

I liked last night's event.

I think Phil Davis could become very successful in the UFC, no doubt. I'd like to see him face someone like Ryan Bader with wrestling skills like his before he faces any major opponents at LHW.

Dan Hardy went in their expecting to stand in bang like AJ said, but regardless, he needs to work on his TDD, he should have learned that from the GSP fight anyways. I'm not blaming AJ for using his strength to win this fight anyways.

Amir/Damarques was a fun fight, a good brawl to watch as well. Until like Deezy said, Damarques got tired and then tapped to strikes.

once KZ and Leonard Garcia was just getting good, it's taken to the ground. But, a sick submission, a twister, finished the fight, and KZ got a much deserved win.