UFC on Fox Sports 1: Shogun vs. Sonnen

[No More Sorrow]

Main Card
Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Chael Sonnen
Alistair Overeem vs. Travis Browne
Urijah Faber vs. Yuri Alcantara
Thiago Alves vs. Matt Brown
Joe Lauzon vs. Michael Johnson
Uriah Hall vs. Nick Ring

Preliminary Card
Michael McDonald vs. Brad Pickett
Mike Brown vs. Akira Corassani
Diego Brandao vs. Daniel Pineda
Conor McGregor vs. Andy Ogle
Cody Donovan vs. Ovince St. Preux
Ramsey Nijem vs. James Vick
Cole Miller vs. Manny Gamburyan
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[Embrace Thou Maryse]

Very meh Main Event, but the UFC adores Shogun and Chael. It'll either be a wrestlehump from Chael or a plodding, slow, gassed beatdown from Rua, neither possibility interests me.

Looking forward to Reem going all Ubereem back and getting his K1 destroyer aura back.

 

[Dale]

Chael via wrestlefuck and then to cut a promo on the next brazilian to take out

Looks like a fun card anyway

 

[Troy]

Strong card for a free show. I really hope that Overeem actually focusses this fight and gets back to his dominant best, KO Browne. As for the mainevent surely Sonnen wins this, Shogun is a shadow of his former self since that knee injury and I can't see him getting any better. Lauzon vs. Johnson should be a fun fight as well.

 

[Kassidy]

I'm debating on buying tickets; 675$ for 2 lounge seats, Center few of the cage 11th row above floor.

 

[Troy]

Far out, no wonder UFC pull in huge gate receipts. $675 for 2 seats in the 11th row! I assumed that cageside would be expensive but didn't realise that 11th row would be that much as well. In saying that it would be a great experience and you get five hours of fights.

 

[Slim]

Well this show is soon to be on the horizon. Hopefully all the fights are still intact.

 

[No More Sorrow]

Main Card (Fox Sports 1)
Mauricio Rua vs. Chael Sonnen
Alistair Overeem vs. Travis Browne
Urijah Faber vs. Yuri Alcantara
Matt Brown vs. Mike Pyle
Uriah Hall vs. John Howard
Joe Lauzon vs. Michael Johnson

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)
Brad Pickett vs. Michael McDonald
Conor McGregor vs. Max Holloway
Mike Brown vs. Steven Siler
Diego Brando vs. Daniel Pineda

Preliminary Card (Facebook)
Manny Gamburyan vs. Cole Miller
Cody Donovan vs. Ovince St. Preux
Ramsey Nijem vs. James Vick

UFC on Fox Sports 1 is coming up next weekend, predictions anybody? I'll have an official prediction thread up sometime this week. Feel free to give in depth predictions here though.​

 

[Big Red Jericho Punk]

I'm really looking forward to this card, even the last two prelim fights should be great. McGregor has the buzz around him, while Pickett and McDonald are going to be looking for a knockout. Also very smart of the UFC to have lower card fighters like Lauzon, Hall, and Brown on the card. It's somewhat obvious they wanted all three fighters there because they have a lot of buzz around him.

Faber vs Alcantara is the fight on the main card I'm least interested in. Hopefully Alcantara can somewhat challenge Faber, but I doubt it. Overeem better get it together, this is the first time in ages nobody is really talking about his fight. He's a lot of steam over the past six months. Just like Overeem, Shogun needs to get into shape for this fight. I have faith that he'll KO Sonnen since there is no way Shogun will be grounded for five rounds or get submitted.

 

[Slim]

I'm really looking forward to this card, even the last two prelim fights should be great. McGregor has the buzz around him, while Pickett and McDonald are going to be looking for a knockout. Also very smart of the UFC to have lower card fighters like Lauzon, Hall, and Brown on the card. It's somewhat obvious they wanted all three fighters there because they have a lot of buzz around him.

Faber vs Alcantara is the fight on the main card I'm least interested in. Hopefully Alcantara can somewhat challenge Faber, but I doubt it. Overeem better get it together, this is the first time in ages nobody is really talking about his fight. He's a lot of steam over the past six months. Just like Overeem, Shogun needs to get into shape for this fight. I have faith that he'll KO Sonnen since there is no way Shogun will be grounded for five rounds or get submitted.

Shogun did look very very bad against Vera that one time and nearly lost the fight... so I wouldn't put it past him to be grounded for 5 rounds... but I still do see Shogun getting that win.

But as far as Overeem goes... if he doesn't look to try to just clown around like he did with Bigfoot and just look to finish the fight... he should be fine and if impressive enough he could start getting talks back up about him again.

 

[Embrace Thou Maryse]

If Sonnen can fight smart and just take Shogun down there's very little Shogun can do at this point of his career. He'll gas 2 minutes into the fight, then just have to keep on him.

Overeem should win if he just goes for the kill, his tiny gas tank means he should never ever have the coast to a decision gameplan like he had against BigFoot.

 

[Slim]

Shogun could possibly last a bit if it stays standing like he did in the Hendo fight. But Sonnen would be smart to not try to keep the fight standing and try to get him down which he should be rather successful at being able to do.

But yeah Overeem... 1st round KO... he wants to get back in contention and show that he is someone that should be watched.

 

[Big Red Jericho Punk]

I think Overeem needs to finish the fight in the first two rounds. Browne is a workhorse and has plenty of cardio, while Overeem's endurance could be a problem. Not saying he'll get finished, but Browne could do serious damage if it goes to the third round.

Absolutely agree, thankfully it's not a three round fight. If it was three rounds, Sonnen would likely win. I like Shogun's chances.

 

[The Cork]

Shogun is shot and has shit TDD, he will he dumped on his ass time and time again until the bell rings or he gives up, whichever is first.

Reem will prol banana skin again. Going for Browne there.

Faber wins via squash.

Matt Brown UD.

Uriah Who Cares.

Lauzon gets FOTN as always.

 

[Big Red Jericho Punk]

I write up for an MMA site and wrote up a preview with one of my co-workers in JP. Check it out, it's mostly a breakdown of the main card.

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