Comments on: UFC 81 Predictions - What we are betting on

By: admin

admin — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:26:53 +0000

Good round of predictions! Some were spot on, others not. But all were at least the correct victors. Hope all of you bet on them like we did Fun night of fights! Especially the Nogueira fight. Damn that boy can take a beating!

Mir got a good pounding too before finally getting the foot lock. Very nice win for him, but I think it does prove that Lesnar could be a great heavyweight once he learns better ground defense.

By: George

George — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:52:28 +0000

Ha! Funny name ‘onthefence’. I’ll disagree,tho. Noguera wins this one no doubt in my mind. Sylvia could get lucky, but Noguera is too good for that. Griffin kicks Tibau’s butt - don’t forget he just fought a fighter from the same camp recently and beat him. Brock loses to Mir and all wrestling fans will be crying. Horn will beat Marquardt despite everything thinking otherwise.

By: onthefence

onthefence — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:56:59 +0000

Suitable enough name?

I am ‘on the fence’ about a couple of these fights. Sylvia / Nogueira for one. I just get this feeling that Sylvia is going to rock Nogueira with one of his long-reach strikes.

I am also ‘on the fence’ about the Griffin / Tibau fight. I think this one will be a lot tougher than most people seem to think. Yep, Griffin is awesome. However, Tibau is really a larger fighter who dropped weight to get into this division. I think he is stronger and just as aggressive a fighter. This could be an upset.

The rest…

Brock to win by KO (lucky punch) - Yeah, I said it…. a punch. He is very strong and may get lucky.

Marquardt to beat Horn. Horn is tough, but not enough.

By: newbie

newbie — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:23:47 +0000

Yeah, good point about ‘anything can happen’. I am going to bet on Sylvia and Mir so far. Not that I have confidence 100%, but my gut says that will be the result.

Definitely the Griffen/Rua fight was crazy. Rua looked tired as hell and Griffin had enough energy for the both of them. I really had Rua winning that fight (as did the whole world, I think). Shows just how unpredictable the fights can be!

By: Rajiv

Rajiv — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:51:21 +0000

i think the predictions given are acurate. when we look at past fights of nougeira hes fought much bigger and much taller opponents before and beaten them. but sylvia is one bad ass mother, so it wont be the same, and besides in my opinion nougeira aint the fighter he used to be, so who knows sylvia might end victorious. UFC is really unpredictable so we will never know till the end, after the Griffin vs Rua fight i stopped predicting as i knew that in MMA anything can happen.

By: newbie

newbie — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:02:54 +0000

Hello - new here Relatively new to UFC fighting, but love watching it.

While I am not an expert at all - I do tend to over-research everything I talk about, so it can’t be too bad, right?

I think Sylvia is a little better than given credit here. He has taken care of a few opponents when he was definitely the underdog. AND he has really good takedown defense (although that didn’t help him with Frank Mir). I think he may be able to hold off Nogueira all the way to the end - and if that happens, Sylvia will win by decision.

I think you have the Frank Mir fight picked well, though. Brock is a big man, but not really that much bigger than Frank if the specs are right above (which appear to be identical to the ufc81 site. Remember, he will likely cut weight (wrestler style) before the fight. I think that it will still take Frank a while to get the submission due to Brock’s wrestling ability - so I think it will be a later round - maybe round 2 before Mir finally submits Lesnar.

Well — that’s it for the newbie’s picks! hahah. I hope nobody bets based upon my picks, but that is actually what I am going to bet on.

newbie!