UFC 73: Stacked 7-7-07

[Kimo]

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Maint Event:

Middleweight Title
Anderson "Spider" Silva vs Nate "The Great" Marquardt

Lightweight Title
Sean "Muscle Shark" Sherk vs Hermes Franca

Tito "Huntington Beach Bad Boy" Ortiz vs Rashad Evans

Kenny "Ken-Flo" Florian vs Alvin Robinson

Heath "Texas Crazy Horse" Herring vs Antonio "Minotauro" Rodrigo Noguiera

Mike Nickels vs Stephan "American Psycho" Bonner

Diego Saraiva vs Jorge Gurgel

Chris "Lights Out" Lytle vs Jason Gilliam (replaces Drew Fickett"

Mark Bocek vs Frank Edgar

[KtodaC]

Silva
Sherk
Ortiz
Florian
Nog
Bonnar
Gurgel
Fickett
Edgar

[Kimo]

Marquardt
Franca
Ortiz
KenFlo
Nog
Nickels
Gurgel
Ficket
Edgar

[Kimo]

how can you not care about Bocek vs Edgar??

Bocek is that guy that tore up ADCC this year and Edgar is the only guy to beat Tyson Griffin, thats going to be a great fight

[Gonzo]

holy shit i had no clue nog was on this card and fighting herring... shit

this card is stacked like a bitch lol

man i don't keep up with mma as much as i used to but shit this whole card is great... infact it almost looks like a pride card... where almost everybody is well known

Silva
Sherk
Ortiz
Florian
Nog
Bonnar
Gurgel
Fickett
Edgar

so pretty much every pick you made i agree with accept lytle and fickett... i think lights out will win that one and i want franca to beat sherk but i don't think he will

[Kimo]

card updated

Jason Gilliam replaces Drew Fickett

[UziMachine]

silva
ortiz
Nog
franca :cool:

[Gonzo]

franca lost :(

[KtodaC]

Fuckin Tito gave away a win. Tito will rape him in a rematch. Notice how Tito gave Rashad nothing but props after the fight and Evans just flapped his black lips. I know how everyone hates Tito cause he talks, but Tito only does that BEFORE the fight to get inside his opponents head so they get off their game plan, and look at all his post fight interviews he is always a classy guy. Fuck the haters.

Anderson Silva will not be beat for a long time, neither will Sherk, unless he fights BJ

[Gonzo]

Man it looked to be an exciting card when Heath KOed Nog. Then it got a little boring and picked up with the Main event excitment.

you mean "knocked down" if he had koed nog he would of won the fight

i think that will be the last time we see heath in a match in the ufc... kinda sucks to because i like him

Fuckin Tito gave away a win. Tito will rape him in a rematch. Notice how Tito gave Rashad nothing but props after the fight and Evans just flapped his black lips. I know how everyone hates Tito cause he talks, but Tito only does that BEFORE the fight to get inside his opponents head so they get off their game plan, and look at all his post fight interviews he is always a classy guy. Fuck the haters.

Anderson Silva will not be beat for a long time, neither will Sherk, unless he fights BJ

tito always does that

tito talks tons of shit before the fight and then when the fight is done he gives respect to the guy even if he has a shirt that bad mouths the person who he fought

i agree on sherk, but at the sametime i find it strange that this is the 3rd time sherk has fought 5 rounds in the ufc

i don't want to say all he does is lay and prey but god damn 3rd time and 3 title fights? sure one was with hughes and he lost it but still thats 3 title fights and they all went to the score cards... i want to see him finish somebody in a title fight before 5 rounds

[KtodaC]

I dont like Kenny Florian anymore after his comments after the fight about finishing fights. If he always finishes fights then why didnt he finish Sean Sherk? Ah thats right stfu Florian.

[Kimo]

anybody know why the Florian fight was last??
I didnt see the beginning when I got to the place its was the middle of round 2 Nog vs Herring

No way did Rashad win that fight, the judges should have still givin it to Tito regardless
I see them rematching on Spike TV probably when Swick rematches Leben before TUF 6 premiere

I really wanted Marquardt to win :( but Anderson hits like a brick wall, go Franklin =D

I was going for Hermes, Sherk lay n pray :no: i hope Roger Huerta or BJ Penn beats him

Eh i like Bonnar and Nickels it was make or break for both of them

cant wait to see Bocek vs Edgar

did yall see that Lytle submission of the night wow

[Gonzo]

i did not know swick and leben were going to have a rematch... about time i guess

[KtodaC]

I used to like Rashad and I actually expected Rashad to come out throwin some bombs, but he didnt look like he wanted to fight Tito, and I never noticed the size difference until the weigh ins. Tito needs to stop training with these nobodys and get Team Punishment back together fully again with Rampage and Riccoa nd all those motherfuckers so he can get back into it. But at the same time I dunno if I want Tito going for a title shot cause Rampage and Tito are both my favorites I dunno if I could watch taht fight. Even tho that would be a damn good one.

[Gonzo]

ricco sucks now... training with him is a bad move if tito went that route

ricco don't want to lose the weight he has put on he looks unhealthy and god awful and he pisses me off because he was such a good fighter and pretty much just threw it all away after he lost to sylvia

[Kimo]

Ricco left himself go pretty bad, too much partying not enough training

last I heard when he faught Ron Waterman was that he wanted to get back in shape and return to the UFC :( i hope he does

[Gonzo]

i have been hearing he wants to get back in shape for like 2 and a half years... i gave up on him

[UziMachine]

tito was shit, and so was the card. :no:

[KtodaC]

tito was shit, and so was the card. :no:
I agree Tito didn't have his best performance, but Rashad kept dancing around and staying away from Tito, there was nothing really for Tito to do when Rashad kept running awya.

[KtodaC]

I agree for the most part, but it can also be argued that Tito was scared and or atleast preventing the fight from taking off too. Remember he did after all lose a point for holding the fence. So the point is he did it more than once. Had Rashad been able to take Tito down if Tito hadnt cheated the fight might have been more exciting.

I only saw that happen twice, and the second time (when he got the point taken away) Rashad did actually take him down and Tito ended up getting in a solid gullitne.

[Gonzo]

nog vs cro cop... idk if i want to see that next

i think nog should fight the winner of randy/gonzaga or the loser... one of them... maybe have nog fight the loser and have fedor fight the winner?

[Kimo]

throw in Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovsky into the mix

there are sooo many possibilities right now

[KtodaC]

^No, dont throw in Tim Sylvia, well actually, yes do throw him in there as Fedors first opponent so Fedor can offically end the walrus' career.

[Gonzo]

^No, dont throw in Tim Sylvia, well actually, yes do throw him in there as Fedors first opponent so Fedor can offically end the walrus' career.

^ what they said

[UziMachine]

I agree Tito didn't have his best performance, but Rashad kept dancing around and staying away from Tito, there was nothing really for Tito to do when Rashad kept running awya.

I really don't know what to say about tito any more. He barely beat forest griffin...now he draws with rashad evans (both from tuf!!). He could not take rashad evans down. I bought into the rashad evans hype, but he looked like an amateur out there and tito could not do a thing about it. Tito also gassed...easy fight for rampage.

Heath had Nog TKOed, fights have been stopped and declared TKO's on lesser damage done.


Here's why the fight wasn't stopped. Nog's chin is LEGENDARY. The ref is not going to stop the fight unless he is out cold or near death. When Heath went to finish it, it was obvious nog was defending himself.

[Kimo]

yes i did mean, throw in Sylvia in there as a oppenent for someone like Fedor

oh and Brandon Vera :wtf:

although it will be very interesting to see if Sylvia's size will play to his advantage against Fedor and coming off a lose, he might just be fired up and his old self :aim-shocked:

[UziMachine]

I think if Heath had just stayed down and made it atleast "look bad" the fight would have been stopped. Nogs chin WAS legendary. Im not sure if thats what the ref was thinking though, but could have been. I think it was more just the fact that Nog is such a high profile fighters, thats when you tend to see the refs let it go a little longer than other fights.

yes...but then everyone would be bitching about an early stoppage. I know i would!

[Gonzo]

although it will be very interesting to see if Sylvia's size will play to his advantage against Fedor and coming off a lose, he might just be fired up and his old self :aim-shocked:

:aim-doubt:

i hope thats a joke considering fedor has fought guys like semmy

[Kimo]

yea but semmy's ground game and takedown defense suck
plus nobody expected Fedor to be that good

[UziMachine]

yep!^...and man, fedor would KILL tim sylvia. c'mon

[Kimo]

I'd rather see Vera/Cro Cop or Vera/Nog, Nog/Cro Cop II would be a step down for Big Nog

[Gonzo]

yea but semmy's ground game and takedown defense suck

so does tims

[Kimo]

he trains with Militich :que: