Gamble All Your Moneyz!: UFC Fight Night 29 Picks

Demian Maia will stop Jake Shields via TKO in 4 rounds.

 

Dong Hyun Kim will take a close/split decision due to superior position (takedowns and top position) 2 out of 3 rounds over Erick Silva. I have a hard time calling this fight b/c I think after the Jon Fitch'ing Silva got he's hopefully learned to work his wrestling. That, and that slam/TKO/injury Dong Hyun Kim endured at the hands of Demian Maia is hard for me to shake out of my mind

Maldonado will dish out slightly more brain damage than Beltran and win a 3rd round TKO over Joey Beltran

TJ Dillashaw will take out the slowly fading Assuncao who had his best days in the WEC

Mike Pierce will drop the ball like he did against Koscheck and Palhares will tear something of his as Pierce frantically tries to tap in the 1st round.

I honestly don't care for any of the other fights on the card.

 

Wednesday's Tournament Proof Grip Breaking: Keenan Cornelius Style

Saw this plugged in over at the Sherdog forum (yes, I admit, I frequent it every few days to keep my pulse on the hater-universe of Jiu-Jitsu forum posting/threads).
Mainly because occasionally someone will throw something up I hadn't come across otherwise.

Made in Brazil: UFC on FX 8: Belfort vs Rockhold May 18

The UFC ventures back to Brazil for an expectedly Brazil-fighter heavy card on May 18th.
It has some compelling match-ups to provide some context for a couple divisions.
Belfort will take a high risk/low reward fight against Strikeforce import/champion Luke Rockhold as Rockhold will move closer to Anderson than I would think Belfort will by beating Rockhold.
Belfort's loss by crane kick to Anderson (though, not less decisive than the way Cain stomped a hole in Bigfoot Silva who now gets a rematch AND a shot at the belt) still makes it hard to get a rematch with the undisputed best of all time Anderson Silva.

Jacare makes his follow up to making quick work of Ed Herman against a limited ground-specialist but relatively dangerous striker on the feet in Constantinos Philippou.
Evan Dunham, who was within a fight of a title shot at one point, takes on the middle of the pack and always close to contention Rafael Dos Anjos.
Paulo Thiago fights on the prelims which is a far cry from his one-time status as having stopped Koshceck decisively.

While not an overly compelling card, for a free card and when you consider the main card of this weekend's PPV, it's not bad at all kind sirs.

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Main Event:

185 lbs.: Vitor Belfort vs. Luke Rockhold

FX Channel Main Card (9 p.m. ET):

185 lbs.: Constantinos Philippou vs. Ronaldo Souza
185 lbs.: Chris Camozzi vs. Rafael Natal
155 lbs.: Rafael dos Anjos vs. Evan Dunham

FUEL TV "Prelims (6 p.m. ET):

145 lbs.: Hacran Dias vs. Nik Lentz
155 lbs.: Mike Rio vs. Francisco Trinaldo
145 lbs.: Yuri Alcantara vs. Iliarde Santos
170 lbs.: Michel Richard dos Prazeres vs. Paulo Thiago
125 lbs.: Azamat Gashimov vs. John Lineker
205 lbs.: Roger Hollett vs. Fabio Maldonado

Facebook "Prelims" (4:30 p.m. ET):

155 lbs.: John Cholish vs. Gleison Tibau
125 lbs.: Chris Cariaso vs. Jussier Formiga
155 lbs.: Jeremy Larsen vs. Lucas Martins"