UFC on FOX 2 Results
On Saturday Jan 28th, the Ultimate Fighting Championships returned to prime-time Fox, for the first time in the year 2012.
The headlines were all pretty good ones; mostly setting us up for the really big one in late April, when the winners of these bouts would earn the right to face to face the champion in their respective divisions.
The first fight at Middleweight was a classic athlete vs technique bout, with the young and explosive wrestler Chris Weidmann facing off against Demian Maia, who is likely the very best Brazilian Jiu-jitsu fighter in all of mixed-martial arts. Maia is a technical master when it comes to the famous derivative of Japanese judo, having won World Championships at levels far greater than anything seen in the UFC.
Unfortunately, none of that would come to the fore in this lackluster bout; plagued by exhausted fighters throwing lackluster punches with little technique. The fatigue seemed to set in after only a round, due probably to misjudged weight-cuts leading up to the bout.
Weidman was the more accurate and forceful fighter, however; successfully body-slamming the ground-master a couple of times to secure the decision victory. The only two things that were certain was that the UFC can’t afford to have fights on Fox Sports where the crowd is booing halfway through, and there’s no way that either one of the fighters’ names is a draw unless matched up as a sacrificial lamb to an Anderson Silva.
Concerning the Middleweight King Anderson Silva, the next Middleweight bout in Saturday’s line-up was to determine who would directly face Silva, who hasn’t been beaten in a fight in fully eight years (though he faced a disqualification 6 years ago).
Phenomenal wrestler Chael Sonnen faced off against brash British striker Michael Bisping in a contender match. Much more exciting than the first Middleweight bout of the evening, Sonnen and Bisping brought in serious credentials and buildup; Sonnen had put on a steroid-aided beating on none other than Anderson Silva, before the martial artist submitted him in the closing seconds of the final round with a triangle-choke.
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