Sugar Rashad Evans can not get no love. He 4-1 in his last five with the lone loss coming to blows, now and in the former champion Lyoto Machida ERP. Three of those four wins were more than ever a fan of my favorites: Chuck Liddell, Forrest Griffin and Rampage Jackson, so it's difficult to win the masses. His style of wrestling, he first made the most exciting moment in time 50% of his victories coming via decision.
To top it all off, his only opportunity to turn a corner like Champ potentially present the player the fans favorite, Jon Jones (You know, the kind of guy who was in his field, teammates, coaches, and began to rub the MMA fan base in the wrong way for his ego) comes the first window for Phil Davis, a young rising star from which no one outside of hard fans really cared, and that really helped his career as a player, and then Tito Ortiz ... Davis steps down after it injured and is unlikely to come, late-in-his-career loser, so you become Rashad, I'm sorry pro wrestling parlance, 'heel' again.
Yes, that last sentence is grammatically incorrect execution, but I wrote what I said, and is now out of breath. The last time Evans and Ortiz fought has been declared invalid after Ortiz lost points to grab the fence so there is some history, what makes this game more marketable as the fight Davis / Evans. Evans is a fighter different this time. Yes, the fight is its base (which is Tito), but he proved he has great movement and quick hands. Now Tito shocking first round guillotine victory over Ryan Bader was very exciting, and although he has not had a gain of five years until he was always just been completed due to strikes by Chuck Liddell, so I can not see Evans landing a big bomb which is quite interesting, did Liddell. Instead, it goes to the scorecards and sets winner of Evans vs. Jones / Rampage for the belt next spring.
Vitor Belfort vs Yoshihiro Akiyama (middleweight)
After losing his title fight in UFC Anderson Silva's 126 through the front kick Steven Segal Doom, Belfort was given the opportunity to recover Akiyama, a fighter who does not regret giving it difficult for poor performance (a split-decision victory in his debut in Alan Belcher at UFC 100 followed by the final lap to recover losses to Chris Leben and Michael Bisping) against the high expectations of their arrival in America. In other words, and I think I mentioned before, I think Akiyama is more suited to welterweight and provide some interesting battles in 170, but hey, I'm just a keyboard "warrior" in this site and not to Joe Silva. Belfort is bigger, stronger and has better feet. While you can use your skills Akiyama world-class judo, Belfort a black belt in judo and BJJ two and will not be intimidated easily.
In addition, after the coup before Segal, I think Belfast is quite upset and tries to make a statement (though, based on past behavior, we can never be too sure).
To top it all off, his only opportunity to turn a corner like Champ potentially present the player the fans favorite, Jon Jones (You know, the kind of guy who was in his field, teammates, coaches, and began to rub the MMA fan base in the wrong way for his ego) comes the first window for Phil Davis, a young rising star from which no one outside of hard fans really cared, and that really helped his career as a player, and then Tito Ortiz ... Davis steps down after it injured and is unlikely to come, late-in-his-career loser, so you become Rashad, I'm sorry pro wrestling parlance, 'heel' again.
Yes, that last sentence is grammatically incorrect execution, but I wrote what I said, and is now out of breath. The last time Evans and Ortiz fought has been declared invalid after Ortiz lost points to grab the fence so there is some history, what makes this game more marketable as the fight Davis / Evans. Evans is a fighter different this time. Yes, the fight is its base (which is Tito), but he proved he has great movement and quick hands. Now Tito shocking first round guillotine victory over Ryan Bader was very exciting, and although he has not had a gain of five years until he was always just been completed due to strikes by Chuck Liddell, so I can not see Evans landing a big bomb which is quite interesting, did Liddell. Instead, it goes to the scorecards and sets winner of Evans vs. Jones / Rampage for the belt next spring.
Vitor Belfort vs Yoshihiro Akiyama (middleweight)
After losing his title fight in UFC Anderson Silva's 126 through the front kick Steven Segal Doom, Belfort was given the opportunity to recover Akiyama, a fighter who does not regret giving it difficult for poor performance (a split-decision victory in his debut in Alan Belcher at UFC 100 followed by the final lap to recover losses to Chris Leben and Michael Bisping) against the high expectations of their arrival in America. In other words, and I think I mentioned before, I think Akiyama is more suited to welterweight and provide some interesting battles in 170, but hey, I'm just a keyboard "warrior" in this site and not to Joe Silva. Belfort is bigger, stronger and has better feet. While you can use your skills Akiyama world-class judo, Belfort a black belt in judo and BJJ two and will not be intimidated easily.
In addition, after the coup before Segal, I think Belfast is quite upset and tries to make a statement (though, based on past behavior, we can never be too sure).
Full Fight Card:
Tito Ortiz vs. Rashad Evans, 3 rounds, light heavyweights
Vitor Belfort vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama, 3 rounds, middleweights
Dennis Hallman vs. Brian Ebersole, 3 rounds, welterweights
Constantinos Philippou vs. Jorge Rivera, 3 rounds, middleweights
Mike Pyle vs. Rory MacDonald, 3 rounds, welterweights
Alexander Gustafsson vs. Matt Hamill, 3 rounds, light heavyweights
Chad Mendes vs. Rani Yahya, 3 rounds, featherweights
Ivan Menjivar vs. Nick Pace, 3 rounds, bantamweights
Johny Hendricks vs. Mike Pierce, 3 rounds, welterweights
Mike Thomas Brown vs. Nam Phan, 3 rounds, featherweights
Rafael Natal vs. Paul Bradley, 3 rounds, middleweights