UFC 134: Silva vs. Okami 8/27 |OT| The champ comes home

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Main Card
Middleweight Championship: Anderson Silva (c) vs. Yushin Okami
Light Heavyweight bout: Maurício Rua vs. Forrest Griffin
Heavyweight bout: Brendan Schaub vs. Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
Lightweight bout: Ross Pearson vs. Edson Barboza
Light Heavyweight bout: Luiz Cane vs. Stanislav Nedkov

Preliminary Card (Spike TV)
Lightweight bout: Thiago Tavares vs. Spencer Fisher
Middleweight bout: Rousimar Palhares vs. Dan Miller

Preliminary Card (Facebook)
Welterweight bout: Paulo Thiago vs. David Mitchell
Bantamweight bout: Raphael Assunção vs. Johnny Eduardo
Welterweight bout: Erick Silva vs. Luis Ramos
Featherweight bout: Yuri Alcantara vs. Felipe Arantes
Bantamweight bout: Yves Jabouin vs. Ian Loveland

Hype: What there to hype? There's always hype when the guy who is widely considered P4P the best in the world steps into the octagon. And this time he'll have a whole country behind him in Brazil against the LAST FIGHTER TO BEAT ANDERSON SILVA ALMOST SIX YEARS AGO!!!

OK, thats being over dramatic for no reason, since Silva lost by DQ on a badass "illegal" upkick in a fight he was controlling.

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The story of this fight is can Okami take down Silva the way Sonnen did last year for a full 5 round and actually pull out a victory. There's a snowball's chance in hell of Okami finishing Silva, as 7 of his last 9 fights went to decision, and one of the two that didn't was a doctor's stoppage. Okami will be hard pressed to find a way to win, hoping for an unmotivated Silva who hasn't prepared for the totally transparent gameplan of Okama, in front of his home crowd is not very likely.

The co-main event of Shogun vs. Forrest looks more competitive on paper, with a lot of question marks. Shogun came off of a 10 month injury layoff and lost the LHW title to Jon Jones earlier this year, Griffin came off of a 14 month layoff to win a decision over Rich Franklin earlier this year as well. Like Silva, Shogun has "home field" advantage and the crowd will be behind him to put it on Forrest and avenge a 2007 defeat when he wasn't 100%

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Forrest will again try to take this to the ground, as Shogun has an advantage striking, but he will be pretty hard pressed to hope lightning strikes twice over a motivated, in shape Shogun.

Other fights include Lil Nog vs. Schaub, the classic veteran on the downslope of his career who could be on the cut line without a win, versus a TUF up and comer. Hot up and coming lightweight Edson Barboza takes on vet Ross Pearson, who will have a tough time stopping the vicious leg kicks and amazing striking Barboza has in his arsenal. Another classic "gateholder" fight where if Barboza wins his stock - and competition - will shoot up immensely.

Overall a solid card I think, it's always a big deal when Anderson fights, and the atmosphere in Rio will be ridiculous with some major Brazilian fighters having the crowd behind them 100%. The crowd and adrenaline of this is going to push for some exciting segments.
 
All around good card. Palhares vs Miller; Schaub vs Big Nog; and Pearson vs Barboza should be particularly great. I'm thinking FOTN for Pearson vs Barboza if Pearson doesn't gas.
 
Even those that dislike Silva should appreciate him for his entertainment potential, and realize that without him the UFC would be much less exciting.
 
Depending on what time the main event comes on, I might miss it. Will be at the Pro-Elite event.

Actually also depends what time that stupid thing starts. No time given on the website that I can find but I think it's 7.
 
Is that 6pm PST/9pm EST live? I notice Brazil is +4 hrs from PST, and unless they're in the US or Canada, UFC PPVs sometimes aren't live on primetime. Like the Abu Dhabi one, although that was a special case (and was still live, if you watched it really early, which I ended up doing in a casino with all you can eat breakfast, but that's a different matter entirely).
 
Since Sonnen is probably going to be in Okami's corner, I want Okami to get utterly destroyed. Afterwards, I want Silva to troll Sonnen until their rematch where Sonnen gets beaten again.
 
Measley said:
Since Sonnen is probably going to be in Okami's corner, I want Okami to get utterly destroyed. Afterwards, I want Silva to troll Sonnen until their rematch where Sonnen gets beaten again.
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Sonnen isn't going in the same continent as Brazil this weekend after all the shit he's talked. He might end up dead, so he's not showing up.
 
Wait thats for real? Rogan is still doing Fear Factor? I thought that show was cancelled years ago.

BTW - the only bit of that show worth watching was the parody of it on Chappelle Show. "I don't know if you know this Joe Rogan but I smoke rocks."
 
TheNatural said:
Sonnen isn't going in the same continent as Brazil this weekend after all the shit he's talked. He might end up dead, so he's not showing up.
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I still want to see Okami get destroyed just because he trained with Sonnen.
 
sazabirules said:
Ebersole's elbows were brutal and they got Hallman off the screen.
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Who says I was talking about Hallman? Hiyoooo!

Seriously though kudos to Dana for banning nonsense like that and giving Ebersole a bonus.
 
Maklershed said:
Who says I was talking about Hallman? Hiyoooo!

Seriously though kudos to Dana for banning nonsense like that and giving Ebersole a bonus.
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Why is it BS? Do you really get the uncomfortable seeing a man in underwear?
 
paranoidfortean said:
Fear Factor plus the way he talks about Brazil makes me think he's just scared to go.
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Agh no way, I heard him talk about the FF reboot on his podcast but I didn't think it'd keep him away from this UFC.
 
Maklershed said:
Who says I was talking about Hallman? Hiyoooo!

Seriously though kudos to Dana for banning nonsense like that and giving Ebersole a bonus.
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Bloody Elbow says Dana was homophobic for doing that. lol. Fucking white knights.
TrAcEr_x90 said:
where is this from? hahahaha
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This very question was already asked and answered ITT.
 
Fusebox said:
Agh no way, I heard him talk about the FF reboot on his podcast but I didn't think it'd keep him away from this UFC.
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I think it was when he was on Kevin Smith's podcast that he said if he has to choose to only do one or the other he would pick UFC. Any one know who his replacement for 134 is going to be?
 
sazabirules said:
Dana's reaction was pretty homophobic.
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It's not homophobic to not want to see a dudes balls and cock flying about on a PPV being watched by millions.
 
Kenny kenflo isn't a bad caller, he's had enough experience being the third man in the past, but it still won't be the same with no Roges.
 
Sinatar said:
It's not homophobic to not want to see a dudes balls and cock flying about on a PPV being watched by millions.
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I didn't see the slip until someone posted it on YT. Dana was bitching before that video was on the internet.
 
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