UFC in London this weekend (On Fuel 7)

I am getting pumped for this weekend! So many good fights lined up. I'll be doing my fight picks after weigh-ins.

This post will be updated with picks, how I did and FOTN, KOTN and SOTN from my perspective.

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Weigh-ins done and all fighters made weight.

Here are my picks:

#MyFightPicks #UFCLondon #UFC #MMA Gomez, Lee, Watson, Ogle, Sass, Etim, Mills, Te Hune, Nelson, Diabate, Swanson and McDonald
— Anneli Sørensen (@SubLevel28) February 15, 2013

Back with results
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Results:

Facebook Prelims

Phil Harris defeats Ulysses Gomez by unanimous decision (0-1 in picks)

Vaughan Lee defeats Motonobu Tezuka by unanimous decision (1-1 in picks)

Tom Watson defeats Stanislav Nedkov via 2nd round TKO (2-1 in picks)

Andy Ogle defeats Josh Grispi by unanimous decision (3-1 in picks)

Danny Castillo defeats Paul Sass by unanimous decision 3-2 in picks)

Renee Forte defeats Terry etim by unanimous decision (3-3 in picks)

Main Card

Matthew Riddle defeats Che Mills by Split decision (3-4 in picks)

James Te Huna defeats Ryan Jimmo by unanimous decision (4-4 in picks) (my FOTN)

Gunnar Nelson defeats Jorge Santiago by unanimous decision (5-4 in picks)

Jimi Manuwa defeats Cyrille Diabate by TKO via doctor stoppage between 1st and 2nd round (5-5 in picks)

Cub Swanson defeats Dustin Poirier by unanimous decision (6-5 in picks)

Renee Barao defeats Michael McDonald in the 4th via arm triangle sub. Defends interim bantamweight championship belt (6-6 in picks) (my SOTN and only Sub of the night)

That's it for a very fun night of fights and a rare sensible time to end for a European watching.

Next week UFC 157 with Women's first fight and title fight Ronda Rousey vs Liz Charmoche.
And co-main Lyoto Machida vs Dan Henderson.

Be back then :-)

My Fight Picks for UFC on FOX Seattle + Results

My tweet with them.

#MYFIGHTPICKS #UFConFOX Jorgenson, Phan, Trujillo, Cruickshank, Proctor, Easton, Edwards, Swick, Penn, Gustavson, Diaz. FTW
— Anneli Sørensen (@SubLevel28) December 7, 2012

Will come back to tell how I did.

Weigh-ins done. All fighters made weight except Herny Martinez who came in at 158,8 and forfeit 20% of his purse.

First off this event was great and full of action and some crazy stuff, You should have watched it ;-)

Results:

Scott Jorgenson vs John Albert
Jorgenson wins by Submission at very end of 1st round

Dennis Siver vs Nam Phan
Siver wins by unanimous decision

Marcus LeVasseur vs Abel Trujillo
Trujillo by TKO 2nd round

Daron Cruickshank vs Henry Martinez
Cruickshank by KO 2nd round

Ramsey Nijem vs Joe Proctor
Nijem by unanimous decision

Rafael Assuncao vs Mike Easton
Assuncao bu unanimous decision

Yves Edwards vs Jeremy Stephens
Edwards by KO 1st round

Mike Swick vs Matt Brown
Brown by KO 2nd round

BJ Penn va Rory MacDonald
MacDonald by Unanimous decision

Mauricio Rua vs Alexander Gustafsson
Gustafsson by unanimous decision

Benson henderson vs Nate Diaz
Henderson by unanimous decision

Norway and Pro boxing

And by extention MMA/MA at a pro level

A little history; Norway banned pro boxing in 1981 after politicians figured it would cause harm to the audience and that they were against people making money on people damaging each other. The other argument they used and still use is all the deaths and head trauma cases.

And now there's some movements to lift the 1981 ban. While no one thinks it's going happen tomorrow the idea is now percolating. The money making and the audience harm has been dropped as a focus but the head trauma/death part is still in focus.

We as a nation do have pro boxers that did well and new ones that do well today. The sad part is they can as it stand never perform their sport on Norwegian soil. Names like Steffen Tangstad, Ole "Lukkøye" (shut eye) Klementsen, Arild Haugen, Camilla Brækhus to name a few.

Now for injuries in the sport.

And in here there will be some of my own personal opinions and thoughts, coupled with pure common sense.

Yes every time you decide to enter a fight there is risk of injury. A fight is by definition a possible way to incur injury of any sort and yes of death if handled by the wrong people with the wrong set of knowledge.

But I firmly believe that a lot of the really serious injuries and deaths has been caused by in large by the fight event holders and their doctors. I believe that most of them were caused by incompetence within those events.

The one thing within pro boxing I do however react to is the 8 count, especially when used more than twice. If a fighter has been dazed to the point of need that 8 count more than 2 times that fighter is in my opinion close to suffer a concussion, internal bleeds (both in the body and brain) and brain damage.

But injury and/or death occur in sports fully legal in Norway, like;

Football (that's soccer for you Americans)

Skating

Racing(There have been deaths and bad injuries)

Snowboarding

Sky diving

Just to name some.

Any sport can injure you to varying degree.

Injury is NOT a valid argument for banning a sport or a from of a sport.

The thing needed is to lift the ban on pro boxing and demand the event holders know what they're doing and do away with multiple 8 counts. And keep with the worldwide suspension when a fighter has been knocked out. To keep them from fighting too soon.

AND while we're at it make ALL martial arts legal at a pro level.

This is also a plea to get such things as the UFC to Norway.

And there they put fighters safety first!

UFC 2009 Undisputed

So today I decided to get this game, and man do I love it!

I've played for a bit and even gotten a trophy. Made a custom fighter and playing with him now.

This is him:

Photo taken off the tv with my W890i phone.

I'll be back later with a full review.