UFC on FX 4: Maynard vs. Guida (6/22 on FX)

[EmpireWF]

UFC on FX 4: Maynard vs. Guida
Friday, June 22 at 9pm ET on FX
Prelims air on Fuel starting at 6pm ET


Gray Maynard vs. Clay Guida
Sam Stout vs. Spencer "WOOOOOOO!" Fisher
Brian Ebersole vs. TJ Waldburger
Cub Swanson vs. Ross Pearson


Prelims on Fuel
Hatsu "Where You At Jose?" Hioki vs. Ricardo Lamas (really? fuck, didn't even know Hioki was on this card)
Ramsey Nijem vs. C.J. Keith
Joey Gambino vs. Steven "If Your Name is Miller, You Lose" Siler
Rick Story vs. Brock Jardine
Nick Catone vs. Chris Camozzi
Luis Ramos vs. Matt Brown

Prelims on Facebook
Ricardo Funch vs. Dan Miller (I hope Dan Miller doesn't lose a third consecutive UFC fight for the second time)
Ken Stone vs. Francisco Rivera

[SHOGUN]

Why is essentially a FW #1 contender's match on the goddamn prelims? And bumped down for fucking Sam Stout and Spencer Fisher? I know they've been gung-ho on booking STANDNBANG, but that is an incredibly irrelevant fight that has no business on a main card.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Stout/Fisher feels like it happened about 19 times already including about 15 showings on Unleashed.

[Liquidrob]

Lol @ hioki being on the prelims, way to bury your top Challenger in a division looking for a contender

Bellators FW division > UFCs FWs

[EmpireWF]

Bellators FW division > UFCs FWs

Nah. Straus and Sandro and the rest have traded too many wins the past two years.

Curran vs. Pitbull is definitely the best 145 fight going tho.

[EmpireWF]

Maynard's camp said something so Guida will fight with his hair braided.

[Maestro]

They filed complaint saying that the hair may be a distraction.

ohn Fosco, Guida's manager and president of VFD Sports, on Friday told MMAjunkie.com that Maynard filed the request with the commission roughly a month ago – and that his client has decided to comply, which the New Jersey commission confirmed.

"Clay chose to avoid any distractions and simply complied," Fosco told MMAjunkie.com. "Clay will be braiding his hair back. Clay is not focused on this and has one objective: winning. Nothing will distract him from his goal."

Under the Unified Rules of MMA, individual commissions are allowed to rule on "whether head or facial hair presents any hazard to the safety of the unarmed combatant or his opponent or will interfere with the supervision and conduct of the contest or exhibition."

In the case of Maynard and Guida, Nick Lembo, counsel for the NJSACB, said a hearing was avoided when Guida agreed to Maynard's request.

"He doesn't want to do it, and I don't believe he's 100 percent happy about it, but he's being very understanding and very cooperative about it and he agreed to it," Lembo told MMAjunkie.com. "Otherwise, if he said, 'No, I'm not going to do that,' we'd have to have a hearing on it and let both sides present their case and have a commissioner's ruling on the issue."

The bully bitching.

[hemanthjava]

UFC on FX 4- Maynard vs Guida Preview & Predictions

On paper, this fight looks to be a great one. Both have good wrestling and striking. However, it's this analyst's opinion that this may be somewhat lackluster. Both fighters are vying for a title shot and this fight has title contender implications. With the stakes this high, and both of them losing their previous fight, they both need a win here. Caution may very well take control of this fight as it has in the past with fights like this, rendering both fighters tentative and hesitant.

This fight is a coin-flip as far as I'm concerned. It'll be interesting to see how Maynard comes back after his first professional loss. Guida will be ready to go, as always, and is why I believe he wins a unanimous decision with his speed, and the fact that he has the Bill Belichick of MMA in his corner, Greg Jackson.

Guida > Maynard - UD

[clovett]

This card is better than the Brazil ppv.

[SHOGUN]

Bump for tonight. Really looking forward to Waldburger/Ebersole.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Matt Brown comes to fight. Put this man on the main card already. Lunch pail veteran scrapper.

[SHOGUN]

Hioki doing what Hioki does - grapplefucking Lamas, but he's giving me a bit of a heart attack with this second round shenanigans. Lamas had a few solid guillotines locked on.

[SHOGUN]

Fucking hell. Hioki went retarded again in third round and almost got finished. Had to LNP to survive the round.

....and he lost the decision.

:choke:

[EmpireWF]

I love me some Cub Swanson

[SHOGUN]

Wow. What a finish.