UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Sonnen (8/17)

[CrimsonGhost56]

Main Card (Fox Sports 1)
Mauricio Rua vs. Chael Sonnen
Alistair Overeem vs. Travis Browne
Urijah Faber vs. Yuri Alcantara
Matt Brown vs. Mike Pyle
Uriah Hall vs. John Howard
Joe Lauzon vs. Michael Johnson

Preliminary Card (Fox Sports 1)
Brad Pickett vs. Michael McDonald
Conor McGregor vs. Max Holloway
Mike Brown vs. Steven Siler
Diego Brandao vs. Daniel Pineda

Preliminary Card (Facebook)
Manvel Gamburyan vs. Cole Miller
Cody Donovan vs. Ovince St. Preux
Ramsey Nijem vs. James Vick

[EmpireWF]

WOOOOO

[Primetime]

Every single main card fight interests me. Doesn't happen often.

[EmpireWF]

John Howard's back in the UFC after lobbying to get on this show. He gets Uriah Hall who needs to win or will become a complete afterthought after losing the TUF finals earlier in the year.

Can REEM bounce back from the loss to Bigfoot, has he got his testosterone issues behind him? (he fought with low levels in February) For Browne...this is his biggest fight to date and a win will push him into the top 5-6 guys.

Faber tries to continue pressing on at a weight class where he's the only star and can't get a title shot. Here, he fights Alcantara who is 28-4 overall and has fought everywhere from 170 on down to 135 in his career.

Joe Lauzon = money

Brown is on a 5-fight win streak, going up against Pyle who has won his last 4. EXPLOSIVE!

Shogun & Chael -- who the fuck knows where the winner goes....or the loser, for that matter. Hope Shogun isn't done.

[CrimsonGhost56]

REEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMM

[Warner2BruceTD]

10 fights on FS1.

I'd like to watch OSP, too bad they couldn't get him on TV.

[Liquidrob]

CLEANREEM is here to stay

BOOM



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[EmpireWF]

He really likes Rebney, huh?

[EmpireWF]

Crazy...

-McDonald just plain puts Pickett down. As long as the kid's hands don't break apart, sky is the limit.

-Faber is still a beast. Looked for sure like Alcantara was about to finish him---couldn't and never found his way after that.

-Matt Brown calling out GSP had me -- 6 consecutive wins ain't no joke but why the hell shouldn't he be calling out the champ.

-Hall/Howard was eh...lots of power being thrown about but pretty sure they spent more time jerking one another off in that 3rd round.

-WTF Lauzon?

-REEM?! Small ass Reem, btw. Couldn't believe Yamasaki wasn't stopping the fight when Browne was turtled up...but damn. Front kick of doom puts Overeem out to pasture. Sucks for him.

-CHAEL P. SONNEN. Who would've guessed he'd force Shogun to tap in the 1st round? Hope Wand agrees to that fight because can't really think of others with Chael that I'd care to see at the moment.

[SHOGUN]

Jesus Christ was Howard/Hall rough to watch. Not much action and too much bromancing. Is it too early to call Hall a massive bust yet?

Faber looked awesome after getting put in bad spot early by Alcantara, but he's in a no-man's land of sorts because he's not beating Cruz or Barao @ 135 and 145 is Aldo's (or Mendes' when the champ eventually moves up). Really don't want to see him get another 135 shot.

Really shocked to see Lauzon get worked like that, by Johnson no less. Nice to see Johnson putting his talent together. I hope it wasn't an aberration.

Shogun losing to Sonnen was a legitimate outcome for me, but for him to lose by submission was unfathomable. Rua didn't buy Sonnen's grips and paid dearly for it. It hurt me to see him sobbing in the cage like that. He knew he fucked up. Props to Sonnen for getting the tap and making himself relevant again.

Reem gonna Reem, I guess. So disappointing how this one turned out. He's going to learn how to respect people's offense one way or another. Not smart to stand right in front a man spamming front kicks.

Really good debut on Fox Sports 1 though.