UFC 144: Japan

[zY|]

not sure if serious

[Ludo]

Master+Bader

It's like . . . "masturbator."

Oh, wow! Cute! I've never thought of that before. . .

[SPX]

not sure if serious

You will never know.

[poopoo333]

"The Fireball Kid" is headed back home.

That's because Takanori Gomi has been booked to get busy against jiu-jitsu ace George Sotiropoulos at UFC 144 on Feb. 26, 2012, from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

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[SPX]

That should be an interesting fight. G-Sot will probably win, though.

[Thewisemann]

Gomi may just put him to sleep.

[MMA_scientist]

They're giving the Japanese favorites fights they can win, style wise, while not making obvious squash matches. Sort of like the Brazil card where Brazil went 12-1 or something insane. Anyway, Ramapage should beat Bader pretty easily IMO.

[poopoo333]

UFC 144: Japan - Leonard Garcia vs. Tiequan Zhang, Norifumi Yamamoto vs. Vaughan Lee Added

Main Card:
-Frankie Edgar vs. Ben Henderson - UFC lightweight championship
-Quinton Jackson vs. Ryan Bader
-Cheick Kongo vs. Mark Hunt
-Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Jake Shields
-Joe Lauzon vs. Anthony Pettis
Preliminary Card:
-Yushin Okami vs. Tim Boetsch
-Riki Fukuda vs. Steve Cantwell
-Norifumi Yamamoto vs. Vaughan Lee
-Takeya Mizugaki vs. Chris Cariaso
-Takanori Gomi vs. George Sotiropoulos
-Hatsu Hioki vs. Bart Palaszewski
-Tiequan Zhang vs. Leonard Garcia

[SPX]

Weird that a Japanese dude isn't in the main event.

And Zhang/Garcia should be interesting. Garcia is basically the dude they call up when they want to figure out if you can at least meet some minimum standard for staying in the UFC. They know that if you can't beat Garcia then it's time to go.

[MMA_scientist]

Weird that a Japanese dude isn't in the main event.

And Zhang/Garcia should be interesting. Garcia is basically the dude they call up when they want to figure out if you can at least meet some minimum standard for staying in the UFC. They know that if you can't beat Garcia then it's time to go.

Okami is really the only main event level japanese guy in the org. I don't know why he is stuck on the prelims, they really do hate him.

[SPX]

Okami is really the only main event level japanese guy in the org. I don't know why he is stuck on the prelims, they really do hate him.

Yeah. Hioki and Gomi on the prelims of a Japanese card is also weird.

[poopoo333]

I can't believe I am saying this...but I will bet pretty heavy on Garcia if the line is right.

[SPX]

As long as Zhang can keep Garcia from laying on him, I wouldn't be surprised to see him win either via sub or even outpointing him on the feet. From what I've seen, he seems to have decent kickboxing and a wicked guillotine. Then again, he did get beat by Danny Downes.

[poopoo333]

If Zhang doesn't win in the 1st round, it's over for him. He has horrible cardio.

[SPX]

Well that's something a fighter can work on. He didn't appear too gassed at the end of his last fight, even though he had a dude on top of him the whole time.

I would also have to favor Garcia, but wouldn't make any huge plays on him or anything.