Me and my friends who watched the fight came to the same conclusion. All the winners lost, and several of the losers really lost. Nobody came out smelling like roses.

I hate when guys high five too much during fights. An occasional high five or an extra touching of gloves is alright but when they go overboard it pisses me off. I remember the TUF 2 final between Cummo and Joe Daddy. Every ten seconds they were high five-ing. Other wise…good fight. Didn’t get to see UFC 93. Night of unfortunate circumstances.

WINNER.

This event was predicted by many to be a flop and suprise suprise it was. From what i have read, the undercard was more exciting than the main card. Seriously, UFC 93 was destined to flop due to the fact that it followed UFC 92 which was epic. Who didn’t see this coming ?

I refuse to accept Marcus Davis’ win as anything of meaning. As I said in a few different places, the fight with Lytle was as close to a “scripted” fight as anything I’ve seen in a long time.

agreed 100%. I had an article up a while ago saying the same thing. I like Davis but really, it’s very hard to care who “wins” a fight where both guys don’t care who wins – as long as the fights exciting. That’s what the WWE is for. If you’re not going in to win, don’t go in… and that includes going to the ground if it’s to your advantage.

Two articles in one day that I agree 100% with. The other article was on your partners site, MMA Mania, and it was about conditioning of fighters. One winner were a group of my friends. They are winners because I tried to tape it for them while watching it at 3:00 and we were going to watch it at 6:30. So they are winners because they didn’t have to watch it. I’m a winner because I didn’t have to watch it a second time. Now, I’m not saying that it was a bad night of fights because it wasn’t. It just wasn’t a real good night of fights either. There was action, just not anything special. There was controversy, just nothing of importance. Basically it was a night of fights that lacked anything spectacular, or anything of real controversy or excitement. It was cut and dried with no real upsets or huge knockouts or spectacular submissions.

Kang was the biggest disappointment for me. He was putting a clinic on Belcher’s face for a round and 1/2 and I thought Belcher was some awesome kick boxer.

Mousasi basically did the same thing to Kang, he got caught in a submission after dominating the fight. He needs to be more vigilant with his sub defense.

I personally thought Coleman’s performance was gritty as is gets he was pooched half through the first but pushed on through on guts and instinct. A cut like that to 205 @ 44 years of age isnt gonna be easy. But he had no excuses, “a good fight isnt, good enough.” He won that crowd over, he won me over, and he should get the respect he derserves for coming up at gut check time……………..
Shogun needs to start fighting with as much frequency as possible to start to regain his fighting cardio, cause there aint nothing like the real thing, and he aint got it.

your gonna fuckin win dude

My friend made some awesome hamburgers. I am a winner, lol!!

I agree with most of your points, except the idea that Henderson was any more exhausted than he usually is in that kind of fight. To me, it looked like Dan being Dan, if it had been a five round he probably would have won the additional round needed to hold onto the decision. Aside from the occasional body kick, Franklin could not find anything to stop or slow Hendo from moving forward

Oh, and you’re being too nice about Egan vs. Hathaway. Lets be honest, that fight had no business being aired on a pay per view. It was like they booked a local high school grudge match to show during the intermission

For one simple reason: Dan Henderson is going to whup Michael Bisping’s ass.

You’re welcome for finding the silver lining.

two more leg kicks and Coleman would have fallen down. Why did Shogun stop with the leg kicks? Strange.

Is anyone going to give Coleman props for stepping up and not giving up?

Last night was… not the best, but certainly not the worst. I don’t know. I am just severely disappointed in Shogun. Yes, I know he’s coming back from two major surgeries, but looking at him last night, that fight was almost really painful to watch. It’s hard to imagine that Shogun at one point in his career beat Rampage, Nog and Overeem. Coleman gave him fits throughout the match, even when he was gassed. Chuck must be overjoyed right now, cause if this is all that Shogun can muster, he’s gonna get killed when he and Chuck fight.

The Franklin fight makes me cry, but I don’t think either head butt or the nasty eye poke were intentional. But pretty unsatisfying — Rich just can’t catch a break. He looked noticeably slower to me than at the lower weight (cardio monster or not, is he really settled in at that size yet?). Hendo makes for a more marketable reality TV show, however, so win for Dana.

The Horn fight wasn’t that interesting either, but considering the amount of abuse he took I wonder what he could do if he bothered to actually get in shape. But at the same level of interest as I would wonder whether to put relish on a hotdog or not. I’m cool with that though, as you have to have these normal UFCs to really show how outstanding something like UFC 94 should be. These weren’t “bad” fights; you can’t have every fight be above average!

He gets what he wants. He doesnt want franklin because he is a more dangerous striker than him.. Hendo is a better matchup for him and i think it becomes bisping by decision.

Dan Henderson was the big winner, and Rich Franklin was a smaller winner.

I know Henderson was made the favourite going into this fight but a lot of people thought he was past it and was becoming less of a force. I also thought that he wouldn’t be able to be a force in either division now because of his complete lack of ability to stick to a gameplan.

But he fought very strategically for the fight, scoring takedowns when he needed them and doing a lot of damage on the feet and the ground. He looked as impressive as I’ve seen him, outside the second Wanderlei Silva fight and actually gave me more hope that he might be able to beat Anderson Silva in the future. I doubt he’ll have much trouble with BIsping.

Rich Franklin may have lost this bout, but if he had won it would have just been a curse. He’d have to coach TUF when he doesn’t even want too, which would finish with him having to do the draining cut to 185 lbs. for only the reason of having to smash Bisping and then return to 205 lbs. Franklin was also a winner because his stock was not harmed too much at 205 lbs anyway with a lot of people believing that it was only the number of rounds that stopped Franklin from victory and that he still has the ability to compete in there.

From what I can see, there have been very little “Franklin should retire” or “Franklin is screwed” articles around. Which is usually the case after any major event finishes for the losing headliner.

Kampmann is a big winner. Before the Marquardt fight, he was being talked about as a potential contender for Silva. Now that he’s in the welterweight division, expect the rankings to start shaking up.

Schafer is a big winner. He’s been struggling to get any kind of serious traction in the UFC, and now he’s posted two first round stoppages in a row. He may not be fighting for the title any time soon, but at least one or two contenders are going to have to beat a path through him.

Drwal and Siver are big winners. The UFC’s investment in Europe is finally starting to pay off with some exciting performances.

and it was the Irish and european fans. They won because they were so awesome. Like Dana said on his vlog, there were 9500 people in the arena bu they made it feel like there were 90,000.

How can you not love that?

It seems once again he’s been overlooked for biggest dickhead of the night. Rich gets eye poked and Dan Mergliotta flat out tells Rich, “no time out for you, thats only for groin shots.” Dan then goes over to the officials and says “How much time you wanna give him?” 2 mins was the answer.

Can someone please tell me what the difference is between an eye poke foul and a groin strike foul or even a foul knee to downed opponent? A FOUL IS A FOUL. If Rich couldnt continue that should have been a NC but the way Dan said it, RIch would have lost from not continuing.