UFC 110 Results: Australia's George Sotiropoulos Dominates Joe Stevenson
by Kid Nate on Feb 20, 2010 11:34 PM EST
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The home crowd exploded when native son George Sotiropoulos took the decision over former #1 contender Joe Stevenson.
The biggest name Australian fighter on the card, George Sotiropoulos faced Joe Stevenson in a lightweight battle with real implications for the rankings and title picture. Both fighters came out swinging With Sotiropoulos having a reach advantage he controlled ranged before shooting for a take down. Stevenson fought it off before trying an ill-advised throw that landed him on his back. Sotiropoulos quickly passed to 1/2 guard and threatened to pass to mount. Stevenson worked to sweep him but Sotiropoulos fought them off. There was an elaborate series of rolls and counter rolls that ended back in Stevenson's guard. Joe Daddy then threatened with an arm triangle from the bottom before getting mounted with a minute left. Sotiropoulos attacked from the back then moved to north-south and worked for a kimura then a straight arm bar before the round ended.
Stevenson came out landing strikes but Sotiropoulos began to land with strikes of his own, usually as counters. Soon Sotiropoulos was landing with impunity, to the head and body. Stevenson then shot in, got top position and slammed the Aussie to the ground. Sotiropoulos got rubber guard then went for an omaplata sweep that took a while but ultimately rolled Stevenson. Stevenson then reversed positions and was again in the Aussie's guard, fending off an arm bar. Then Stevenson dropped back for an ankle lock at the end of the round. Sotiropoulos rolled out and then ended the round with Stevenson's neck trapped in a choke hold without enough time to finish.
In the final round, Sotiropoulos came out swinging, forcing the Yank back. Then Sotiropoulos went for a single leg and got Stevenson down after fending off a guillotine. Another tough grappling exchange saw the Aussie end up on top. Then back on the feet, Sotiropoulos tagged and hurt Stevenson. Sotiropoulos went for a head scissors or crucifix and ended up on his back with Stevenson working on top. Stevenson fought off an up kick then got reversed. But Joe Daddy got top control again. But the Aussie worked from a very high guard.
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I’d love to get a tape of this fight and just review all of George’s transitions and sub attempts, was some very very high grade stuff going on in those 15 minutes, terrific technical war, also Stevenson’s footlock wasn’t even remotely close, nor would a black belt like George tap to a straight ankle pain lock, Rogan just threw Stevenson a bone saying the footlock was good.
Also yeah Deo Wade, some review on that fight would be good, I saw some sweet half guard rolls and outside butterfly passes, good stuff in that fight.
The mat is my church, the ground is my heaven, Jiu-Jitsu is my religion. And once you hit the ground you're in my world. My world is like the ocean, I’m like a shark and most people don't even know how to swim - Draculino
by Patrick Tenney on Feb 21, 2010 12:13 AM EST reply actions
If it was an achillies lock true, but if it was a real ankle lock then a belt belt would tap to that. Not as bad as broken arm/leg but broken ankle still not good and could cause some other damage(though it would have been hard to twist it about to do that in the position Joe was in).
It looked like an achilles/straight ankle, there wasn’t any twisting to it, he was hyper extending the foot straight back if I recall it correctly.
The mat is my church, the ground is my heaven, Jiu-Jitsu is my religion. And once you hit the ground you're in my world. My world is like the ocean, I’m like a shark and most people don't even know how to swim - Draculino
by Patrick Tenney on Feb 21, 2010 12:43 AM EST up reply actions
They call them the same thing, but achilles implies a crusher type move, wear as a true ankle lock should be able to break an ankle, but people do them wrong all the time so they just turn into a pain thing.
Your right he had no ability to add twist to the lock. If you do the lock while on your back you can lean back and turn to the side a bit, it is much stronger this way and will break an ankle and possible more if you can keep twisting and yanking.
lets see george face some more top ufc lw comp...
this was very impressive performance… ufc should match him up with tyson griffin or sean sherk next. too bad diego moved back up to ww
I was thinking Florian/Gomi loser, but Tyson Griffin is a good idea.
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by Neil Manich on Feb 21, 2010 12:58 AM EST up reply actions
He made Joe look...
BAD. I was super impressed. Feels good to have a new face in the mix at 155. Joe is no easy fight, and he was owned start to finish.
I wish I had bet on Sotiropolous: he was honestly the underdog pick tonight that I thought was a lock….
Same here.
I called this on the comments for the betting spotlight. Now all I can do is pat myself on the back.
let me be the first to eat crow on this. i thought joe would take the fight where he wanted and win a mostly stand up affair. instead he got owned on the ground and standing. the new fighters are takeing over pretty fast.
Don't be so hard on yourself
Whole lot of posters are due a helping of that crow. I caught a lot of shit for picking Sotiropoulos, and I’m feeling pretty good right now.
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Man..
Sotiropolous was awesome in this fight.
Stevenson couldn’t do anything besides defend against submission, pass and sweep attempts from Sotiropolous. He was totally put out of his element.
Great win for George bad loss for Joe Daddy, looks like we got a new player at LW also looks like it’s back to the drawing board for Stevenson.
Not just that, but both Jardine and Stevenson train at Jackson’s, and both lost. I’m not saying Greg Jackson is a bad coach or anything, but I am getting more of the impression that while he has a great camp and is a very good coach, he isn’t exactly this “yoda” that everyone (including myself) made him out to be.
I picked George to win the fight based off of what i have seen of him in the prelims. In all his fights he had a great motor and has very good stand-up not to mention the obvious non stop ground attack. But what sold me was when i watched Joe come out to the ring. He was so goofy and clown like. I had never seen him act like such a goof ball before. He seemed to loose.
Somebody call Joe Stevenson, his doppleganger kidnapped him!!
Can anybody explain who was out there fighting Sotiropoulos cause it sure as heck wasn’t Joe “Big Daddy” Stevenson?
Stevenson must have floated to the octagon on cloud ten because he didn’t appear to be his normal self for the entire fight. Very weird!
All Congrats however to George Sotiropoulos for a great technical fight and win.
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