UFC 139: My Thoughts From The Arena

Emotionally, mentally and physically tired. I knew that those two men took years off their lives inside that cage. It was a spectacle that I will never, ever forget.

Nice reading. Thank you for sharing.

SN: I think we’re supposed to be enemies based on our handles.

The main event was getting ready and the arena was weird. We could barely get amped for the forthcoming fight. I think we were so emotionally and to an extent physically drained after the Silva v. Le fight that we almost needed a collective power nap before the main event in order to properly participate.

Had the same thing happen at 110. The crowd was absolutely exhausted after Silva beat Bisping and it was hard to really get amped for the main event. The knockout got them going in the end though.

Question. Were there heaps of empty seats around the arena? Every time the camera panned over the audience there appeared to be a lot of free space.

Awesome read. I wonder what Farthammer thought of it….. Oh wait

Just wondering: How often do people in the (relatively) cheap seats watch most of the action in the cage? Do they find themselves watching the fights mostly on the big screens? Any time I’ve been to live MMA if I’m more than 20 or so rows back I feel like there’s no way to tell exactly what’s going on in the cage.

Totally happy that you got to be a part of the event live and see firsthand a fight that will be talked about for a long, long time. Nice article. Thanks for sharing the experience.

It really seemed that once Wand survived the early spinning fish that it was just a matter of time.

BE Civil War on your mind? Good stuff though. I am unfortunately from D.C. and haven’t had the chance to go to any of the UFC events around here, but caught one UWC show. D.C. is not a fight town and it sucks. The atmosphere sounded fantastic and glad you had a good show.

You son of a bitch!

I enjoyed that :)

Good times bro. That’s funny you mentioned Faber and the ladies. Remnided me of this weird perverted dream I had last night. Somehow i was buddies with Uriah and I was moto X ing in his back yard and shit cause he has a huge course in back.. Well, he has this much younger sister that is totally hot but doesn’t look like him at all thank god. Anyway , she has super awesome full lips and sexy mouth and i chat it upwit her and stuff and actully caught he coming out of the shower ( with a towel on) Even though she ‘s underage i still went to look at her facebook to check her shit out and even looked at her bf . just gets more pathetic from there. That’s normal tho right?

I wonder what it is like to be in that moment as Dan or Shogun. Are you aware of the gravity of the situation beyond the man in front of you? Do you feel as though you are in the midst of something special or are you just trying to survive?

That’s a very interesting take on that…. I wonder the same thing about a lot of fights. I would think that they would be more in focus of surviving/ trying to win, but I wonder if they’re aware of the atmosphere in that moment as well… it would make for a good fanpost.

Good read, sir! Thanks for sharing.

I heard more cheers for Wand and I was not that far from where you were.
Good read you summed up the emotion of the night well, I even got caught up in a couple USA chants, I was so damn pumped up.

Rutager thought i was black. I told him it was okay because Roth thought i was black too when we started unintelligent defense.