Evan Dunham Vs. Edson Barboza Set For UFC 146
by Tim Burke on Feb 19, 2012 6:30 PM EST
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PrintUFC president Dana White turned to twitter today to announce a pretty big fight for UFC 147. Evan Dunham will take on the undefeated Edson Barboza in a bout that is almost surely main card material. Here's the tweet:
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Dana White For the UFC 147 card May 16th in Vegas we just signed Edson Barboza vs Evan Dunham!! #funfight
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Dana corrected himself shortly after, and said he meant UFC 146 and May 26th. Still though, this is an excellent fight. Dunham has rebounded from two losses (to Sean Sherk and Melvin Guillard) by winning two in a row, most recently in a fight of the night performance against Nik Lentz. Barboza is 4-0 in the UFC and is coming off one of the best KO's in UFC history, a spinning wheel kick knockout of Terry Etim at UFC 142.
With five fight of the night bonuses between the two fighters (Dunham also has a sub of the night, while Barboza has a knockout of the night), this bout has excitement written all over it. The only other bout currently confirmed for the card is Jason Miller vs. C.B. Dollaway, but it is widely expected that Junior dos Santos will defend his UFC heavyweight title against Alistair Overeem on the card as well.
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Damnit!
I tried so hard to be the one to break this on BE first. I have to work on my journalism skills.
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Amazing fight
Winner will probably break into top 5 in the LW division.
I think Evan can take this to the ground and sub him.
I think it will be a great fight, but I like Edson.
Evan and Etim are very similar, but Dunham has better wrestling, so that should be the deciding factor.
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but I’m scared for Dunham here. Barboza has solid counter grappling skills, and is definitely superior to Dunham standing.
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 20, 2012 1:36 AM EST up reply actions
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by Art_Wanderlei on Feb 19, 2012 6:47 PM EST up reply actions
Now I feel like I have to
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by Art_Wanderlei on Feb 19, 2012 6:52 PM EST up reply actions
Does that include emails to Magary?
How many other Farthammer could there be?
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by Mike Ox Sofa King Thai Knee on Feb 19, 2012 9:40 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
No HT Burke? I know you saw my comment!
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Dunham by sub, round 2.
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Yes
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Giving Barboza the Bones Jones treatment...
I thought they would’ve gave him somebody in the title picture
by rscott94 on Feb 19, 2012 6:39 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Like This Matchup
Could Be An Interesting Card
sick.
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by Jeremy Couturier on Feb 19, 2012 6:40 PM EST reply actions
Really? You're posting a Barboza gif and leave THIS out???
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by Chris Hall on Feb 19, 2012 6:46 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
I liked the 128 kick better, actually.
I’m a hipster, I guess.
by les rallizes denudes on Feb 19, 2012 6:50 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
awesome
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by Our Bovine Public on Feb 19, 2012 8:43 PM EST up reply actions
Hate to be a buzzkill
But Fitch didn’t get a single 50-45.
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Aren't they?
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by Sugel Mendoza on Feb 20, 2012 1:15 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
That makes no sense
That fight had at least one 10-8 round.
by discoandherpes on Feb 20, 2012 4:17 AM EST up reply actions
speaks volumes about Njokuani’s chin. The same shot that completely shut Etim off just made him stumble.
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by Hendo_One-Shot on Feb 19, 2012 8:09 PM EST up reply actions
To be fair the one that shut Etim off caught him clean and was in the middle of its course,
whereas the one that caught Njokuani was ending its course at the time of the impact.
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by Sweet Scientist on Feb 19, 2012 8:29 PM EST up reply actions
Idk. It still looked like it hit him pretty damned hard.
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by Hendo_One-Shot on Feb 19, 2012 8:33 PM EST up reply actions
Notice how Njokuani stops moving forward. Etim didn't and walked right into the power.
Barboza clipped Njokuani good but nothing like the bomb he dropped on Etim.
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Etim wasn’t really moving much right before the kick. All movement stopped as it landed it seems.
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by Hendo_One-Shot on Feb 19, 2012 8:52 PM EST up reply actions
Ho, I still think it hit him hard, I just think it didn't hit him as hard as the one that hit Etim.
Spinning heel kicks have the most power at 180 degrees of rotation and lose a bit of power after that, looks to me that the one that hit Njokuani landed a bit after that, unlike the one that slept Etim.
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by Sweet Scientist on Feb 19, 2012 9:07 PM EST up reply actions
Oh god how I hope Dunham wins this fight. It seems like I’m the only one still on his hype train. Also, for whatever reason I’m not really that sold on Barboza yet(could be because he still hasn’t fought a power wrestler in a division full of amazing grapplers). My heart says Dunham by RNC 2nd round but reasoning tells me it will be Barboza by 3 round decision in a somewhat underwhelming fight.
Im going with Dunham with this one. Not sold on Barboza’s hype. Although that spinning back kick was impressive, sick fight BTW
by MMA214 on Feb 19, 2012 6:44 PM EST via mobile reply actions
goddamn that is a fantastic fight
I just got a violence boner.
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 19, 2012 6:49 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
This is the type fight that makes my balls tingle
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by Tim Bernier on Feb 19, 2012 7:27 PM EST via mobile reply actions 6 recs
I'm sure you were saved by your employer googling "Todd Welch"
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by Chris Hall on Feb 19, 2012 7:32 PM EST up reply actions 9 recs
I wonder about this as well..
some future employer of mine is going to Google my name and see all of my posts.
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by Earl Montclair on Feb 19, 2012 8:57 PM EST up reply actions
Me too
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this will show how far edson can go in the division.
interesting if evan can take him down and keep him down
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I'm very excited to see this one for that reason.
I’m on the Barbosa hype train, but I think he’s only a blue belt in bjj, so his TD defense vs. Dunham’s wrestling are gonna be the deciding factor.
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Unrelated but
is Sean Sherk ever going to fight soon.
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He says he’s going to fight in early summer if he doesn’t get injured again.
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if he doesn’t get injured again.
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by Sweet Scientist on Feb 19, 2012 8:04 PM EST up reply actions
Great matchmaking and sick fight.
Dunham should test Barboza’s TDD and ground game, I’m looking forward to it.
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by Sweet Scientist on Feb 19, 2012 8:06 PM EST reply actions
I was hoping Barboza was going to fight Pettis if he won on Saturday
The hype would be pretty cool since they each have one of the best kicks in MMA history.
This should still be pretty interesting and I thought Dunham looked really good in his last fight.
way too soon for Barboza IMO. This fight (or even someone lower down the ladder) feels about right to me
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by Our Bovine Public on Feb 19, 2012 8:45 PM EST up reply actions
Pettis would wrestle him into nothingness right now.
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by James Brady on Feb 19, 2012 10:00 PM EST up reply actions
Dunham gets off to some god awful starts
But if he survives, I think he wins. He’s a more complete fighter.
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by Chris Groves on Feb 19, 2012 11:31 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Good fight here. Barboza should have the standup advantage, but the wrestling and BJJ goes to Dunham. Barboza was showing improved takedown defense and ability to get back to his feet against Etim, but Dunham is a much stronger grappler than Etim.
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by Johnathan Willis on Feb 20, 2012 2:54 AM EST reply actions
What's up with everybody thinking Barboza's getting sub'd?
I think it’s way more likely that Barboza’s gonna reintroduce Dunham with unconsciousness.
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I'm feeling Barboza on this one
Dunham starts pretty not-fast and his chin is pretty not-granite, rocked by Escudero, KO’d by Guillard, etc…
I think I’d hedge my bets on Barboza’s TDD being solid enough for him to get a chance to hurt Dunham on the feet and then finishing it from there.
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by Chris Groves on Feb 20, 2012 2:37 PM EST up reply actions
I can't believe nobody has ripped on the Mayhem/Dollaway fight yet.
I was kind of expecting a bloodbath of insults.
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