UFC 167: St-Pierre vs. Hendricks

[Guest John Hancock]

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Saturday November 16th

MGM Grand Garden Arena

Las Vegas, Nevada

 

Georges St-Pierre © vs. Johnny Henricks

Rashad Evans vs. Chael Sonnen

Rory MacDonald vs. Robbie Lawler

Josh Koscheck vs. Tyron Woodley

Tim Elliott vs. Ali Bagautinov

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Donald Cerrone vs. Even Dunham

Ed Herman vs. Thales Leites

Erik Perez vs. Edwin Figueroa

Brian Ebersole vs. Rick Story

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Jason High vs. Anthony Lapsley

Will Campuzano vs. Sergio Pettis

Cody Donovan vs. Gian Villante

 

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Edited November 16, 2013 by John Hancock

[Guest John Hancock]

Star power a-plenty, but this card has unanimous decision written all over it, especially the main card. I'm predicting a snoozer, especially after the awesomeness of 166, and before the hype of 168.

[Guest The Beltster]

My Mrs wont be happy, she has an unexplained hatred for Ed Herman.

 

I predict Hendrix is going to knock GSP's block off.

[dsrchris 190]

I really, REALLY hope Hendricks beats GSP. I'm not holding my breath though. I'm expecting GSP to hug n' run for 5 rounds. Like the cissy he is.

[Guest Magic]

I would love, love, LOVE Hendricks to beat GSP by KO, but yeah, it certainly smells of unanimous decision from here. Still, at least I'm quite emtionally invested in the main event and the second main, so I'll enjoy the show.

[Guest The Beltster]

I think some of you guys are underestimating Hendricks' wrestling. It shouldnt be a walk in the park for GSP to continually take him down and if he can avoid alot of those take downs, GSP sure as shit cant stand with him.

[dsrchris 190]

I know Hendricks can wrestle, I'm just hoping he's got plenty of counters for GSP trying to clinch him for 4mins 45secs of each round. Or that he can knock his a*s out in the 15 seconds where GSP isn't hugging him like he's a family member who's just returned from a tour of duty.

[Guest John Hancock]

This fight is tonight, who's watching?

 

I'm predicting;

 

GSP

Sonnen

MacDonald

Woodley

Bagautinov

[Guest Frank Botch]

The Primetimes have been good as usual but I'm not really feeling the hype too much for this one, it's a very strong card but I'm not sure it's going to do the mega buisness. Should be some real good fights though

 

GSP

Rashad

Lawler (I HOPE)

Woodley

Ali

 

Cerrone

[Guest John Hancock]

I feel like the UFC should have done so much more for the 20th anniversary show. Plan A was Silva vs. Jones in Madison Square Garden, with Velaquez/JDS III as semi-main, which I feel could have poked at the two million mark, but Plan B looks like a completely standard GSP card. You take this and compare it to UFC 100, with two title fights, and a TUF coaches fight. I feel like next month, with Silva/Weidman and Rousey/Tate should have been the anniversary show. No way is 167 breaking a million, I'll be surprised if it breaks 800,000.

[Guest The Beltster]

Hendricks

Evans

Lawler

Woodley

 

Hendricks is going to KO George in the 1st or 2nd round, thats what I legit think. If George wins it will be via holding Hendricks off with his jab as much as possible on the feet and trying to clinch him on the ground to tire him out.

[Guest John Hancock]

I think GSP wins by laying on him for 25 minutes. If the fight ends before the time limit, I agree that it ends with Hendricks knocking him out, but GSP's just so good at being f*cking unbearably boring.

[GENE 86]

I usually try and stay up for the shows if I'm not working, but I refuse to stay up and watch a potential GSP 25 minute borefest.

[Maxximus 353]

Yeah I think I'll watch.

 

Hendricks - I'm predicting upset.

Sonnen

Lawler

Woodley

Elliot

[Maxximus 353]

I just got home, if anyone's online(Johnny?) What have I missed? I just caught the Woodley finish.

[Guest John Hancock]

I COULD HAVE BEEN DOING SOMETHING ELSE, YOU DON'T KNOW ME!

 

You didn't really miss anything. I was busy and missed the undercard, but looks like there was a f*ck ton of decisions, so I'm glad. The story of the show so far is that all my predictions are right so far, and that Rory MacDonald is a great twiner.

 

EDIT: GSP is f*cking with everyone tonight about this retirement thing. This is what Ariel Helwani just posted on Twitter;

 

I just asked Greg Jackson if he'll be in GSP's corner. He said he is letting GSP's mentor Midoux take his spot. I asked, why? "It's important he's there tonight," he said.

Edited November 17, 2013 by John Hancock

[Maxximus 353]

I'm 2 for 3 so far. MacDonald/Lawler was a really good fight.

 

 

edit:

 

 

I COULD HAVE BEEN DOING SOMETHING ELSE, YOU DON'T KNOW ME!

 

C'mon, who are we lying to? It's Saturday night. What could you possibly be doing, nerd?

Edited November 17, 2013 by Maxximus

[Guest John Hancock]

That fight put me two for three too. Lawler was 4/1 underdog.

 

EDIT: Sandman vs. 19th Century Steamship Captain is probably going to stink, but, every time I see it, I remember how much I love GSP's little French flag mouthpiece. Best mouthpiece in sports.

 

EDIT EDIT: Either GSP finishes the fight or loses with the judge's at this point, right? For non-French speakers, GSP's coach just basically told him to "act like a champion".

 

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Genuine question that might deserve it's own thread; will 2013 go down in history as the year the UFC destroyed itself? Silva loses, GSP loses, Diaz retires, Rampage leaves, Sonnen implodes, Overeem implodes, the heavyweight division exhausts it's only real fight, Velasquez and Jones do shitty pay-per-view numbers. What star power do they really have left at this point?

 

EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT: OH F*CK RIGHT OFF! THE F*CK KIND OF DECISION IS THAT!? I never, NEVER call fix, but damn, how the f*ck did that happen? GSP can't even make a convincing retirement speech.

Edited November 17, 2013 by John Hancock

[Guest The Beltster]

I told all of you Hendricks would win and he did, **** that decision, one of the biggest robberies at the hands of the judges I've ever seen. GSP got hammered, his face looked like burger meat, Hendricks not so much as a scratch. Bullshit. Anybody who thinks GSP won that fight is a clueless clown.

[dsrchris 190]

The hell is wrong with UFC judges? I'm done with watching fights getting ruined by ridiculous decisions.