UFC 99 Aftermath

As far as choosing the winner goes, I went 4-2 with my predictions.  I got right on Cain Velasquez, Mirko Cro Cop, Mike Swick and Spencer Fisher and wrong on Marcus Davis and Wanderlei Silva.

The Franklin-Silva main event easily lived up to the billing, although there were times when both were being too tentative.  Velasquez-Kongo meanwhile, was a massacre, although at least for a few seconds, Cain’s chin got severely tested. Davis-Hardy was close, and I actually thought Davis won.  Fisher-Uno was boring, and Swick-Saunders also was until the flurry that led to the knockout.  Finally, Cro Cop did dispatch Al-Turk easily, though with the help of an inadvertent eye poke.

The biggest story of UFC 99 though, came after the event.  It turns out that Cro Cop was not intent on returning to the UFC after all, as he reneged on the verbal agreement he had with UFC President Dana White and informed him that he just signed a contract with rival Japanese promotion DREAM.  This, after publicly claiming how he wants to make a run at the heavyweight championship and proving all his doubters wrong, and–according to White–talking about “honor” and those kind of stuff.  This was to say the least, a ballsy move, which is amusing because Cro Cop just got one of his dislodged in his body in a his fight with Alistair Overeem.

Speaking of which, couldn’t there be any more brutal welcome encountered by a new UFC fighter than the one Mustapha Al Turk had?  First, he gets ballblasted by Cheick Kongo’s knee and this eyeball got “Overeemed” by Cro Cop’s fingers.  That was nasty!  Next time: Ultimate Finale predictions.

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