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Two things I'm taking away from UFC 87.  The Huerta/Florian fight had all the potential for Fight of the Year.  I guess Florian had other plans.  And, Brock Lesnar is for real.  Kimbo who?

Let me start out with my Most Disappointing Fight of the Year, Huerta/Florian.  Out of all the previously billed "Fight of the Year's" that came out of Dana White's mouth, I actually believed this one was going to be it.  It had all the ingredients.  Huerta with the huge fan base, great striking, and an uncanny will to win VS Florian, the student of the game with the self-proclaimed nickname of "The Finisher".  Not this time I guess Kenny.  You ran around like a 155lb Lyoto Machida.  Am I the only one that thinks they should deduct points for running?  Kenny had ZERO aggression and ZERO Octagon control.  He won the fight, based on the current scoring system, but he lost in my mind.  No one wants to see that type of "technical" fight, and you're not going to get a title shot like that Florian.  Especially when you call yourself "The Finisher" and state that you have "improved striking" and are going to go out there and "fight an entertaining fight."  Nope, nope, and nope.  0-3 Kenny.  What you should've said was what you said in the post-fight press conference: "I wanted to go out there and fight a good technical fight.  You can't go out there and get in a brawl with Huerta."  Then I wouldn't have been so disappointed.  Technical=Lame.

UFC 87 PickEm Results

PICK EM results

Ben Saunders Vs. Ryan Thomas

All 9 people on the panel picked Saunders

Robert, Jason and Yoda got the right round

Chris Wilson Vs. Steve Bruno 

Only ONE person picked Wilson

And only that BRAVE MMA GURU not only DEFIED you ALL and made you ALL look SILLY! He Also got all 5 points by knowing he would take the Des.

Who was that AWESOME MMA GENIUS??

Oh Me.

Oh and Jason got it as well for 3 points

Andre Gusmao Vs. Jon Jones 

Only 3 picked Jones

Dyhard and Jason got 5 points and Prodigy got a 3 spot

Cheick Kongo Vs. Dan Evensen

Only 1 person thought Dan was going to take this (take a bow Dyhard)

Yet No one thought it would be that quick- almost everyone got a 4 spot on here.

Special Mention to our Defending Champ who stated "Kengo by Des because he's a pansy who can't finish anyone off"

Luke Cummo Vs. Tamdan McCrory 

I almost always Pick TUF guys- and Head Kick slaps me around in Pick'em contest because of it.

This time I DIDN:T and it paid off! - I got 5 points and the only other brave man to go with McCroy Krytonian, picked up 3 points

Jason MacDonald Vs. Demian Maia 

No one who knows what they are doing had Maia

Well other than DYHARD- he picks up 3 points here!

Oh and Head Kick made us all look stupid and got the Full 5!

Think I'll shut up now.

Manny Gamburyan Vs. Rob Emerson 

Only 2 people had Rob here- Dyhard and Robert Arlovski both pick up 3 points

Kenny Florian Vs. Roger Huerta 

Again only 3 people took Ken-Flo over the whining man

Prodigy, Head Kick and I all got 3 points

Heath Herring vs Brock Lesnar

Other than Jason and Head Kick-

All 3s EXCEPT FOR ONE MAN

ONE GENIUS Who had NO FAITH in Brock's ability to KO Herring and would Rashad Evans him for 15 minutes.

The ONLY Man to pop a 5 in EITHER fight

Me.

Again

The MAIN Event GSP vs Fitch

Only JASON SHOCKED THE WORLD

By getting NOTHING for this fight

6s All Around!!

Overall the panel only got FOUR  fights correct The Saunders 9-0, GSP and Kongo both with 8-1, and Brock 7-2. 6 of 10 fights we were WRONG

The RESULTS

Yoda, Jason70 & Wild Bill with 16 points

Special Mention here to Jason who got the first 4 fights right then nosedived with eggs

Our Defending Champion Robert Menn got 19 points, as Does the Krytonian

Head Kick (or his substitute) Tallied 21 points - can we get an APB on head kick or a DNA test? He only got 5 fights right! This CANNOT be the real Head Kick!

Prodigy has 22 points

The NEWBIE of the group- Dyhard Copied and pasted from Sherdog a solid 23 point effort - 60% correct!

and the Winner with 7 of 10 fights correct- and 3 perfect 5s (not that I'm bragging)

ME! With 31 points

Hot Dang- I think this is the LARGEST field we have ever had with the Pickem contest- and head injuries to Head Kick aside- I'm kind of happy with 9 participants

I will have my Pic up Later

The Results:

Hank Hill - night of Awesomeness