CHESSNOID

There was a good UFC or Spike TUF fight last night between Nate Diaz and Melvin Guillard. I think Diaz is becoming a better fighter. I think his brother Nick Diaz is also developing to be a top level fighter too.
They both have iron chins and neither have been knocked out cold yet. I wonder if it is from all the pot they smoke. Just kidding.

They are both great fighters to watch and definitely know how to make the fights entertaining. I think both brothers need to do something more defensively because they both have height and reach advantage over most opponents but they allow themselves to get clocked unnecessarily. At least that’s the way it looks like from where I am sitting.

There is another UFC ppv coming soon. I think it is 103. They seem to be putting on more shows now that I think the quality of the shows suffer. Most of the cards have maybe 2-3 MMA fighters I recognize, but the rest are still up and coming nobodies.

Sherdog:

UFC 103 FIGHT CARD
Matchups:
Rich Franklin (No. 7 LHW) vs. Vitor Belfort (No. 8 MW)
Junior dos Santos vs. Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
Martin Kampmann (No. 5 WW) vs. Paul Daley
Josh Koscheck (No. 7 WW) vs. Frank Trigg
Efrain Escudero vs. Cole Miller
Tyson Griffin vs. Hermes Franca
Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Igor Pokrajac
Nik Lentz vs. Rafaello Oliveira
Ricky Story vs. Brian Foster
Jim Miller vs. Steve Lopez
Drew McFedries vs. Tomasz Drwal
Eliot Marshall vs. Jason Brilz
Rafael dos Anjos vs. Robert Emerson

I only recognize 5 fighters in this bunch. My picks to win will be Belfort, Cro Cop, and Trigg. I usually get these wrong so if you gamble, make sure you take the opposite fighter if you want to get paid.