All Sport Report

At UFC 69 on Pay Per View, Matt Serra shocked the world with his surprise victory over George “Rush” St. Pierre to take a slice of UFC Gold. If you were one of the hardcore MMA fans who couldn’t believe their eyes at the sight of Serra’s underdog triumph, then your world was turned upside down on Saturday night.

Zuffa put on UFC 70, from Manchester England, and for the first time in UFC history, a major event was televised free here in the States. The show was titled “Nations Collide” and pitted fighters representing different countries and cultures against one another.

There were some big names fighting - England’s own Michael “the Count” Bisping scored a victory to the delight of the fans. Andre “the Pitbull” Arlovski fought to an incredibly boring decision victory over Brazillian jui-jitsu expert Fabricio Werdum.

Four time Oklahoma State Wrestling Champion Matt Grice’s unbeaten streak came to an end when he was submitted by Liverpool native Terry Etim with a guillotine choke in the first round.

I found myself saying “no wonder Zuffa is televising this for free, there aside from the Bisping fight, there hasn’t been anything worth paying for on the card.” Trooper that I am, I hung in there for the last fight. Cro Cop - the most viscious striker of all time in the heavyweight division was going to beat the hell out of poor Gabriel Gonzaga, and that’s why we all tune in to MMA - to see someone get their a$$ kicked right?

The stage was set for Cro Cop to beat down Gonzaga and get his shot at Randy Couture’s UFC Heavyweight Title, most likely at UFC 72 a few months down the road. Since Zuffa signed on Cro Cop, the only question in the fan’s minds was “when is he going to take the heavyweight gold?”

Well it ain’t gonna be anytime soon. Gonzaga knocked Cro Cop out cold with a viscious kick to the head. It was one of the most wicked kicks I’ve seen in a long while. I had a vide on here this morning, but the friendly folks at Youtube saw fit to pull it, rendering my link useless. If you go to youtube and type in UFC 70, or Cro Cop vs. Gonzaga you should have no problem finding it, but let me warn you, it’s pretty nasty.

Needless to say I was glad I hung around until the bitter end. Two UFC events, two major upsets and UFC 71 coming right around the corner. I’m going to go out on a limb and predict Chuck “Iceman” Liddell will lose his Light-Heavyweight belt to Quinton “Rampage” Jackson at UFC 71, I know the UFC has been billing Liddell as the scariest light-heavy on the planet for a long time now, but with the way the last two main event’s have gone, my money is on “Rampage”

UFC, Cro Cop, Gabriel Gonzaga, Bisping, Zuffa