Brock Lesnar announced his retirement in the cage at UFC 141. The man from Webster, South Dakota who had faced down the toughest heavyweights the sport has to offer as well as two separate bouts with diverticulitis, said he was fulfilling a promise to his family that if he lost to Alistair Overeem, he would pack in his MMA career and head back home.
Chael Sonnen has been the most entertaining fighter of 2011 even though he has only fought once in 2011. His biggest feud of 2011 was his verbal warfare against Anderson Silva. He has made plenty of verbal jabs at him, but is supposedly over him and has moved on to wanting to face off against either Georges St-Pierre or Jon Jones.
Last night amidst one of the busiest weekend’s combat sports has seen all year Brock Lesnar is the hot topic of discussion.
It was billed as the biggest heavyweight fight in UFC history when the NCAA Division I champion met the K-1 kickboxing champion in a throw-back to the early days of the promotions history with a traditional striker vs. grappler showdown.
UFC 141 was the perfect event to end a banner year for the world's premier mixed martial arts promotion. We saw the rise of young new stars with Alexander Gustafsson and Jimy Hettes. Alistair Overeem, Nate Diaz and Johny Hendricks fought to make their cases for title contentions. We also witnessed the retirement of one of the biggest draws in MMA, Brock Lesnar. Let's take a look at what may be next for the fighters of UFC 141 in the coming new year.
The Nevada State Athletic Commission released the payouts for the fighters that competed in last Friday's (Dec.30) UFC 141 event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
UFC 141 went down as a night of spectacular fights, well the main card at least. As the final card of 2011, the UFC brought some power. Nam Phan lost an upset decision to Jim Hettes, Alexander Gustafsson absolutely obliterated Vladimir Matyushenko, Johny Hendricks pulled off the unthinkable and KO'd Jon Fitch 7 seconds into the first and Alistair Overeem TKO'd Brock Lesnar and forced him into retirement.
One of the key breakout stars of the year has been Alexander Gustafsson.
Beginning his year in Sydney, Australia Gustafsson submitted local hero James Te Huna with a rear-naked-choke with only seconds remaining in the opening round.
Why read other UFC predictions when you can you have a nice laugh in reading mine. At UFC 141 I went (3-2). Meh. I’ll throw out an old sports cliché, “the bounces aren’t going our way.” To be honest I don’t know too many people who were expecting Mark Hominick to lose the way he did and I think most of us can agree that Claude Patrick deserved a better fate against Ebersole. But we won’t cry over spilt milk, instead we will raise our glasses for another edition of MMASucka.com’s Half-Cut Picks for UFC 141.
These gloves we wear are not very forgiving. I look at my boy Mark Hominick in his last fight. Nine times out of ten I take Hominick over the Korean Zombie but he got caught and Jung won that fight. Anything can happen [...]
