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 [...]
Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) – By batting Donald Cerrone’s $1000 hat off his head, Nate Diaz signaled his bad intentions for their UFC 141 co-main event at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, this Friday night.
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The UFC will be holding their pre-fight press conference for this Friday's (Dec.30) UFC 141 event today (Dec.28). You can watch the press conference live on MMASucka.com beginning at approximately 1pm PT/4pm ET.
In an interview with Ariel Helwani of MMAFighting.com, Brock Lesnar stated he doesn't care that he is the underdog, however just after he made that comment he cut the interview short. Lesnar is set to make his return to the Octagon this Friday (Dec.30) at UFC 141 against Alistair Overeem. This will be Lesnar's first fight back since losing the UFC heavyweight title to Cain Velasquez back in October 2010.
