UFC 103 - Rich Franklin vs Vitor Belfort. Sept. 19, 2009

**PizDoff** · Posted On: 9/05/2009 12:28am

Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts event.

Date Time:Sep-19-2009 7pm PT / 10pm ET
Location:American Airlines Center, TX

Description:

The Ultimate Fighting Championship® presents the fight the entire mixed martial arts world is talking about when “The Phenom”, former UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort, makes his long-awaited return to the Octagon to face UFC superstar Rich “Ace” Franklin in the main event of UFC 103. Also featured on the biggest MMA event to ever hit Texas will be perhaps the most explosive heavyweight battle of the year when one of the sport’s most feared strikers, Mirko Cro Cop, takes on Brazilian knockout artist Junior Dos Santos.

Rich Franklin Vs. Vitor Belfort
Mirko 'Cro-Cop' Filipovic Vs. Junior Dos Santos
Paul "Semtex" Daley Vs. Martin Kampmann
Josh Koscheck Vs. Frank "Twinkletoes" Trigg
Tyson Griffin Vs. Hermes Franca
Efrain Escudero Vs. Cole Miller
Drew McFedries Vs. Tomasz Drwal
Jim Miller Vs. Steve Lopez
Rafaello Oliveira Vs. Nik Lentz
X (Was to be Paul Daley) Vs. Brian Foster
Eliot Marshall Vs. Jason Brilz
Vladimir "The Janitor" Matyushenko Vs. Igor Pokrajac
Rob Emerson Vs. Rafael Dos Anjos

Mike Swick, who was scheduled to face Martin Kampmann is out with a concussion in training. The winner was to face Georges St.Pierre for the Welterweight title. Steve Lopez, not the American Tae Kwon Do 2000 and 2004 Olympic gold medalist I think, replaces an injured Thiago Tavares against Jim Miller. Nik Lentz steps in to replace Dan Lauzon, Joe Lauzon's younger brother. Old UFC vet Vladimir Matyushenko won an unanimous decision over Yuki Kondo at UFC 32 in 2001, and this is his first fight back in the octagon since losing to Andrei Arlovski in 2003. He faces Igor Pokrajac, of the Cro-Cop team, who has a record of 21-5 and is on eight-fight winning streak against guys with cool names.

Picks?

**Hesperus** · Posted On: 9/05/2009 3:48am

Rich Franklin Vs. Vitor Belfort
Mirko Filipovic Vs. Junior Dos Santos
Paul Daley Vs. Martin Kampmann
Josh Koscheck Vs. Frank Trigg
Tyson Griffin Vs. Hermes Franca
Efrain Escudero Vs. Cole Miller
Drew McFedries Vs. Tomasz Drwal
Vladimir Matyushenko Vs. Igor Pokrajac
Rob Emerson Vs. Rafael Dos Anjos

**ADM** · Posted On: 9/05/2009 4:16am

Be good to see Efrain fight again and it should be a fairly awesome fight!

**Shawarma** · Posted On: 9/05/2009 5:07am

Franklin by Vitor being overrated.
Santos for the same reason.
Kampmann by being underrated.
Matyushenko because I like him.

I expect Franklin to run through Belfort like a chainsaw through butter.

**Jakahri** · Posted On: 9/05/2009 11:45am

How is Vitor overrated? He's fought some of the best and has solid wins.

**The Question** · Posted On: 9/05/2009 11:48am

What a weak fucking card.

**James-09** · Posted On: 9/06/2009 9:08am

Tyson Griffin v. Hermes Franca has the capability to be fight of the night. I'm really excited for this one.

**MrJ** · Posted On: 9/09/2009 1:44pm

Originally Posted by The Question

What a weak fucking card.

I second that.

**Shqiponja** · Posted On: 9/13/2009 8:08am

Crop Cop vs Dos Santos
Shall the most experienced fighter prevail and land a devil right or left doesn't matter - kick to the head. Both are in the very good shape. After the Franklin vs Belfort this is going to be a very good show.

Cro cop owns first round.

**elipson** · Posted On: 9/13/2009 10:29am

Santos is my fav fighter in HW right now. Him in the first via KO.

I want Belfort to win because he used to be one of my favs back in the day. He seems to be coming back into his glory.