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

**livemma** · Posted On: 9/22/2009 5:04pm

Originally Posted by PizDoff

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?

The Belfort Vitor boxing is feared Franklin, although very comprehensive technology, but his lack of Belfort Vitor like that, so the fist weapons Belfort Vitor in hand.:owneddanc

**Whacker** · Posted On: 9/22/2009 5:17pm

Originally Posted by livemma

The Belfort Vitor boxing is feared Franklin, although very comprehensive technology, but his lack of Belfort Vitor like that, so the fist weapons Belfort Vitor in hand.:owneddanc

Very much english speaking problems having, toward the babelfish of the translation heppened?

**JudOWNED** · Posted On: 9/22/2009 7:06pm

Originally Posted by Fighting Cephalopod

Hermes has multiple KO wins and outstruck five of his last six opponents. Moreover, he's not nearly as good a wrestler as Griffin so shooting takedowns on him wouldn't be a very successful tactic.

Standing and trading was not a very successful tactic either. Did he really outstrike Edgar and Sherk?

**JudOWNED** · Posted On: 9/22/2009 7:09pm

Originally Posted by livemma

The Belfort Vitor boxing is feared Franklin, although very comprehensive technology, but his lack of Belfort Vitor like that, so the fist weapons Belfort Vitor in hand.

:englishmoDo you speak it?

**Shqiponja** · Posted On: 9/23/2009 6:56am

Cro Cop should have never fought a bigger younger dude, look like his mind is not ok .He wants to prove sth? What that he already hasn't proven. He is not doing it for the money. In his country he is already a god, why take chances against what looked to me, specially after the interview, a mentally retarded dude.

Cro Cop was in shape, but the fact is that he is old.
Man seeing the legend getting brutally hit like that, I felt like I was getting hit. I panic thinking same thing would happen to the russian bear steppin in the octagon. In the Pit bull fight he looked he was getting owened.
If CC was say 5 years younger, I would feel bad for DS's ass.

Belfort seemed to employ the same boxing stance as does Machida, leaning with the head back, like fck old style boxing.Rashad got owneed, Rich got owened, whos next?

**Kambei Shimada** · Posted On: 9/23/2009 7:05am

I'm suprised soo many people doubted Belfort the guy is an absolute beast.

Cro Cop looked far too bulky and REALLY sluggish.
(this guy used to be soo explosive)
He could easily drop down to LW and would probably benefit from loosing some mass. He's pretty much blown any chance of getting a HW title shot anytime soon.

**Fighting Cephalopod** · Posted On: 9/23/2009 2:31pm

Originally Posted by JudOWNED

Standing and trading was not a very successful tactic either. Did he really outstrike Edgar and Sherk?

He outstruck Sherk, not Edgar.

**Monsieur** · Posted On: 9/23/2009 4:01pm

Some legends have a sad ending. Crocop looked old, fat and scared in the octagon, and he got seriously beat up.
I don't know if getting ktfo'd would have been a more honorable ending to Crocops career. But seeing him turn away and give up like that was just sad.

**rordogs** · Posted On: 9/24/2009 4:44am

he could still beat couture if he had the chance.

**livemma** · Posted On: 9/29/2009 8:42am

Originally Posted by Whacker

Very much english speaking problems having, toward the babelfish of the translation heppened?

Ha ha! Let you laughed, I'm really sorry, my English has a problem, because I am in the English language country, but I will work to improve my English. Now, please forgive the mistakes.:laughing4