UFC 159 Bones vs Sonnen April 27th

UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen

Date: April 27, 2013

Location: Newark, New Jersey

Venue: Prudential Center

Broadcast: Pay-per-view, FX, Facebook

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)

Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen - for light-heavyweight title
Alan Belcher vs. Michael Bisping
Cheick Kongo vs. Roy Nelson
Phil Davis vs. Vinny Magalhaes
Pat Healy vs. Jim Miller

PRELIMINARY CARD (FX and Facebook, 6 p.m. ET)

Johnny Bedford vs. Erik Perez
Ovince St. Preux vs. Gian Villante
Sheila Gaff vs. Sara McMann
Rustam Khabilov vs. Yancy Medeiros
Leonard Garcia vs. Cody McKenzie
Al Iaquinta vs. Joe Proctor
Nick Catone vs. James Head
Kurt Holobaugh vs. Steven Siler

Outside of the main event this card isn't too bad. I'm still holding out hope that the main event will not be as currently listed. Maybe Gus' cut is healed enough and Chael's levels are too high?

Most important fights to me are:

MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view, 10 p.m. ET)

Jon Jones vs. Chael Sonnen - for light-heavyweight title
Alan Belcher vs. Michael Bisping
Cheick Kongo vs. Roy Nelson
Phil Davis vs. Vinny Magalhaes
Pat Healy vs. Jim Miller

PRELIMINARY CARD (FX and Facebook, 6 p.m. ET)

Johnny Bedford vs. Erik Perez
Ovince St. Preux vs. Gian Villante
Sheila Gaff vs. Sara McMann
Rustam Khabilov vs. Yancy Medeiros
Leonard Garcia vs. Cody McKenzie
Al Iaquinta vs. Joe Proctor
Nick Catone vs. James Head
Kurt Holobaugh vs. Steven Siler

Or even better if Nick Diaz can get a title shot coming off a loss and suspension then Dan Henderson should be allowed to have a crack at Bones. Would be a massive upgrade to the main event.

I'd almost rather see Hendo mess up Arthur Jones. Book it!

Hendo would look dumb against Jones. At least Chael will give a look we haven't seen before even if he's going to lose

GDPofDRC wrote:

I'd almost rather see Hendo mess up Arthur Jones. Book it!

As long as Chandler doesn't jump in he should be straight.

bobbitt15 wrote:

Hendo would look dumb against Jones. At least Chael will give a look we haven't seen before even if he's going to lose

You can't seriously think Chael has a better shot at beating Jones then Hendo does. That is just insane. Atleast Hendo has a route to victory. He has the ability to knock Jones out. Sonnen doesn't have the ability to win this fight in any way. He has no possible way to win this fight.
If you seriously think Chael has a better chance then Hendo then you have you head too far up Chael's ass.

Just as I said, we'll see a different look and someone who just runs at Jones getting in his face from the opening bell. I'm fine with that as opposed to another person standing at the end of Jones' reach getting front kicked in the thigh for 20 minutes or whenever he decides to end the fight. Hendo would get destroyed, same as the rest

bobbitt15 wrote:

Just as I said, we'll see a different look and someone who just runs at Jones getting in his face from the opening bell. I'm fine with that as opposed to another person standing at the end of Jones' reach getting front kicked in the thigh for 20 minutes or whenever he decides to end the fight. Hendo would get destroyed, same as the rest

It's really sad how overrated Chael is these days. I really, really hope he doesn't retire here, even though I know he will. Just so people can see just how overrated he really is. I don't care if he stays at LHW or someone like Vitor or Jacare put him in his place at MW. But damn that dude is overrated. If Jones wants to he will finish this in under 2 minutes.

How is my previous statement overrating Chael Sonnen?

bobbitt15 wrote:

How is my previous statement overrating Chael Sonnen?

Nothing really. You said you want to see someone run forward and get destroyed by Jones rather then sitting back and getting destroyed by Jones. I guess maybe because the fight will end faster that way? I dunno. But the only thing different Chael will offer Jones is he is the first opponent that doesn't belong in the cage with him. So that's different...

There's reason Chael's fights with Anderson beat the shit out of every other fight he's had in the UFC. Give me the guy who's going to get in a fight and get in someone's face, not the one who's afraid to even get in striking range. It will be entertaining while it lasts

bobbitt15 wrote:

There's reason Chael's fights with Anderson beat the shit out of every other fight he's had in the UFC. Give me the guy who's going to get in a fight and get in someone's face, not the one who's afraid to even get in striking range. It will be entertaining while it lasts

Fights? Like plural? Sure he got the take down in round 1 of the 2nd fight but he was dominated and finished in round 2. I'll take Hendo's baby GnP round 1 over Chael's 2nd fight.
But yeah he did well against an injured Anderson Silva and because of that he has become the most overrated fighter since Brock Lesnar. Still the same guy that got tossed and sub'd by Maia and fought to a virtual draw with Bisping.

Anderson was injured...yawn. Just because Brazilian dudes are babies who always talk about their injuries whereas someone like Chael or Hendo never would doesn't make a difference to me. I'd bring up a greater point about how Silva had a full handful of Chael's shorts the entire 2nd round of the rematch and not shit was said by the ref. I've watched video of Chael's training camps, ain't no way in fuck that dude is going into fights at 100%

Chael is one of the best 185ers in the world without question. We'll see how he looks at 205, the weight cut was getting to be a bit much

bobbitt15 wrote:

Anderson was injured...yawn. Just because Brazilian dudes are babies who always talk about their injuries whereas someone like Chael or Hendo never would doesn't make a difference to me. I'd bring up a greater point about how Silva had a full handful of Chael's shorts the entire 2nd round of the rematch and not shit was said by the ref. I've watched video of Chael's training camps, ain't no way in fuck that dude is going into fights at 100%

Chael is one of the best 185ers in the world without question. We'll see how he looks at 205, the weight cut was getting to be a bit much

You are an insane fanboy that is now following in your boys footsteps by insulting Brazilians. Chael didn't even beat the guys currently at the top of the MW division and he would get owned if he fought Weidman, Vitor or Jacare. But like I said we will never know because he will retire after this Bones fight.
At 205 he isn't even a top 20 fighter and there is nothing that would suggest otherwise. What was his last LHW win? Trevor Prangley? I'd bet Babalu would still tap his ass out, dude is so overrated it's a joke. He stands no chance vs guys like Weidman or Jacare. He stands even less of a chance vs the LHW elites.

He dominated Yushin Okami and Nate Marquardt who were both in line for title shots. Saying anything else is revisionist history

Chael would break Vitor Belfort and that's coming from a huge fan of both

I think he is overrated



But WAHT A CHARACTER!

bobbitt15 wrote:

He dominated Yushin Okami and Nate Marquardt who were both in line for title shots. Saying anything else is revisionist history

Chael would break Vitor Belfort and that's coming from a huge fan of both

Yushin Okami is Chael's best win of his career. But I love how you ignore him getting dominated and rolled up by Maia who is now a WW. Chael would break Vitor how? What suggest that is true? Chael would get done just like Lindland. Chael couldn't keep Bisping down and he wouldn't be able to keep Vitor down, not without getting sub'd anyways.
I do love how you pretty much give into Jacare dominating Chael like we both know damn well he would.

He would take him down and Belfort would lay on his back in closed guard and get beat up from the 2nd round on. Bisping would never just lay there in guard he's always working to get back up and is much tougher to keep down than Vitor

Did Maia not just make Fitch look like a novice for 15 minutes? He's an amazing grappler, not sure why you're trying to make him out as anything but.

You are totally unrealistic when it comes to Chael so I'll just move on. You started a thread where you picked Matt Hamill to beat him and then called Ludo a Sonnen nuthugger just because he logically picked him to win some of the fights you had listed. Hate to the max

You gotta love how enthusiastic Bones is about facing Sonnen.

Well I think it's safe to say we can rule out sports presenting job for Cruz after he retires.

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Dana White says a Brazilian fan attacked Chael Sonnen at the TUF Finale last week in Vegas. Tried to punch him in the face, I guess.

Ali* wrote:

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@bokamotoESPN

Dana White says a Brazilian fan attacked Chael Sonnen at the TUF Finale last week in Vegas. Tried to punch him in the face, I guess.

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"It was very quick, like those things typically happen," said Sonnen in an interview today with MMAjunkie.com "I was visiting with some fans, and a gentleman had started in on me. Ultimately, that's what it led to.

"I think a fan can do anything they want. I think they can heckle, a fan can boo, but they can't touch you. But the same thing goes for me. I can yell at a fan too, but you can't touch them. If you want to be a fan, you buy the ticket, and you can have any energy you want, whether it's positive or negative. And in this case it was negative, and he went a little too far."

"It was really quite interesting," Sonnen said. "He was caught literally a quarter-second before it would have landed. I barely saw it coming in before a gentleman named Kaya stepped in and caught it."

"We only compete in highly regulated and sanctioned matches," he said. "I'm not a fan of that, but if he would have connected, I would have turned the other cheek and walked away. I certainly wouldn't have engaged him.

"The guy seemed like a perfectly nice guy. He was an Anderson Silva fan. He was backing Anderson Silva verbally. For it to turn physical, yes, that was a surprise. But until that point, he just seemed like a guy with a passion for his favorite fighter."

http://www.mmajunkie.com/news/2013/04/chael-sonnen-recounts-almost-getting-punched-by-fan-at-tuf-17-finale