UFC 94 picks

[Arctic Blast]

For anyone interested...

Georges St. Pierre vs. BJ Penn
Lyoto Machida vs. Thiago Silva
Stephan Bonnar vs. Jon Jones
Clay Guida vs. Nate Diaz
Karo Parisyan vs. Dong Hyun Kim
Jon Fitch vs. Akihiro Gono
Thiago Tavares vs. Manny Gamburyan
Chris Wilson vs. John Howard
Jake O'Brien vs. Christian Wellisch
Matt Arroyo vs. Dan Cramer

All in all, the main card looks good...Karo is a question mark, though (to the point the UFC has apparently lined up an extra fighter in case), and there's a lot of concern if he's maybe completely psyching himself out (he REALLY needs to look good this fight).

The undercard is terrible. A lot of rather obvious "Loser needs to find a new job" fights...those CAN produce good matches, but in a few of them on this undercard both guys are just awful.

[reflections]

For anyone interested...

Georges St. Pierre vs. BJ Penn
Lyoto Machida vs. Thiago Silva
Stephan Bonnar vs. Jon Jones
Clay Guida vs. Nate Diaz
Karo Parisyan vs. Dong Hyun Kim
Jon Fitch vs. Akihiro Gono
Thiago Tavares vs. Manny Gamburyan
Chris Wilson vs. John Howard
Jake O'Brien vs. Christian Wellisch
Matt Arroyo vs. Dan Cramer

All in all, the main card looks good...Karo is a question mark, though (to the point the UFC has apparently lined up an extra fighter in case), and there's a lot of concern if he's maybe completely psyching himself out (he REALLY needs to look good this fight).

The undercard is terrible. A lot of rather obvious "Loser needs to find a new job" fights...those CAN produce good matches, but in a few of them on this undercard both guys are just awful.

Karo used to be one of my favorite fighters.
Yeah, I don't remember a undercard being so.. ehhh.

[Arctic Blast]

Only went 5-5. Jon Jones looks like a BEAST. I knew the guy had the wrestling, but he hits pretty damn hard, too...and he's only 22 years old. Guida impressed me. I thought he might be hesitant to take Nate down, since Diaz is so good at pulling off subs off his back...but Guida did take him down(HARD) and just imposed his will on him. I actually thought the Karo fight should have been declared a draw...it was that close. Lyoto FINALLY showed he can also be aggressive when the opportunity presents itself. And GSP shut BJ Penn the Hell up.