Saturday, November 17, 2012
GSP barely holds onto his welterweight championship
GSP took 18-month off to rehab an injury and took down Carlos Condit 7 times in 7 attempts and dominated the first two rounds of the fight as he opened up a massive cut that spilled blood and he took both rounds handily. In the third round Condit smoked GSP with a knock left leg to his head and GSP was on dream street and even Condit felt that he had a chance to finish him off but GSP defensive saved him and took control of Condit by the end of the round. The match went the distance and in the championship rounds they had Anderson Silva in a small side screen and GSP took Condit down a number of times and controlled Condit and the judges gave the match unanimously 50-45 given all rounds to GSP to keep the welterweight title in the match of the night.
After the match GSP was unwilling to say what he was going to do next as he said he had to talk to coaches, managers, entourage about what to do next.
In the lead up to the main event teammates Johny Hendricks and Martin Kampmann faced off in a welterweight match and Johny Hendricks left hand was built up huge and it delivered only 46 seconds into the match as he lead with his right and immediately finished with the left and Kampmann was out on impact for knock out of the night. After the match Johny Hendricks made no bonez about it that he wanted a title shot and with his performance will be one of the two options and GSP can not go wrong with either and it will both be huge for the UFC with Silva being bigger at Cowboy stadium.
The unjust decision of the night was that Francis Carmont got a split decision over Tom Lawlor even though Lawlor had a submission on at both the first two rounds and the crowd booed the decision out of the building.
The two other Canadians on the PPV did not fair very well as Mark Bocek tried as he might was unable to get Rafael dos Anjos to the ground and after the first 7 minutes of the 15 minute match Bocek was finished and dos Anjos dominated the last 8 minutes of the match and won all three rounds of the fight. While Mark Hominick tried as he might was unable to do anything against Pablo Garza and was a bloody mess and lost an unanimous decision and may get his walking papers from the UFC after 4 straight losses.
The Crowd were extremely hot even though some stupid heads were booing at different times
Tom Mehegan
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