UFC 95 is scheduled for today (Saturday 2/21/2009) at 9PM EST on Spike TV (for Free!!!). Not many exciting fights in this card (no wonder is free). Still another opportunity for the UFC to try to gain new converts. The host city is London so the fights are actually happening earlier and broadcasted at 9PM.

Here are my picks:

Main Card:
Lightweight Diego Sanchez vs Joe Stevenson - Sanchez by Sub (round 2)
Welterweight Dan Hardy vs Rory Markham - Hardy by KO (round 2)
Middleweight Wilson Gouveia vs Nate Marquardt - Gouveia by Sub (round 2)
Middleweight Demian Maia vs Chael Sonnen - Maia by Sub (round 2)
Welterweight Josh Koscheck vs Paulo Thiago - Koscheck by Dec

Preliminary Card
Lightweight Brian Cobb vs Terry Etim - Etim by Sub (round 2)
Heavyweight Junior dos Santos vs Stefan Struve - Struve by Sub (round 2)
Heavyweight Mike Ciesnolevicz vs Neil Grove - Ciesnolevicz by Dec
Lightweight Evan Dunham vs Per Eklund - Eklund by Sub (round 2)
Welterweight Paul Kelly vs Troy Mandaloniz - Kelly by KO (round 2)


As usual, watch and enjoy..

Interesting set of fights. Koscheck's defeat was disappointing; although he went down after an uppercut and a left he seemed to have recovered and was ready to get back up when the referee stopped the fight giving the victory to Thiago (Knock out of the night)

Demian Maia pulls the Submission of the night by defeating Chael Sonnen through a triangle choke.

Nate Marquardt dominated Gouveia throughout the fight all the way to the third round where Gouveia went down after a flying knee and a succession of punches. The fight was called KO.

Rory Markham is defeated by Dan Hardy as Hardy provides a nasty left hook in the first round.

Sanchez ends the night by defeating Stevenson by unanimous decision (Fight of the night)


The complete results are:

Main Card
Lightweight Diego Sanchez vs Joe Stevenson - Sanchez by Dec
Welterweight Dan Hardy vs Rory Markham - Hardy by KO (round 1)
Middleweight Wilson Gouveia vs Nate Marquardt - Marquardt by KO (round 3)
Middleweight Demian Maia vs Chael Sonnen - Maia by Sub (round 1)
Welterweight Josh Koscheck vs Paulo Thiago - Thiago by TKO (round 1)

Preliminary Fight
Lightweight Brian Cobb vs Terry Etim - Etim by TKO (round 2)
Heavyweight Junior dos Santos vs Stefan Struve - Dos santos by KO (round 1)
Heavyweight Mike Ciesnolevicz vs Neil Grove - Ciesnolevicz by Sub (round 1)
Lightweight Evan Dunham vs Per Eklund - Dunham by KO (round 1)
Welterweight Paul Kelly vs Troy Mandaloniz - Kelly by Dec


...Another exciting MMA night on the books

Maia may well be the most talented guy in the UFC. Love him.

Quick night with actually too many fights. They all seemed to get lost in the sauce.

Have no idea what Stevenson's strategy was. Didn't seem like he cared. How about focusing on your opponent and not the crowd, Daddy? Very weird.

Not a fan of Koschek so I was happy to see him go down.