Friday, September 11, 2009

UFC 103 Play by Play

By Ben Janke

UFC 103 is down live stream on mmavines.com on September 19, 2009. It is going to be a solid match between Rich Franklin versus Vitor Belfort. They are both veteran MMA champions with a pretty expansive history in the UFC. Which Franklin gets into the struggle with a record of sixty-seven victories, 4 losses, and zero draws. Vitor Bellfort comes into the UFC 103 Arena with a record of 12 wins and 5 losses.

This should be a great struggle as their styles match up pretty well with each different. I would give the edge to Vitor Belfort just because it seems like he's on more of a winning streak and seems to have more confidence coming to the engagement. Vitor has not fought in the UFC since 2005 and lost to Tito Ortiz in a split conclusion. His previous 5 before that any of see was another exit to Randy Couture with a TKO stoppage.

Vitor Belfort just recently came back to the UFC after an extended time fighting other formations and his last actual battle had a solid engagement against Matt Lindlin. Vitor knockout Matt in the first round would really boost his self-confidence in his engagement against Rich Franklin.

I think that Rich Franklin may be on the down side of his career. He recently had a good struggle against Vanderlei Silva in which Rich Franklin actually defeated Silva by decision. Even though he won, I think he looked a little bit sloppy in his performance. We'll have to see how Rich Franklin does in this scrap. Needless to say, he still has the skills to take care of Belfort, but I think that Belfort will end up the victor.

Some of the other fights on the UFC 103 live stream will be:

Junior Dos Santos versus Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic Martin Kampmann vs. Mike Swick Josh Koscheck vs. Frank Trigg Hermes Franca vs. Tyson Griffin Efrain Escudero vs. Cole Miller Jim Miller vs. Steve Lopez Rafaello Oliveira Vs. Nik Lentz Paul Daley vs. Brian Foster Tomasz Drwal vs. Drew McFedries Jason Brilz vs. Eliot Marshall Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Igor Pokrajac Rafael dos Anjos vs. Rob Emerson

On other cards, Mike Swick has been forced out of UFC 103 on September 19, 2009, due to a concussion he received when he was sparring this last week. He landed on his back of his head and neck and suffered a pretty serious concussion. It looks like EliteXC fighter Paul Daley will interchange Swick in the fight against Martin Kampman. Martin Kampman is on a roll of late and looks solid against any of the scrappers at 170. Paul Daley said I have a handful coming from elite XC to the UFC.

The undercard of Dos Santos vs Crocop should be a great battle. Pro-cop has fallen to the wayside since he came over from Pride. In fact in his last battle, he only won because he poked his adversary in the eye and assaulted before the ref could even stop the battle. Apparently the ref didn't see the eye poke. Most spiders though it typically stopped when they poke someone in the eye, but not Crocop. He assaulted Al-Turka when he couldn't even see. What a cheap scrapper Crocop is. I think he was just so determined for a deliver the goods that he didn't care whether he you want in a cheap fashion or not. I hope he gets his face wiped on the mat by Dos Santos.

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