UFC 90: Silva vs. Cote OCTOBER 25, 2008 Venue: Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois Main Card: 185 Lbs: Anderson 'The Spider' Silva (22-4) (C) vs Patrick 'The Predator' Cote (13-4) 170 Lbs: Thiago 'Pitbull' Alves (15-3) vs Josh Koscheck (11-2) 155 Lbs: Sean 'Muscle Shark' Sherk (31-3) vs Tyson Griffin (12-1) 265 Lbs: Fabricio 'Via Cavalo' Werdum (11-3) vs Junior dos Santos (6-1) 185 Lbs: Thales Leites (13-1) vs Drew McFedries (7-4) Undercard: 185 Lbs: Matt Horwich (23-10) vs. Dan Miller (9-1) 155 Lbs: Shannon Gugerty (11-2) vs Melvin 'The Young Assassin' Guillard (23-7) 155 Lbs: Hermes Franca (18-7) vs Marcus 'Maximus' Aurelio (16-6) 170 Lbs: Pete 'Drago' Sell (7-4) vs Josh 'The People's Warrior' Burkman (9-6) 155 Lbs: Rich 'No Love' Clementi (32-12-1) vs. Grey 'The Bully' Maynard (5-0)
Weigh-ins for UFC 90 will take place at The Chicago Theatre on Friday. I believe the doors will open between four and five for anyone in the Chicagoland area planning on attending. Admission, to my knowledge, is free.
I think the fight I'm most looking forward to, is the Sherk/Griffin fight. I really like Griffin, and a win here obviously moves him up with the winner of Florian/Stevenson next month for who gets the title shot. I would honostly say it should move him ahead of one or the other, because he beat the former champ. Still dissapointed, I was excited to see Sanchez fight, and a Alves/Sanchez fight could have been dynamite. Now if Alves doesn't end this quick, we are going to see Koscheck just laying on Alves.
all things considered, Josh is a solid choice as a replacement to see a competitive match up, rather than some newcomer getting squashed by Alves.
Official weigh in results; Only Josh Burkman had issues making weight, but he made it after being given an extra hour to drop 2 pounds Official results: MAIN CARD * Middleweight champ Anderson Silva (184) vs. Patrick Cote (183) * Thiago Alves (171) vs. Josh Koscheck (170) * Junior dos Santos (234) vs. Fabricio Werdum (256) * Tyson Griffin (155) vs. Sean Sherk (156) * Rich Clementi (156) vs. Gray Maynard (155) PRELIMINARY CARD * Thales Leites (186) vs. Drew McFedries (186) * Spencer Fisher (155) vs. Shannon Gugerty (156) * Matt Horwich (186) vs. Dan Miller (185) * Marcus Aurelio (156) vs. Hermes Franca (156) * Pete Sell (170) vs. Josh Burkman (171)* *Burkman, who initially weighed in at 173 pounds, was given 60 minutes to lose an additional two pounds. Burkman weighed in at 171 pounds on his second attempt, and the bout will go on as planned. Burkman will not be subject to any purse penalty.
UFC 90 bonuses: Sherk, Griffin, dos Santos and Fisher each earn $65K by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Oct 26, 2008 at 1:56 am ET Sean Sherk, Tyson Griffin, Junior dos Santos and Spencer Fisher each earned $65,000 "fight night" bonuses for their performances at UFC 90. UFC 90 took place Saturday at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill., and aired live on pay-per-view. The bonus amounts were significantly higher than the $40,000 awards issued a week ago at UFC 89. The UFC announced the bonuses at the UFC 90 post-fight press conference and were confirmed by MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). Explosive lightweights -- and cardio machines -- Sean Sherk and Tyson Griffin combined for the evening's fight of the night. Seemingly destined for a decision from the beginning, the two wrestling experts flashed their kickboxing skills for the full 15 minutes available. In the end, Sherk proved just a touch better than his opponent, and vaulted himself back to the upper echelon of the division with the unanimous decision win. Despite the loss, Griffin picked up his fourth career fight of the night bonus. Meanwhile, dos Santos didn't have much competition for knockout of the night, but it's hard to believe that would have mattered. Despite entering the bout as a lightly regarded underdog to heavyweight contender Fabricio Werdum, dos Santos impressed in his UFC debut. In a sequence we'll surely see on future highlight reels, dos Santos delivered a stunning right uppercut that dropped his opponent and forced the TKO stoppage just 81 seconds into the fight. Fisher looked sharp throughout his three round battle with youngster Shannon Gugerty. Fisher locked in a triangle choke in the third round. Despite Gugerty's best attempt at defending, Fisher eventually earned the victory -- and the bonus.
So Koscheck did a solid job of filling in for Sanchez, he looked pretty solid I thought, and the fight really was not that boring at all. I stood corrected in saying he would just lay on him for three rounds. Koscheck did look decent on his feet considering who he was fighting, and he took some hard shots and kept going. Dude is a warrior, lots of respect for the fight he put up, considering that his wrestling wasn't working for him like we all know he wanted. Alves showed great takedown defense, and was giving some good combinations out there, definately deserved to win the fight. Looked real good, I think he gets next crack at GSP after BJ Penn.
