Rashad looked really good. I think Tito really is looking better now than he has been the past few years. Rashad just proved that hes in another class. Dude looked very lean and he seemed very uninhibited compared to the conservative gameplans we saw when he was with Greg Jackson. It looked great against Tito but whoever is training him now will probably want to reign him in again when Rashad goes up against a better striker. Rashad got stand-up happy on his way to winning the LHW belt as well before getting embarrassed by Machida and he still seemed prone to fall in love with the stand-up late in the Thiago Silva and Rampage fights and it almost cost him both times. Belfort looks great as well but seems stuck in limbo after getting handled by Anderson. Akyiama makes for exciting fights but he has poor power, with Belfort's speed and striking it seemed like it was inevitable that he'd get the win sooner or later. All the contenders at MW have fights lined up and Vitor is still a ways off of warranting another fight with Anderson. Love Ebersole. Guy is funky. I don't really think he'll get that far at 170 though. His stand-up isn't anything special if my memory of his last fight is correct and Hallman looked significantly better on the ground. Ebersole has great GnP though and hes fun to watch. WTF was up with Hallman's banana hammock? Did he lose a bet or something?
evans showing good sportmanship there.. he was planning to throw another knee but saw how hurt tito was after the initial knee he just pounded tito for the win.
UFC 133 disclosed salaries... Rashad Evans: $480,000 ($225,000 to show, $185,000 win bonus, $70,000 Fight of the Night bonus) Tito Ortiz: $520,000 ($450,000 to show, $70,000 Fight of the Night bonus) Vitor Belfort: $345,000 ($275,000 to show, $70,000 Knockout of the Night bonus) Yoshihiro Akiayama: $45,000 Brian Ebersole: $82,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 win bonus, $70,000 "getting those horrifying shorts off TV as soon as possible" bonus) Dennis Hallman: $15,000 Constantinos Philippou: $12,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 win bonus) Jorge Rivera: $18,000 Rory MacDonald: $16,000 ($8,000 to show, $8,000 win bonus) Mike Pyle: $19,000 Alexander Gustafsson: $12,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 win bonus) Matt Hamill: $32,000 Johny Hendricks: $44,000 ($22,000 to show, $22,000 win bonus) Mike Pierce: $14,000 Mike Brown: $46,000 ($23,000 to show, $23,000 win bonus) Nam Phan: $16,000 Chad Mendes: $19,000 ($9,500 to show, $9,500 win bonus) Rani Yahya: $9,000 Ivan Menjivar: $12,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 win bonus) Nick Pace: $6,000 Rafael Natal: $12,000 ($6,000 to show, $6,000 win bonus) Paul Bradley: $6,000
