Penn vs. Hughes III

Before I go on and tell what my thoughts are. I would like to tell you about their history together. Penn met up with Hughes in the octogon in 2004, UFC 46. B.J. Penn was a 155 pound light-weight contender jumping up weight class to welterweight. Matt Hughes was a five time defending champion.

Matt Hughes was consinder the best welterweight fighter back then. B.J. Penn was also one of the best light-weight fighter. In UFC 46, Penn and Hughes stepped in the octogon and battled it out. Penn won by a rear naked choke in the first round. The second time they met, it was on UFC 63. Hughes won by TKO.

Now these two top fighter will meet again for the third time on UFC 123 to settle the score. This will be a really interesting fight. B.J. Penn was the king in the light-weight devision but suffer a back-to-back lost to Frankie Edger. Hughes lost two fights but is rebounding back with three wins. So, now these two fighters have won one battle with each other. We will see who will win the war.

If I was to pick out the outcoming. I would pick B.J. Penn to win this fight. His standup figthing is much better and his takedown defense is amazing. But, it only depends which B.J. Penn is going to show up. The B.J. Penn that look gased and looked really slow or the really well condition B.J. Penn. Hopefully he comes out healthy and well conditioned.

UFC 119: Mir vs. CroCop

To start this off, this fight card is mediocre and it's on pay-per-veiw. The undercards are interesting but not convincing enough to want to buy it. Maybe to others are interesting but not to me.

The main event card is good. I would like to see that fight, but I think it shouldn't have been the main event for UFC 119. Not to disrepect Jay Silva(fighting matchmaking) but it would been more appropriate to have it be co-main event. But that's just in my opinion.

As for the fight, Mir vs. CroCop. I think Mir is going to take the victory. He is bigger, stronger, and has most of the skills set to be CroCop. CroCop's kickboxing is really good but I think Mir's boxing is going to take the fight. Mir's boxing has improved so much that I belive that it's better than CroCop's. Mir can also take CroCop to the ground and if it does hit to the ground, it would be a quick fight for CroCop because his ground game is not so morally excellent. Mir's groundgame is more superior than CroCop.

So this is my thoughts of UFC 119: Mir vs. CroCop. We will have to see if this pay-per-view will be a big blow out. And for the main event, we will see who will come out with the win.