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My 101 thoughts:
Silva-Griffin
Crazy, he is just so damn good. Took the complete piss out of Griffin and out of all his haters by the style an swagger he showed on Sunday. Forrest running out of the building so quickly was a bit of a bitch move, but he was thoroughly embaressed out there he probably was ashamed of himself there.
Hendo looks like he's getting another shot at him but he'll get slaughtered imo. Machida - Silva would be an incredible match, but they've both stated it would never happen as they were such good friends. Shame.
Penn-Florian
I thought Kenny's game plan wasn't too bad tbh, he did a decent job at managing the distance needed and tried the GSP approach of trying to slowly wear down Penn by using smart weight distribution and trying to be elusive. He wanted to test Penn's suspect cardio but this time he looked studly fit. BJ probably got the better of the clinches and the dirty boxing but it wasn't a huge dispariyt until they got to the groung in round 4 where he was a different class in all honesty. Question for Team Hawaii would have to be "what took you so long to take him there?" Kenny arguably won the second round but never looked like lasting the distance.
Lightweight is so stacked right now, plenty of good fights for BJ out there. Miguel Torres going down badly in the WEC did disappoint me though.
Rest of the card mixed the good with the bad. Pellegrino was very impressive, Grove-Almeida I scored 29-28 to Almeida. Have no idea how the judges had it at 30-27. Sadollah-Hendricks was a joke. Aaron Riley was also very impressive, Nelson has been going downhill and fast recently. Goodbye for him. Great to see the Aussie George Sotiropolous get a solid win for himself too.
102,103 and 104 are where it's at for me though. All three cards are stacked, especially 104. Definitely buying all three of them.
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