Thoughts on UFC 77
Starnes vs Felchman

Great fight. Too bad it stopped cuz of a nasty gash =(. Felchman is a great kickboxer. He could be the next one to take on Anderson Silva. Starnes showed some great boxing skills but I think he could have won if it were more ground concentrated. I wouldn't be surprised to see a rematch. It'll take time for Starnes to heal up from that.

Bonnar vs whoever that guy was and I don't care

I knew Bonnar was going to have the stand up advantage and was more well rounded. Bonnar was great and shows he's back. Interesting he's now training partners with Forrest Griffin under his old coach from the first season of TUF. But Bonnar was in trouble for a bit when he almost gave up his back but I knew he'd get out of it.

Gurgel vs Robinson

First round I don't get why they didn't stand them back up. Call me Pride-biased as usual, but neither fighter was getting anywhere. Then round 2 and 3 come along and Gurgel is getting his ass kicked and he's going after the same fucking arm bar over and over. A true BJJ blackbelt would have gone for more submissions. Like a Kimura, or a triagnle or an omoplata. Robinson had an excellent omoplata but let it go. Gurgel knows how to take damage, but too unncessarily. If Gurgel had better wrist control and ground game, he could have gotten a submission.

Vera vs Sylvia

Too bad about Vera's hand. I'm not sure if it would have made a difference though. Sylvia didn't stop looking good until the last round. But the referee stepped in way late in terms of breaking up the John Ruiz fest that took up a huge majority of the fight. Vera was always easily getting cornered and then clinched. But the take down he got was impressive but too bad he couldn't do much in the side position.

And too bad the gay ass rules of American MMA makes that knee he did illegal. I knew it was unintentional, but man, I wish knees like that were allowed.

Franklin vs Silva II

Franklin, yes did much better and defended the clinch. But people tend to fail to realize that Silva has more than just a mad clinch game with devastating knees. He's got long limbs like those Dutch fighters so it makes him very effective and very flexible if at all goes to the ground. Granted yes, maybe his ground game sucks a bit. Takase did manage to get him in that triangle farily easily and Lutter did get a mount. But he's shown tremendous improvement.

I loved how he dodged all of Franklin's punches like nothing. I thought he had him in the end of the first round.

The way Franklin came in throwing punches, being a southpaw fighting another southpaw, from the direction and how he was circling it was as if he was fighting against a right handed fighter. If Silva was right handed, Franklin could have landed most of those punches.

But Silva just destroyed him again. I don't see anybody except Henderson de-throning Silva or if Dana White takes back what he said about Kang. But UFC did sign Chonan but too bad he's fighting at 170. Hopefully they can give him a rematch.

Okami I heard won his fight, but have yet to see that fight. Maybe Okami will fight Feltchman next or something, who knows.