NFL announces that the Super Bowl is going to be played on Saturday instead of Sunday, and they're calling it UFC 94.
Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 11:51PM Super Bowl XLIII! Screw the Cards and the Steelers, that looks like a yawner if you ask me — the real action this weekend is going down in Las Vegas, Nevada baby, UFC 94. Who wants to see BJ Penn get his ass kicked? This guy. Who wants to see Georges St. Pierre bloodied and battered? This guy.
Folks I'm on the fence here. I really can't tell you who I'll be cheering for. Its kinda like UFC 92 where Forest Griffin and Rashad Evans squared off, I really liked both fighters, but I called that one when I said that Rashad's athleticism was gonna win it. This one between Penn and St. Pierre, is not too clear in my eyes. On one had you got Penn, who's a master jiu-jitsu artist, and his overall standup is stellar and easily under-estimated. Then you got GSP, who is a physical specimen to be reckoned with. 170 my ass, that guy probably walks around at 185-190. That's where I have some reservations about calling this for Penn. Penn right now is fighting his best in the 155 weight class. Of course he's probably naturally around 170 and cuts down. But moving up to 170 could present problems for him. If you remember their last fight in 2006, Penn had no trouble trading with GSP, in fact he dominated early in the 1st round cutting him and routinely beat him to the punch. It was only when GSP changed his tactics with the clinch and started slamming Penn, and manhandling him — controlling the action on the ground — is when he started to control and ultimately win that first meeting via decision. Right now, it remains to be seen if Penn has the physical strength to be able to control GSP's wrestling. But both these guys are warriors, at the top of their game, this is a mega-fight, one you don't see but once every few years.
I'm not sure who I'm going for, the UFC Primetime show featuring Penn's non-stop mouth had me a bit turned off, I hate trash talking, but I can respect what he's doing, he knows he's the underdog, if this is how he gets himself ready so be it. But GSP's trainer was right when he said that Penn is doing nothing but putting more pressure on himself, because come Sunday, if he doesn't come clean and deliver, that's a lot of razor blades he's gotta swallow. GSP is as likable a guy you can get considering he's a French Canadian :) He projects a clean image, and respects the sport and his opponents. This is gonna be fun.
As for Sunday, yeah, I think most of the excitement will be the 3-D commercials.
Reader Comments (4)
I'm looking forward to this fight too. No big fan of Frenchie here but I'd like to see him take to the trash talking Penn. Penn's a nut, when he beat Sherk he was licking the blood off his gloves. He needs to be locked up! Thats almost as bad as eating shit!
LMAO, I guess if you're not a some freaking vamp, licking someone else's blood is kinda like eating shit.
Dude, what a crappy last week for football. Pissedoff that the Cards defense couldnt hold em to at least a field goal and see overtime. As far as the fights go, Dana should refund some of that money. Those fights were boring at best. Other then Silva getting knocked out where was the excitement? Didnt see it.....Now I gotts sit here and here all these "new" Stealer fans talk how they are the best....B.S. man!
I gotta bad case of the Mondays!
Tough break $#%$^@! Fights were kinda lame now that we're sitting after the fact.