In tonight’s main event Griffen took on the Light heavy weight champion of the UFC, Rampage Jackson. Forrest having won the first season of the ultimate fighter has gone full circle having just finished completing the latest installment of the ultimate fighter reality series as opposing coach of Jackson. The fight was foughtmostly on the feet with both fighters landing a variety of combo’s with Forrest landing some brutal leg kicks and Rampage landing some uppercut and left hook knockdowns.
The fight went to decision with Forrest winning 48-46, 48-46, and 49-46, and seemed oddly unsurprised by the victory.
The line by Rampage “Ill bet my purse our match don’t go to no decision” comes to mind. Well i guess his double negative saved him from having to pay up this time.
In unrealted news, an earlier fight saw a judge oddly gave a 30-28 decision, which is an impossible score, literally, UFC needs to look into their judges a bit.
Tyson Griffen defeated Marcus Aurelio by decision 30-27 by all 3 judges.
In a blood bath courtesy of Chris Lytle’s Circulatory system, Josh Koschek won by unanimous decision 30-26, 29-27, 30-28.
Joe Stevenson defeated Gleison Tibau by guillotine choke in the 2nd round.
Patrick Cote defeated Ricardo Almeida by Split decision: 29-28 cote, 29-28 almeida, 29-28 cote.
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14 Responses to “Forrest wins Championship!”
Posted: 07/05/08 at 10:06 pm
Amazing fights tonight!!!! Absolutely amazing! I hope everyone tuned in, It was worth the money FOR SURE!
All of my predictions were CORRECT except, i know i know, Forrest beat Rampage! Honestly I had picked Rampage and i do enjoy him more as a fighter, but Forrest is such an insanely hard worker that i feel he deserved it. I was proud of him. He won fair and square. The leg kicks were very impressive! He had a game plan and worked it. He got in there made the hits and got out! Good for him!!! He was a great coach and he’ll be a great champ. He represents the sport well. He’s a guy with a lot of heart who used his hard working ethic to make his skills match his heart! He wasn’t the most talented fighter, but he’s put in the hours and worked his way to be the champion!
You’re absolutely right justin. The UFC has got some serious issues when it comes to their judges. and their Ref’s to be quite honest. I became very aware of these issues after watching the fight network’s interviews with Big John McCarthy. He’s actually very knowledgeable and oppinionated when it comes to the sport of the UFC. He actually “retired” because he was really upset with things that were happening in the UFC including the inadequate judging and refing of many of the fights. Something needs to be done. It makes the UFC credibility deminish in my eyes. They want to be taken seriously as a professional sport, yet they have all these problems when it comes to the the actual scoring of all the fights! This needs to be their absolute main priority right now. Every UFC I watch there is some sort of problem in this area and it’s REDICULOUS!!! I have no idea how they’re not extremely embarassed and ashamed by the judging that goes on in this sport!
Overall all the fights were very entertaining. It was a great night of edge of your seat excitment! I had a great time!!
Posted: 07/06/08 at 7:54 am
For those wondering why the 30-28 is impossible, the UFC uses a “10 point must system”.
The round winner gets 10 points, te lose, 9 or less. So if someone got 30 points then he won every round, and the loser could have only had 27 max, 30-28 is impossible, and the judge didn’t even know it, nor did the commentators note it.
Posted: 07/06/08 at 4:21 pm
Holy shit, very interesting! Had no idea!
So how about Cote getting a title shot now?
Posted: 07/06/08 at 6:12 pm
i believe i read he’s getting a shot soon now. Ill post up for sure if i see it again, go CANADA!
Posted: 07/06/08 at 6:18 pm
Yes buddy! You gotta love it!
Posted: 07/07/08 at 7:05 am
Chris Lytle is a tough tough dude. He almost ended up winning that fight after getting cut wide open and looking awful…and he has a big grin on his face the whole time..unreal
I really would of liked to seen 1 more round from Rampage and Forrest. I think if that fight goes another round Rampage wins the fight…I had that feeling Rampage was going to knock him out eventually the whole time. I think the commentators pumped Forrests tires the entire fight. Saying things like Rampage didn’t have as many chances to win the fight was just untrue if you ask me. I think each time Rampage connected he had a shot to win. I think the closest the fight came to ending was Rampage big shot early in the fight…..I hate when fights go to the cards because judges always have some sort of bias if you ask me….I thought it was a pretty even fight and Forrest should of won on the cards but man 1 more round would of been fun.
Posted: 07/07/08 at 8:06 am
You are absolutely right about Rampage’s chances of winning that fight. I personally, watched the fight in a room with five other people, and every single time Rampage landed a punch, the people going for Forrest cringed and yelled “get out of there” and the people going for Rampage were ready for a knock out! Forrest worked a good game plan of hit and move, knowing that if Rampage landed a shot, he was going down. It was a great fight, and i agree it was not a one sided fight. Forrest didn’t dominate the entire fight, it was back and forth. They will fight again. We haven’t seen the last of Rampage!
Posted: 07/07/08 at 8:16 am
Ya the only bad taste in my mouth was I really didn’t think Forrest did enough to “take the belt away” from Rampage. I just think if your defending your title and it comes down to the cards you should have to be the clear cut winner of the fight to take the belt away from the champ.
I dunno perhaps I am just trying to stir something up as like I said I think Forrest won the fight but maybe just by a hair.
Posted: 07/07/08 at 9:14 am
see i think forrest did dominate the whole ight, aside from several knockdowns by rampage, forrest simply doesn’t have that KO power, but he definately controled the fight, i think if rampage were more aggressive and just brawled like he did with chuck, rmpage would have ko’d him. But forrest simply executed a better gameplan imo.
Posted: 07/07/08 at 10:22 am
see I guess it depends on how you look at the fight. When I pick who I think should win I base it on which fighter looked to be more dangerous. When watching this fight I honestly never once thought to myself “Boy Forrest might end this thing”… Rampage I thought on a few occasions had a chance to end it. That being said I had no problem with the way it was scored. I do think the Joe was a tough bias on the announcing though as the fight was much closer than he was making it out to be.
Posted: 07/07/08 at 2:45 pm
Lets look at how the UFC fights are judged (based on effective striking, grappling, agression and octagon control). Okay lets start at the easiest to judge and then work our way up to the hardest with regards to this fight (Rampage vs Forrest).
In my opinion octagon control clearly went to Forrest. Rampage was backing up for a great majority of the fight. Forrest was stalking and moving forward in an attempt to engage in strikes.
Grappling clearly went to Forrest as well. Rampage needs some serious work on his ground game. Forrest didn’t submit rampage, but he did attempt many submissions and maintained a dominant position on the ground.
I would say that both fighters were agressive.
It becomes not so black and white when it comes to the category of effective striking. One could argue that Forrest does NOT have effective striking, simply because he does not have the potential to knock someone out. Physically his punches are just not strong enough. Rampage on the other hand, his striking is so effective that everyone watching that fight knew that if he connected the fight was over. But the question then becomes are forrests strikes effective defensively? Do his punches, however weaker, keep Rampage at bay preventing a knock out opportunity? If they do, then one can argue that his strikes were, in fact, effective. It was also very clear that Forrest’s leg kicks were effective.
Looking at these things, it’s clear in my opinion why Forrest won the fight, and how some may argue that he dominated the fight. Yes Rampage is more dangerous, but looking at the fight, in regards to the sport of MMA, you have to judge the winner based on what the sport states the criteria for a winner is. Based on these criteria Forrest is the clear winner.
Posted: 07/07/08 at 2:54 pm
There’s alot of talk reeriagardng the limitations of the rules and criteria od mma fights. They have basically adopted boxing’s rules which quite simply doesn’t work.
What constitutes effective grappling? An attempted armbar, or the other fighter escaping the armbar. Often the nevada state judges are so used to judging boxing matches, they are completely unknowledgeable in the rules of mma. They often give more points for someone escaping a submission than the a ctual attempt which is lunacy.
Other than that, absolutely great post kirsten, i think you nailed it on the head why forrest was the clear cut winner.
Rampage won about 90 seconds of the 25 minute fight. Sometimes that’s enough if he scores the knockout, but not for a decision victory.
Posted: 07/07/08 at 5:12 pm
Main-event winner and new UFC lightweight champion Forrest Griffin earned a base salary of $250,000 at UFC 86, and opponent Quinton Jackson picked up $225,000. The two fighters earned the show’s highest base salaries — and more than half the total payroll.
MMAjunkie.com today obtained the list of official salaries from the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Total payroll for the pay-per-view event, which took place July 5 at the Mandalay Bay Events in Las Vegas, was $943,000.
Griffin and Jackson accounted for 50.4 percent of the payroll.
Also worth noting is that Gabriel Gonzaga earned the event’s third-highest payout ($100,000) despite appearing in an un-aired preliminary card.
The full list of salaries included:
Forrest Griffin: $250,000 (includes $150,000 win bonus) def.
Quinton Jackson: $225,000
Patrick Cote: $32,000 ($16,000 win bonus) def.
Ricardo Almeida: $23,000
Joe Stevenson: $60,000 ($30,000 win bonus) def.
Gleison Tibau: $11,000
Josh Koscheck: $70,000 ($35,000 win bonus) def.
Chris Lytle: $14,000
Tyson Griffin: $40,000 ($20,000 win bonus) def.
Marcus Aurelio: $40,000
Gabriel Gonzaga: $100,000 ($50,000 win bonus) def.
Justin McCully: $5,000
Cole Miller: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus) def.
Jorge Gurgel: $ 10,000
Melvin Guillard: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus) def.
Dennis Siver: $7,000
Justin Buchholz: $8,000 ($4000 win bonus) def.
Corey Hill: $8,000
Now, the usual disclaimer: the figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a substantial portion of a fighter’s income. They also do not include any other “locker-room” or special bonuses the UFC oftentimes pays. In other words, these are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.
Posted: 07/11/08 at 3:52 pm
wow no one else earned anything close to forrest and Rampage!