Tomorrow’s the big day: UFC 145 kicks off at 7PM/10PM PST/EST, and With Leather gets two special guests to help us live blog the festivities — UFC veteran and current UFC.com writer Daniel “Danny Boy” Downes and kingsh*t UPROXX UFC expert/FilmDrunk maestro Vince Mancini. It’s going to be a great time, and if you’re the kind of person who likes sports and jokes, you need to be there. And if you aren’t … what the hell are you doing here?
We’ve got a counter at the top of the page as a reminder, and the best advice I can give you is to sit still and stare at it until it ends. The live-blog itself goes live at midnight tonight, so you can spend all day making your predictions, laughing about how quickly the dudes get knocked out in the Facebook fights and earning our first ever MMA-themed commenting badge. We’re keeping that one under wraps for now.
So bookmark the page (which is just a placeholder for now) and be back tomorrow for the most fun you can have watching two guys beat the hell out of each other.
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But where can I talk about Bellator? Alvarez vs Aoki is going to be gnarly, I hope!
Also, Lloyd “Cupcake” Woodard is fighting tonight! CUPCAKE! I think he might get judo’d, but damn if his fight against Freire wasn’t super neat.
Weedman/Michel’s not too bad so far, even though there’s no live humans in the crowd.
I guess maybe Weedman takes it, but it was a pretty close fight. At least Weedman continued to show an inability to get choked out.
Cupcake time!
Argh, I like both dudes, though. C’mon, good fight!
Cupcake got smashed!
Let’s go Vasilevsky! Got to have at least one Russian doing things, and with Hector Lombard causing Shlemenko’s car crash, Vyacheslav’s got to pick up the slack.
nice trip from vasilevsky
all sorts of judos from vyacheslav!
first round to vyacheslav, easily. he had falcao on his back most of the round. granted, he didn’t do much, but what judge pays attention to a “minor” detail like that?
round two was a little closer, i’d like to give it to vyacheslav since falco cheated by grabbing the fence to end up on top towards the end.
i say vyacheslav takes it, 29-28. falcao had a nice sweep in r3, but didn’t do enough to stop or even get a 10-8 round.
oh bullshit! fucking judges
I think Michael Williams is my favorite ring announcer of the major ones (Bruce Buffer, Jimmy Lennon Jr) in the US.
Let’s go Rogers since I don’t know anything about Spang!
FUCKING RAD STUFF!
damn, maybe spang has round 1? good, dumb stuff, though.
Damn! Spang knocked his block off!
Oh, Shinya, learn what punches are, please.
It seems that Japanese fighters are the only people that get towels thrown in any more.
Lady-fight times!