Starting at 7PM/10PM PST/EST this Saturday, April 21, With Leather will be teaming up with FilmDrunk editor and resident UPROXX MMA expert Vince Mancini as well as UFC vet and current UFC.com writer “Danny Boy” Downes to bring you up-to-the-minute coverage of UFC 145, airing live on pay-per-view.
UFC 145 is headlined by a Light Heavyweight Championship bout between champion Jon “Bones” Jones and challenger Rashad Evans. You can check out a full listing of the fight card, including preliminary matches airing on FX and streaming live on UFC’s official Facebook page, below.
Main card
Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Jon Jones (c) vs. Rashad Evans
Welterweight bout: Rory MacDonald vs. Che Mills
Heavyweight bout: Brendan Schaub vs. Ben Rothwell
Bantamweight bout: Miguel Torres vs. Michael McDonald
Featherweight bout: Mark Hominick vs. Eddie Yagin
Lightweight bout: Mark Bocek vs. John AlessioPreliminary card (FX)
Heavyweight bout: Travis Browne vs. Chad Griggs
Welterweight bout: Matt Brown vs. Stephen Thompson
Lightweight bout: John Makdessi vs. Anthony Njokuani
Lightweight bout: Mac Danzig vs. Efrain EscuderoPreliminary card (Facebook)
Welterweight bout: Keith Wisniewski vs. Chris Clements
Featherweight bout: Marcus Brimage vs. Maximo Blanco
Gambling lines:
Main card
Jon Jones (-485) vs. Rashad Evans (+385)
Rory MacDonald (-600) vs. Che Mills (+450)
Ben Rothwell (+240) vs. Brendan Schaub (-280)
Mark Hominick (-600) vs. Eddie Yagin (+450)
Mark Bocek (-400) vs. John Alessio (+325)
Michael McDonald (even) vs. Miguel Torres (-120)Preliminary card
Travis Browne (-260) vs. Chad Griggs (+220)
Matt Brown (+250) vs. Stephen Thompson (-300)
John Makdessi (+175) vs. Anthony Njokuani (-210)
Mac Danzig (-210) vs. Efrain Escudero (+175)
Chris Clements (-200) vs. Keith Wisniewski (+170)
Maximo Blanco (-265) vs. Marcus Brimage (+225)
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So we all had fun. People won people lost, people got punched in the face. Good times.
seems applicable: If my heart was made of glass, then you could surely see… the heartache and misery you’ve been causin’ me. Don’t you do it….
RIP Levon
UFC needs to fire Mike Goldberg and hire Mike Rowe.
genetic splice: Rowberg. He’s his own worst enemy!
Ring girls!!! prefer GIFs
Thanks guys, this was fun.
Next Jones opponent? De-roided Overeem.
I would laugh so hard if Overeem kicked Jones in the stomach a couple of times and he just collapsed over helplessly.
If we could just get Travis Browne to cut 45 pounds….
Those sweet chops couldn’t save Griggs . . . sad, really . . .
Well, where does it go from here? The UFC put their best against Jones and he made Evans look slow and stupid. The build up for this fight came from the fact that Evans was jealous that Jones was a much better fighter and passed Evans on the way to the top. Evans’ massive ego just couldn’t take playing 2nd fiddle to a much better fighter.
Anderson Silva is the only real possibility
we need to do this for the all heavyweight main card on ufc 146! awesomeness abounds!
i am way too drunk to be alive, i think….please don’t die, me….
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Well guys, I had a great time. You withleather guys better call me back. Otherwise, I’ll just send a lot of awkward/uncomfortable facebook messages.
Hey that’s what facebook is for man. Big ups.
Thanks for great liveblog everyone, super fun!
nooooo, not griggs defeat again! fuck you, dana white!
Deja PPVu!
Jones is going to bang some whores for Jesus tonight.
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Where’s the statistic for significant emotional strike?
Jones outpointed Evans in controlled emotions 16-7. That was the difference in this fight.
No sugar. All cinnamon.
/shows self out
How long before Jones can’t make 205? He’s gotta fill out at some point.
By 2013 for sure… Hendo will get his shot first.
How much money would it take for Silva to move up before Jones gets too big?
Thanks Vince and DBD for the live blog…
Well guys, I’ve re-dressed my thumb wound (from a knife that I’ve since punished). This was cool, it is interesting to talk to people about the same stuff I’m in to. I’d say, “One love” but I honestly don’t know what that means, I don’t like reggae. Later taters.
“Was it different fighting rather than training with Rashad?” “Yeah, I was way more awesome in a lot of ways.”
Rogan’s head gets bigger every time I see it.
Vince…Danny…thanks for an entertaining evening. Looking forward to the next one! I’m out…
second!
so who is next for johnald jones? gustfassson would get killed. hendo, while awesome, is too slow and gassy to clip jones. argh.
Whatever, I thought the Brown, Hominick, and MacDonald fights were all pretty legit. And I enjoyed Rothwell-Schaub.
The MacDonald fight was a massacre. It wasn’t even a fight. It was just a beat down in a level of Cyborg/Finney.
I like a massacre.
It’s nice to have a beat down mixed in with the nip tuck decisions
Jones’s plan was to employ various MMA techniques. Evans’s plan was to pretend he was punching bag.
And they both executed those plans.
Dude, he’s giving up 9 inches of reach and he still hit him with a head kick, give the guy some credit.
I did not see the fight and, I feel awesome, Jon Jones won right?
correct
The last two rounds were just Jones clowning Rashad
agreed.
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I think Rogan overestimated the importance of Jones pulling guard
Imagine if it had been a Tae Kwon Do move.
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Into rubber guard!
With his Crazy Cardio
I can’t stand Bones, but credit where it’s due. #Outclassed
Vince, thanks for hosting. I’m gonna go use a belt to Von Flue chokerbate.
Give credit to Shaad for making it all five rounds
rashad 50-5…
ugh, jones won everything. baaaarf i’m 4-9 i guess?
should read 49-46, maybe? i’m too drunk to math
Cecil Peoples says 46-45 Evans.
Adelaide Byrd scored it 100-32 Henderson
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Bro hug?
That was the most piss poor fight I have ever seen out of Evans, I am shocked.
Yeah that was pathetic. After Round 2, he was finished.
He did better than anyone else has against Jones.
Besides Matt Hammil.
I think you guys are underestimating how good Jones is.
I ain’t fixin’ to argue the point endlessly, I guess what I really meant was I didn’t like Evans PLAN for Jones. I felt like he could have (and has the ability) to be a little more…well, like crafty.
Just stay outside, Rashad, you have this fight in the bag!
HAHAHAHAHA!!
I honestly expected more from Evans.
This fight sucks, this event sucks, and all of you suck.
This is the first time I’ve followed UFC in a while, but this fight seemed ridiculously over-hyped. Past fights had full cards, and this one hasn’t really done it for me. That said, I’ll watch anyone get kicked in the face as long as my glasses don’t get broken
Are you mad cause Rashad getting that hammer put on him?
I’m sure he’s nice, but mother of God Goldberg is a fucking schmuck.
That “significant strikes” graphic is the most significant graphic I’ve ever seen.
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I’m totally stealing that.
I give Jones the edge in shucking, but Evans definitely dominated the jiving.
“Joe, I think the winner of this fight is the one who can really control his emotions. He needs to kino-escalate and really recognize the DHVs.”
Shaad needs to get this MFer on the ground
Evans keeps rubbing the right side of his head like it’s his first boob.
Rashad looks finished. He should just go buck wild in Round 5 and if he gets KOed, oh well.
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This turned into a crap fight.
Is that because you picked Evans?
Surprised there hasn’t been any wrestling in this fight?
shad, 40-4, obviously.
According to Goldie, the key to this fight is that no one has had a nervous breakdown.
If Rashad knocks him out in the 5th he can win this fight