UFC 126



Anderson Silva vs Vitor Belfort

Anderson " The Spider" Silva lives up to his nickname

photo by: Cdn3.SBNATION.COM Silva 02/05/11

The fight began and you could see the two fighters beginning to feel eachother out. Anderson stalked Vitor sizing up his punches methodically. Anderson seemed quite comfortable in his defense as Vitor finally attempted to exchange. After only a few minutes ( 3:25 )into the first round Vitor began to get comfortable and dropped his hands and Anderson capitalized on his relaxed form and then teep kicked Vitor in true Muay Thai fashion knocking him out.

Forrest Griffin and Rich Franklin

The two exchanged pretty evenly for three rounds, with Forrest winning a 29-28 decision.

John Jones vs Ryan Bader

Jones truly set the pace of the fight while still defending a few Bader submissions and ended up submitting Bader with a second round gullotine choke earning him a title shot.

Light -Heavy Weight Champion "Shogun" prepares for new contender

The bout for Light-Heavyweight Champion will take place in March with Mauricio "Shogun" Rua against John Jones since "Suga" Rashad Evans was recently injured.

VITAL STATISTICS



Name Mauricio Rua

Nick Name Shogun

Record 19 - 4 - 0 (Win - Loss - Draw)

Wins 16 (T)KOs ( 84.21 %)

1 Submissions ( 5.26 %)

2 Decisions ( 10.53 %)



Losses 1 (T)KOs ( 25 %)

2 Submissions ( 50 %)

1 Decisions ( 25 %)



Association Universidade da Luta

Weight 201lbs (92kg)

Birth Date 1981-11-25

City Curitiba

Country Brazil

Nicknamed Shogun, Rua was the winner of the PRIDE Fighting Championship's 2005 Middleweight (205 lb) Grand Prix. He received a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu from Nino Schembri after winning the Pride 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix, as well as being a black belt in Muay Thai.



It looks like Jones will have his work cut out for him if he wants to win over the Chute Box Academy graduate!

::Fight Byte::



Did you know?


Muay Thai is also called the science of 8 limbs


Watch for Rua vs Jones in March at UFC 128!

excerpt from: wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maur%C3%ADcio_Rua