Clear Cut UFC 104 Breakdown: The Rest

Joe "Daddy" Stevenson won his fight against Spencer Fisher at UFC 104 the way I predicted. With Stevenson training with Greg Jackson and Phil Nurse, his striking has improved tremendously which showed in his fight against Fisher. He was stronger and has superior grappling.



Anthony Johnson missed weight and fought at 176 lbs. Fighters who miss weight are often punished in some way or form by UFC either by giving them a less lucrative opponent for their next fight or in Travis Lutter's case, they get cut from the organization. In the end, he missed out of 60,000$ in knock out of the night. Dana White said because he didn't make weight, he was no longer eligible. Something tells me, that will be
punishment enough. I see Johnson becoming a number one contender if he wins his next fight. Johnson vs GSP would be a good fight if it stays in the stand up. Both are explosive and powerful. I'd love to see Johnson vs one of the fighters at AKA. Either Josh Koschek, Jon Fitch or Mike Swick. That would be a good fight to determine the next contender.


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Yoshin Okami  loses to Chael Sonnen


“It was a complete, utter defeat. Reflecting on the fight, I have thoughts like, ‘I should have done this, I should have done that,’ but they are indications that my ability as a fighter proved insufficient. Sonnen was tough. When I stuffed the first takedown, I found myself in the clinch position which is normally my domain; however, I was surprised to be scooped up from underneath and thrown on the mat when I tried to fire off a knee from the position. He was more powerful than I imagined, and left me confounded as to what I should do next, and he kept up with his offense. I have never experienced anything like this before. For this fight, I had the best training possible, so I am disappointed about this loss. At the same time, I think I saw the limitation of the environment in which I find myself in (in terms of training). In Japan, I inevitably face a shortage of training partners and I often find myself on the offensive during training. Though I try to improve and diversify my training routine, I probably hit the ceiling at some point. I have the option of uprooting myself and training overseas… if I continue to train in Japan, I feel that I will end up becoming complacent, so I want to go back to square one and challenge myself. I feel that there is a need for me to train with training partners who are bigger than me. In order to win in UFC, I have trained to not be taken down and end up on the bottom on the ground; I thought I had the right approach, but I had not thought about what I would do if I did end up in a disadvantageous position. I was lax in my approach. Losing my passport (NOTE: He lost his passport right before he flew out of Japan and arrived in LA a day later than was originally scheduled to) ? It had no bearing on the fight. With all that said, I am very glad that I got to fight a tough fighter like Chael Sonnen. I am disappointed because I have never experienced a loss like this — it is up to me use this as a learning experience, so I would like to carefully ruminate how I can improve and implement (what I learned) in my fights.” 

Chael Sonnen had his own comments after the fight and feels ready to step up the competition and fight Nate Marquart. Check out the video.