UFC Fight Night 21

now with gif animations

Though many may consider men who enter an mma proving ground little more than hired human pitbulls ripping each other apart for massive money and radical amusement, I tend to reject this view via a yawn of black hole, concluding that professional level mma is the combat of highly disciplined human spirits, opposing each other for but the duration of the bout, probably ending up as unified in the process as we could conceive, simply through their magnificent shared experience of being in a cage where the damage one suffers is the wit one failed to exhibit. That is how, in my opinion, the mma fighter fights against herself/himself. The reaction of one's opponent is the reaction to whatever one could offer as offense.

Notice that the ultimately glorious moments of mixed martial arts are not of those of KOs and submissions. They are of those of hugging the formal rival at the end of the bout, circulating the most honest, pure respect spirit and related (?) intelligence may come upon, the limitless respect each fighter deserves simply by making an attempt of expressing themselves thoroughly, honestly on the proving grounds. The biggest respect one could give is the assumption that one needs every skills- and wits to neutralize the rival. A fight is nothing less than the expression of these skill sets, put though to the test utterly and completely, instead of infinitely theorizing about them. The most glorious moment of the bout emerges in the form of the ensuing peace between the fighters, a legit, palpable sensation, unifying the former enemies and the grateful audience once the collision reaches its conclusion.

This is a review of the latest UFC event to date, UFC Fight Night 21.



Introductory thoughts about the more significant lineups

The UFC Fight Night events have the fruity tendency of colliding up and coming prospects with each other OR against former top tier warriors who suffered mild or even significant setbacks, giving a chance to the fresh additions to make a solid statement "simply by" taking out a recognized name. The main event of the night gives you Sorrowful Samurai Kenny Florian, who, beside being a highly analytical fighter with a scientific approach and a super-solid skillset, comes off a stellar performance against superfervent adrenaline monster Clay Guida. Prior to that, Kenny suffered a defeat against UFC Lightweight Champion BJ Penn at UFC 101 Declaration, now facing Takaroni Gomi of whose identity I have sub-zero clue about, yet it is enough to see the enthusiastic face expression of Joe Rogan to know that Gomi certainly has a well deserved reputation, now expressing his imminent plans to shape a UFC Belt on that. Taking out Florian would be a huge step along that path.

The Skyscraper Stephan Struve will collide against latest Ultimate Fighter TV show winner to date, Roy Nelson, who packs insane punching power, but he currently is on the bad side of UFC President Dana White, who openly expressed on numerous occasions that he is not too impressed by the performances of Cannonball Roy so far. Struve put up one helluva' fight against Paul Buentello, who has a similar buildup and style than Nelson, now is the time to see if a similar matchup could yield results of significantly fruity attributes. Here you can see a gif animation of an epic exchange between Buentello and Struve: can you find the epic exchange between Buentello and Struve on this page?

Nate Quarry VS Jorge Rivera

The first round of this fight revolves entirely around Rivera's ability to get away with the better of the standup exchanges, effectively molesting Quarry with moderately effective shots at the fence when the first period reaches its conclusion. It is surprising that Quarry has yet enough tenaciousness in him to answer the bell for the second round, by which he gets knocked down swiftly, then put away by administration of a brief and effective ground and pound sequence. Veteran Jorge Rivera emerges victorious via steamrolling over fellow veteran Nate Quarry.

Roy Nelson VS Stephan Struve

Roy "Big Country" Nelson puts away The Skyscraper Stephan Struve via nuclear bombs, and here is a nice gif animation of those:

This is the way to impress Dana, great job, Roy. Feel free to comment on this article, or, if your humbleness makes you reluctant to do so, then let me congratulate on a rock solid performance. This is the second time we see Stephan Struve giving out on his super-long, super-elastic legs, one must wonder if it is a special technique of him which he is still perfecting.

Though consensus opinion is that it is easy to underestimate Roy Nelson because of his physical buildup, the man commands a thick layer of muscle beneath all that fat. Big Country showed no signs of being intimidated by the height- and reach advantage at all, finding a place for those bombs in but matters of seconds, something that shows Nelson's ability to close the distance with ruthless efficiency.

Kenny Florian VS Takaroni Gomi

Takaroni Gomi takes his time experiencing his inferiority in the standup position, having little if any chance of reaching Florian in a flow of battle that invites the third and final round into consensus reality. While not exactly the most intense fight to watch as result of Florian's ability to negate Gomi AND remaining calm while doing that, Kenny goes for a takedown in the concluding round, and executes the maneuver perfectly. Following some time and related punches of softening Gomi up, Kenny sinks in the hooks and forces the Japanese notability to tap out of this contest. Kenny Florian wins by shutting down the recent UFC addition utterly and completely.



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