UFC 105: James Wilks vs Matt Brown in the works for Nov. 14

Welcome to America!!?!? This fights in the UK dumbo. Wilks will be giving Brown a good British beatdown more than likely.

Wilks via sub R1. I don’t see either of them wasting any time here. I could see Brown coming out agressively and taking it to Wilks while Wilks hangs in there, gets it to the ground and gets the sub.

Great matchup. Im still waiting to see if 105 is worth me going to see live. Bisping doesn’t interest me after seeing him twice already so the other fights need to be worth it for me to part with my hard-earned queens heads!

I’ll tell you straight pal, it wont be worth going to!

he had is american welcome when he won the ultimate fighter. i think this will be a good fight and i cant wait to get hold of my tickets but i hope they dont just do all english fighters. i hope they pick a decent matchup for bisping though.

Whats makes you so confident it will be shit attak? Is it cos it will be a spike freebie and lacking star quality?

Like I say I couldn’t care too much about Bisping but there may be some decent earlier fights and prelims. Have to wait and see I guess. Can’t beat the live experience too IMO.

I’ll be going over to Barcelona for the ADCC’s as well next month so if I can afford decent seats at 105 and there are some quality matchups I might make the effort.

For the resons you said, plus there’s a UFC a week later and there just doesnt seem to be any quality matches to go on the card, everyone’s either fighting before or after.

TBH I dont care about the prelims anymore, I’ve been to every British show and I’m fedup seeing the same British and European cans on every show and I couldn’t give a sh!t about TUF guys either.

What me and a lot of UK fans want is a card on a par with American shows that feature quality matchups that mean something involving global stars, not just the same cr@p british fighters in meaningless bouts. Till I get that I aint going to another UK show. Bring back the days of 70, 75 and 80.

Fair play for making the effort to go to ADCC, I’d love to go to one of those, always been more of a fan of the grappling side of the sport. You been to Barcelona before?

Completely agree attakdog!

UK cards are always overflowing with UK fighters, I dont feel mma/ufc attracts fans in the way football/soccer can do, that is more tribal where you’re likely to support teams where to come from etc…but mma fan bases are more global, and I support fighters for being good fighters and it doesn’t matter where they are from.

This is why it is so disappointing when the UK cards are loaded up with UK/Euro fighters, most of which have been on every other UK card, and they are no way near the skill level of the guys on the US main cards.

What is there to attract a fan to go to the expense of attending the live event each time it comes over to UK if the same low level fighters are always taking up places on the fight card. I do appreciate that fighters have to be built up, but that shouldn’t be at the expense of a prime place on the televised card – Dan Hardy in his second ufc fight was co-main event at 95 in London, and his opponent didn’t require co-main event position either… that was just crazy to me…. But being a FightClub member I had bought my tickets in good faith, only to have my fingers burnt… it has happened to many times now with the UK shows, so I will wait to see a decent fight card put together before they get my money.

And please Bisping cannot be main event or even co-main event, the most exciting fight of his career was watching him fall unconscious to the mat against Hendo… his other undeserved ‘forced’ mainevents against Leben and Rashad were hardly exciting and he didn’t stamp his authority on those fights, and then you can add the Hamill fight…

If the new UK TUF fighters are to be on the card to attract people to buy tickets, then why cant they be on the un televised card, that way people who are really fans would get to see them being there live, and it would free up the televised card for bigger names in fights that have more weighted meaning….

This is a damn god fight and I like Dana’s current trend of finally nOT babying his TUF stars.

I think the world of Matt brown but Wilks is no slouch and very capable of winning this fight, but I think we would all agree that Brown is the favorite.

AS An American, but not an ignorant one…I feel for the british fans. YOu “BLoke’s” as you guys would say, are some really great fans, and I think you guys deserve better then what the UFC has given you.

A lot of the Brittish fighters are all improving recently and starting to come into their own, so although you guys might be sick of seeing all the same fighters at every british event, if the UFC matches them up against quality American or Brazilian opponents, you guys will be treated to some great fights.

For example, this card would be very entertaining:

UFC 105 “Great Britain vs. THE WORLD”

Bisping vs. Wand(i know it wont happen because surgery)
Hardy vs. Rumble
Semtex vs. Ben Saunders
Paul Taylor vs. Hazlett
paul Kelly vs. Pellegrino
Terry Etim vs. phillipe Nover
James Wilks vs. Matt brown
Ross "the pitbull) vs. lil heathen
Andre Winner vs. Justim Buckholtz

The problem with British Cards is that the ppv #‘s are inferior to american events because they are time delayed so its hard to or the UFC to get its BIGGEST stars to agree to fight in england because all the big stars get ppv’ percentage money. Since they cant its big stars to fight in the UK, they MUST compensate and flood the card with solid, b -level fighters to face the british fighters instead of matching them up against other European Cans

I agree too with most of what you’re saying as I went to all those shows too.

I do enjoy seeing how the UK guys fair against already established global (usually american) fighters though but as you said I think it should be spread out over all of the cards equally so that the fighters experience different locations / situations / good and bad crowds and so that we dont get the majority of UK fighters all fighting on one card.

For an example Terry Etim has fought on about 6 undercards and won most of his last few fights and stopped people impressively as well sometimes but doesn’t ever make it over to America or invited to a Fight Night card or something. It just seems pointless if they are just going keep fighting the same calibre fighters just so that they keep fighting on UK cards because the UFC think we want to see UK guys fight more than anyone else.

I personally wanna see the best fighters / matchups possible no matter where they are from so I totally agree even though I dont think UK fighters are crap by any means and the only way they will get any better is by going up against better global competition.

Re: ADCC. Yeah it looks like a great year this year and I have been wanting to go for years but never wanted to pay a fortune to go and see it so being as its in Europe and I’m from the UK the flights and accommodation are dirt cheap. Our head trainer Braulio Estima is competing too in a very competitive -87.9kg weight class against some top guys like Demian Maia, Rafael Lovato Jr, André Galvão, Kazuhiro Nakamura etc. A lot of us will be going over there from the school and should be a good little break too as I’m there for a week or so. Last time I went to Barcelona was about 10 years ago when I was trying to do a lot of travelling but was just sight seeing etc so this time it will be a bit more interesting to say the least.

Think Tel Etim fought once in the states, and you can guess the outcome. None of the others have and if there good enough to clog up our cards, why cant they fight in America?? Have they not got passports? No the Paul taylor’s, Paul Kelly’s of this world just aint good enough and nobody would give a toss about watching them but somehow we’re supposed to??

I love Barcelona, been three times. You should try and catch a footie game while you’re out there, awesome atmosphere in the nou camp. Weather should still be pretty hot too in september. Wish your trainer luck from me, think he’ll need it if he gets drawn against Maia!

My message was to Attak.

Agreed John on the reasoning behind the PPV numbers. its the same as trying to charge us for a PPV when it comes on a 3-6am!! Which is why they market the biggest stars at a time when they can rake in the best PPV figures so everyone benefits.

UK vs The world. Nice idea but I would prefer to see the UK fighters fightin all over the world instead of being hidden on a UK undercard for their entire career.

Good post ca$z.

Seriously guy’s we’re getting nothing at 105! 106 is a week later and check out how stacked its looking already.

Brock vs Carwin
Tito vs Coleman
Fitch vs Almeida

No wait all is saved, we’ve got DeMarques Johnson vs Peter Sobotta (whoever the f@ck that is)

LMAO we’re getting royally shafted yet again!!!

Yep, great posts Ca$z and K-Dog.
Damn lucky Ca$z to have Estima as your head trainer. I hope that you will have a blast in Barcelona buddy. Man that I wish that I could go. Give my best of luck to Estima.

K-Dog you should go bro, ADCC will be staked with more top fighters that you can ever dream to get on a British card. The tickets are on sale right now.

lol, every time that I’m seeing Peter Sobotta I’m thinking of Peter Svoboda!(ex hockey player)I think he was Swedish?

I would do Alph but I’m already going to portugal next month for a week.

I’d rather watch the swedish ice hockey player I think.

Thanks for the kind words lads. It will be an awesome time I can guarantee it. Braulio is such a great laugh as well as all the rest of the guys here as well. Can’t wait. Plus tickets to the ADCC are only £80 for the whole weekend instead of UFC’s £200+ for a decent seat to a not so decent line-up.

Plus guys need to be afraid of Braulio including Maia who he should have beaten before when he had bad knee problems. This time after his surgery is looking awesome after winning the world finals recently and a few european tournaments too. Maia’s getting tapped out!! (hopefully lol)