nO, guess I was right again! I PROMISED that he wouldKnock Martin the fuck up. For years I have been getting crucified every time I speak semtex’s name. Well he just KO’ed a tite contender iin the 1st round. You all bashi him for getting outclassed by Sheilds, as if Sheilds doesnt have some of the best ground game in the world at 170lbs….and his toughness caused him to survive for longer then most. The kid is a stud…Eat your humble pie fockers.

Instead of giving me my props, Kev will just try to demean the win. yada yada yada. No need to respond, Kev ol buddy…h.e.a.R.D it all before! lol

it was a great win John, not going to demean it at all… but if he got dominated on the ground by a guy who cant strike in shields, GSP will eat him for lunch! Semtex is a contender… once GSP moves out of the division!

Kevin, the UFC said Kampmann was a contender when they set him up in a #1 CONTENDER’S MATCH with Swick. Nobody thought Leites or Cote were contenders either, but they got a shot. So no, you were not right. Again. And even if you were, all these self-congratulatory posts for stating the obvious are pretty weak.

Title shots are given out to guys who haven’t already had them in the UFC, because people don’t want to watch the same guys get destroyed repeatedly in pointless rematches. They’d rather see a new guy get destroyed, even if the last guys that got destroyed are better.

Title shots are not always earned in the UFC, which is why Belfort, a guy who hasn’t even fought at 185 in the UFC yet, is getting one.

Even a broken clock gets it right twice a day fella ;-)

You also “PROMISED” us Michael Bizzzzbing couldn’t be knocked out! Ooops

Mmm humble pie. Yep I was on the Semtex train for this one but boy am I eating a dose for picking Franklin, that was nasty. This fight card was pretty awesome.

lol you are right JJ

i laugh every time i see a self-congratulatory post. Praising themselves because no-one else will or no-one else cares that they were right

I didn’t pick anyone for this fight, mostly because I really didn’t care who won. Daley did good, but if you want me to make a pick for a fight, go ahead and feed him to GSP. GSP can fight Daley and Kampmann back to back in the same day, that will at least make it interesting.

jj, I was half joking! I just thought it was funny how many people believed Kampman was a contender. I don’t believe everything the UFC tells me like some people do!

Lol if you believed everything the UFC told you, you’d believe Huerta was the next LW champ, that Bisping would have beaten Henderson, that Diego is going to be a match against Penn, that Nate was big enough to be a competitor at LW … we are all guilty of buying into the UFCs bull but its nice when we are humble enough to admit when we are wrong. I can tell you now, it all comes down to our own analysis and the truly wise dont’ always pick their favorites, which I most times do.

nO Class!

agreed Cogito, but there are those who are over the top and believe EVERYTHING Dana says… on the flip side there are those like INtrovert who would say Dana is lying if he said it’s 90 degrees in the bay area this week (it is by the way)!

All I know is that I am one of the people most vocal about wanting people to form their own opinions instead of just regurgitating the same crap that the UFC’s marketing machine tells us. I also dont hop on and off fighters bandwagons the day after a fight. I also am the 1st to always admit when I was wrong, as if being wrong is the end of the world. I also understand that fighters are human beings and there are many intangible aspects that are a big part of fighters performances. Going into a fight injured, long lay offs, recovering from injuries!

I really have no idea why Kevin keeps bashing Semtex because he cant beat GSP. Name me a welterweight that can! What the Fock does a young welterweight who just picked up his 1st UFC win, have to do with a P4p legend like GSP?

I agree and its a lot different to come on this site and get knowledgable fans and on the street someone talks about a fight and all you hear is the hype. I laughed because someone told me Frank Mir was going to dominate Brock Lesnar… I laughed and I told him I thought Mir was going to win but by no way would he dominate, it’d be exactly like the first fight (of course I was wrong as well). I’ll have to admit tho I thrist for the strikers in the sport because they put on a great fight, and I also like the wrestlers who can take a beating and still pull off a great fight and I don’t trade fighters based on records, I trade them based on how I like their style in the octogon. Semtex I only heard about earlier last year but when I looked up his fights to get a little more information he made me a fan quickly. This guy is here to stay and unless he’s faced constantly against great wrestlers then I have a feeling we are going to see a lot more KOs in the ring. I’m already impressed that his first two fights were against Kampman and possibly Swick. After that I’ll bet you he gets Thiago or Fitch. This guy is taking no easy fights.

Great performance by Semtex, awful display by Kampmann. Daley is a very good striker so I have no idea why Kampmann tried to stand and bang with him instead of taking him down. Full credit to Paul, he took a big fight on short notice and performed very well, beating a top contender and saving us the bother of seeing GSP massacre Kampmann.

Hopefully Semtex gets another big fight next, as there is no point babying another British prospect. I’d like to see Daley-Swick and Kos-Hughes, hopefully there will be a worthy WW contender by the end of the year.

You would have thought Kampman had never seen a left hook before. He ate enough of them to adjust and never did. This was going to be GSP next match. It would have been laughable. GSP needs to move up in weight there is none left for him to secure his legacy with. He always talks about being the best time to prove it. Move up the weight class and start fighting some guys that are going to push him to the new limits he soeaks of. He steam rolled the top 4. Kampan #5 got his clock cleaned by an unranked newbie, and Swick (as much as I like him) will be a little more then an ant hill sized speed bump underneath a monster truck….

Semtex is no unranked noob, you must not know of any other promotions than the UFC kiddo. He may not be showing top ten status right now but I dare any other fighter to try standing with him and see who sleeps first. This guy is a stud in the ring, he just can’t handle the higher level of wrestlers so Kos, Hughes, and GSP will own him, though he might even flash KO Hughes or Kos if they weren’t careful.

Spot on paulo, Semtex performed very well against Kampmann but still has a lot to work on and if he doesn’t will struggle against the elite grapplers in the division, unless they do a Kampmann and try to stand and bang. I want Daley to do well, but he is going to have to become a much more well rounded fighter in order to reach title contention.