UFC 105 results (quick) for 'Couture vs Vera' LIVE Nov. 14
by Jesse Holland on Nov 14, 2009 5:26 PM EST
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UFC 105: "Couture vs. Vera" will get underway shortly today (Nov. 14), LIVE from the Manchester Evening News (MEN) Arena in Manchester, England. It is currently scheduled to air stateside via tape delay at 8 p.m. ET on Spike TV.
For those of you who didn't make the trip across the pond (or just can't wait for tonight's broadcast) MMAmania.com will bring you the UFC 105 quick results right here LIVE beginning with the preliminary card bouts at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET.
Main card action will begin to flow shortly after that around 3 p.m. ET.
Remember: "Couture vs. Vera" will not air until 8 p.m. ET, so as a courtesy to your fellow MMA fans please relegate all spoilers, comments and discussions regarding the UFC 105 quick results to this thread ONLY.
UFC 105 will feature a main event between former heavyweight champion, Randy "The Natural" Couture, returning to light heavyweight to battle Brandon "The Truth" Vera. In addition, hometown favorite Michael "The Count" Bisping will take on Pride FC standout, Denis Kang, in the co-featured fight of the night.
Welterweights Mike Swick and Dan Hardy are also booked to get busy inside the Octagon to help clarify the suddenly murky 170-pound number one contender situation.
Here are the current UFC 105 quick results (SPOILERS):
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Main event:
205 lbs.: Randy Couture defeats Brandon Vera via unanimous decision
Main card (Televised):
185 lbs.: Michael Bisping defeats Denis Kang via technical knockout (punches) in round two
170 lbs.: Dan Hardy defeats Mike Swick via unanimous decision
170 lbs.: Matt Brown defeats James Wilks via technical knockout (strikes) in round three
155 lbs.: Ross Pearson defeats Aaron Riley via technical knockout (doctor's stoppage) in round twoUnder card (May not be broadcast):
155 lbs.: Terry Etim defeats Shannon Gugerty via submission (guillotine choke) in round two
170 lbs.: John Hathaway defeats Paul Taylor via unanimous decision
170 lbs.: Nick Osipczak defeats Matt Riddle via technical knockout (strikes) in round three
155 lbs.: Denis Siver defeats Paul Kelly via technical knockout (strikes) in round two
205 lbs.: Alexander Gustafsson defeats Jared Hamman via knockout (strikes) in round one
155 lbs.: Andre Winner defeats Roli Delgado via knockout (punch) in round one
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UFC 105 picks
Couture by UD
Swick by TKO R2
Kang by UD
Wilks by Submission R3
Riley by UD
Hathaway by UD
Etim by TKO R1
Osipczak by UD
Kelly by UD
Hamman by TKO R2
Winner by TKO R2
I should be going to the Dan Hardy afterparty and the Randy Couture book signing, I’ll do a fanpost on it if I get to talk to either of them.
WideScreen
Don’t sleep on Alexander Gustafsson…he’s the real deal. Great prospect and at 6’5" 205LB he’s gonna be a hard fight for anyone in the division. Hammand is going down, bud. Believe it.
Randy too btw… other than that you are spot on.
See...
What did I tell ya…Alexander Gustafsson defeats Jared Hamman via KO (strikes) 0:41R1
Sorry guys, I won’t post any other results than this one.
I’m in the States, (Central Time Zone) I don’t have cable/Spike and the local sports bars aren’t showing this because of all the big football games today. Anybody know somewhere online that I can watch it LIVE?
justin.tv
its normally sweet dude!
"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch." ~ Ty Cobb
by RearNakedPoke on Nov 14, 2009 11:03 AM EST up reply actions
OR
or
ENJOY!! its gonna be mint, some badass fights…
"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch." ~ Ty Cobb
by RearNakedPoke on Nov 14, 2009 11:12 AM EST up reply actions
Kang
sure hope so! that’d be sweet! id rather see swick put ssome hurting on Hardy with his leather but i’ll take a submission too ;)
"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch." ~ Ty Cobb
by RearNakedPoke on Nov 14, 2009 11:37 AM EST up reply actions
ADDED A BUNCH OF PROP BET
50 each
vera/couture goes to decision
swick wins by KO/TKO
Bisping/Kang goes to decision
Swick wins in 1st
………….
also
couture/swick/bisping parlay 50/250
and
pacquio/swick parlay 250/200
Unrelated note
Anyone notice Andre Agassi and Dana White could be twins. I dont know how to upload a pic here but if someone can you will see the similarities.
My 105 picks
I got Swick.. Riley.. Kang.. Wilks.. Vera/Couture to me is a toss up. Vera has all the tools to defeat Randy Couture.. I want to see how Randy’s perfoms again fighting at 205.
Close to fight time
Fuck ya. And fuck ya to the non censorship. Im torn between Randy and Vera. Love Randy but Vera needs a run.shit
Take it easy!
Don’t be rude, man. Stay tuned…
by Eduardo Cruz on Nov 14, 2009 3:28 PM EST up reply actions
The Real Deal
Ross Pearson fuck yeh
What’d i tell you guys, value!
Who else is making off that? :D
definitely!
have to say from reading these boards for the last lot of weeks bisping wasnt supposed to win, pearson wasn’t supposed to win & winner wasnt supposed to win! i hope our american friends are taking note
COME ON HARDY!!!
yes pearson looked good tho do you not think he looked small in comparison to riley? think he may be better suited to 145
Bisping looked
surprisingly good off his back against Kang. He completely neutralized Kang’s top game. I’ve never been a Bisping fan, but also never understood all the hate for him on here. He’s not TOP 3, but he’s never been a slouch either.
Rogan while commentating on the Swick / Hardy fight described opened hand punches as ‘kinda like bitch slaps’
QUOTE OF THE NIGHT
GOLDBERG: And the winner of this fight set to take on that man right there, Georges St. Pierre!
ROGAN: Whew! Maybe you’d be better off losing!!
GSP VS Hardy - Welterweight Title fight.
Make your predictions folks!
I pick GSP
I think GSP will be able to take down Hardy at will, from there he will Just GNP. However Hardy could catch him with a bomb somewhere in the fight. I think he could have finished Swich had he not gone for the takedowns. Lol the chicken dance…
Doesn't matter to me
They are my two favorite WW fighters. I prefer GSP obviously, but if he has to lose to someone I would want it to be Hardy.
GSP by any way he wants. Hardy looked great, Swick was hurt every time Hardy connected and his clinchwork was much improved, though against GSP he’s going to get picked apart standing and destroyed on the ground.
was impressed by not only Hardy’s striking but also he proved tonite he could take a punch. Also once he got Swick down he looked menacing with gnp…. vicious elbows
as Matt Serra proved anything can happen in the octagon so lets not discount Hardy altogether
Hardy would have
looked much more impressive if he’d followed his stunners with KOs instead of repeatedly trying to take Swick down. Hardy showed great talent, but retarded gameplanning. I gave him both the “Upset of the Night” award and “Dumbass of the Night” award.
Hardy by UD
Honestly, I’m not trolling, I think Hardy wins by UD
you should be so lucky!
Dude, be realistic, the haters on this site never die. They’re not gonna be dissuaded by something as silly and insignificant as FACTS!
Bisping was very impressive to me
HIs ground defense takedowns, and general fighting intellegence impressed me tonight. But what really won me over was him bringing his son in the octogon for a little sparring after the fight. That kid will be 10 feet tall when he goes to school on Monday and all his friends are like “Dude, we saw you on TV putting your dad in an armbar in the real octogon!” Good Dad, that! I suspect half of these fighters don’t even know their kids’ names.
I’m pretty sure Dana is not going to give give Hardy an immediate title shot, but if Swick had one he would since he is 8-1 or 7-1 in the UFC.
If they bring GSP after the fight, the fight will happen. Dana came with GSP in the octogon so he’s definitly behind this.
yeah, Dana clearly said...
the winner of this fight gets a shot at Dana, and he said it on THIS broadcast. Of course, that’s never stopped him from going back on his word before!
The UK angle
Dana will want to bank on the first UK guy to get a title shot. I would bet anything the fight goes down in England and the Brits will go CRAZY!!!! I would love to fly over just to party and celebrate with the New Champ
better start your party before the fight, cause the only way you’ll see Hardy decision GSP is if you’ve done a buttload of halucinogens.
This fight will be in Montreal
They are saying this fight will happen in the spring, so I would assume this will happen in Montreal in April?
the fucking stream
i cant believe my stream cut off with 48 seconds left in the fight right when vera mounted randy..
I know wtf! At least he won! Woooooooooot
by CoutureisKing on Nov 14, 2009 5:56 PM EST up reply actions
That sucks
Dang Hella that sucks. Same thing happened to me in the Kang Bisping fight. During the first round the stream cuts out then when it comes back Kang is on the ground and the fight is over.
After that I found some other site and it was good from then on.
Crap decision
Randy gets another win for holding the other guy for 11 minutes of 15 minutes fight. I just cant belive goddamn judges robbed Vera. i mean WOW
fuhreal doh!!!
Or at least publish their criteria so fighters and fans know what they’re looking for! Couture won the control battle and may have even landed more strikes (in the clinch), but Vera definitely won the damage battle.
we need more draws!
if justice is to be served. I don’t give a shit if a bunch of drunks want to see a winner. If neither fighter wins or loses the fight (like tonight) then why should the judges have to split hairs to figure out who to give the fight to!!! It sucks for fighters to have losses on their record that they didn’t earn. They should have huge “finishing bonuses” to encourage fighters to finish their fights and not play it safe and intentionally try to get a draw, but if there’s no clear winner, there should be no loser!
It was very close
Randy kept the fight in his world and definitely dominated “octogon control” but Vera neutralized Randy’s offense and did more damage. I thought Randy won rd 1 and thought the judges would give 2 and 3 to Vera for the kick (2nd) and the TD (3rd) even though Randy recovered early in the 2nd and hurt Vera with punches elbows. I’m a huge Randy fan, but I was surprised by the decision.
As a Couture fan...
I’m happy for Randy’s legacy…but I feel bad for Vera. How many guys have done that well at neutralizing Randy’s clinch and takedowns. As with many of the fights last weekend, I was more impressed with the accomplishments of the underdog/loser than I was with the winner.
just watched it again!
After seeing it the second time, I guess I can see a how the judges could maybe give rd 3 to Couture. Not sure I agree. I definitely had him winning rd 3 up until the final minute takedown, which Randy did manage to neutralize and escape. Randy rocked Vera twice in the third round and was bullying him in the clinch with a lot of punches and elbows, much more so than in the earlier rounds. Then Vera got in 1 good body kick, missed 2 more, got stunned with punches, recovered, clinch stalemate, then the TD but no damage. Without the TD, the round would definitely have gone to Randy, so I guess it just comes down to how impressed the judges were/weren’t with that TD. .
randy did nothing
to deserve a unanimous decision….he hugged and hugged and hugged…he spent 13 of 15 minutes going for a takedown that he never got…cept for like the 7 seconds he had vera down in the 1st round but vera jumped right back up…
so give randy the 1st round..
2nd round vera drops randy with that kick…then gets on top of him…other than that the round was more of the same…randy clinching and doing nothing but having the ref break them up….
3rd round vera easily takes randy down and mounts him…randy spent the entire fight looking for that takedown but couldnt get it, vera gets it easily, and mounts him…how many people have ever mounted randy couture? plus vera landed some great kicks in the round as well
i had the 2nd and 3rd round for vera…
if anything then it should have at least been a split decision…not a freaking UD….
randy was completely terrified of vera’s standup…like…COMPLETELY…terrified…he wanted NO PART of it…and we could see why…he got dropped with a kick…ive never saw randy that scared to trade with someone..
Randy hasn't
fought someone with legs as dangerous as Vera’s since Maurice Smith back in ‘97, and Mo didn’t have Vera’s Greco credentials. I have to admit, Vera did much better than I expected and I felt bad for him. I also thought the judges would give rds 2 & 3 to Vera (because of the takedown). I don’t agree that it was an easy takedown, and Vera didn’t get mount by passing guard. They were trying to take each other down and Vera landed on top in the mount, which Randy immediately neutralized and eventually escaped. I was initially surprised by the decision, but after watching the fight again, I could see rd 3 going either way.
The first round was tough to score but I had Vera winning the second and third rounds, the knockdown in R2 made it easy to score for Vera and the takedown and mount scored more points than Randy’s clinch. Not the most exciting fight of the night but very close, however Vera should have won it.
can't argue.
I think you have to give the first round to Couture cause Vera did absolutely nothing but get sucked into Randy’s world and stay on the defensive.
Second round clearly goes to Vera with the knockdown body kick.
Third round Randy had Vera stunned twice and landed a lot more shots. Vera got a really solid kick in, a TD, and a mount, but Randy was never in trouble and neutralized and escaped. Could go either way. If you score TD’s high, it goes to Vera. But Vera looked more like he was in trouble during those combinations than Randy did when he was on his back. So I can’t hate on the judges either way. I’m gonna watch it a 3rd time before I make a decision on Rd. 3.
However, if you scored fights as a whole, like I’ve always advocated, I think Randy kept Vera in his world but Vera did more damage and had Randy closer to being finished (rd 2).
Vera got robbed
come one judges, wtf are you looking at?!? hugging a guy for 10+ minutes w/o getting a single take down shouldn’t give you points, complete bull shit!!
anyways, i thought vera could’ve done more to win the fight, his game plan sucked, he went for the clinch and did nothing to try to avoid it , so frustrating to watch!!
I don’t give a shit about the decision.
Vera didnt do SHIT, hes boring and so goddamn stupid he deserves to be cut.
And Randy is no better, just hug hug hug.
Worst main event EVER im telling you.
I said it all along, this would be the worst fight in UFC history and it was.
by Lester The Pimp on Nov 14, 2009 8:33 PM EST reply actions
I've said all along...
this was a terrible match up. And that was before I read about Vera’s greco-roman credentials. Joe Silva should know better than to ever put two guys in the ring together who have that good of a clinch. Randy’s clinch, pace-setting-mastery, and ring-control clearly neutralize Vera’s standup. And Vera’s clinch defense and long base neutralize Randy’s offense. Obvious stalemate!
Randy looked a lot slower
in this fight than he did against Brock and Nog. I think he could still beat the ever-loving crap out of boxers like Rashad and probably Thiago (neither of whom have Vera’s greco-roman skills) but tonight proved he’s gonna have big problems against anyone with good kicks. (Machida/Shogun)
randy showed..
that he deserve a title shot thats for sure…that truly was terrible to watch….the only 2 exciting moments of that fight was seeing randy get dropped and seeing randy get mounted…not because i hate randy…but because at least vera was actually doin something constructive other than butt hugging…..that was the most horrendous 15 minutes of fighting ive seen in a long time….
it reminded me of kenflo hugging bj against the cage for 4 rounds before getting tapped….that was the worst title fight ive ever seen ever….4 rounds of cage hugging…and this was 3 rounds of cage hugging…thank god it wasnt a title fight..couldnt have endured this for 2 more rounds…
if tito wins next week id really like to see tito vs vera..i think they’ll probably put that fight together since they’ll both be due to fight again at the same time….plus it would be a great fight….and theyd both do a lot of shit talking building it up…plus i think vera got a lot of respect tonight for being close to finishing randy…
yea tito vs vera…do it up
by HellaHectic on Nov 14, 2009 10:13 PM EST up reply actions
i meant randy does NOT deserve a title shot
in my post above…
by HellaHectic on Nov 14, 2009 10:22 PM EST up reply actions
wtf was wrong with kang?
Can someone explain to me how someone who is black belt in BJJ can’t do ANY damage to his opponent for 4 minutes when he is on top, but when he is on the receiving end, VIRTUALLY, gets hit with every shot and has no defense what so ever?
I had no idea who kang was and when asked everyone said he’s strong etc… weakest guy on the ground I’ve ever seen, top or bottom.
Change of heart
Ok, initially, I thought it was Vera 29-28 winning the 2nd and 3rd rounds. But I have watched the whole fight 3 times now and watched rd 3 five times and pause/replayed each exchange and counted up the damage. Watching each exchange repeatedly from both sides and tallying up the strikes on paper, I discovered a lot that I missed in my first couple of viewings. By my count, in ROUND 3, Randy landed 23 head punches, plus 2 elbows to the head, 10 knees, and 2 body punches. Vera landed 4 punches to the head 1 leg kick, 2 knees, and 1 very solid body kick (the other 2 were blocked or caught) plus he had the takedown in which he landed in the mount, but was unable to land any strikes as Randy completely nullified his offense and quickly escaped. So even if you give Vera 5 points for his wasted TD and 10 points for the big kick, Randy would still outscore him in Round 3. I may be wrong on my exact strike counts, but I think tomorrow Fightmetric will confirm my conclusion that Randy won round 3 and takes the fight 2 rounds to 1 by the 10 point must.. I’ll be interested to see how they score the performance ratings
Final analysis, the judges got this one right (for a change). Couture 29-28
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