About two weeks ago I made a prediction about the fights of UFC 92 here on this site.  I am pleased to say that every single one was wrong   All three picks!  Now that you are done laughing at me, may we continue?

The big fights yielded Rampage Jackson as victor with the first time ever knock-out of Wanderlei Silva.  I was very impressed with the much improved stand-up of Rampage.  He actually looked like a true striker out there.

Then onto Forrest Griffin and Rashad Evans.  As usual, Rashad was losing.  Forrest edged him out in the first two rounds.  Then Rashad got “lucky” again.  He knocked Forrest onto the mat and left him woozy.  Griffin could not intelligently defend the attacks that followed and could not even manage to pull guard.  Very surprising, as he is deadly on the ground and especially from the guard.  I guess after being 18-0, he has proven to be the man, but I still just don’t see it.

Then onto the fight I call the Perfect Storm.  Frank Mir versus Antonio Nogueira.  After the fight, Frank Mir said that he was actually afraid of fighting Nogueira.  You never would have know that if you watched the fight.  Frank Mir looked like the last round of every Rocky movie (minus the mangled face).  He was picking Nogueira apart from every angle as if he were an amateur.  Frank actually forced the ref to stop the fight and was awarded a TKO.  Until this point, it was a feat that Nogueira has never experienced.

Mir had picked apart the fight before it even happened and formulated an unbelievable game plan.  Couple that with his toughest training camp ever, and you have one scary dude.

Mir won because he controlled the fight offensively.  When the other fighter is constantly trying to fight from behind or attempting to escape a barage of strikes, he almost always will lose.  I experienced this during a recent grappling session.  Normally, I am the submission dummy for the class, but this time I was able to think offensive and there was a major difference.

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