Comments on: Brandon Vera vs. Keith Jardine at UFC 89

By: cio

cio — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:14:15 +0000

I wonder why a lot of people are counting on Vera’s two consecutive losses hard enought on Him. C’mon, Tim Sylvia is huge for Vera whereas Vera’s loss to wyrdum is a bad one that should be counted against the referee and not to him! Vera’s UD win over andy was because of a bad weight cut rather than lack of fighting passiona and talent…Tho, I like both vera and Jardine as they are stand-up fighters, but i believe that vera is way more talented than jardine.. Jardine’s only a chance is when he hits vera with a lucky shot! Though, i hope to see awesome kickboxing from these two..
Ingatz brandon and go for the kill…

By: dan

dan — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:41:44 +0000

Go Vera GO! Tough fight for Dean of mean

By: hiv

hiv — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:54:48 +0000

brandon will win for sure..jardine doesnt have afoot work, he doesnt have the speed but he has power behind those knuckles and as well as vera. but for sure vera will win coz he has speed, footwork and power. he could knock a guy with one blow. but u knw…lets see if the cutting of weight will affect me. he’s much bigger even if he looks thin, look at his body frame..

By: badui

badui — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:43:54 +0000

vera can beat dean if he comes out smoking ready and focused…
he’s previous fights are not good and not explosive…
he must learn how to ground and pound since hes a big guy and can easily throw down an opponent…
mabuhay brandon!
dugong pinoy!

By: robjob

robjob — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:33:26 +0000

this is great for keith jardine! im a fan of the dean of mean and cant stand vera. vera desrves to get caught by one of jardines unorthodox punches and get knocked out after his last performance. go dean of mean!!! and wtf is all this shit about giving bisping a chump.um look at lebens record and tell me hes a chump. he has HUGE wins. im going with leben in this fight. very heavy handed. and lyoto vs silva..hmm im going with the more skilled and not tough fighter lyoto! what a card~

By: Chicken Lips

Chicken Lips — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:19:44 +0000

zzzzzzzzz! This will be boring trust me. In a division with W Silva, Lidell, T silva, Rampage, Rua and Griffin this match up is not that exciting for me. Jardine is an overrated fighter and so is Vera. All they’ve ever done is beat other fighters at their worst. Neither of these two will ever amount to anything. Harsh but true. As for Machida, all he does is tag and run until the other fighter gets that frustrated that he walks into something, It’s like a game of tag not a fight. Please let somebody figure out this style quick so we don’t have his style of “fighting” spreading or ruining the sport of MMA for too long.

By: Cathedron

Cathedron — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:45:28 +0000

#11 I’m convinced Machida hates to get hit and is scared to death of a loss. I’ve seen it before and it kills careers. You don’t develop such an incredibly elusive style unless you work hard on it. He’s incredibly talented, but needs to realize that fans and promotions care more about exciting fights than win/loss records. I mean, Chuck Liddell is a counter striker as well, but his fights are exciting because isn’t afraid to take risks. As it stands, Machida’s talent is going to be wasted because he’s pretty much reached as far as he’ll ever go in MMA. The best fighters won’t touch him because he’ll make them look dull even if they beat him. I hate to see Machida get used as nothing more than a punishment on fighters Dana White doesn’t like.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:27:46 +0000

I agree with #4…

I think the other promotions have forced the UFC to put on better free cards. Bisping/Leben isn’t a great PPV main event but it could be an explosive finish to a solid Spike card. If only UFC could get on FOX (or one of the others that Huckaby mentioned in post #7)

By: Bad Monkey

Bad Monkey — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:34:05 +0000

After re-watching his last couple fights, I’ve got a serious man-crush on Thiago Silva. That guy is a stone cold killer in the octagon. As has been mentioned, if he cut the cage off against Machida and force him to engage I think he can definitely take him. I don’t see any area where Machida is better than Silva, and given Silva’s killer instinct I think he takes this one.

Jardine/Vera should be great as well considering Jardine knows he’s got to come out kick some ass to stay in the ballpark for any title shot.

By: Jackyl

Jackyl — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:40:11 +0000

Dan: I don’t think Vera was gunshy. He looked great in the first round. He clearly gassed from the weight cut. I think he will be in better shape this time out but I’m not sure he can stop Jardine and I don’t see him pulling off a decision. I’m taking Jardine by UD on that one.