UFC Unleashed 5/14 Re-Cap

UFC Unleashed 5/14 Re-Cap

This show featured 4 fights from 2008.

Welterweight Fight- George Sotiropoulos (8-2) vs. Roman Mitichyan (9-1)- Fight Night 13- 4/2/08

Both of these guys were in The Ultimate Fighter Season 6. Roman had to drop out before the first right due to injury and George made it to the semis.

R1- Roman looks wild early and George looks more controlled. George takes his back pretty quickly and is in control. Roman to his feet and tries to dump George but instead he gives up position and George has him in a choke. Roman gets out of the choke and flips it over but George goes for the arm bar. Roman finally slips out. George goes after some punches and then takes down Roman and gets his back again. George is now hitting some elbows and is going after the arm. Somebody is cut pretty good, I think George got cut on the back or the neck. George ends the round in full mount. George controlled Round 1 and took it pretty easily. Overall this was a pretty entertaining first round.

R2- George quickly gets control in this round as he takes Roman’s back again. Roman rolls over and George has full mount now and is laying in punches. The ref stops the fight as Roman really wasn’t defending himself. George pretty much dominated this fight and looked good.

Winner: George Sotiropoulos by TKO R2


Lightweight Fight- Clay Guida (22-6) vs. Samy Schiavo (10-4)- Fight Night 13- 4/2/08

R1- Long feeling out process as Schiavo is going for some punches and Guida just kind of trying to get the timing down. Guida moves in and absorb some punches but gets a take down. Guida moves into full mount with a minute and a half left in Round One. Schiavo can’t get out of being pinned against the cage and Guida quickly finished him with strikes on the ground. Schiavo looked good on stand up but just got controlled on the ground.

Winner: Clay Guida by TKO (strikes) R1


Welterweight Fight- Marcus Davis (18-4) vs. Jess Liaduin (12-8)- UFC 80- 1/19/08

R1- Davis has won 10 straight fights going into the one. Jess with some kicks early. Davis just nails Jess with a solid left about one minute into the fight and this one is over. Great punch.

Winner: Marcus Davis by KO R1

Lightweight Title Fight- Joe Stevenson (33-7) vs. BJ Penn 12-4-1)- UFC 80- 1/19/08

R1- BJ Penn comes out and land some punches immediately and quickly takes Stevenson down. BJ is in Joe’s half guard. BJ is just kind of smothering Joe so far. Stevenson gets some shots in from the bottom but BJ nails Stevenson with an elbow and he is a bloody mess with that one shot. Just a ton of blood. That was amazing that this one shot caused so much blood. First round goes to BJ Penn easily.

“That’s like a broken fire hydrant”- Joe Rogan (in reference to Stevenson cut from BJ Penn’s one elbow shot)

R2- Stevenson comes out more aggressive in this round. They fight pretty evenly on their feet for the first couple minutes of the round. Ref calls for a time to check out Stevenson, who has blood dripping down his face. They continue the fight. BJ jumps on Stevenson as he punches him and Stevenson drops into the fetal position. BJ grabs his back and Stevenson rolls over so now BJ is in full mount and blood is everywhere. BJ grabs his back and clamps in the choke and Stevenson taps out. BJ just dominated this fight from start to finish.

Winner and new Lightweight Champion: BJ Penn by Submission (Rear Naked Choke) R2