Breakdown: UFC Fight Night 84

Breakdown: UFC Fight Night 84

 

            The UFC’s internet subscription service, UFC Fight Pass, will air its biggest live card to date on Saturday February 27, 2015 with Fight Night 84 from London, England. The Main event matches the former Middleweight Champion, Anderson “The Spider” Silva and the #6 ranked MW and Manchester, England’s own Michael “The Count” Bisping.

Anderson Silva is 33-6 with twenty wins by KO/TKO. “The Spider’s” first fight in the UFC was in June of 2006, a first round KO of Chris Leben by knee (0:49). Four months later he finished Rich Franklin for the MW Title (1^st 0:49). Silva went on a streak of sixteen straight wins in the UFC, fourteen of those were finishes (11 KO/TKO).

Chris Weidman ended that streak nearly three years ago (6/6/13) with a second round KO (1:18) and took the MW belt at UFC 162. A leg injury that December in the rematch forced Silva to mend. A January 2015 win over Nick Diaz was later overturned by NAC. The #7 ranked MW hasn’t won a fight since he TKO’d Stephan Bonner at Light Heavyweight, in October of 2012.  

Michael Bisping is also a veteran of the UFC, he is the winner of The Ultimate Fighter Season 3 as a Light Heavyweight. He collected three consecutive TKO wins as a LHW in the UFC. “The Count” won both his 2015 fights: Split Decision over Thales Leites 7/18/ and aUnanimous Decision of CB Dolloway 4/25. Bisping’s last lost came at the hands of the, now, MW Champion, Luke Rockhold by a second round Guillotine Choke Submision (0:57) 11/7/14.

Co-Main Two More Ranked MW’s

            The ninth ranked MW in the UFC, Gegard Mousasi is 37-6 with nineteen wins by KO/TKO and twelve by Submission. He is coming off a TKO loss to Uriah Hall (2^nd 0:35) last September. Prior to that “The Dreamcatcher” had won two straight, including a first round (1:10) TKO of Dan Henderson 1/24/15. He takes on #10 Thales Leites.

Leites is also fresh off a loss, a SD to Main Eventer, Michael Bisping 7/18/15. Before that he rattled off eight straight with three finishes, two of those by strikes and he choked Tim Boetsch unconscious with a second round arm triangle (3:45) 1/31/15.

Fight Finishers at 170lbs

            Keita Nakamura is 31-6 with six KO/TKO and sixteen wins by Submission. A pair of TKO wins in 2014 began the five fight streak Nakamura is currently on. In September, he made his UFC debut in style, by submitting Jingliang Li with a third round rear-naked choke (2:17) at UFC FN 75. Prior to that he competed for Deep where he was the organization’s Welterweight Champion. Nakamura takes on undefeated, Tom Breese.

Breese has finished each of his fights, three KO/TKO and Six Subs. His last two fights were both 2015 TKO’s late into the opening rounds: May 30^th he stopped Luiz Jorge Dutra Jr at 4:58 in his UFC debut and bettered his effort next time out with the stoppage coming at 4:37 over Cathal Pendred on Oct 24^th.

Heavyweights in Action

            Polish HW fighter Daniel Omielanczuk earned won of his three KO/TKO wins last time out in the opening 0:48 over Chris de la Rocha. Nine of his seventeen wins have also come by submission. He takes on 6’3” Jarjis Danho. Danho has finished each of his fights (with exception of a 2013 No Contest).”Man Mountain” has finished his last three by TKO and has four wins by KO/TKO overall.

Be Sure to Watch

            Twenty-nine year old, Rustan Khabilov has dropped his last two, but the Russian fighter began his UFC career by suplexing Vine Pinchel unconscious in the first round (2:15). The 17-3 Lightweight looks to return to his winning ways when he faces “Stormin” Norman Parke. The 29 year old Irishman holds twelve sub wins. He beat Reza Madadi by UD Oct 24^th 2015 last fight.