UFC 155 Recap: Facebook Prelims
By Dr. Octagon, J.D.
I don’t do play by play on the Facebook prelims because I only have one computer. I was having trouble with the Facebook feed, so I actually watched the fights on Youtube. My laptop also overheated at the end of the Leonard Garcia fight. Do not buy a Hewlett Packard laptop no matter what you do. They overheat, the batteries die immediately, and the customer support is horrible. I’m probably going to buy a new computer next week.
Chris Cariaso vs. John Moraga: Cariaso won the first two rounds, before getting caught in a guillotine in the third round.
Leonard Garcia vs. Max Holloway: This fight was so action-packed it overheated my computer. As expected, Holloway had the crisper strikes while Leonard Garcia walked forward, with no defense and wild hooks. The fight was much closer than many expected, as Leonard threw a million punches with more power behind them than Holloway’s. Still, Holloway took the fight on short notice and won a three-round split decision.
I actually had Leonard winning, but it could have gone either way. Leonard is usually the king of split decisions, as his hard-charging style looks good to judges. This is Leonard’s fourth loss in a row, and most of his previous wins were bullshit split decisions that he had no business winning. The last time he won a fight authoritatively was a 2008 TKO of Jens Pulver. I would expect Leonard to be dropped, but he’s never in a bad fight so they might keep him around for exciting Facebook prelims in the future.
Todd Duffee vs. Phil De Fries: Todd Duffee is the largest (250 lbs.) and youngest (27) person with a therapeutic use exemption for testosterone in the history of mixed martial arts; he’s absolutely monstrous. Duffee is basically the poster boy for bullshit sanctioned juicing. If this guy has low testosterone, I have a fucking vagina. He’s also a fucking headcase, probably from having his T/E ratio at 6:1 all the time.
De Fries is a flabby submission specialist from the UK, who doesn’t really pose much of a danger to Duffee on the feet. This fight was a perfect matchup for Duffee. He ate some shots from De Fries in the clinch, but they didn’t have enough mustard behind them to do any damage. As expected, Duffee eventually swarmed with a ton of haymakers and knocked the soft De Fries out early in the first round.