A great weekend for fights

It's no secret that I enjoy watching combat sports, and I was a pig in shit last weekend.   Here are some of the highlights:

Big Country KO'd Big Nog out stiff at the UFC in Abu Dhabi on Friday morning.

It was a good win for Roy Nelson. I'm a fan of both guys, so it was sad to see a legend like Antonio Rodrigo Minotauro Nogueira get knocked out like that. I think it may be time he hangs the gloves up...

Like another legend Vladimir Matyushenko did Friday night after getting submitted by an unlikely Joey Beltran on the Bellator card. Matyushenko left his gloves in the cage. "The Janitor" is 43 years old and looked every bit of it Friday night. For as slow as he looked, I scored rounds 1 & 2 for him, though. Round 3 was when he appeared to run out of gas and Beltran choked him for the tap. That wouldn't have happened even 2 years ago, so it was time.

Glory Kickboxing was on Saturday night. Tyrone Spong, the man who many consider the pound-for-pound best kickboxer...well, until Saturday night, wrapped his shin around Gokhan Saki's knee. That was a bummer. I guess he won't be kicking again for a while...

It's almost exactly what happened Anderson Silva back in December when his kick was checked by Chris Weidman's knee. Shins are not supposed to bend like that. On a side note: that kick check with the knee technique has been dubbed "The Destruction" by Weidman's trainer Ray Longo. Well, "The Destruction" is very effective.

Probably the best fight of the weekend was the Manny Pacquiao/Timothy Bradley rematch. It was a great 12-round bout that had Pacquiao get the unanimous decision.
PacMan may owe a lot to his mother, though. People have said she may have cast a hex on Bradley during the match. I won't speculate, so check it out for yourself. This was my favorite part of the weekend: (LC)