UFC 159: Jones vs. Sonnen

Date: Saturday, April 27th
Preliminary Card (Facebook): 18:00 LP.net / 4pm PST / 7pm EST Facebook stream
Preliminary Card (FX): 19:00 LP.net / 5pm PST / 8pm EST
Main Card Time (PPV): 21:00 LP.net / 7pm PST / 10pm EST
Live Streams: Prelims are Live on FX & Facebook/YouTube - http://www.vipbox.tv (All MMA events are listed under the UFC button. Press the UFC button and you'll see the event in the list.)





Main Card (PPV)

Jon Jones (17-1) vs. Chael Sonnen (27-12-1) (Light Heavyweight Championship)
Michael Bisping (23-5) vs. Alan Belcher (18-7) (Middleweight)
Roy Nelson (18-7) vs. Cheick Kongo (18-7-2) (Heavyweight)
Phil Davis (10-1) vs. Vinny Magalhaes (10-5) (Light Heavyweight)
Jim Miller (22-4) vs. Pat Healy (29-16) (Lightweight)

Preliminary Card (FX)

Bryan Caraway (13-4) vs. Johnny Bedford (19-9-1) (Bantamweight)
Ovince St. Preux (12-5) vs. Gian Villante (10-3) (Light Heavyweight)
Sara McMann (6-0) vs. Sheila Gaff (10-4-1) (Women's Bantamweight)
Rustam Khabilov (15-1) vs. Yancy Medeiros (9-0) (Lightweight)

Preliminary Card (Facebook)

Leonard Garcia (15-10-1) vs. Cody McKenzie (13-3) (Featherweight)
Nick Catone (9-4) vs. James Head (9-3) (Welterweight)
Steven Siler (21-10) vs. Kurt Holobaugh (9-1) (Featherweight)

Other

- Jimy Hettes was expected to face Steven Siler at the event; however, Hettes was forced out of the bout with an injury and replaced by Kurt Holobaugh.
- Joe Proctor was expected to face Al Iaquinta at the event. However, the bout was scrapped as both fighters sustained training injuries leading up to the fight.
- Erik Perez was scheduled to face Johnny Bedford, but acquired staph infection in the leg and had to bow out. Bryan Caraway stepped in and took the fight on 6 days notice.

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These are my gun-to-the-head UFC 159 picks, prior to doing any research. I'm sticking with most of these picks though.

• Jon Jones > Chael Sonnen
• Michael Bisping > Alan Belcher
• Roy Nelson > Cheick Kongo
• Phil Davis > Vinny Magalhaes
• Jim Miller > Pat Healy
• Erik Perez > Johnny Bedford
• Ovince St. Preux > Gian Villante
• Sara McMann > Sheila Gaff
• Rustam Khabilov > Yancy Medeiros
• Leonard Garcia > Cody McKenzie
• James Head > Nick Catone
• Kurt Holobaugh > Steven Siler

yey

the promo with the lame cover of we will rock you might be the worst in the history of the UFC

^ It also looked like a Jon Jones highlight video instead of a UFC promo video.

Man what a beating Shogun took, I feel sorry for him every time i see scenes from that fight lol =[

Easy bets on Jones, Phil Davis, Jim Miller and Roy Nelson. Not sure about Bisping.

BTW I think Erik Perez is out of this event.

Bryan Caraway replaces an injured Erik Perez, and will face Johnny Bedford this Saturday.

Jon Jones > Chael Sonnen
Michael Bisping > Alan Belcher
Roy Nelson > Cheick Kongo
Phil Davis > Vinny Magalhaes
Jim Miller > Pat Healy

Good overall card.

Going to wait for CosmoDamus to make his predictions, because you know, i like money.

sonnen drawing dead yes barring some freak accident and jon jones slips and breaks his neck during the fight or his knee decides it not longer wants to be functional and just explodes out of his leg.

Everybody says they're going to get inside and pressure Jones. Sonnen will be the first to actually do it. It's just so tough for Sonnen in a 5 round fight because he doesn't have the ability to finish Jones, so he's going to have to win 3 rounds. If Jones uses his offensive wrestling and puts Sonnen on his back then he'll probably finish in the 1st. If he goes on the defensive and tries to sprawl and brawl then Sonnen has a chance.

Man I really dont think Sonnen is drawing dead at all, not saying Im gonna bet on him but think he will give Jones some problems

I agree that Sonnen will be the first to get on the inside to pressure Jones, so at least that will be interesting to see.


ONE TIME CHAEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol sonnen

gotten to

On April 22 2013 20:19 SleepyHead wrote: gotten to

He's just mad cuz Sonnen exposed the Nogueira brothers, when they thought a bus was a horse and started feeding it a carrot and petting it.

+ Show Spoiler +

Really excited to see Phil Davis again :D

biggest thing that stands out to me is pat healy. hes +265 and he should be about 40-50% to win. guy is very very good

some other big favorites win an insane amount of the time (90%+) and should be bet

Yea I thought so too about Healy so put a small bet on him.

Not sure about the other fights yet. Tempted to by the Sonnen odds just due to random factors including TRT, weight cuts, Jones not striking me as mentally as good etc. However, the fact still stands that Jones is a much better fighter.