On June 11, 2001, the UFC will hold its highly-anticipated “Dos Santos vs. Carwin” event, featuring Heavyweight wrecking machines Junior dos Santos and Shane Carwin going toe-to-toe. Also, Kenny Florian fights at Featherweight for the first time in his career in a fight against Diego Nunes that has serious championship implications. Still, some fans may be asking themselves: what are the best reasons to check out this card? Here’s my answer to just that: 5 reasons to watch UFC 131: “Dos Santos vs. Carwin”.
5. Five free fights on Facebook or YouTube. Pick your online video sharing poison.
For the first time, the UFC’s preliminary fights will be available through YouTube as well as through Facebook. And unlike the UFC’s Facebook stream, watching the YouTube stream doesn’t require a YouTube account nor any sort of “like” button. Even better, with several interesting fighters scheduled to compete, these prelims seem like they could be another sleeper hit in the grand tradition of many “UFC Prelims LIVE” shows being sleeper hits.
4. An intriguing match-up between Demian Maia and Mark Munoz.
This fight strikes both men at very interesting points in their careers. After debuting in the UFC and being hyped as the next Royce Gracie, Maia has vanished from the title picture altogether. He’s about as much of a non-entity as it can get. Meanwhile, Mark Munoz is trying very hard to overcome his status as a journeyman. Both men need big wins to revitalize their careers, and if that brings out the best in both fighters, then we’re in for a good fight.
3. The always-entertaining Donald Cerrone.
Donald Cerrone is a very controversial man, but he’s also one heck of a fighter. Cerrone is currently on a three-fight win-streak with two submissions, having successfully made his UFC debut in a “Fight of the Night” fight against Paul Kelly. Cerrone faces the relatively unknown Vagner Rocha, so you’ve got to think that Cerrone won’t take kindly to this step back in competition. Cerrone always turns it up a few notches when he’s angry, and judging by his recent verbal tirade where he accused several fighters of being afraid to fight him… Donald Cerrone is a very angry man right now.
2. Does Kenny Florian choke in big fights?
How many more chances at a championship does Kenny Florian deserve? If you ask some people, they’ll answer “not many” or even “none”. Others say “however many until he finally gets one or gets on a high enough losing-streak to get released”. Florian has fought at many different weight classes and hasn’t found a way to get the gold in any of them. This could be his last resort, and if it doesn’t work out for him, we may see Florian crowned as one of the best lighter-weight UFC fighters to never hold a championship.
And the number-one reason to watch UFC 131 is…
1. The main event, of course.
Junior dos Santos has never fought a striker like Shane Carwin, and Shane Carwin has promised that he has undergone several drastic changes and is now deadlier and more focused than ever. Likewise, Shane Carwin has never fought a striker like Junior dos Santos, and Carwin’s big bombs may not add up to much if he can’t find the head of his elusive, lightning-quick opponent. It may not be as big as Brock Lesnar vs. Junior dos Santos… but it certainly comes close.
So there you have it, fans and friends: five great reasons to tune in and see UFC 131.
UFC 131: “Dos Santos vs. Carwin” Picks And Predictions
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I can’t express how angry I am that I wasted my time watching UFC 131, particularly the prelims but also the pay per view, and youtube is largely to blame for it.
The prelims (on youtube) had a Michihiro Omigawa vs Darren Elkins that I found extremely interesting. The first round Michihiro was dominating Darren, and then youtube completely crashed. Several minutes later it started up again but on round 3, completely bypassing round 2. That’s bad enough, but then the judges gave the decision to Darren (in one case with 30-27 score) when the 2/3 of the fight (what youtube showed) was clearly a Michihiro victory.
I couldn’t wait to see the fight again on the PPV fight later in the night and looked forward to it.
Then I had to suffer a boring fight on youtube between Joey Beltran vs Aaron Rosa, and next they had an initially interesting fight between Dustin Poirier vs Jason Young. But at 3:27 of the third round youtube crashed again, and after a while it started back up at ROUND ONE (without mentioning. So I had to RE-WATCH about 8 minutes of the fight to get back to 3:27 of round three, and then youtube crashed again. I waited all the way until 7:50 p.m., and youtube never recovered. I NEVER got to see the results of a fight I had to watch almost all the way through twice, but later on the internet I saw they gave the decision to Beltran which completely didn’t make sense because the parts I saw were all Young victory.
So I looked forward to the PPV part so I could get another chance to endure the Dustin Poirier vs Jason Young a third time but at least see who wins.
Next I bought the 55 buck pay per view, and on the PPV part they made me endure the Joey Beltran vs Aaron Rosa all over again. And then they made me endure the Sam Stout vs Yves fight again which was okay the first time on Spike but not worth seeing again.
I watched the whole PPV waiting for the two fights youtube failed to finish, and PPV NEVER played those fights again. Then I searched the internet, and UFC shut down all the sights that tried to play the fights that UFC failed to play.
So I lost around THREE hours of my life trying to watch two crappy fights (well the Michihiro one might have been good except for the judges, but I’ll never know) and instead having to watch three other crappy fights multiple times.
This PPV crap is really pissing me off tonight. What a frigging waste of life and money, and I’ll be a fool to ever watch UFC again on the internet. No friggin’ way. I wish I could have my life back.