October 20th, 2007 by Jemaleddin Cole

My favorite Habs fan and I are head­ing out for my first trip to a Hoot­ers to check out the fight in an hour or so, so I guess I should make my picks for the fight offi­cial. With­out fur­ther ado, my quick, lousy, unin­formed picks, this time in a sen­tence or less:

Rich Franklin vs. Ander­son Silva

Dana White has taken the unusual step of requir­ing Rich Franklin to have an ordained catholic priest in his corner in order to per­form last rights in the second round: Ander­son Silva by heart stoppage.

Tim Sylvia vs. Bran­don Vera

Bran­don Vera’s only chance of get­ting hurt in this fight is if he twists his ankle doing his sumo-​inspired surfer vic­tory dance after fin­ish­ing Tim Sylvia in the third.

Kalib Starnes vs. Alan Belcher

Kalib Starnes (a Canuck, I think) was so annoy­ing on The Ulti­mate Fighter that I’m sure he’ll have Alan Belcher tap­ping out before the ref­eree intro­duc­tions are finished.

Eric Schafer vs. Stephan Bonnar

Stephan Bonnar is prob­a­bly off the steroids this fight, but I’m sure he didn’t lose the muscle: Eric Shafer sees stars in the second.

Yushin Okami vs. Jason MacDonald

In a boring fight for what may be the number one con­tender slot in the Mid­dleweight divi­sion that will mer­ci­fully remain unshown, Yushin Okami out­lasts Jason (Canuck!) Mac­Don­ald for the decision.

Josh Burk­man vs. For­rest Petz

Burk­man wins beats Petz because some­body cared enough to give him a Wikipedia entry.

Jason Black vs. Matt Grice

Ditto for  Black beat­ing Grice.

Demian Maia vs. Ryan Jensen

This time the more tal­ented but as-​of-​yet un-Wikipedia’d Brazil­lian Maia beats Ryan Jensen.

Alvin Robin­son vs. Jorge Gurgel

And we stick with the Brazil­lian to round out the fight: Gurgel beats Robin­son by submission.

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