Exciting weekend of fights. I eagerly awaited the fight between Benson Henderson and Clay Guida and the fight was as expected quite amazing. Before the fight I was calling Henderson as the winner as he seems to have a slight edge over Guida boxing and overall stand-up wise though both warriors mutually have analogous wrestling and ground skills. The fight was extremely active right from the start as both seemed to be eager to end the fight both quickly and swiftly. Guida would strive for one takedown after another while Henderson would defend it just barely fending off Guida's relentless wrestling attacks then Henderson countered with another takedown attempt of his own and managed to accomplish his task a bit more frequently than Guida. These wrestling actions coupled with a strong advantage boxing wise landing more clean shots than Guida propelled Henderson to a fair unanimous decision.

Other big fight of the last UFC was Cain Velasquez and Junior Dos Santos. This fight I found a bit more difficult to call but I was going to side with Velasquez on this match as victor since his movements as a heavyweight mimic a young lighter weighted fighter and his last performance beating up Brock Lesnar definitely put him as my favorite in this fight. However, it seemed Dos Santos put him in early checkmate stopping him quickly with an overhand right. Not really much else to say other than that shit happens.

The biggest fight though of the weekend, however, had to be the Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez quarrel. I am a huge fan of Pacquiao and I had high hopes he would come out victorious and he did, but in unconvincing fashion. I, with my bias for Pacquiao, gave the first 4 rounds but those rounds were very close and could be judged for either fighter. Rounds 5-10 on the other hand, Marquez easily took those rounds as he countered punched Pacquiao cleanly and landed by far much more solid shots on Pacquiao all the while Pacquiao struggled to move inside complete his attacks on Marquez. Rounds 11 and 12 were a bit harder to call but possibly Pacquiao took them, and somehow in the end Pacquiao walked away as victor which is rather mind boggling and says something about how boxing matches can be judged as Marquez convincingly won rounds while the rounds Pacquiao took were enormously difficult to call. Marquez sums up my thoughts best with his comments on the conclusion of the fight and whether another fight between him and Pacquiao is possible in the future, "It is so hard when you're fighting against a rival and also against the three judges." Cliched as it sounds never leave fights in the judges hands.

Anyways, that's it for now.