A good show, but not great. Giving Brock’s fight the co-main-event title seemed a bit strange (media hype thing).

Georges St-Pierre beats Jon Fitch

GSP almost finished it early, but after that attempt seemed to hold off for the safe eventual decision win. That’s alright, but not great. If he keeps using that game plan, maybe he will start losing fans.

Letting BJ Penn into the ring to promote their rematch looked a bit cheesey. Business is business though.

Jon Fitch did pretty good. Sometimes a fighter moves up the ranks crushing everyone, but gets smashed when he finds out the very top guy is way better than everyone else. GSP found this out with Matt Hughes. Fitch found that out with GSP this fight. If/when a rematch happens in a couple years it should be a better fight to watch.

Brock Lesnar beats Heath Herring

Brock had a great start, but kinda fell back into boring wrestler fighter mode -> lay on you opponent squishing him until the fight ends. If it was anyone else the announcers would have been pointing this out, but no bad words can be said against their celebrity rising star. (Still reminds me of Kimbo Slice, or maybe a new age Dan Severn.) I hope Brock trains hard to learn some new attack moves.

Kenny Florian beats Roger Huerta

Huerta looked like a well trained honorable warrior that ends up losing. Florian looked more UFC veteran using every trick and point-scoring -system attack to win a decision fight he was probably outclassed in. Huerta will be ready to crush Florian in their next fight.

Jason MacDonald loses to Demian Maia

Jason looked great, but Maia has even better skills. This was a great fight to watch.  Submission grappling jumbo mess. Neat.

Cheick Kongo crushes Dan Evensen

Kongo looked great, but he still might not get the title shot he asked for. I’m guessing he’ll face Brock Lesnar next.

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Overall the show was good, but it really highlights how a mega celebrity giant like Brock Lesnar can get all the breaks to move up the heavy-weight ranks fast. If it was anyone else you might say Brocks decision win was a bit boring. Or maybe GSP decided to go for a cautious safe win instead of finishing Fitch. UFC fighters should train striking, grappling, and tv-personality fan-building to get a title shot.

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