UFC on Fuel 2 (Sat 4/14/12 3 pm): Gustafsson vs Silva

[Cbear]

UFC on Fuel TV 2 from Stockholm, Sweden
Fuel TV and Facebook

Main Card (Fuel tv) 3 p.m. Eastern

Alexander Gustafsson vs Thiago Silva
Alessio Sakara vs Brian Stann
Siyar Bahadurzada vs Paulo Thiago
Diego Nunes vs Dennis Siver
DaMarques Johnson vs John Maguire
Damacio Page vs Brad Pickett

Prelims (Facebook)

Papy Abedi vs James Head
Cyrille Diabate vs Jorgen Kruth
Francis Carmont vs Magnus Cedenblad
Yoislandy Izquierdo vs Reza Madadi
Simeon Thoresen vs Besam Yousef
Jason Young vs Eric Wisely

NOTE the 3 pm Eastern start time for the main card. Prelims on Facebook would start about noon.

[Cbear]

How will the 3 pm Saturday afternoon affect viewers? How will most of the world not getting Fuel affect viewers? Will anyone watch this?

[Str8Ryt]

I'll be watching it. The fuel sports package is a good deal. 5 bucks extra a month and it comes with some nice HD sports channels. Shows a lot of old pride fights everyday and UFC fights.

[Cbear]

I think Gufstaffson is going to come up short in front of his hometown fans and get mauled. Siver's slide will continue. The Marine will get back on the winning track. Mainly, everyone will tune in at 8pm Sat night and forget that the show was over hours earlier.

[LordZardoz]

How will the 3 pm Saturday afternoon affect viewers? How will most of the world not getting Fuel affect viewers? Will anyone watch this?

Sportsnet in Canada tends to air european cards live. That might get a bit screwy during the NHL playoffs though.

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[JC-Freakhead]

Machida beat Silva by being faster and accurate. Hopefully Gustafsson can do the same.

[spasgur]

Machida beat Silva by being faster and accurate. Hopefully Gustafsson can do the same.

You going to the event? I tried getting tickets but I was a couple of hours late.

[LordZardoz]

Also, here are my picks:



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[cooljayhu]

Accidently vote for Sakara over Stann. My bad.

The Gustafsson fight will be interesting. I think this is a better fight than Nog-Mauler and a harder matchup for Gustafsson stylistically. That being sad it's be over a year since Silvas last fight and he's only had that one fight since January 2010. The ring rust is strong with that one and I think Gustafsson picks him apart from distance and finishes in the second round via submission after rocking him on the feet.

[TheFightShrink]

I think Silva is too strong and will decision the mauler

Stann gets a quick KO

DeMarques gets an upset win

Nunes wins by decision

Pickett