UFC 148: Griffin vs Ortiz

[Cbear]

Saturday July 7th, 2012

PPV 10 p.m. Eastern:

Anderson Silva vs Chael Sonnen
Forrest Griffin vs Tito Ortiz
Patrick Cote vs Cung Le
Dong Hyun Kim vs Demian Maia
Chad Mendes vs Cody Mckenzie
Mike Easton vs Ivan Menjivar

Prelims FX 8 p.m. Eastern:

Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Gleison Tibau
Fabricio Camoes vs Melvin Guillard
Riki Fukuda vs Constantinos Philippou
John Alessio vs Shane Roller
Yoislandy Izquierdo vs Rafaello Oliveira

[Lemony Snicket]

Heres a rubber match we really, really didnt need to see.

[krazo101]

I'm imaging this looking exactly like Forrest's fight with Rich Franklin. Extremely slow unexciting striking match that goes the distance with me thinking in my head "Is it over yet?"

[Cbear]

Its Teeters retirement match so he deserves a semi-main event slot based on what he has done for the UFC. I'm afraid its Gump who is going to make it boring by doing his patented pitter pats with weak leg kicks while Teets chases him.

[Lemony Snicket]

After the Small Nog fight, im confident Tito can no longer be competitive. Even Kyle Kingsbury would smash him.

[RPD]

Double retirement fight regardless of the outcome.

[TheFightShrink]

Griffin by ud

Which rubber match did no one care about more fisher/stout or this

[Jazzy Jeff]

As I said in the previous threads. As Cbear said Ortiz does deserve the co-main event but it's going to be an awkward moment to watch Tito cry followed by Silva/Sonnen 2. I'm calling Forrest for the win though, at this stage in his career it's not that hard to get Tito down and ground and pound him for the win.

[Cbear]

Gump should win by all rights but so what? Teets has to retire sometime and now is the time. The old warriors deserve one last fight to make bank and for legit UFC superstars, I think they deserve a superstar sendoff. If I were the UFC, I would be heaping tons of praise on Teeters, make his retirement a big part of the fan fest and have Buffer give him a 5 star introduction. Alot of you are discounting just how important Teeter was to keeping the UFC alive in the dark ages and how he ruled the division and has more fights than anyone. He is an automatic HOF inductee for them and anything less is being dishonest. I'd love to see Teets go out with a win especially over Gump even though its not likely.

[jmose86]

As I said in the previous threads. As Cbear said Ortiz does deserve the co-main event but it's going to be an awkward moment to watch Tito cry followed by Silva/Sonnen 2. I'm calling Forrest for the win though, at this stage in his career it's not that hard to get Tito down and ground and pound him for the win.

I think it will be a strong contrast of events but should lend itself well to the buildup of the main event. All the ceremonial goodbye speech and downtime should be a nice crowd booster and segue to get amped for Silva/Sonnen.