Chris Lytle vs. Carlos Condit on Tap for UFC Fight Night 19
Welterweight Chris Lytle, fresh off his “Fight of the Night” win over Kevin Burns at The Ultimate Fighter 9 Finale in June, will take on former WEC champ Carlos Condit at UFC Fight Night 19 on September 16 in Oklahoma City, MMA Fanhouse is reporting.
Lytle (27-17-5), a fan-favorite who made his Octagon debut all the way back at UFC 28 in 2000, has gone 3-3 since returning to the UFC in late-2007 and has won a “fight night” bonus in all-but-one of his bouts. Recently, “Lights Out” has picked up victories over Kyle Bradley, Paul Taylor, and Burns, while coming up short against Thiago Alves, Josh Koscheck, and Marcus Davis.
Condit (23-5) won the WEC welterweight title with a win over John Alessio in early-2007 and went on to successfully defend the belt three times over Brock Larson, Carlo Prater, and Hiromitsu Miura before the division was cut from the promotion and its fighters were sent to the UFC. In his UFC debut, Condit suffered a narrow split decision loss to Martin Kampmann in the UFC Fight Night 18 main event in April.
Lytle-Condit will be featured on the Spike-televised main card alongside UFN 19 is co-headliners Nate Diaz vs. Melvin Guillard and Roger Huerta vs. Gray Maynard. Dan Miller vs. Aaron Simpson, Chris Wilson vs. Mike Pyle, Jeremy Stephens vs. Ronny Torres, Tim Credeur vs. Nate Quarry, Kyle Bradley vs. Sam Stout, and Steve Steinbeiss vs. Ryan Jensen are also rumored for the event.
[Pictured: Carlos Condit]
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This fight night is turning out to be an awesome card, i woulda liked to see this one in dallas though
Great Fight. Gonna be a war for sure. This could actually end up being a pretty close contest. Both guys are more than comfortable on their feet and are well versed in submission. I think this fight is gonna come down to cardio and who pushes harder. Im expecting great exchanges on the feet(you usually can witha lytle fight)and some back and forth action on the mat. I see another FOTN for lytle here. Chris is one of my favorite fighters but I think Condit will do enough to pull out a UD
yeah dude this will be a great match! It’s hard to pick a fotn with huerta vs maynard on there as well. This is turning into a sick card!
Condit vs Lytle
Like you said, they’re very comfortable on their feet, but i give the edge to condit. He’s got great subs and doesn’t seem to gas as much as lytle does in the later rounds and exchanges.
Both guys are really talented so this should be a good fight. Lytle is a tough son of a bi*ch so it won’t be easy getting by him,although Condit is a better technical fighter with a waayy better ground game than Lytle, and Condit has more cardio and youth on his side. It’s hard to predict who will win because even if Condit is younger and has more gas in the tank, Lytle has proven very difficult to put away,which i feel will give him a decent shot at stopping Condit.
Carlos Condit is a young and talented fighter who was the WEC 170 pound champ. His stand-up is decent,but i don’t feel he has one punch ko power, Lytle has power, but he’s one of those fighters who has to load his punches to give them power AND he’s not as fast as Condit. Lytle is getting up ther in age so i don’t know how much more he can take, BUT he has one of the biggest hearts i’ve ever seen in a fighter and he has balls and comes after you with no fear which always helps him get by some guys. Condit is hungry for a win and has improved his overall game, bow that he already got his first octagon fight out of the way i’m sure he’ll be ready to go, but i can’t pick a clear winner for this one, great matchup though, whoever wins, i want to see both guys move up the ladder.
Condit does not have a “wayyy” better ground game than Lytle. Lytle is a legit black-belt in BJJ…he just comes from the Jorge Gurgel school of thought where he rarely decides to use it.
If anything Condit and Lytle are pretty much even if it goes to the ground.
Id have to agree with the fact that these two guys are fairly even on the ground. We just forget sometimes given lytle’s fight style over the past 3 years. Before the Serra fight 75% of the guys wins came via submission. My how things have changed. But so has his level of competition, and Condit is no exception. I think at 34 Chris has still got some good fights left in him. Not to mention with a win over a Condit he would become more of a contender again than just a gatekeeper. He11 the guy was beating Alves before the fight got stopped over a small cut. That was only a year and a half ago. Plus a close war with Davis is nothing to be ashamed of. Im pullin for Chris, but I think that he will have his hands full come september 16th.
Really solid example of matchmaking here by the UFC.
I do have one issue though, in that a fight like this really could help out the somewhat underwhelming 103 card. Its looking more and more like UFC 103 should be subtitled, “Main Event-less”, and can use all the help it can get, however its good stuff that the promotion decided to throw it onto a free-per-view like UFN 19.
Also, with MMA now legal in Indiana, a fight like this would have been great for their first UFC event, held presumably in Indianapolis, Lytle’s hometown. I’m sure that when Indy does get an event, the UFC will find some way to work Lytle in, and in a good match with a tough opponent.
This fight is IMO too close to call at this time, however it’s easy to predict that most likely Condit-Lytle will bag Lytle another FoTN honor…
i think condit is just a bit more talented and skilled than lytle thus giving him a very tough, hardfought victory. this fight night is a lot better than 103, and makes more sense to drive to oklahoma then to dallas to get my money’s worth.
bigchris2328, while I agree that Condit probably has a deeper and more polished skill-set than Lytle, I look at the flip side and wonder if Condit has faced an opponent with Lytle’s heart, experience, and willingness to take 3 punches to land one.
And I agree wholeheartedly that if I was Texas resident, I would hit UFN 19 long before I bought into UFC 103. I’m sure the promotion is doing all they can to pull that card together, but unless something extraordinary happens, Texas is going to get messed with on this 103 deal.
Regardless of how it all shakes out, it’s going to be one helluva good fight, and night of fights…
This should be one hell of a fight. I think Condit will win a very close and questionable split decision. They both have great striking and BJJ. But i think Condit will win because I think he is just faster than Lytle. Simple as that. Their styles are pretty similar, I think this fight will be intense and will come down to the last round, but like i said, I see Condit winning a very close split decision. Speed and technique will be the difference maker in the fight. Thats just my opinion though…
this i set up to be a fight of the night thats what lytle always delivers and i think condit will be game for it. i think that lytle has more power than condit but hes all boxing condit has very good muy thai and hes ground game is alittle better than lytles imp. i see condit by decision to good call jenkinsss