UFC 106: Baroni vs. Sadollah, Davis vs. Saunders, Dent vs. Sotiropoulos Official
On Wednesday, the UFC made three more bouts for the UFC 106 official. The promotion officially announced Phil Baroni vs. Amir Sadollah, Marcus Davis vs. Ben Saunders and Jason Dent vs. George Sotiropoulos for the preliminary card of the November 21 event to take place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Headlining UFC 106 will be a heavyweight title bout between two behemoths, champion Brock Lesnar and challenger Shane Carwin. Also featured on the card is the return of Tito Ortiz who will be facing off against Mark Coleman.
Baroni, like Ortiz, will be returning to the Octagon after taking some time away. He has a 13-11 record, including going 3-5 in his previous Octagon bouts. Baroni’s services were reacquired by the UFC after the New York native was released by Strikeforce.
Sadollah was the winner of season seven of The Ultimate Fighter at middleweight. After winning the show, his first non TUF bout in the UFC was twice delayed by injury before he dropped down to welterweight, losing to Johny Hendricks. Sadollah will be looking to get back in the win column and improve his professional record to 2-1.
Davis was last in action in June at UFC 99 in Germany, suffering a unanimous decision loss to Dan Hardy. Prior to the loss, Davis had put together back-to-back wins over Paul Kelly and Chris Lytle, after losing to Saunders’ last opponent, Mike Swick, at UFC 85. The Las Vegas event will mark Davis’ first fight on American soil since his April 2007 victory over Pete Spratt in Houston.
Saunders was also last in action at UFC 99 against Swick, suffering a second-round TKO that ended a three fight win streak he had been on since his time on The Ultimate Fighter. As a contestant on season six of The Ultimate Fighter he lost a decision to eventual finalist Tommy Speer.
Dent was a cast member on The Ultimate Fighter 9 where he lost in the semifinals to eventual winner Ross Pearson. In his last outing he won “Submission of the Night” honors at the TUF 9 Finale in June for his first-round submission of Cameron Dollar, his fourth-straight victory, improving his record to 19-9.
Sotiropoulos was eliminated from The Ultimate Fighter 6 after losing in the semi finals to Tommy Speer, but has rebounded to win three-straight in the UFC over Billy Miles, Roman Mitichyan, and, most-recently in August, George Roop. Sotiropoulos’ win over Roop marked the Australian’s lightweight debut and improved his record to 10-2.
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Tags: Amir Sadollah, Ben Saunders, Brock Lesnar, George Sotiropoulos, Jason Dent, Marcus Davis, mark coleman, Phil Baroni, shane carwin, Tito Ortiz
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very interesting card they have going on here. i wouldnt be suprised if macaroni baroni beats amir. davis-saunders should be a war and possibly be ko of the night if carwin doesnt do his thing.
Carwin doing his thing? Are you serious? Watch the Gonzaga fight, he was getting destroyed and threw a lucky right that caught him in the ear that KOed him. Watch Carwin fold under the pressure!
yea, okay that will happen. your knowledge of mma overwhelms me Planck16, and i know nothing about fighters.
its just weird considering carwin has shown ko power, is the same size as lesnar, has the same wrestling background as lesnar, and has bigger hands then lesnar. plus homie isnt even a full time fighter and he is getting a title shot. for some reason i feel that he will walk through mr deathclutch.
lol, pwned
wow chris we all know its gonna be good fight but “walk through” lesnar?
I guess i just dont see it. Plus Carwin is a little to hyped right now anyways, and his hands are greatly over-rated, but its not like you need that good of striking to be better than brock on the fett.
Its Carwins KO power and chin that make people think he has excelent standup and great boxing and sharp hands blah blag blah.
He wasnt doing that good against Wellish, but his chin and power saw him through it. He was loding the stand-up fight with Wain so he took him down. The IMO was getting the worst of the exchanges with Gonzaga but again his chin and insane KO power saw him through the fight. He literally staood there and took 3 straight right hands without blockling moving bobbing or firing back until Gabe clinched with him. Then he got taken down realy easily.
I know for a fact that Carwin has got better hands and brobably a better chin than lesnar. But lets look at things realisticaly here. Hes not gonna out wrestle him. And as for KO power id say they are prety even. I know Brock hasnt one punched anybody like Shane but lets all just imagine what would have happened if the right he landed on herring hit his chin instead of his cheek. We would have like seen herring with a broken neck or the first death in MMA.
Should be a good fight with Carwin controlling the stand up likely rocking brock but gettingtaken down and beat up aswell.
I dont think its a cake walk for either guy.
Ok, the hand thing is way over hyped….yes he is a little smaller than Lesnar, SAME WRESTLING SKILL!!!!! How do you compare a DIVISION II All-American to a DIVISION I NATIONAL CHAMPION???????? And that he is not a full time fighter, that is not a good thing going into a MAIN EVENT. The guy has one legit win…over a guy who was destroyed by Couture…so yes, I can see how my knowledge has overwhelmed you.
He was a 2x Division II runner-up, Division II champ (wrestling) and was an All-American football player.
Their wrestling skills more than likely cancel each other out since MMA wreslting and scholastic wrestling isn’t comparing apples to apples(e.g. Munoz vs. Hamil, how many times did Hamil get taken down?).
Your knowledge is overwhelming.
@ planck16
-First, Shane Carwin was the NCAA Div. 2 National Wrestling champion in 1999, and not “just” an All-American.
-Second, its fairly obvious from your postings that your knowledge is essentially dwarfed by bigchris2328’s, so maybe you should mind your manners when engaging with someone who SO obviously knows SO much more and has SO much more frenZied cred than you do.
Also, if you read more and post less, you might learn something.
-Third, at no time in the Gonzaga fight was Carwin in danger of getting “destroyed”. Gonzaga is a quality HW, and ran his game to the level best of his abilities against an absolute silverback of a human being in Carwin.
Once Carwin read his timing, head movement, footwork, and fight rhythm, he popped his shot and finished Gonzaga.
End of story.
Please don’t re-write history here at the frenZy to suit your own uninformed POV.
Nice try though, unfortunately guys like etherbunny and bigchris2328 are here to catch your “oversights” and adjust them accordingly.
@ etherbunny –
planck16’s MMA knowledge isn’t overwhelming, but rather UNDERwhelming.
Dang this card looks sick, I’m putting all my eggs in one basket with Carwin.
Nice card all around IMO.
-I think that Shane Carwin is going to realixe that his shhit talking about “this isn’t the WWE”, Carwin is going to realize just that, that this is not the WWE and he’s going to be staring at Brock Lesnar who just destroyed Frank Mir and Randy Couture.
If anyone has a more than decent shot at not only beating Brock but scorring a ko it’s Shane Carwin. The dude isn’t the most technical striker but he has killer ko power in both hands and even proved that he can ko a big guy like Gonzaga off balance which he did in that fight. Carwin’s wrestling is very good but Brock’s is first class. Add the strength and agility and athleticism that Brock has and Shane Carwin has his hands full.
I think that Brock knows he needs to take the fight to the ground and will do so and try to beat Carwin there. Carwin needs to be ready for the takedown and needs to work on his sprawl and ground defense because if Brock gets him to the ground than it’s only a matter of time before Carwin’s face gets “Mir’d” and the ref stops the fight.
I’ve said this before but judging by recent Carwin interviews regarding this fight it looks to as if Carwin is not ready for a title shot, i honestly before this fight was even anounced i fekt that the guys still was not ready for a title fight. He’s had only one big and significant win so far and making the jump to a title shot against a dude as scary as Lesnar might mess with your confidence a bit. One thing that i have always liked about Brock is that the dude is never afraid nor nervus, he was thrown to the wolves in his first fight with Mir and he stepped up and almost scored a ref stoppage.
Lesnar will come in ready so Carwin better be ready also,this fight can end in a lot of ways but the more likely endings will be either Carwin scores a ko or tko or Brock will do him like he did Mir, i’m picking Brock to win because Brock doesn’t play he comes to hurt you and he already in a short amount of time has gotten that “big fight” experience which i think will be somewhat overwhelming for Carwin and could play a factor on this fight. I wouldn’t be surprised id Carwi wins but i’m still picking Brock winning via “Mir”.
Tito Ortiz IMO should be able to win this fight. Although Coleman is still a tough dude who is still in very good shape for his age and is always “game”, i honestly feel that his age will be his downfall in this fight. Even though Tito will have some ring rust the dude always comes in really good shape and is a big 205-er. I see Tito taking Coleman down and “punishing” him with those viscious elbows from the guard like he did Shamrock. IF the fight stays standing i feel that Tito has really improved his stand-up and can problably score a ko or tko, if you go back to the 2nd fight with Liddell, Ortiz got Liddell with some good shots that rocked Liddell a bit and if he can score those same shots on Coleman than Coleman goes down period. The only way i see Ortiz losing this fight is if he underestimates Coleman and doesn’t train hard and if Tito lets himself get taken down and controlled by Coleman where Coleman will score a decision win. Coleman IMO is too old to be fighting, he’ll gas out early in the fight and Ortiz will score a tko or ko for sure, Ortiz via ref stoppage.
I’m sure Brock gets nervous, he just does a better job of hiding it than most, but I get your point; he’s supremely confident. I feel Carwin has a puncher’s chance in this fight, and that is about it. It will be nice, however, to see Brock have to subdue someone his own size on the mat before he can start Donkey Konging him into submission.
I say this fight is on the ground within the first minute or less.
You all should know how very much it pains me to say this, because as most of my fellow frenZymen know I can’t stand what Brock Lesnar represents in our sport, but as much as I’d like to see Shane Carwin knock Lesnar into incontinence with the very first punch he throws, I don’t see it happening.
I think Lesnar is more aggressive and has a better submission game thanks to Erik Paulson and Combat Submission Wrestling. He also has more experience being in the cage with top competition.
I’m thinking Lesnar will stand with Carwin only sporadically, and most of this fight is going to resemble an old school shoot wrestling match, one which unfortunately I don’t think Carwin is quite ready for, but hopefully I’m very wrong.
My heart says Carwin, but my head says Lesnar, probably by submission or ref stoppage…
IF Carwin loses, people will say how he didn’t deserve the shot and how he was overrated how weak the HW division is blah blah blah… Same damn thing if Lesnar wins, look he could beat someone with wrestling skill and ko power, blah blah blah…. The excuses will be immediate and annoying
I think Baroni’s window for the win is in the first 2minutes after that Amir should grind it out..
Davis v Saunders is interesting I wonder if Saunders will decide to stand with Davis
FR702,
Let’s hope that’s not the case. And anyone who does try and criticize the hw division doesn’t know what they are talking about because i honestly can’t remember when the hw div has had this much talent.
Jazz, but that is the thing, it seems alot of people are getting sherpupitis, they b!tch whine and complain about anything and everything after ever event and make excuses for no reason… Instead of giving credit where credit is due..
Yeah dude, i know what you mean. It’s easy for a lot of people to be bias ot just sore losers in the sense that their fighter just lost and they don’t want to give the other fighter credit.
I was helllla pissed off when forrest lost the way he did to anderson but dammit anderson is who he is and does what he does and he just made it look like a sparring session!
Good stuff MK4,
Carwin has some awesome power and can also TAKE big shots. Gonzaga broke his nose and dopped him just before carwin cought gonzaga. That fight against gonzaga is what has impressed me about carwin but we have yet to see how well he does when he has a 265(@ wiegh ins he’s probably 270,275 come fight time) on top of him landing his “annoying hammer fists”.
Should be an epic battle of “King Kong vs Godzilla”
I look forward to seeing tito again and I hope he’s going out there to kill coleman because coleman is a tough dude whos pretty motivated himself.
I like amir and “the best eva” so i can’t choose a pick. Amir better try to go to the ground though because baroni’s got more power than hendricks and he will take him out the way hendricks did unless amir takes it to the mat. His stand up isn’t the best.
Wow this is a good card, really puts 105 to shame (which sucks becaouse i live in england however am not going to trek up to manchester to see Randy “dust4bones” Couture). I recently re-watched UFC 100 and was actually amazed at how much Brock Lesnar could make me hate him, I didn’t actually think I could dislike someone so much. IMO Lesnar is one dimensional, he lays ontop of his opponent and throws his “lunchboxes” about 3 inches over and over.
Brock did struggle to control Randy though, the only other half-decent wrestler he has faced which makes me think if he can’t control a 45 year old 225 pound man how can he control a 34 year old 260 pound man. Lesnar reminds me of a high school bully who is arrogant and tough until they fight someone their own size. I think with neither fighter able to control the other on the ground it will be settled on the feet, both men have shown KO power, obviously Carwin has shown more impressive power and I think he will KO Brock in devastating fashion, surely if Brock has “lunchboxes” Carwin must have “cinderblocks”
I don’t think Tito will have any problem GNPing Coleman and I am really excited to see Nog vs Cane coz I can’t really call that one.
I really hope they have Hazelett vs Parysian on the main card coz Dustin’s my boy he has crazy jui-jitsu and a wicked beard, he and Antony “Rumble” are the future of the division
I think it would be cool if Shane Carwin beats Brock because he’ll be like the hero who beat the “bad guy” and to be honest it would set up a much needed Heavyweight “rivalry” that can bring more attention to the already re-vampt Heavyweight division. I’ll be rooting for Lesnar simply because everyone hates the dude and to be honest i’m bot a big Carwin fan either but i wouldn’t mind seeing him win.
I don’t thnk that Lesnar can take a big punch let a lone a Carwin bomb because Couture kinda rocked him in the first round of their fight and Mir really rocked Lesnar in their second fight so if Carwin who has way more power than both Mir and Couture lands a shot i think we’ll see Lesnar go down, and Lesnar doesn’t have good stand-up at all so he for sure better take the fight to the ground right away because if he doesn’t Cqrwin might catch him early like Nate got Maia. This should be an exciting fight just on the anticipation alone as to how things will go down, still picking Lesnar via ‘Mir”.
I don’t recall Mir or Couture rocking Lesnar.
I remember Couture landing a clean shot on Brock at one stage but it didn’t rock him.
And Mir got a load of praise from Rogan when he hit Lesnar with a knee against the cage, But he wasn’t rocked. He simply was not expecting the whole of Mir’s weight to land in his arms. lol
Was that what you meant?
ryanmoney,
dude if you see the fight again, Couture got Lesnar with i believe it was a left punch that even Lesnar said “rocked him”, i have the DVD and in the Behind The Scenes Feature Lesnar says that Couture had cut him open and “rocked him” with a good punch and Lesnar admitted that it made him somewhat gun shy and nervous.
Ahh I see. Ive not seen the backstage stuff. Good call my man.
Why does everyone hate Lesnar? I like the fella. So he bad mouthed a sponsor and flipped off some fans that were booing him… It was just heat of the moment.
I think Brock wins in this. In every fight the guy shows something new and in the fight with Mir, we saw that Brock has been learning how to counter punch, move his head and be incredibly light on his feet.
But like everyone else is saying, Carwin can bang!
It will be cool to see, I cant wait.
That has to be the least intimidating (not to mention least flattering) picture of Tito “Mr Potato Head” Ortiz….EVER.
lmao
ryanmoney…………..in the mir and lesnar 2 fight he did get rocked with the knee he said it himself on the post fight interview
yeah i saw that too. Lesnar appeared dazed in that whole exchange not just the knee. Too bad for mir it there was 10 seconds left in the round
lol I appear to have been a dumbass then. My bad.
if brock wins i will do the opposite of what fr stated above. i will admit that he is the better fighter, and possibly unbeatable seeing how a guy that is essentially the same as him and has shown ko power couldnt beat him. however if carwin wins, i will state that all you have to do to beat brock is catch him with a sub, or negate his size and speed. however if this fight makes it past round 2 expect more of a lay and pray technique used by both. i doubt they both have the cardio to go 5-5minute rounds with an opponent that is pushing 280 of muscle come fight night.
as far as the D-1 vs D-2 issue. we dont know why carwin went D-2 and not D-1. maybe he wanted to stay close to home, or he didnt get enough recognition from scouts. i have a buddy that passed playing football [possibly starting] at Free Safety for USC or Florida to stay closer to home so his family could travel to see all his games, rather than travel once or twice cross-country. there are numerous guys like that at D-2 or lower schools. dont doubt the talent at those schools.
I don’t know.. we have seen lesnar get knocked down a number of times.. IMO he dosn’t have the best chin, we just havn’t seen it really tested because of his size and the difficulty people have getting close enough to land those big shots.
I think if Carwin can get a clean shot in it’s nighty night 4 Lesnar… I still think his chin is suspect and as yet not fully tested.. thus I think we will see him taking the fight to the mat to avoid this being the first real test.
But if he rush’s in like a bull I don’t think Carwin has to hit him all that hard to make him go night night. Also it will be interesting to see if Carwin can cut him up with leg kicks and make it hard for Lesnar to shoot and take it to the mat.. cuz he has some BIG leg kicks.
Those of you who think Colemen will get KO’d by Tito on his feet.. common.. mark colman has a head mad of stone the dude does not go down
Tito may hit him a lot in the face but he will probably be able to keep his eyes open. Still UFC like to give Tito a past their prime alumn of fighters. The again Tito is bottom of the Barrel at 205 now anyways.
Tito vs Dan Severn UFC 110
or Tito vs Coleman 2
Severn is a heavyweight.
i hope to see Lesnar tap from strikes!!! thats what i want to see