UFC Fight Night 14 Recap: Silva Stops Irvin In 61 Seconds
UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was successful in his light heavyweight debut, knocking out 205-pound knockout artist James Irvin with a straight right and ground and pound 61 seconds into the opening round of the main event of UFC Fight Night 14.
The eleven-bout event took place on Saturday, July 19th, at The Pearl at The Palms in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“I’m a Muay Thai fighter. I’ve been doing it since I was a kid,†said Silva after the fight. “I didn’t come up to the 205-pound division to disrespect any fighters, but if you stand up and exchange Muay Thai, this is what happens.”
Silva connected first in the fight with a low kick then dodged a head kick by Irvin. After landing several more punches Silva caught an Irvin leg kick and landed a straight right that sent Irvin to the canvas. Silva followed his opponent to the ground and pounded away, eventually landing a pair of punches flush on Irvin’s chin to finish off the contest.
“This was my first time coming up here and it was a good experience,” added Silva. “But my responsibility is to defend the 185-pound title.”
Though Brandon Vera emerged victorious in the co-main event of the evening, he failed to impress with his unanimous decision victory against outmatched IFL veteran Reese Andy. With both height and reach advantages Vera was able to handle Andy in the clinch and win the majority of the striking. Andy was persistent and peppered Vera with shots and takedown attempts but it wasn’t enough to win the bout.
The cut down from heavyweight to light heavyweight was at least partly to blame for Vera’s performance on Saturday.
“The 205 cut was tougher than I thought,” said Vera. “I didn’t think it affected me until me and Reese walked up and I was like ‘Woo, I’m tired’.”
In the “Fight of the Night”, Frank Edgar rebounded from his first career loss in April to defeat fellow-lightweight contender Hermes Franca via unanimous decision. Though the contest failed to feature much standup Edgar, a collegiate wrestler, and Franca, a submission specialist, tussled for position on the ground. Edgar worked ground and pound from the top while Franca looked for submissions from the bottom. Though Franca nearly ended the fight with a tight armbar in the opening round, Edgar’s ability to take Franca to the ground and keep him there while peppering him with punches and elbows from the top was enough to claim the unanimous decision victory.
Cain Velasquez proved his first win, a first-round TKO of Brad Morris in April, was no fluke with a first-round TKO victory over fellow heavyweight up-and-comer Jake O’Brien. After briefly exchanging on their feet O’Brien looked for the takedown but it was Velasquez who claimed the dominant position, pinning O’Brien to the ground in crucifix control. Despite his best efforts, O’Brien was unable to escape from the bottom and Velasquez threw punch after punch until the referee eventually stepped in to halt the fight at 2:02 of the first.
In the most controversial bout of the evening, Kevin Burns posted his second victory inside the octagon with an accidental eye poke TKO of knockout artist Anthony Johnson. After two close rounds of back-and-forth action both on their feet and on the ground, Burns threw an open jab the deeply poked Johnson in his right eye. Johnson screamed and fell to the mat in pain then covered up as the bout was not immediately halted. With no referee intervention Burns followed up and jumped on Johnson to throw more strikes but the referee stepped in and waived off the bout before any more serious damage was done. Johnson explained to the referee that he was gouged in the eye but the referee had already waived off the contest and the controversial win was awarded to Burns.
Despite an illegal knee in the opening bout of the main card, “The Ultimate Fighter 7″ runner-up CB Dollaway submitted fellow cast member Jesse Taylor via Peruvian necktie at the 3:58 mark of the first round to earn “Submission of the Night” honors.
“Knockout of the Night” went to IFL veteran Rory Markham, who overcame several hard combinations to knock Brodie Farber out cold early in the first round.
In a bout originally scheduled for The Ultimate Fighter 7 Finale, cast members Tim Credeur and Cale Yarbrough went head-to-head at UFN 14 and Credeur emerged victorious with a first-round TKO.
Despite securing an early takedown Johnny Rees was submitted by Nate Loughran via triangle choke late in the opening round.
Brad Blackburn topped James Giboo with a technical knockout midway through the second round of their preliminary bout.
In the event’s opening contest Dale Hartt submitted Shannon Gugerty via rear naked choke midway through the first round.
QUICK RESULTS
- Anderson Silva def. James Irvin via KO – Round 1, 1:01
- Brandon Vera def. Reese Andy via unanimous decision
- Frank Edgar def. Hermes Franca via unanimous decision
- Cain Velasquez def. Jake O’Brien via TKO – Round 1, 2:02
- Kevin Burns def. Anthony Johnson via TKO – Round 3, 3:35
- CB Dollaway def. Jesse Taylor via submission – Round 1, 3:58
- Tim Credeur def. Cale Yarbrough via TKO – Round 1, 1:54
- Rory Markham def. Brodie Farber via KO – Round 1, 1:37
- Nate Loughran def. Johnny Rees via submission – Round 1, 4:21
- Brad Blackburn def. James Giboo via TKO – Round 2, 2:29
- Shannon Gugerty def. Dale Hartt via submission – Round 1, 3:33
Tags: Anderson Silva, Anthony Johnson, Brad Blackburn, Brandon Vera, Brodie Farber, Cain Velasquez, Cale Yarbrough, CB Dollaway, Dale Hartt, Frank Edgar, Hermes Franca, James Giboo, James Irvin, Jesse Taylor, Johnny Rees, Kevin Burns, Nate Loughran, Reese Andy, Rory Markham, Shannon Gugerty, Tim Credeur
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Silva was awesome!!!
silva will dominate the middleweight division until the day he retires!!!!
although it will be interesting to see bisping match up with silva, anybody???
vera needs to go back to heavyweight…he will get demolished at 205…i can never see him holding any title…
it was koo to see CB get a victory over taylor..
i wonder who CB fights next??!!??!?!?!
Bisping would get eaten up.
bisping is not near ready to fight silva and we learned that lastnight. silva annhilated leben and bisping isnt getting an easy ride having to fight leben next.hes far froma title shot
he said he wanted to stay at MW or at least thats his responsibilty but he also said where ever ufc thinks the best fights are that where he will be so i believe dana will set him up to dominate 2 weight classes to further his pound for pound resume.
booooooo FEDOR!!! …. AND SYLVIA
Besides Silva this card put me to sleep.. Affliction was way better…
Anderson Silva could beat anyone! I am not even sure that weight has anything to do with it. Seriously, I think he could throw with anybody that steps into the ring with him.
Now that Okami is out injured for the year…………. i gotta feel sorry feel sorry for Cote’
With the exception of Silva this card was really piss poor compared to other UFC cards. It was very obviously thrown together just to try and screw over a new budding MMA promotion. Yes, the production value was much better with UFC but that is to be expected for the organization that’s been around for a while.
Competition leads to CHEAPER PPV PRICING. Let’s all keep that in mind before bashing the obviously better Affliction card, okay?
So are all illegal moves now going to be allowed in the UFC?
Next time – if the eye gouge doesn’t work – just kick the guy in the groin, then when he falls down because of it – kick him in the head. I mean if you don’t disqualify Burns for the eye poke – why not just break all the rules? Come on UFC judges – and refs – do what is right and reverse this call. If not, I think Johnson should get a bull dog lawyer and sue the UFC for being crooked.
Anthony Johnson needs to protect his legal rights ‘groin area’ cause the UFC sure ain’t doing it.
I agree, whatever that f-in bum’s name is that kept poking his eye needs to get the f outta town. His lame azz excuse of i’ve broke my hand 3 times doesn’t cut it. That doesn’t give that d-bag the right to throw like a puzzy. F him.
Anthony took the correct position on that fight. The refs can only see what they see. Yeah, everyone hates mazzagati because the Lesnar situation and now this. Get over it, he didn’t see the eyepoke and therefore he called as he saw it. I didn’t see the eyepoke until they repleyed it either. I know there is going to be 10 people that say that they saw it, and blah blah blah, but it was quick and in the moment and you saw it on the replay just like me. Bad call, Johnson will be back, and hopefully burns and him will fight againa later in their careers, because it was a pretty good fight up til that point.
there were some decent fights on this card the silva 61 second beatdown was crazy that man can do no wrong right now rory markhams headkick was sick cb vs jesse taylor was pretty good the vera fight was so boring i think i fell asleep during it the frankie edgar fight was well a frankie edgar fight where he just overwhelms his opponent but i thought hermes was gonna finish him afta the knee lifted him off the ground that cain valezquez or wateva looked beastly and the other dude is obviously irish by how many of those punches he took and finally the controversy of the night in the anthony johnson fight that fight was sick until the eyepoke and the gay decision but hey i played baseball for 15 years and if theres one thing i learned its that no matta wat the right call is it all depends on how the umps see it so i understand mazzagotti saw it one way i knew something was weird when he turned around and put his hands over his eye and screamed i said either a punch landed that i didnt see and broke his ocular cavity or wateva its called or something got him in the eye but truthfully johnsons arm was blockin and live i couldnt tell but aside from vera and the way the fight ended between johnson and burns i thought it was pretty good for something put together on short notice
I like Cote. But he stands less of a chance than James Irvin. I seriously can’t think of anyone that would have a legit shot at beating Anderson Silva at this point in his career.
Jeff,
The UFC had nothing to do with the outcome of the Johnson-Burns fight. The UFC doesn’t control the state athletic commissions. If Johnson wants to sue somebody, he’d have to sue the commission. The whole point of putting judging into the hands of the athletic commissions is to avoid crookedness within the promotions. For God’s sake, will people at least make an attempt to understand that? It seems like every MMA card for the last three months has had emotional fans heaping blame on the promotions as though they’re responsible for officiating. And for some reason, suing is the fix.
And before he spends thousands of dollars on a bulldog lawyer for a fruitless lawsuit, it would probably be easier for Johnson to simply appeal the decision with the commission, considering that’s what the appeal process exists for. The decision can be overturned if the ref’s call is deemed incorrect. No question here–it was wrong, so appeal it. Suing–in fact even the mention of suing–is just a waste of everyone’s time.
Seriously, not to dwell, but I’m tired of hearing this garbage about crooked promotions after every card. The UFC doesn’t sign the referees’ paychecks. It was just a bad call. And by the way, if the UFC were paying to get certain outcomes, why would they give Kevin Burns the nod? Anthony Johnson is far more marketable.
But Randy Couture (or the UFC) is suing so it must be the right thing to do. Sarcasm.
ide keep silva at 205 for his next fight, i dont think wandi has got a fight so thats an very exciting fight right there,
as for the middleweight title, cote doesn’t deserve a shot, that last win was crap, make him fight nate rock then the winner of that gets the next shot
johnboy
I see we got shot down for daring to consider a Fedor/Silva matchup yesterday
I didn’t think is was that unrealistic to consider the possibility, after all Silva had just fought at 205 and Fedor isn’t exactly the biggest HW in the world
jpm,
Fedor just doesn’t work that way. It would be a Anderson Silva goes to Heavyweight or there won’t be a fight. Fedor is as emotionless in his negotiations as he is in the ring. Cutting weight is not Fedor’s style so that fight just won’t happen unless AS goes up in weightclass AGAIN.
While I agree it would be a great fight…I just don’t think it will ever happen, so no need to talk about it.
dannyboy
I’d also like to see Hong Man Choi go up against Matt Serra
hahaha or maybe hong man choi could move to 145 an fight jens pulver that has all the makeing of a great stand up brawl haha
i didn’t think silva an fedor was that much of a bad call either. i dont no much about fedor and i no alot of people like him on here but to me he seems like a arrogant p*ick,
This card was pretty boring. However, I was glad to see Frankie Edgar pick up a big win against Franca as well as CB Dallaway get a big win against Taylor.
That was an awesome submission move Cb pulled of. I’ve never seen that move before. I’m sure we will start seeing everyone use that move now.
I was very disappointed in the Vera fight. I expected Vera to be explosive ecspecially after what happened to him in his last fight, but unfortunately he seem gunshy in there. He was slow to pull the trigger. Obviously the weight loss had a big effect on him.
The Spider reigns supreme!! This guy is a bad dude man! I did’t not expect him to look that dominate over Irvin. I figured he would win, but I was sure that this was going to be his toughest fight ever, but he destroyed this guy with ease! His power seemed even more deadilier at 205 than at 185. I’m glad that Andersen is goin to remain at 185 and defend his title down there. I still want to see him get a rematch with Okami and possibly a match against Bisping.
Fedor can be arogant he’s awesome and wins. He can be a jerk all he wants if he puts on a show like how he destroyed Timmy. Silva is awesome too, I knew he would destroy Irvin, but I didnt think it be that quick. Markhams KO was great.
Honestly, Brandon Vera is probably the most boring fighter in the UFC. This fight was on par as awful as his fight vs Sylvia, and that thing was a piece o crap.
I know it was a Fight Night, not a PPV, and yada yada yada. Seriously, the guy is awful.
fiveson
your forgetting jesse taylor & kos
vera will become good i think he just needed to get that win after 2 losses, if he pushes the pace rather then waits to counter he will be hard to stop at 205, he just needs to belive in himself more,
kos is boring indeed…
silva vs fedor would be interesting, but its not fair to expect silva to perform that well with such a large weight disadvantage. i dont think it would be much of a fight (fedor would probably make relatively short work). not to mention that anderson struggles against people with a strong ground game, and we all know fedor’s strength.
both promotions had their ups and downs, and i hope that affliction hangs around.
Ok. Time for me to eat a little crow here. I said in a previous thread that James Irvin was going to knock out Anderson Silva. I also said if I was wrong, I would man up and admit it. I am doing that now. I WAS WRONG! That was a more dominating victory than I would have thought. Kudos to Silva. Having said that, Anderson is not going to dominate the 205 like he has the 185. He may have gotten past Irvin but soon he is going to hit a wall. I believe it will be Wanderlai or Chuck. Oddly, I think a fight between Anderson and H. Alexander would be interesting. Am I alone here?
Also, Anderson has Cote to fight next. Cote may just surprise some people.