UFC 116 Results & Highlights: UFC 116 turned out to be just as it promised, non-stop entertainment. The biggest match of the night and perhaps the biggest in UFC’s recent history, was between comeback man Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin. Even after the fight has been over, its popularity can be gauged by the high demand for Lesnar vs Carwin video footage. Lesnar made Carwin submit in the second round to win the Heavyweight Championship.
Brock Lesnar vs Shane Carwin fight was without doubt a treat to watch. Lesnar made Carwin submit in the second round but not before Carwin had pummeled him in the first. There were other moments of reckoning too at the UFC 116. Lets take a look at some great moments of UFC 116:
Brock Lesnar: On Saturday night, Shane Carwin’s barrage of punches threw Lesnar off his feet and he fell hard. Carwin did not stop there; he kept battering a sprawled Lesnar with his freakishly powerful punches. Lesnar defended and for full five minutes took every savage blow from Carwin and then he stood up. No one before could ever stand up after taking even a small fraction of Crawin’s punch barrage that Lesnar took And then took Carwin out in the second round.
Chris Leben: Leben was brutally battered and beaten by Akiyama but like he always does, he kept coming forward. His incredible determination to endure in the face of impossible odds was looking like it may not be enough however, as Yoshihiro Akiyama was inching closer and closer to a decision win. But the match was not over yet. With just a few scant seconds left on the clock, Leben managed to pull a fight-ending triangle choke on Akiyama.
Considering his recent comeback win over Aaron Simpson, it was the perfect closing note to an impossible two-week run of heroics for the alumnus of the very first season of “The Ultimate Fighter.”
Pellegrino: At the end of the second round, Pellegrino, looked dumbfounded and lost. From the look on his face it was clear that he had lost all gumption to fight and had no hope of winning. He was already two rounds down to brilliant Australian grappler par excellence George Sotiropoulos, A third round rally got him a round on more than a few scorecards but any hopes of Pellegrino winning were over by the end of the second round.
The American Psycho: Stephen Bonnar’s rematch with Krzysztof Soszynski was undoubtedly a referendum on whether he deserves to be fighting in the Octagon. And he once again proved his craziness when he crashed his knee into Soszynski’s dome and pounded out a fiercely-fought stoppage win. At the post match interview he declared, “I know I’m sick in the head.”
Matt Brown: Chris Lytle nearly tapped out to Matt Brown in the first round of their clash. He looked a ghastly image of his former self. But he pinched himself back to reality and trapped Brown in a mounted reverse-triangle/straight-armbar combination and won the clash.