My Take Radio

I need to pref­ace this edi­to­r­ial with the fol­low­ing: I am not the My Take Radio MMA writer nor do I pro­fess to be any kind of expert on the sport. I know just enough about what is legal and not legal in the cage. The rea­son for this arti­cle is that when­ever Rich, Andrea and I watch an event together, they com­ment on the fact that I have insight­ful things to say about the fights. Regard­less of what I say, I don’t try to take any­thing away from these fight­ers; I know I could not do what they do and I only speak in ref­er­ence to what one man (or woman) did to the other.

Silva vs. Son­nen was a fan­tas­tic match and both men per­formed well. Silva said after the fight that a rib injury almost kept him out of the fight and if that is true then his per­for­mance was beyond what we could expect. That said, let’s face facts, the cham­pion was put through his paces, he was hum­bled before he got down on his knees and praised Son­nen and if I were him, I would be some­what embarrassed.

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Son­nen has become one of my favorites, and while I feel he may lose I am not going to dis­pute the fact that it will be a war.

Now, I can’t put a pre­view with­out my picks. Red & Bold are mine of course:

Main card:

  Ander­son Silva © vs. Chael Son­nen– Silva will win but I guar­an­tee it will be a wild fight.
  Jon Fitch vs. Thi­ago Alves- Huge fan of Alves and feel he matches up well with Fitch. I think Shields should fight the win­ner before get­ting GSP.
  Clay Guida vs. Rafael dos Anjos-I can never count out Guida and he deliv­ers awe­some fights.
  Matt Hughes vs. Ricardo Almeida–While I think Hughes has a shot and can win, Almeida is hun­gry and younger than Hughes which can be a fac­tor.
  Roy Nel­son vs. Junior dos San­tos– Nel­son has grown on me, and how can I not love his hum­ble­ness. The guy is hun­gry for a title shot (no pun intended hahaha).