It's tough to play encore to timeless heavyweight title game like Brock Lesnar and Cain Velasquez but that's just what the fighters in the upcoming UFC 122 gambling action should do. In what might have been the anticipated bout of the year Velasquez beat the tar out of the much larger Lesnar, handing the champion 1st round TKO and gaining the Velasquez the heavyweight title.
By comparison, the UFC 112 odd main event between middleweights Nate Marquardt and Yushin Okami is no place near that amount of buzz. There will be no belts at stake and there will not be a lot of huge names in the UFC 122 gambling action. But that doesn't mean that there will not be lots of terrific MMA fighting action.
Marquardt is a tremendous fighter and the kind of competitor that nobody wants to confront in the Octagon. He's had his share of battles in the UFC (30-9-2) and the winner of this Main Event is very likely next in line to get a chance at the middleweight title. Yushin Okami, maybe the leading MMA fighter in Japan (25-5) and will be more than set for his bout with Marquardt and eager to a get shot at having his brains beat in by Anderson Silva.
But there's a great deal more to this UFC 122 gambling card than just the Main event. And although there may not be a signature celebrity on the card there are some quite intriguing matchups and fans will very likely be treated to some great action.
One bout in the UFC 122 probabilities that you don't want to miss is the other middleweight game between American Jorge Rivera versus Italian Alessio Sakara. Sakara is the leading Italian fighter in MMA and he should have lots of support from his homeland in Oberhausen, Germany.
This is just the second time that a UFC Main Event has been in Germany and just the second such competition that'll be hosted on continental Europe. This competition comes just a month following the UFC 120 Main Event presented in London. Both tournaments were heavy on worldwide fighters and a great way of advertising the sport in Europe.
It's additionally intriguing to note just how worldwide this particular competition will be. There will 11 matches with 11 different nationalities represented. It's somewhat shocking that more German fighters will not be represented than will be, but that's likely related to the reality that the sport has drawn a lot of ire from officials in the nation. They've got prohibited the UFC from broadcasting in their nation, although it will still be broadcast by means of tape delay in America on Spike TV. That isn't stopping UFC promoters, however, from vowing to get a grip anywhere on the planet that they possibly can. Probably that's why they have elected to hold two UFC tournaments back to back in a foreign nation. In the close to twenty years that the UFC has been in business, and with plenty of distinct countries already depicted in mixed martial arts, UFC 122 will probably be really worldwide.
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