Gabe Posted May 24, 2008 Report Posted May 24, 2008 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Penn stops Sherk at UFC 84 By Y! Sports Staff UFC lightweight championship: B.J. Penn (champion) vs. Sean Sherk ROUND 1:Crowd heavily in favor of Penn as fight begins. Penn stuffs a takedown at the outset. Right hand by Penn lands. Sherk misses badly on a left. Penn is circling and flicking his jab. Good right by Penn and a left by Sherk. Another right by Penn. Penn seems relaxed and Sherk is allowing it to be a standup fight. They tie up in the center, but Penn works free. Sherk flicks a jab and Penn responds. Crowd chanting for Penn. Hard left by Sherk. Penn is jabbing and landing consistently now. They’re both short on an exchange. With 90 seconds left, Sherk hasn’t gotten a takedown yet and ohas only tried once. Penn pops a jab and Sherk’s right eye is cut and bleeding. Two hard jabs by Penn. Sherk kicks to the leg. Penn fires a right uppercut that lands. Good jab by Penn. Crowd chanting B.J. as round ends. Penn’s round, 10-9 ROUND 2: Sherk lands a low kick. They trade punches, most of which miss. Another kick by Sherk. Good combination by Penn, the best punch being a right uppercut. Hard combination inside by Penn and a knee in the clinch. Sherk’s eye looks bad. Penn pops a hard right. Crowd is chanting “steroids, steroids†at Sherk. Sherk tries a combination but Penn parries the punches. Penn misses an uppercut. Left-right by Sherk lands. Penn lands a one-two. Hard jab by Penn. Sherk has forgotten his takedowns. He is not even trying. Penn’s jab is finding a home on Sherk’s right eye. Low kick from Sherk and Penn lands a right to the body. Low kick from Penn connects. Sherk went for a single leg takedown, but Penn stuffed it with 15 seconds left. Penn’s round, 10-9 (20-18, Penn). ROUND 3: The round begins the same as the other two, with Penn circling and flicking a jab. They come together inside and Penn lands a combination. As Penn backs out, Sherk lands an overhand left. Penn went for a takedown and was stuffed, but lands a good left. They exchange a combination in the center. Sherk fires a hard jab. Low kick from Penn lands hard. RIght hand by Penn, followed by a left. Sherk tries a low kick. Penn lands a double jab. Sherk misses a combination. Low kick by Sherk. Sherk’s face looks bad from the punches. Hard jab by Penn. Hard flying knee by Penn knocks Sherk down. Huge ground and pound by Penn. Fight is stopped as the horn sounds. There was confusion. Penn is the winner. – Kevin Iole Penn wins via TKO at 5:00 of round 3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Light heavyweights: Wanderlei Silva (32-8-1) def. Keith Jardine (14-3-1) How: KO, 0:36 of round one Key moment: Silva absorbed a body kick from Jardine and responded with a right hand to the ear, leading to a quick and brutal onslaught. Analysis: Those who thought the “Axe Murderer†was on the downside of his career counted him out too soon. Silva displayed the ferocity that made him a worldwide fan favorite during his long reign as PRIDE 205-lb. champion. He knocked Jardine down twice and threw 12 consecutive punches before referee Steve Mazzagatti called a halt to the match. Jardine was down on the mat receiving medical attention for about three minutes after the match before he got up and left the octagon under his own power. – Dave Doyle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Light heavyweights: Goran Reljic (8-0) def. Wilson Gouveia (10-5) How: TKO, 3:15 of the second round due to strikes. Turning point: Reljic landed a powerful left to the head that badly hurt Gouveia and sent him down. Analysis: It was an entertaining, back-and-forth fight. Reljic was scoring early with a lot of hard kicks, which he moved up and down, but Gouveia’s power came into play late in the first. Gouveia ripped Reljic with a right uppercut and was pounding him on the ground, but Reljic kept his composure and worked his way out of danger. Reljic showed his own power in the second. – Kevin Iole -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Light heavyweights: Lyoto Machida (13-0) def. Tito Ortiz (16-6-1) via unanimous decision Judges scores: 30-27, 30-27, 30-27 Machida Yahoo! Sports score: 30-27 Machida Key moment: While Machida out-pointed Ortiz the entire fight, the turning point was in round three, when Machida escaped from a triangle choke that Machida later admitted was very close to finishing him. Analysis: Machida’s style stymied Ortiz most of the way. Ortiz wasn’t able to take him down, and standing, Machida used his point karate style to avoid almost all of the former UFC light heavyweight champion’s offense. The crowd booed the fight at various points because of Machida’s backpedaling. But the undefeated Machida worked on Ortiz’s left leg with kicks and connected with punches and head kicks as counters while Ortiz tried unsuccessfully to chase him down. The key blow was in the third round with a hard knee to the ribs that put Ortiz down, but Ortiz recovered quickly. Ortiz was also in trouble at the end of the first round when Machida surprised him with a takedown and threw rapid punches just as time in the round expired. Ortiz, who was in the last fight of his UFC contract, left the door open for a possible return to the company while praising the fans and UFC owners Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta in his post-fight interview. But he talked more openly about going to what he termed “greener pastures.†– Dave Meltzer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Light heavyweights: Thiago SIlva (13-0) def. Antonio Mendes (14-3). How: TKO, 2:24 of the first round. Key moment: After first getting kicked in the head, Silva managed to get Mendes down and took control once he had Mendes on his back. Analysis: Silva continued to make his case that he’s an upper-echelon fighter in the UFC’s most talented division. He was wobbled early by the kick to the head and by a few strikes, but he showed a great killer instinct when the fight went to the ground. Silva’s ground-and-pound was awesome. He got full mount and managed to pummel Mendes, forcing him to tap from the strikes. – Kevin Iole
Gabe Posted May 24, 2008 Author Report Posted May 24, 2008 If you didnt see Jardine get knocked out by Silva, go to youtube and watch it! 36 seconds into the fight Jardine was flat, and I mean flat, on his back for 3 minutes! It was amazing.
venom33 Posted May 24, 2008 Report Posted May 24, 2008 the old axe murderer is back!!!!! silva looked like a beast! the version tonight wouldve done the same thing to liddell!
Gabe Posted May 24, 2008 Author Report Posted May 24, 2008 I really thought Jardine was paralyzed there for a few. It was downright sick how bad Silva hurt that guy.
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