UFC 124 Results And Recap

Added on Dec 12, 2010 by John Petit in

UFC & MMA

A great night of fights for the UFC at UFC 124 in Montreal, Canada. The event took place in front of a sold out crowd, and the Canadian fans spilled out onto the street happy, when their home town hero Georges St. Pierre defended his championship belt. The even was the largest Mixed Martial Arts fight to ever happen in North America with more then 23,000 in attendance. This is how the main card of the event went down.

Main card (Pay Per View)

Welterweight bout:

Thiago Alves 171

John Howard 171

Thiago Alves looked great coming into this fight. You could visually tell how much better shape he was in, and it paid off in spades for him. Thiago was just the better striker then Howard. Alves would work some jabs and hooks, and then just let loose on Howard’s legs. Surprisingly, Howard couldn’t get Alves to the floor, and it was Thiago who was scoring takedowns. Howard was able to get back up in most cases, but his takedowns were stuffed when they came. Thiago Alves looked fantastic, and put on a great performance.

Alves defeated Howard via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

Lightweight bout:

Joe Stevenson 155.5

Mac Danzig 156

After exchanging a few pawing jobs, and a well placed front kick that landed nicely on the face of the Stevenson, the fight was already looking different than how I thought it would go. Then Stevenson came forward casting out straight punches. Danzig seemed to side stepped the attack, and landed a surgically placed left hand on the chin of Joe Stevenson. Stevenson collapsed to the floor face first, and Mac followed him to the ground with a hammer-fist or two. An amazing high light reel knock out for Mac Danzig.

Danzig defeated Stevenson via KO (punch) at 1:54 of round 1 (KO Of The Night)

Lightweight bout:

Jim Miller 155

Charles Oliveira 153.5

Oliveira wanted to get this fight to the floor, and after he through up a distance gaging head kick, he shot for a weak ankle pick. Miller shrugged it off. After some clinch work along the fence, the fighters go to the cage floor, and its Oliveira who is on his back. Oliveira had an active guard, and was throwing up his legs to grab the arm of Miller. He finally caught the arm, and Miller stacked him up against the fence. When Miller eventually freed his arm, Oliveira went for a heel hook. It was then Miller who went for a leg of his own, and before Oliveira knew what was happening, He was wrapped up in a tight knee bar. Oliveira didn’t even really try to defend it, and he was forced to tap.

Miller defeated Oliveira via submission (kneebar) at 1:59 of round 1 (Submission Of The Night)

Heavyweight bout:

Stefan Struve 256

Sean McCorkle 264

They both came out, and actually touched gloves, but it was McCorkle who shot in for the take down and quickly got it. McCorkle had a nice kimura attempt alongside the fence, that would have worked had the cage not been there, but Struve defended the way he should. McCorkle then went to work with some ground and pound, and then Struve regained wrist control of McCorkle’s hands. Struve then started isolating the arm of McCorkle, and had a nice hold of Sean’s arm in a kimura. Struve used the hold to beautifully sweep McCorkle right into the full mount. Struve postured up and started landing huge shots to the face of McCorkle bloodying his nose, and when Struve switched to throwing elbows, Referee Yves Lavigne was forced to stop the fight.

Struve defeated McCorkle via TKO (punches) at 3:55 of round 1

Welterweight Championship bout:

Champion: Georges St-Pierre 170

Challenger: Josh Koscheck 169

It seems as though boxing lessons from Freddie Roach pay off. With the exception of a few takedowns, and some leg kicks, we watched a boxing match in the Octagon in the main event. When it was over, there was no argument who won either. Georges St. Pierre dominated Josh for 25 minutes. Besides a takedown, and a few punches, Koscheck’s face was like a focus mitt GSP was hitting. Instead of going round by round, and telling you how many time Kos was left jabbed in the face, lets take a look at the numbers. GSP Total Strikes were 136,and Josh’s were 30. GSP Significant Strikes were 110, and Josh’s were 16. GSP Head Strikes were 70, and Josh’s were 15. Koscheck’s eye looked horrible after the first round, and by the end of the fight it was almost completely swollen shut. GSP had Josh’s timing down perfectly, and he knew exactly where those punches were going to be when they were thrown. He stayed on the outside, and jumped in with his jab and 1-2, and jumped right back out. When Josh went to counter GSP was long gone. This fight was the football equivalent of the teams that just throw 7-10 yards passes, and they throw them all day to win big. Koscheck was just picked apart.

St-Pierre defeated Koscheck via unanimous decision (50-45, 50-45, 50-45) to retain the UFC Welterweight Championship. (Fight Of The Night-voted on by fans)