When looking at UFC 117 on paper, I was immediately sure it was going to be a throw away fight night.  I was wrong.  You heard it hear, for the first time in the history of everything, I was wrong.  Cause Im never wrong otherwise, Ever.

The first fight of the night was with Roy ‘Big Country’ Nelson, by far the fattest guy in MMA.  Hes talented, but needs to lay off the burgers.  Versus Junior Dos Santos, a walking pile of Brazilian muscle, who has fists of stone.  Going in I was rooting for Big Country, yet knew he was doomed.  The fight was pretty one sided with Dos Santos raining down punches every where on Roy Nelson, but the guy would not go down.  He was exhausted, fat, and beat to shit but he didn’t give up.  Much respect to Roy Nelson, but the win goes to Dos Santos.

Matt Hughes vs. Ricardo Almeida… This fight I was 100 percent certain Matt Hughes was toast.  After his pathetic fight with Henzo Gracie I lost a lot of respect for the guy, whos a dickhead any ways.  Yet he came out looking top shape and handled Almeida and then pulled off the most ridiculous move to win… he got a headlock on Almeida from as he lay belly down and Hughs was upside down from the standard position and put him TO SLEEP..  He wouldn’t tap, and went nighty night… so much so that the ref had to lift his legs to get blood back to his brain.  Much respect to Matt Hughes for pulling that off.

Next was Rafael Dos Anjes vs Clay Guida.. First off, Clay Guida looks like the Geico caveman.  Next Clay Guida wins after controlling much of the fight and breaking Dos Anjes jaw, and then getting him to tap out when he put his shoulder into his jaw.

Now was the only fight that didn’t maintain much interest from me.. Jon Fitch vs. Thiago Alves.  Fitch pretty much tackled him and held him down three rounds for the win in decision.

Bonus fight for undercard Stefan Struve vs. Christian Morecraft.  We were treated to a bonus undercard fight that saw Morecraft absolutely beat the shit out of the tall and lanky Stefan Struve in the first round.  Then the second round started and Struve pulled out a win I could not believe.  He caught a 3 punch combination ending Morecraft with a right that crumpled him up.  Ridiculous come from behind win… Nice bonus fight.

The Main Event and mind fuck surprise of the night was Chael Sonnen vs. Anderson Silva.  I expected Silva to end this fight in about 10 seconds via ri-fucking-diculous submission.  But I was wrong again and Chael backed up his shit talking and took it to Silva for 4 and a half rounds.  Holding dominate position and beating the crap out of the champ for the whole fight, and making Silva wobbly quite a few times with great hooks.  Then when Sonnen could have just glided to the end of the 5^th round to get the win by decision he left his arm out and Silva slapped on a triangle choke in light speed and Sonnen was done.  I couldn’t believe it, but Silva pulled it off, in ridiculous fashion and I couldn’t believe what I saw.  It was good to see Silva humbled and in a decent fight finally and I hope we get a rematch of this fight.

All in all, very solid PPV.. first one in months.  UFC has me hooked a little while longer.