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Save the Jon Fitch fight, UFC 107 was an awesome card, start to finish.
B.J. Penn absolutely tore apart Diego Sanchez. Huge props to Sanchez. He showed a ridiculous amount of heart for five rounds despite seeing his face get busted up like he was fighting Freddy Krueger.
CagePotato had some interesting Penn/Sanchez fight stats (via FightMetric):
Sanchez threw 108 strikes at Penn, and only landed eight of them. Seriously. Eight, the whole fight. That’s a 7% success rate. By comparison, Penn was able to touch Sanchez 150 times out of 214 tries, for a remarkable 70% success rate. Compounding his failure, Sanchez also went 0/24 on his takedown attempts.
Main card results were:
Alan Belcher def. Wilson Gouveia via TKO in Round 1.
Stefan Struve def. Paul Buentello via decision.
Kenny Florian def. Clay Guida via rear-naked choke submission in Round 2.
Jon Fitch def. Mike Pierce via decision.
B.J. Penn def. Diego Sanchez via TKO in Round 5.
All bonuses went to the undercard fights. TJ Grant got Knockout of the Night. Submission of the Night went DaMarques Johnson. And Belcher and Gouveia took Fight of the Night.
Dana White’s thoughts on the Penn/Sanchez fight here.
