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UFC cards from England are interesting in that the audience provides a much different atmosphere than the usual American venue. Whereas the typical American audience is growing and evolving along with the sport, the English are just as drunk and bloodthirsty as ever. And that is something I feel I can really relate to.

A lot of the fights should be fun, but England fights mean English fighters, which in turn means really bad grappling. Let's have a look shall we.

David Baron vs Jim Miller
Both guys are good grapplers, with Baron arguably being France's top fighter. Baron defeated Mach Sakurai in May (which made me cry like a baby), and Miller's a young dude with a lot of upside. I hope this gets shown, but it probably won't because its likely to go to a decision.

Shane Carwin vs Neil Wain
Shane Carwin looks like a massive version of Mark Coleman and Neil Wain is your fat friend who wears a shirt when he goes swimming. Carwin is a fucking wrecking machine who is exactly what people wished Brock Lesnar would be. Expect Wain to look stupid.

Dan Hardy vs Akihiro Gono
Gono has really good striking, and is generally fun as hell. Dan Hardy trains with Our Hero and #1 Foot Holder Eddie Bravo, so expect Joe Rogan to stammer on about how bad Gono's striking is and how we just don't understand how good Hardy is until Gono puts Hardy away. Gono is paying for his own ring entrance, so chances are it will never make it to air.

Paul Kelly vs Marcus Davis
All I know about Paul Kelly is that his fight with Paul Taylor stunk out loud. I don't remember who won and I really don't care. Marcus Davis pretends like he's irish, so pretty much every day is St. Patrick's day for him. Davis has good hands and is rounding out his game, but he'll probably never progress past being "kinda popular in England" and nothing more.

Paul Taylor vs Chris Lytle
not even gonna watch this fight

Sokoudjou vs Luiz Cane
I don't know much about Cane, but I hear good things. Sokoudjou has heavy hands, good judo and questionable cardio. He was clowned by Machida, but he's knocked out some good fighters (watching Nakamura falling off his stool was hilarious and crushing all at once). Hopefully this fight will clear up a lot about both fighters (answering important questions such as "Have I seen Cane fight before?")

Keith Jardine vs Brandon Vera
According to both Rogan and Goldberg Vera has the tools to beat anybody, but very few people have ever lived up to the RoganBerg Hype Machine. Jardine will probably want to try to pick him apart standing, but if you asked Greg Jackson he'd tell you that Jardine is going to try to wrestle him. Jardine looks downright stupid when he's in his groove, but it works for him. Vera is very hard to like, and his strategy is to get beat up and hope Jardine gasses. One of these things is very likely to happen.

Michael Bisping vs Chris Leben
Bisping's improving, Leben's improving, but chances are neither of them will actually reach a point where they are serious contenders. This could be a fun fight, but its really hard to get hyped up for it in a main event way. Some people have really strong feelings about Bisping and Leben due to stuff that happened on the Ultimate Fighter. These people form opinions based on reality television and conversation with them should avoided at all costs.

It should be a decent card and the price is right. At least you don't have to justify paying to see Bisping/Leben.