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With a title belt and a bout between two legends, UFC 118 was a real show for the public present in Boston, United States, and you did not miss any detail of it here on TATAME. Check below how the event was and stay tuned to know about repercussion of UFC 118

Frankie Edgar shone and beat BJ Penn... again

BJ Penn promised an aggressive posture, willing to take back his lightweight title, but what he did inside the octagon did now reflect his promises. Completely sleepy, the Hawaiian was dominated by Frankie Edgar for five rounds, having a hard time on the stand-up fight, suffering several takedowns and lot of punches on the ground and pound. The win on the decision of the judges hallowed Edgar, who became the only lightweight to beat BJ Penn twice. After the loss, BJ complimented Edgar and said he has to think about some aspects of his career.

Randy Couture gives James Toney a MMA lesson

Former champion of UFC, Randy Couture gave a MMA lesson for the former champion of Boxing, James Toney. The boxer wanted to keep the fight standing, but the strategist of the octagon did not try to punch him even once, trying the takedown right on the beginning of the fight and got the mount easily. From then on it was a matter of time for the fight to end, and the outcome came by a katagatami in less than three minutes on the first round

Demian Maia beast Mário Miranda by points

Coming from a loss on a title fight with Anderson Silva, the Black belt Demian Maia had a good comeback and beat Mário Miranda, who has been training with Demian’s tormentor. Trying to bring his opponent down during the entire fight, Demian fit several arm bars, but Mário escaped from all of them. After 15 minutes of a lot of Jiu-Jitsu, Demian got the win on the decision of the judges.

Amilcar is submitted on his debut

Fighting for the first time on the UFC’s octagon, the Brazilian AMilcar Alves could not show his skills as he did on his 11 previous fights. The tough Mike Pierce dominated the action since the beginning, putting Amilcar on the ground two times on the first round and trying to work on the ground and pound. Just like on the initial round, the duel was warm on the second round, with Mike dominating the actions again. On the final round, Amilcar tried to work on his kicks, but again the American put him down again and tried to fit an arm bar. The Brazilian defended two tries, but end up surrender on the third.

Maynard wins and gets a shot for the belt

The chance for a title fight among the lightweights would be giving for the winner of this bout and Gray Maynard beat Kenny Florian on a boring fight, winning on the judges’ round card decision. With the win, Maynard shall dispute the belt with Edgar, who beat Penn on the main event of the evening. It is worth reminding that Gray was the only one who beat Frank on is MMA career.

Jiu-Jitsu expert, Nate Diaz showed a good Sant-up game against the striker Marcus Davis. Making a good use of his reach advantage since the beginning, Nate punished the Irish, making some cuts on his face. Blind from one eye on the third round, Marcus became an easy quarry to Diaz, who brought him down and fit a guillotine choke, finishing the bout.

On the undercard, Dan Miller had a great performance and broke the sequence of losses. In order to keep his job, the Jiu-Jitsu black belt made John Salter pay for his attempt of takedown, fitting a tight guillotine and getting the tapout. Leaving the decision to be made by the judges, Nik Lentz beat Andre Winner, while Greg Soto beat Nick Osipczak. The last fight among the preliminaries finished quickly, with Joe Lauzon submitting Gabe Ruediger with an arm bat in only 2min01s of combat.

FULL RESULTS:

UFC 118

Boston, Unites States

Saturday, August 28 of 2010

Main card:

- Frankie Edgar defeated BJ Penn on the unanimous decision of the judges;

- Randy Couture submitted James Toney with an arm-triangle choke at 3min19s of R1;

- Demian Maia defeated Mário Miranda on the unanimous decision of the judges;

- Gray Maynard defeated Kenny Florian on the unanimous decision of the decision;

- Nate Diaz submitted Marcus Davis with a guillotine at 4min02s of R3;

Preliminary card:

Joe Lauzon submitted Gabe Ruediger with and arm bar at 2min01s of R1;

- Nik Lentz defeated Andre Winner on the unanimous decision of the judges;

- Dan Miller submitted John Salter with a guillotine at 1min53s of R2;

- Greg Soto defeated Nick Osipczak on the unanimous decision of the judges;

- Mike Pierce submitted Amilcar Alves with an arm bar at 3min11s of R3.