UFC 100 Results: Lesnar, GSP & Hendo Victorious

UFC 100 Main Card Recap

Brock Lesnar retained the UFC heavyweight title by stopping Frank Mir in the second round and Georges St. Pierre put on the performance of his career in blanking Thiago Alves at UFC 100 Saturday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

Lesnar took Mir down and pounded him with rights along the cage, forcing referee Herb Dean to stop it at 1:48 of the second. After the win, Lesnar made an obscene gesture to the crowd with both hands.

St. Pierre, who was all class, won by scores of 50-45, 50-45 and 50-44.

Lesnar, who lost to Mir last year at UFC 81 on a first-round submission, shouted to the crowd, “I love it! Keep booing! Keep booing!”

Later, he said, “I might get on top of my wife tonight.”

Mir only had one offensive move, a knee early in the second round. Lesnar took Mir down in the first and pounded him with rights, then did much the same in the second until it was stopped.

St. Pierre never allowed Alves into the fight. He took him down almost at will and was constantly working on the ground. The powerful Alves was able to force his way off the mat and get back to his feet, but he took a load of punishment from a champion who may have earned the outright pound-for-pound top status.

St. Pierre injured his groin in the third, but it hardly seemed as if it affected him in what he repeatedly called the toughest fight of his career.

Instead, it was a real bad night for Alves, who offered precious little offense. Alves’ takedown defense had helped him to a big victory over Josh Koscheck last year at UFC 90, but he couldn’t stay upright against St. Pierre.

When St. Pierre took him down, he was landing fists and elbows and constantly looking for submissions.

In a grudge match between the coaches from The Ultimate Fighter 9, Dan Henderson clearly outclassed Michael Bisping and knocked him out with one of the biggest right hands in recent years.

Bisping spent much of the fight circling and moving away from Henderson, who had the advantage with striking throughout.

Bisping, who asked cornerman Quinton “Rampage” Jackson “what happened?” as he was walking back to the dressing room, kept circling toward Henderson’s right. Henderson had noted that on tape and was prepared for it.

He unloaded a massive right that landed on the chin and put Bisping out. Henderson didn’t need to do another thing, but pounced and landed a tremendous elbow to the face before referee Mario Yamasaki could stop it at 3:20.

There had been much bickering between the two and Henderson said he felt Bisping had talked too much and wanted to shut him up.

Bisping never landed a shot of consequence and seemed to have no answer for Henderson.