UFC 152: Jones vs. Belfort

UFC 152...
UFC 152 was a tricky event for several reasons, the first being that UFC 151 was cancelled after Dan Henderson was injured in training two weeks before his fight with Jon Jones. Initially talks of Lyoto Machida replacing Henderson were speculated but then those rumors were dismissed. Chael Sonnen had put his name forth as a replacement for Henderson but those plans were cut short very quickly. After that news broke out it felt like another batch of bad news broke out when it was publicly released that the entire event had been cancelled. There are already so many things that have been said on this so I'm going to skip over that. So, to fix up this jumble Jon Jones was then scheduled to headline UFC 152 with Vitor Belfort. With plans finalized it looked like UFC 152 was going to be a stacked card with a lot to offer.

Things started off in an odd way. Cub Swanson is good featherweight to keep track of because his fights are typically pretty exciting. He doesn't mind...

I WANTED VITOR TO WIN MORE THAN ANYTHING
UFC 152
JONES VS BELFORT

This was the event after the “lost event” thanks to one half of the main event on this card. For those who don’t know Jon Joes was set to defend his title against Dan Henderson at UFC 151. But after Dan had to pull out due to an injury the door was left open for a replacement to fight Jones. From what was said by Dana White no one in the Light-Heavyweight division wanted to take on Jones on short notice. So the very vocal Chael Sonnen said he would come up from the Middleweight division to fight Jones, Jones refused. He said he could not take on Sonnen on short notice. Funny thing is that he agreed to take on Vitor Belfort at this event who like Cheal was coming up from Middleweight and was injured. But on a great note this event would also see the debut of a new title, the Flyweight belt which is at 125 pounds.

Spoilers

1.CUB SWANSON VS CHARLES OLIVEIRA-the first fight of the night on the main card was...

Two Title Fights!
The only other good thing about getting two title fights is seeing a card that's fun to watch. This was a fun show to watch from top to bottom and well worth the money spent to watch.

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