Predictions of ufc 129

Welterweight Bout : Sean Pierson vs Jake Ellenberger
**Despite Sean Pierson being a very solid welterweight and shocking a few people with his UFC debut victory over Matt Riddle, I can’t help but put my guess on Jake Ellenberger who since his UFC debut loss against Carlos Condit (Top 5 in the world) which is no bad feat, he has put together an impressive 3 fight win streak defeating Mike Pyle, John Howard and former unbeaten fighter Carlos Eduardo Rocha.

Welterweight Bout : Nate Diaz vs Rory MacDonald
**Rory MacDonald brings youth and an impressive 10-1 record coming off his first and latest defeat to Carlos Condit against the very experienced Nate Diaz, despite him being young and more than capable, I personally see the experience of former wars and battles that Nate has to his resume being too much for the young gun on this occasion.

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Lightweight Bout : Mark Bocek vs Ben Henderson

**Really exciting fight between two Lightweight fighters both destined to reach the top of the game, Mark Bocek is coming off a Triangle Choke victory of Dustin Hazelett and being an 8x UFC Vet has the knowledge and skills to cause Henderson lots of problems. Ben comes into this bout coming off his first loss after a 10 fight win streak to top Lightweight contender Anthony Pettis, looking to get back to winning ways that made him the WEC World Champion I’m routing for Ben to win this one.

Light Heavyweight Bout : Vladimir Matyushenko vs Jason Brilz

**Lots of things have been written about this fight, both guys wanting to stand and bang with each other, this and that but I guess we’ll see on Saturday night. Jason Brilz is coming off a HUGE controversial loss to Antonio Nogeuira at UFC 114 aims to push on his previous two performances and make his run at the title. Vladimir has been around the game for years fighting some of the sports bigger names, should this fight stay standing I see Jason walking away with a TKO victory.

Light Heavyweight Bout : Randy Couture vs Lyoto Machida

**The fight that the world is waiting to see, will it be Randy’s final fight, won’t it.. The UFC Hall of Famer and the most decorated MMA Fighter of all time has spent 15 of his 29 fights in World Title fights, of which most he won picking up 5 UFC Titles in the process. If Randy comes out on Saturday night and uses his gameplan, after all he is the master of doing so, he will win via 3 round decision, should he come out try and trade with Machida then I think he may come unstuck. Lyoto is riding a 2 fight losing streak and desperately needs a win but for me being blinded by my love of Randy, I’m tipping Randy to win.

Featherweight Championship : José Aldo (C) vs Mark Hominick

**The first title fight of the night and arguably the baddest Featherweight on the planet and top of the Pound for Pound list, José Aldo comes in holding an 11 fight win streak with more than half coming by way of domination and destruction. Mark Hominick is holding a nice 5 fight win streak himself and aims to overcome the World Champion, having fought the who’s who of Featherweight MMA he has a chance to do so but for me – José Aldo wins this via however he wants.

Welterweight Championship : Georges St Pierre (C) vs Jake Shields

**The best Welterweight in the World and Number 1 P4P fighter GSP walks into the Cage on saturday night with an 8 fight win streak of which the last 5 were title defenses and aims to make that 6 come the end of UFC 129. Having beaten absolutely everyone there is to beat in the Welterweight division the only man left standing in his way is Jake Shields. Shields is a former multi divisional World Champion and has fought all over the world, riding a 15 win streak Shields has vowed to shock the world and stop the great GSP but I see nothing other than a 5 round decision victory for GSP albeit he doesn’t finish him by Submission earlier on in the fight.