129, other than the utter shietfest of a main event, was a smurfing great event. Multiple german suplexes, backfist KO of utter death, Flying triangle sub from a first round war, nose broken with an elbow, some random half korean Michael Jackson lookalike getting pissed off at a poncy ginger and wrecking him with knees, 40 year old russian wasting a poncy american wrestler poof in 20 seconds, Machida crane kicking Handy into retirement and the 5 round war between Aldo and Hominick that left the canuck with some monsterous growth on his forehead. Was an awesome night up until GSP and Shields.

Machida's karate kid was probably the most hilariously awesome thing i've ever seen, best way for Handy to end his career as well. Quite like Ben Henderson, glad he smashed up that ginger ponce Bocek, hope he goes on to do well in the 155 division in the UFC.

Main event though, so bad, no idea what the smeg Shields was trying to accomplish completely giving up on trying to take the fight into his strongest area, didn't even attempt to pull guard or anything. And I respect GSP a lot, definitely P4P best fighter in the world, but I just don't get what he's trying to accomplish out there sometimes, it seems like he doesn't actually like being a fighter. I'm not sold anymore on the idea that he's a fantastic striker either, he threw literally three strikes for 25 minutes, a jab, the worst overhand right in history and a spinning back kick that he didn't do properly anyway. Apart from the left head kick he threw a couple of times, which actually worked, that's all he did. I get he's gimped ever since Serra smurfed him up, but in his quest to get through fights taking the least damage possible, he's completely lost the ability to strike with any kind of fluidity. Didn't throw a single meaningful combination the entire night, best it got was jab-worst overhand of all time. Especially after watching Aldo and Hominick, who both can put together fantastically varied and smooth combo's, he looked like shiet.

Obv the eye injury affected his performance, but at the same time it goes back to his unwillingness to put himself in danger, because the longer a fight drags on the more likely it'll be he gets caught with something like that, especially when he's not using his wrestling because of his opponents ground game. I'm not even sold on the way he throws his jabs, although it was better than his overhand and back kick. Rumour is that Dana is going to try and set up GSP vs Nick Diaz, and on the evidence of last night, even though he'll be a heavy underdog coming into the fight I would probably feel that Diaz would smash GSP up. Be interesting to see where it goes.