UFC 132 Main Fight Card Breakdowns: Dominick Cruz Vs. Urijah Faber, Wanderlei Silva Vs. Chris Leben And More
SBN will be offering quick but comprehensive previews of each fight on the main card of UFC 132. We will look at each aspect of the fight game: Range Fighting, Clinch Fighting, and Ground Game; and break down which fighter has the advantage in each category.
Each major category is further broken down into sub-categories. These are:
- Range Fighting: Boxing, Kickboxing, Wrestling
- Clinch Fighting: Dirty Boxing, Thai Clinch, Throws/Trips
- Ground Fighting: Positional Control, Top Game, Bottom Game, Submissions
Since it's a binary choice -- either one fighter is better at a certain aspect or it's a tie -- the rankings are just descriptive, not a formal ladder. IE if I rate one fighter's boxing as "lethal" and the other fighter's boxing as "extremely dangerous" just look to see which fighter I gave the nod in that category to find out if "lethal" is indeed better than "extremely dangerous" (it is).
UFC 132 features bantamweight champ Dominick Cruz making his UFC debut against Urijah Faber. Cruz is in the odd position of being a UFC champ with zero fights in the UFC because the promotion absorbed World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) in late 2010 and awarded Cruz the UFC title at the last WEC event in December 2010.
Faber is a former WEC featherweight champion who beat Cruz in a WEC title fight in 2007.
The event is taking place Saturday, July 2, 2011 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. It will be broadcast in three parts: pay-per-view, Spike TV and streamed live on Facebook.
The fight for UFC 132 is as follows:
Main card:
Preliminary card (SPIKE TV):
Preliminary card (Facebook):
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