Strikeforce: Overeem Vs. Werdum Fight Card Results: Fans Lose, UFC Wins Overeem Vs. Werdum

It was an ugly fight that few enjoyed.

Overeem landed the harder shots, but Werdum landed more, coming after Overeem with lunging punches and knees to the face. Werdum made no bones about his desperation to get the fight on the ground. Werdum shot for numerous take downs that Overeem slung off. He also pulled guard about a bajillion times.

There are some fights -- whether they happen on the school yard, in a parking lot, a jailhouse or a submarine -- that leave no doubt about who is the better man. Tonight Jorge Masvidal busted up K.J. Noons on the feet, on the ground, and against the cage at Strikeforce: Overeem vs. Werdum.

Masvidal was quicker with his fists than Noons and left the former pro-boxer looking like a victim in a slasher film. Noons brought male model looks into the cage and left looking like Frankenstein.

Burrell got the initial take down but Ray, an American Top Team product, fired off a succession of submission attacks that seemed to come very close to getting the tap although only Burrell knows for sure. Ray threw up a triangle, a double arm bar attempt, a kneebar and a second arm bar attack to take the round.

Burrell fought back in the second and especially the third, edging Ray on the feet and dominating the take down battle. More importantly the fading Ray wasn’t able to replicate the barrage of submission attacks in either of the later rounds. He did threaten with a nasty guillotine in the third but it was a dying gasp of a losing effort.

Come back when the fights start, we won’t be pulling our punches.