Redemption. That pretty much sums up the Matt Serra versus Georges St. Pierre fight. If there was any doubt at all that GSP isn’t one of the best fighters in the UFC today, this match effectively dispelled it.
GSP came out and made an aggressive take-down in the opening seconds of round 1, he was determined to use his superior jiu-jitsu against Serra to avoid a repeat of the the stand-up disaster that led to GSP losing his title. GSP remained on top and dominated the entire match.
GSP continued the punishment on Serra with a series of devastating knees to the ribs, forcing the referee to end the fight in a TKO at 4:45 in the second round. GSP regains his UFC Welterweight Championship belt in front of his hometown Montreal crowd. This is the most successful UFC on paper ever and tickets to the event sold-out within two hours of the ticket boxes opening. Proving that Canada is truly a MMA haven.
Another exciting bout on the fight card was Rich Franklin versus Travis Lutter. Franklin was still haunted by his two definitive losses to Anderson Silva. Lutter also makes his return behind the shadow of his previous loss to Silva and his embarrassing failure to make the weight for that fight.
Franklin redeemed himself as a world-class fighter by showing his superior technical prowess. Lutter managed to engage in some impressive arm bars but Franklin showed impressive skill by turning all efforts around in his favour. Lutter soon became gassed through his earlier efforts and was finally defeated in a TKO 3:01 in the second round.
Here are the rest of the results on the fight card:
It was also my friend Justin’s birthday so we celebrated post-UFC style 
Being the first ever UFC to be held on Canadian soil, I had to break out my old UFC championship belt. It’s been sitting in my storage for years. Of course I bought it but it is an authentic licensed reproduction of the real belt 
How the hell does one guy make such a big mess? Oh well, the drunken birthday boy deserves to get a way with it. Happy birthday Justin!
Posted on April 20th, 2008 by Leo
Filed under: Lucid Thoughts
Yeah it turned out to be a pretty good card huh! That Fanklin fight should have ended sooner was pretty sick!
Thanks for the recap, my wife’s birthday prevented me from getting away to view the PPV over at a buddy’s place unfortunately. Do you have a WWF championship belt too?
WWF!?
No, but I did rip a lot of t-shirts in an effort to be Hulkilicious.
Who you crappin? You know you made a cut in the shirt with scissors first so you could rip through it , lol.
Whatcha gonna do when Hulkamania runs wild on you?
You know the WWF is now the World WIldlife Fund. Damn hippies!
Yeah, that is a bunch of crap. I’ll always think of wrestling as the WWF though, no WWE nonsense here.
Watched this last night …. dissapointed with the main event though.
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