UFC UFN 21: Florian vs Gomi

Main Card

Lightweight bout: Kenny Florian vs Takanori Gomi
Heavyweight bout: Roy Nelson vs Stefan Struve
Middleweight bout: Nate Quarry vs. Jorge Rivera
Lightweight bout: Ross Pearson vs. Dennis Siver

Preliminary Card

Lightweight bout: Andre Winner vs. Rafaello Oliveira
Lightweight bout: Jacob Volkmann vs. Ronnys Torres
Lightweight bout: Rob Emerson vs. Nik Lentz
Lightweight bout: Caol Uno vs. Gleison Tibau
Middleweight bout: Yushin Okami vs. Lucio Linhares
Middleweight bout: Gerald Harris vs Mario Miranda
Welterweight bout: Charlie Brenneman vs. Jason High

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The third and final leg of the UFC's March Madness takes place in the early hours of Thursday morning, April 1st, at 3am.

The new season of TUF, Season 11 with Chuck and Tito coaching, airs straight after the show.

Ken Flo is almost certainly the 2nd best Lightweight in the world, a place his opponent Takanori Gomi occupied for a bit of time a few years back. In fact, some would say from 2004 to 2005 Gomi was number 1 in the world. Unfortunately he hasn't been the same fighter since Nick Diaz made him tap to a stunning gogoplata in Pride. Gomi's cardio has been suspect on occasions in the past and his skill level has gone south in the last few years. However fighting in the UFC has been a dream of his and he may have rededicated himself for the cause, but he'll have needed to have done. He was on the receiving end of two straight losses - one of them a monumental upset - that ended his association with Sengoku when he lost his belt. Gomi seems to have been around forever, but he is actually younger than the more inexperienced Florian. Ken Flo is on top of his game though and is on his way back to BJ. I can't have Gomi here at all. His wild-child style of throwing huge looping hooks and rushing in will allow Florian to pick some good angles with his Muay Thai and give him ample opportunity to take him down if he wants to go there. Gomi's also completely fallen off the radar for a reason. He's went 3-2 vs 5 bums in the last 2 years.

1/3 on Kenny is value

Will be back on tomorrow with some stuff on the very interesting co main event - Big Country vs Skyscraper.

And lets hope Nate Quarry's fight with Jorge Rivera is half as exciting as his last fight at UFN 19 - that's one of my favourite fights of all time. T'was incredible! Check it out:

http://www.mma-core.com/videos/_Nate_Quarry_vs_Tim_Credeur_UFN_19?vid=10006495&tid=100