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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 49 - Unfinished Business

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This is another solid UFC event - a night packed with great fights.

The night begins with Yves Edwards turning the tables on (or "lucking out" against) Josh Thompson, who had been overpowering and outperforming him until that point. The night then gets better with the next fight between Nick Diaz and Karo Parisyan. Diaz is a far better striker and Parisyan is better at takedowns and throws. This turns out to be quite an impressive battle, with wonderful moments of intricate technique being employed by both fighters. These two are a great matchup and I would actually like to see them fight again in the future. As they are both extremely young, this may be likely to happen.

Chris Lytle continues looking good against Ron Jhun - and Justin Eilers treats Mike Kyle how I feel he needs to be treated. There is just something so very irritating about Mike Kyle... Great punch by Eilers. Thank you.

The bout between Matt Lindland and David Terrell is over in the blink of an eye... Do we have a new force in the UFC?

Next up, Chuck Liddell v. Vernon White. "Tiger" White does far better than I expected in this fight, but ultimately he falls, as so many do before Liddell. Joe Doerksen and Joe Riggs are both good fighters and they have a decent fight where Riggs displays good strength and strikes, but either are serious contenders for the championship, in my opinion.

The main event is controlled throughout by Randy Couture. There is a cut caused by a headbutt, which makes it a bloody battle. Very entertaining and almost frustrating to watch.

As always, there are good bonus features made up of behind-the-scenes footage.

I'm not going to beat around the bush and explain each and every fight in great detail. You only need a short sharp opinionated description.MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!!
This is my rating system from worst to best:
Poor - Ok - Average - Great - Excellant

Yves Edwards v Josh Thomson (KO rnd 1-Excellant)
Nick Diaz v Karo Parisyan (Split Decision-Average)
Chris Lytle v Ron Jhun (Tapout-Ok)
Mike Kyle v Justin Eilers (KO rnd 1-Excellant)
Matt Lindland v David Terrell (KO rnd 1-Excellant)
Chuck Liddell v Vernon White (KO rnd 1-Excellant)
Joe Doerksen v Joe Riggs (KO rnd 2-Great)
Vitor Belfort v Randy Couture (Ref Stoppage rnd 3-Average)

All in all, a great addition to your collection with some fantastic moments.

Man oh man was this a fun event to watch! The main event was great to see... and the fights leading up to it were extremely entertaining as well. The one thing that I really miss in the UFC is lightweight fighters. Thompson vs. Edwards is a perfect example of why the UFC needs to bring back this amazing weight class... there are just so many killer fighters at that size. Buy this DVD, it rocks!

First of all, this event was very good to watch on PPV and will likeyl be very exciting when you can rewatch any one of the many knockouts at this event.

The fights were great!
Diaz/Parysian: Great, technical fight, the only one of the night to go the distance with a GOOD decision in Las Vegas for once.
Thompson/Edwards: Good match starting as very technical but moving to a knockout that is being considered the BEST ever highkick knockout.
Eilers/Kyle: Short, but with a clear knockout.
Jhun/Lytle: Only submission of the night but with alot of action before the end.
Terrell/Lindland: WOW! The upset of the year. A quick knockout with bruatl Ground and Pound.
Riggs/Doerkson: Very good fight ending with a very brutal ground and pound attack.
Liddell/White: The stand up war that everyone anticipated happened ending with a good knockout and a very clear picture of who is the number one contender for the light heavy weight championship
Belfort/Couture: Very one sided match that ends due to controversy over a headbutt. This time around though, a clear advantage went to one of the fighters. The better man won, this night.
Overall, a great show!

This UFC was well worth the money, almost every single fight ended by K.O., the Belfort vs. Cotoure fight was worth the price of admission, but the rest of this DVD was just completly off the hook. Hands down the best UFC to come out in years.

This is my favorite UFC event to date. Only one fights goes to decision, one fight ends in submission, and the rest end with someone being hurt. :)

This is the first UFC DVD I've ever watched and I've never shelled out the $$ for the PPV UFC matches, but I was intrigued by Spike TV's The Ultimate Fighter reality show, so I rented this. This review will contain some spoilers, so if you don't want to know who wins some of these bouts, stop right here.

This simply is nowhere near as interesting of a set of fights as the other reviewers claim. There were a couple of good fights, the best of which was the Chuck Lidell- Vernon White fight, which involved a number of exchanges of really hard punches with a surprising finish. White bounces back from a couple series of poundings, lands a few good punches and then Lidell looks away from White to his corner, seemingly stunned but looking for advice. White must have been daydreaming, because he had the perfect opening with the Iceman looking away, but waited too long. He swings in and gets a crushing strike to the head from Lidell. Match over.

The Thompson-Edward bout was very evenly matched and entertaining. It also features one of the most surprising knockouts you'll see - Yves Edwards, in the course of breaking free from a standing clench, arcs a high roundhouse from a position that I still don't understand how he got his leg up, his shin connects with Thompson's head and out go the lights.

There were several really quick fights, including the Eilers/Kyle fight and the ultra-quick Terrell-Lindland fight, in which rookie David Terrell lands the third punch of the fight, swarms Lindland with about five skull crushers into the mat and boom - 24 seconds into the fight, Terrell has a knockout. The Jhun/Lytle fight wasn't that short, but the submission hold Lytle had on Jhun was very surprising - even replaying in 1/8 speed, I never saw the tapout by Jhun, it happened so fast.

The Diaz/Parysian fight ended in a decision, was a very competitive fight and the better fighter won. However, it was really pretty boring. The reason it was boring was that it was essentially down on the mat with plenty of wrestling or jujitsu style moves and countermoves (and very skillfully done) but the end result was little actual excitement - few kicks or strikes of any sort. Now I don't criticize the excitement level of this in ignorance - I've got two varsity letters in wrestling from high school and I roomed in college with an All-American wrestler, so I have a pretty good appreciation of what's happening down on the matt. I'm not knocking the skills, just the lack of any big moves or strikes, which I find the most exciting. Neither fighter received a single blow that did any damage in the whole match.

The main event fight - Couture vs. Belfort, was in some ways similar, with almost no kicks or standing strikes, but was an extremely uninteresting, bloody matt-grinding session. For three rounds, Couture locked up with Belfort, threw him down against the fence, and began a very slow, methodical process of pulverizing Belfort. It was a highly effective strategy for Couture, but I'd rather watch soccer or the WNBA; you'd be hard pressed to show that outspoken sports radio/TV host Jim Rome likes either sport less than I do. Couture very skillfully kept Belfort on the mat, smothered him, and began chipping away at him landing a short, 1/8 swing punch on Belfort every 10 seconds or so. Then, Couture began alternating forearm chops into Belfort's head. Fairly early on, Couture opened up a big cut over Belfort's eye with an accidental headbutt and the blood flowed everywhere. Couture won the fight by essentially pinning Belfort close and still on his back and landing many very short punches - almost nothing involving Couture's fist or arm moving more than about 8-10 inches. By the third round, Couture's white shorts were nearly a solid dark pink from all of Belfort's smeared blood and the ringside doctor stopped the fight during the break after round three, apparently because Belfort's cut had opened up too badly. Belfort wasn't doing very much and probably had only one offensive move for each minute he was pinned on his back, but he wasn't on the on the very edge of being knocked out. The knockout probably would have happened by the end of the fourth round, but this was definitely a TKO. Again, it was a smart fight for Couture and he finished it almost unscathed, but watching fourteen minutes of one guy straddling another, heads mostly touching, and short little punches and chops opening up a bloody cut in the forehead wasn't even slightly interesting to me. I watched the ending of most of these fights several times, but didn't feel any need to see Couture methodically grinding his way to the championship belt more than once.

In summary, it was definitely worth the rental fee, but I wouldn't buy the DVD unless you are an UFC fanatic.

One of the UFC's best shows. Only one fight goes the distance and there are tons of KO's, most of them pretty quick too. It's simply a must see.

In manyways a great show.. but the head fight between Belfort and Couture was a big disepointment. I had realy looked forward to this fight, but this was a realy boring match! but the rest was pretty catchy. some great KO's, and including a highkick KO that definity should and will be on a future ulitimate knockout dvd.

becouse of the boring LHW titlefight i have to give ufc49 a 4/3 rate (more to 4 then 3).