Sean Sherk showed his excellent boxing as he landed good left hooks and jabs en route to decisioning Tyson Griffin. Contrary to what some are saying, Sherk has always had excellent boxing. He displayed it against Nick Diaz and even BJ Penn, and frequently claims to have trained Muay Thai for 15 years. Tyson Griffin has a little way to go to catch up with Sherk on that front, but acquitted himself well against a super-experienced opponent. On a side note I was most disappointed with Joe Rogan’s commentary on this one. Sherk clearly landed the most damaging blows and yet Rogan only drew attention to Griffin’s work. There are times when in order to have an unbiased viewing I am forced to hit the mute button.

Tyson Griffin - Improves every outing and, if he continues to do so, will challenge for a belt sooner or later. He is still fairly new to the game and simply lacked the ring craft to upset Sherk. Spencer Fisher, Hermes Franca and the loser of Florian/Stevenson would make excellent next tests.

Sean Sherk - Sherk earned my respect back following his steroid scandal with the way he took the loss to BJ Penn. To re-affirm the phrase which Goldie mangled, reports of Sean Sherk’s demise were greatly exaggerated. He has still only lost to 3 of the pound for pound greats in history. Excellent boxing, an awesome chin, formidable wrestling and unparalleled cardio make him a favorite against anyone not BJ Penn. His next fight should be against a contender such as the winner of Florian/Stevenson, or Gray Maynard or Spencer Fisher, should they want the fight quite yet.

Fabricio Werdum fell pray to the curse of the contender, and it came in the guise of a brutally powerful striker in Junior Dos Santos. Here I’ll take a second to gloat about calling this one. Watching Dana White’s blog (it was a slow day for me) I saw a clip of Dos Santos hitting the mitts and could tell I was watching a fast and brutally powerful guy. Dana too commented that it was impressive. Werdum looked overweight and had little to gain from this fight. He looked a little sluggish compared to his usual self in the ring and slipped up against all odds, eating a bomb of a right uppercut right on the chin and slumping to the canvas.