Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett predicted a first round knock out at last night’s EliteXC event.  He was right, but it was he who was on the recieving end.  Victor “Joe Boxer” Valenzuela stopped Krazy Horse in the first round of last night’s main event.  You can check out Joe Boxer’s take on the fight here at proelite.com.

 Here are the official fight results from the EliteXC show: 

Victor Valenzuela def. Charles Bennett via Submission (Strikes) at 3:23 of rd. 1

Seth Kleinbeck def. Jaime Jara via TKO (Strikes) at 4:59 of rd. 2

Jon Murphy def. David Huckaba via KO (Punch) at 0:19 of rd. 2

Hector Urbina def. Ray Lazama via Unanimous Decision

Umar Love def. Brendan Tierney via Submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 4:08 of rd. 1

It was a good night of action from the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas.  Here are the results of Ultimate Fighting Championship 74, Respect:

UFC Heavyweight Title Fight
-Randy Couture def. Gabriel Gonzaga via TKO (strikes) Round

-Georges St. Pierre def. Josh Koscheck via Unanimous Decision
-Roger Huerta def. Alberto Crane via TKO Round 3
-Joe Stevenson def. Kurt Pellegrino via Unanimous Decision
-Patrick Cote def. Kendall Grove via TKO Round 1
-Clay Guida def. Marcus Aurelio via Split Decision
-Thales Leites def. Ryan Jensen via Submission (armbar) Round 1
-Frank Mir def. Antoni Hardonk via Submission (armbar) Round 1
-Renato “Babalu” Sobral def. David Heath via Submission Round 2

For a full fight for fight, round for round breakdown, check out the recap on MMANews.com HERE

If you don’t ant to cough up the dough to order the event on pay per view or if you don’t feel like watching it on your own, your best bet is going to be heading to a local bar to catch the MMA action (if you’re old enough that is).  We’ve watched our fair share of UFC events at bars and the energy the crowd brings (although nothing like being at the event itself) only enhances the night of fighting (and the beers don’t hurt either).

UFC Fighting News provides a very long list of bars showing the UFC, broken out by state. 

We suggest you give the bar a call ahead of time to confirm that they are indeed showing the fights.

We usually write-up our own picks but this time we are going to “outsource” our UFC preview.   We too a look around and found that Jeff Hamlin over at MMA Maddness has put together a pretty good analysis. It’s informative, not too long winded, and he’s a credible source. His picks include Gonzaga, GSP, Huerta, Stevenson, Grove, Leites, Heath, Mir, and Guida.

You’ll have to visit MMAMadness.com to find out how each of his picks will win and get an fight analysis of each UFC 74 match-up.  Click Here.

As we’ve being seeing lately, all of the fighters weighed in looking in good shape with everyone made their necessary weight.  As expected, Randy Couture and George St. Pierre drew the most cheers from the crowd, but less expected is that Josh Koscheck drew a lot of boos from the Las Vegas crowd.

Here are a few stare-down pics from earlier today.

Joe Stevenson and Kurn Pellgrino looking not so serious

Kendall Grove and Patrick Cote with one of the more intense stare downs

GSP and Kos clowning

Gonzaga is taking this very seriously

Foreshadowing???

Fight fans can catch the weigh-ins for UFC 74 today either live in person or via an internet broadcast.  To see in person, head to the Mandalay Events Center in Las Vegas which will open its doors at 3:00.  For the other 99% or you, there will be a number of different internet feeds that will begin showing the weigh-ins at 3:50pm (pacific time).  Here are your different sources for watching live:

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• NBC Sports
• Yahoo! Sports
• UFC Website

ESPNews will air the weigh-ins live at 4pm.