UFC 106 Bonuses: Wrong Choices and Ortiz’s Abysmal third Round

I usually think the UFC is really good at picking the “of the night” winners, but I’m not so sure the promotion got it right last Saturday night. No offense to Josh Koscheck, he put on a solid performance, but I don’t think he should have won sub of the night nor do I think his bout with Anthony Johnson should have earned fight of the night.

Sub of the night should have gone to Kendall Grove.
Little Nog probably deserved KO of the night, but a strong case could be made for Ben Saunders
Fight of the night should have gone to Jacob Volkmann and Paulo Thiago

On another note regarding UFC 106, I jokingly wrote that Forrest Griffin landed about 288 strikes on Tito Ortiz in round three. Well now we actually have the Compustrike numbers and it wasn’t quite that many, but the numbers show just how lopsided of a round it was:

In rounds one and two Ortiz landed 44 of 83 strikes, Griffin landed 51 of 112. Pretty even especially when considering Ortiz took Griffin down three times in four attempts.

The third round though saw Ortiz pretty much let Griffin punch at him while mounting no offense of his own. In round three Ortiz landed 6 of 17 strikes while Griffin landed 49 of 116.