UFC 89 Live Blog – Davis vs Kelly

The main card has begun, and Marcus ‘plastic Paddy’ Davis is coming into the arena to the strains of House of Pain, which I can’t resist bopping to.  Kelly comes out to that Linkin Park / Jay-Z mix that seems to get played at every MMA event I ever go to.

The first round starts slow with neither fighter risking too much.  Davis looks slimmer and his hands seem quicker than usual, and he’s teasing his jab out nicely. Davis gets a takedown into half guard with 1.30 left in the round and passes to side control but Kelly bridges him off and gets to his feet.  The round ends with them potshotting each other with little effect.

Two minutes pass with not much happening until Kelly hits a double leg.  Davis grabs a guillotine off it and forces the tap at 2.16 of the second round.  After the fight a disappointed Kelly says “I shouldn’t have tapped, I should have gone out like a man”.