Bobby Lashley vs. Bob Sapp, as the video above shows, is an MMA fight between two legitimate athletes. Lashley is a big, strong guy who was a good college wrestler, and Sapp is a bigger, stronger guy who was a good college football player. So when I call their fight in the main event of Ultimate Chaos a freak show, it's not meant as an insult.
I just mean that people aren't going to buy this fight on pay-per-view because they think Lashley and Sapp are legitimately good fighters. (In fact, the fighters in the co-main event, Pedro Rizzo and Gilbert Yvel, would both beat either Lashley or Sapp.) No, people are going to buy this fight because Lashley and Sapp are big, tough-looking guys who have reputations as brawlers. That's the kind of fight that has always sold in Japan, but hasn't been as popular among American MMA fans.
I personally think Sapp, whose pro MMA record is 10-4-1, is probably going to run out of steam early in the fight, and Lashley, whose record is 3-0, will finish him in the second round of a fight that won't really be all that exciting. But I'm still looking forward to this card, which is shaping up as follows:
James Orso vs Danny Abbadi
Brandon Harder vs John Harris
Tom Atencio vs Randy Hedderick
Brett Cooper vs Waachim Spirit Wolf
Chris Horodecki vs William Sriyapai
Din Thomas vs Javier Vasquez
Pedro Rizzo vs Gilbert Yvel
Bob Sapp vs Bobby Lashley
We'll have an Ultimate Chaos: Bobby Lashley vs. Bob Sapp live blog Saturday night here at FanHouse.
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