UFC 131 Results: 10 Million-Dollar Predictions for the UFC 132 Fight Card

UFC 131 is in the books, capped off beautifully by an outstanding Heavyweight war between Junior "Cigano" dos Santos and Shane Carwin on a night where the judging issue started to raise malevolent mentalities in the minds of the fans.

Arguably, many fans believe that while the victories of Mark Munoz and Kenny Florian cannot provide true dispute, The argument of Munoz and Florian earning 30-27 scores is definitely disputed as it seemed clear that Demian Maia and Diego "The Gun" Nunes won the first round of their respective bouts.

At this time, however, that argument is neither here nor there, as we must look forward into UFC 132 in a little bit less than three weeks instead of solidly planting ourselves in the memories of last night.

Headlined by a grudge match between current UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz and former WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber and co-headlined by a Fight of The Year candidate-on-paper in the long-awaited Middleweight collision between Wanderlei Silva and Chris Leben, the UFC 132 fight card will pick up where UFC 131 left off, focusing mostly on the Light-and-Lighterweight classes and hopefully elevate the momentum gained from last night's card to a brand new level.

For a million-dollar card featuring some million-dollar fights—all for only about $45 out of your pocket—here now are some million-dollar predictions for the entire UFC 132 main card!

Anthony Njokuani Will Knock Andre Winner Out With Two Leg Kicks and a Head Kick

While he's no Urijah Faber or Donald Cerrone as far as his image, Anthony Njokuani is a polarizing WEC veteran by virtue of his fighting style, which is all Muay Thai, all striking and all punishment for just about anyone who has the misfortune of facing him.

Njokuani comes off of a Fight of The Night performance over the still-undefeated Edson Barboza at UFC 128 to take on TUF 9 finalist Andre Winner, who is coming off of the defeat against Dennis Siver at UFC 122.

Winner may need the win over Njokuani in order to save his career, and unless he carries the fight the full three rounds in an exciting manner, he's not going to save his career on a loss.

Either way, he's not surviving Njokuani, who is the more diverse striker in this bout.

Winner can try to throw all the punches in the world in the direction of Njokuani, but Njokuani will keep Winner at bay with his reach, tag him on the feet and damage Winner's body as well as his legs.

After Winner is left staggering and backing up away from Njokuani, Njokuani will land a skull-pulverizing head kick that leaves Winner out cold.

If Winner can drag it out until the third round before he suffers this ill fate, he might be able to live to fight another fight in the UFC, but with how dangerous Njokuani is, it will be highly unlikely.

Brad Tavares Will Lose the Decision, but Aaron Simpson Will Lose the Fight

If you're still fully recollecting the events of UFC 131, chances are you've heard that Michihiro Omigawa lost a unanimous decision to Darren "The Damage" Elkins, but in the eyes of everyone who saw the fight, Elkins was the one who truly lost the fight.

Such an incident, rivaled only by Tyson Griffin-Nik Lentz at UFC 123 and Evan Dunham-Sean Sherk, caused Dana White to treat the legendary Judoka as if Bruce Buffer had announced Omigawa as the winner, and at UFC 132, a similar situation may occur.

Granted, Dana White may or may not agree with it, but nonetheless, Aaron Simpson will win a unanimous decision against Brad Tavares.

However, don't expect it to look like dos Santos vs. Carwin where you can tell who won easily.

It'll be a much harder fought bout between the TUF 11 semifinalist and the formerly undefeated Wrestler, and on the surface, it will look like a 29-28 fight for Tavares.

However, the judges will have something else in mind, as the fight does go 29-28 on all three scorecards for A-Train in a bout that he will have looked to lose.

We may not be able to tell how he won the fight, but somehow, the judges are going to believe that Tavares lost the fight.

Hopefully, if this one is a shaky decision, it's the only sketchy one on the card...for MMA's sake.

Brian Bowles Will Knock Takeya Mizugaki Out With a Guillotine Choke

Yes, you're reading this correctly.

Brian Bowles will catch Takeya Mizugaki on the ground in Round 2 (not on a hard knee to the body like Chris Weidman did to Jesse Bongfeldt), specifically from the full mount—a difficult spot to sink in a guillotine choke properly—and he will make Mizugaki pass out.

It will be a technical submission win, but it will not be as hard to watch as Mizugaki's loss by rear naked choke to Urijah Faber.

Mizugaki will hang on for a moment, but he will not be able to fend off the choke, and once he fails to respond, the referee will call the fight.

George Sotiropoulos Will Bounce Back (by Kneebar) Against Rafael Dos Anjos

Let's face it, you had to be a genius—or a huge Dennis Siver fan—to call the unanimous-decision loss George Sotiropoulos suffered at UFC 127.

The TUF 6 veteran was supposed to face Evan Dunham, who many feel suffered his first true loss against Melvin Guillard in Fort Hood, but an injury suffered by Dunham has caused Rafael os Anjos to step in and face the Australian submission wizard.

Expect dos Anjos's striking to have improved greatly since his last outing, but anticipate Sotiropoulos wanting to play with fire by taking the Brazilian to the mat and working his way toward the leg of dos Anjos.

If Soti has his way, dos Anjos may not find a method of escape that doesn't involve his leg snapping or him tapping.

Shane Roller Will Upset Melvin Guillard in a KO of the Night Candidate

Shane Roller has, to avoid a bad pun, been on a roll as of late.

He went 7-2 in the WEC and knocked out Thiago Tavares in a shocking KO of The Night performance, and it's gotten him to Melvin Guillard and UFC 132.

Melvin Guillard is known for being aggressive in fights, and there used to be a time when that was his downfall.

It won't be a disadvantage at UFC 132, but a counter-right hook will drop Guillard in the third round, but unlike a certain fight from this past Saturday, this KO of The Night contender will see Guillard with his eyes open and trying to muster up the energy to fend off two left punches to the face.

Of course, Guillard will be calm before he feels the storm.

Tito Ortiz Will Lose a Lopsided 30-26 Decision to Ryan Bader

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LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 01: Mixed martial artist Tito Ortiz arrives at the third annual Fighters Only World Mixed Martial Arts Awards 2010 at the Palms Casino Resort December 1, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

There are fighters and there are legendary fighters, but some legendary fighters don't know how to quit.

In the minds of most MMA fans and experts, Tito Ortiz has become one of those aforementioned fighters, and it only gets worse for the brash legend at UFC 132 against Ryan Bader, who won TUF 8 for Team Nogueira and only carries the submission loss to current 205-lb. champ Jon Jones.

Does Tito Ortiz have a chance to prove, as he appeared to prove against Matt Hamill, that he still has at least some of "it" left?

Absolutely?

Will he be able to?

Sorry Ortiz fans, but he won't.

The worst thing about it all?

It won't even be close.

Bader will not surprise anyone if he knocks Ortiz out, but somehow Ortiz will find a way to not stay down.

He will take Bader to a third round, but it will be for not as he will not be able to do enough to defeat the young Arizona fighter.

We Will Beg Dana White for the Winner of Siver-Wiman to Get Better Competition

It wasn't luck that caused Dennis Siver to beat George Sotiropoulos in Australia as much as it was skillful planning.

Initially, I picked Sotiropoulos to win against Siver, and I also said Siver wasn't winning his next fight, no matter who he faced.

Then, Matt Wiman was introduced as the next challenge for Siver.

The TUF 5 vet was initially an easy pick to lose against Siver until I remember how tough he was for Cole Miller to deal with, so now I'm inclined to say that this could be a great fight.

Then again, it's a Lightweight fight, and Lightweight fights that suck are very rare.

Expect the winner to earn their "W" in whatever way they can, but expect them to have an impressive enough performance to warrant a clear step-up in competition.

Clearly, this fight has the potential of determining who the real "dark horse" could be at 155, and the "dark horse" label doesn't ring any more true than it does for these two.

Submission of the Night: Carlos Condit vs. Dong Hyun Kim (Gogoplata)

It's fun to say that a guy that got KO of The Night in his last fight will do it again, and that's why I say Shane Roller will beat Melvin Guillard in a bout that qualifies for the honor.

The reason why neither Dong Hyun Kim or Carlos Condit will win it?

I already booked the Greg Jackson fighter and the undefeated ground-ace as my Submission Of The Night pick.

Now, mind you, this is one of the only three fights on the card that I have not yet chosen a winner for, but I have drawn a scenario that will lead to this Submission of The Night winner.

The winner will attempt a Triangle Choke, but they will not have the legs crossed properly, as is the form for a Triangle Choke, and therefore, his victim will escape it.

The winner will then maintain wrist control while moving their right leg across their opponent's neck, and naturally, people will think either "armbar" or "omoplata" because nobody has ever been successful with a Gogoplata, right?

Alas, a Gogoplata will happen, and it will win Submission Of The Night, but who will win with it?

I will tell you that on fight week.

Wanderlei Silva vs. Chris Leben Will Be the Fight of the Summer, If Not the Year

Whether the loss to Brian Stann proved that Chirs Leben is not ready for Wanderlei Silva or whether it spoke more to Stann's development as a fighter more than a Silva-Leben bout, the fact is that nobody has complained about this fight so far.

Considering that Leben generally waives off fighting smart to give the crowd a "Fight of The Year" contender every time he fights and that Silva is still the spitting image—the living epitome, if you will—of what it means to be one scary motherf**ker, it's hard to not see why.

Leben has as sick of BJJ as he does striking, and his track record of fights in which he was not KO'd versus the fights with Anderson Silva, and Stann should tell you something about The Crippler right off the bat.

As for Wanderlei, his striking and his career speak for themselves in the same format.

Now, Leben doesn't have to avoid his Jiu-Jitsu against Wanderlei—by all means, he should go for it whenever possible—but it would be a smart game plan to use against a guy with some of the best striking in MMA.

Then again, it was a "smart game plan" against Yoshihiro Akiyama, and Leben was close to actually losing the fight.

Don't be surprised if the same happens at UFC 132, and above all else...

...Don't blink.

Dominick Cruz, 1, Urijah Faber 1 (Oh Yes, There Will Be a Trilogy)

Everything inside me is saying that it will be a close fight, almost certainly a 48-46 fight on all three scorecards and a definitive 48-46 on my scorecard, but Urijah Faber will, by hook or crook, fall short of the UFC Bantamweight title and tie with Dominick Cruz at one fight apiece.

Cruz will win on striking, Faber will win on grappling, and arguments will be made for both men winning the bout, but Cruz has fire lit up underneath his hind-parts, and it will motivate him to do enough damage to Faber that by the end of the bout, Faber's face will say "48-46, Cruz."

However, don't expect Cruz to look like too much of a pretty boy after the bout either.

The bout will take its toll, and it will be close in all aspects, but Dominick Cruz will win a close split decision against The California Kid, but by no stretch of the imagination will The Dominator win all five rounds.

For that matter, Urijah will not win all five rounds either, and if it is 50-45 on all five cards, it will be miraculous.

Either way, this will not be the last time Dominick Cruz fights Urijah Faber.