Sandstorm blasted, the light show was cool, but try as he might, Wand could not use the powers of his Brazilian crowd to fuel him to a win over Rich Franklin. Although Wand was tentative to put it mildly at times, the fight was a fun back and forth that ended up with Rich Franklin's new haircut muffed and Wand's face looking like an orc from Warcraft. Not an orc from Lord Of The Rings or Warhammer, or even The Elder Scrolls, specifically Warcraft.

Round one was back and forth with stiff shots on the feet from both fighters, round two saw Wand flatten Ace into an Axe Murderer's nightmare - an opponent downed and dazed but with no way to stomp or kick (Pride rules this fight is over). Ace recovers between rounds (although he admits to not remembering anything until the fifth round in the post fight speech) then give Wand his own taste of the end of round medicine and delivers some nasty hellbows as the third round expires.

Round four features a tired Wand and a jabbing Rich, the only real highlight was this. Then the fifth round displays more of the same, jab and circle until Wand asks the crowd to fuel his primal rages. They oblige him then he goes all berserker a few times on Franklin to no avail. The fight ends, Ace wins again, and Wand apologizes to the crowd for not finishing Rich in the second round. It's OK, Wand, we still love you.

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-1 # Gary LaPlante 2012-06-23 21:17

If this fight was in ONE FC Wanderlei would have won via soccer kick, there is no disputing that. It is a fact.

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+40 # StGutFree 2012-06-23 21:21

it wasn't though, so not a fact, just speculation.

achievements can't be measured in "ifs" and "should haves."

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-15 # Guest 2012-06-23 21:17

not a bad fight but whaaaaa was rich doing!

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+4 # CanadianHour4 2012-06-24 15:59

winning?

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-40 # Guest 2012-06-23 21:18

oh and this new emo,pink wearing franklin can go now

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+51 # Lefthea D. Kick 2012-06-23 21:41

Home boy has always worn pink.

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-11 # Guest 2012-06-23 22:16

He wore pink and black boardshorts a few times not pink panties...glori ous panties!!!

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+21 # Guest 2012-06-24 03:01

pink and brown to be correct, but whatever

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+32 # Guest 2012-06-24 08:57

Franklin has always worn pink shorts. He does it to promote breast cancer awareness which someone in his family had. Yep, you're a dick.

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0 # purplechewbacca 2012-06-25 01:57

i think it was his mother right? i could be wrong..

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+35 # Guest 2012-06-23 21:19

Morgan Freeman allowed him to come back in the 3rd round, Rich Almighty

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-3 # Guest 2012-06-24 13:01

YES! someone needed to drop the Jim Carry look a like reference.

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+43 # HeadKckGdnight 2012-06-23 21:38

Both guys are so damn likable so im glad they put on a good scrap & no one got KTFO....

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+21 # StGutFree 2012-06-23 21:48

on the edge on my seat the whole fight,

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-31 # Guest 2012-06-23 21:54

Anyone notice that Wanderlei looks like a retarded burn victim?

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+44 # StGutFree 2012-06-23 22:17

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-12 # Guest 2012-06-24 11:43

Anyone notice that StGutFree is butthurt white knight?

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0 # Guest 2012-06-26 09:58

I'm thinking you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling.

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+5 # Guest 2012-06-23 22:20

I always thought he had a bit of a tranny vibe. Not hating tho trannies are tough motherfuckers, they been fighting their whole lives!

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+18 # Guest 2012-06-23 22:40

A tranny that looked like Wand.... yuk

Come to think of it, Cyborg kind of looks like Wandy. Have they ever been at the same place together?

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-17 # Guest 2012-06-24 01:13

Can't tell if trolling or just fucking retarded...

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+9 # Fatty_Sam86 2012-06-23 22:03

I'm happy about this. I was rooting for Franklin... but not necessarily against Silva. The end of the second round had me on the edge of my seat! But solid performance!

And I thinks Silva is just too worn out to really be a competitor anymore. He just seems so much slower all around. Makes me sad. Still a badass though.

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+23 # Guest 2012-06-23 22:41

I was rooting for a fight that didn't end with one guy having to retire.

I think we got that.

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+24 # Guest 2012-06-23 23:05

watching wanderlie is like watching your kids fight, you just hope he doesn't get hurt

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-12 # Guest 2012-06-24 02:47

I could watch Rampage Wand 3 all day long.

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+9 # Guest 2012-06-23 23:07

with that preformance i feel rich can be very competative at MW. only vitor chael and anderson are better i think. i wana see rich bash bisping

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+9 # NokkonWud 2012-06-24 03:50

I'd have Munoz and Bisping as favourites over Franklin too. Franklin looked sharp, but let's not get carried away, that was his first win in two years.

If he can fight more regularly, keep sharp, then it would just be great to see him fighting on a more consistent basis.

On another note about this fight, how refreshing was it to see someone get hurt (Rich in Round 2) and his instinct was to fight through it, get close to a clinch and force a takedown of his own, despite being completely out of it (by his own admission), instead of just turtling up and getting hammer fisted into oblivion as we see from so many other fighters!

Rich Franklin is a legend.

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+2 # KingGhidorah 2012-06-24 18:48

Rich looked ok, but there's a shallowness to the MW division that allows above average fighters to be "in the mix".

After a fight with Munoz or a certain Cuban Beast, then I could say if he looks ready for a title run.

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-3 # kvelertak 2012-06-23 23:44

I had 1,2, and 5 for Wand. What is wrong with people?

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+7 # Guest 2012-06-24 01:15

The fact that Wand didn't win made me kill myself. I'm a ghost commenting on middleeasy. Y'all been notified. ODB and I are smoking on that good good and getting our dicks sucked by puerto rican apple bottoms. /aint even mad

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-4 # Guest 2012-06-24 05:44

[youtube]http:/ /www.youtube.co m/watch?v=Et0Bs snm1mw[/youtube ]

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-13 # GrimsGrind 2012-06-24 06:00

Yamasaki is a fucking idiot. He lost that fight for Wand and ruined a main event fight...

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-8 # Guest 2012-06-24 08:07

i hate that pussy ass american backpeddaling point fighters. fuckin homos

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+5 # ispitzhotfire 2012-06-24 08:25

Chuck used to knock people out that way. And also... Frank Mir broke Nogs arm in half.

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0 # Guest 2012-06-24 09:40

chuck k.o people while backpedalling. he always looked for the counter.if he cant find a openning for counter he ktfoed.mir was nearly ktfoed before lucklily sub.

rampage made chuck his bitch.fedor humiliate nog 2 times by pressing forward,pushing the fight.

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+4 # Guest 2012-06-24 09:43

*peels butt sticker

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