Rich Franklin: I’m Fighting Yushin Okami at UFC 72

"With Martin Kampmann (15-2 MMA, 3-0 UFC) off the UFC 72 card because of a knee injury, former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin (21-2 MMA, 8-1 UFC) has confirmed that he’ll instead fight Yushin Okami (20-3 MMA, 4-0 UFC) in the main-event bout."

Woot i will love this, i'm gonna say Okami will win by decision. It will be close. I don't want him to win but i don't think Rich will be able to do much if he gets taken down. Although he could do a A. Silva move and kick him in the face from his back and get DQ'd

Jk, it will be an exciting fight, and i want Rich to win but it will be hard.

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okami will be a great fight for franklin..
im still looking at it as a title fight between these two..
its hard to call.. ill have to really think about it

OKAMI BY TKO, ROUND 2

i think rich might have this one

I think Okami wins this fight with a close decision.

Should be an exciting fight, but I give the edge to Franklin.

Okami by decision

Update the site picks please admin!!! cant be that hard to do - also putting them in bout order would be good, looks stupid having Jardine languishing right at the bottom when he is main card

There are alot of different predictions so i'll be close

This is a way more exciting fight than Franklin versus kampman, but it scares me because Im such a huge Franklin fan, and Okami is a dangerous opponent, it could very easily go either way, but im gonna say Franklin wins by a close decision, because Okami was so gasses during round 3 of his fight with Swick, he had nothing on his punches. And if you tire out with Rich Franklin its gonna be a whole different story. so im gonna take Franklin by a close decison. Im way more excited for 72 now than I was before.

okami by split decision

This fight is going to a decision either way.
Okami is gonna look for GNP.
But Franklin is a bigger and stronger MW than Swick. He wont get taken down easily.
And dont forget Franklin has fairly good sub skills. And some pretty good GNP himself.

I think This fight will go something like one of the Franklin/Tanner fights.

Franklin by Unanimous Decision.
This is either gonna be a all out war. Out a batttle where their strengths cancel each other out.

Bad fight for Franklin. Okami is very underated and I can,t see this fight being finished

Alot better fight than Kampmann, but Franklin will TKO him.

I say, the longer it goes, the more likely Okami takes it. If this thing sees the third round, Okami by dec.

This is a much more intriguing fight than Kampmann was, no offense to Kampmann. I think I may have to go with Okami on this one.