Performify's Picks: UFC 67

My usual round of full card predictions are up on UFCjunkie.com for this weekend's UFC 67, specifically here: Performify's Picks on UFCjunkie.com. Here's a quick rundown of my predictions from a gambling perspective, but again click through to Performify's Picks on UFCjunkie.com to see all the details:
	Anderson Silva -450: 4.5 units to win 1 unit John Halverson +600: 0.1 units to win .6 units Mirko Cro Cop -1200: 12 units to win 1 unit Scott Smith +140: 0.36 units to win 0.5 units Terry Martin +205: 1 unit to win 2.05 units * Diego Saraiva +190: 0.26 units to win 0.5 unit

Preliminary thoughts on Ortiz / Liddell II

I've been asked a couple times already for my thoughts on the upcoming Ortiz vs. Liddell rematch at UFC 66. Here goes: There's no question that Liddell (remember everyone: two d's, two l's) has been amazing and is one of the best kickboxer/strikers in the world. What amazes me the most about Chuck isn't his striking per se, but his seemingly unfailable ability to get his opponents to abandon their gameplans the second they step foot in the ring with him. Well, that and he's one of the best counter-punchers to ever lace up the gloves. Its waaaay to early for me to release a formal pick in this fight, as we'll have the usual inside information from Big Bear as well as the Liddell training camp to look at, plus watch for any training injuries or anything else that comes up in the next three weeks. But the line for this fight is currently set at Liddell winning about 70% of the time, and I think.... If you're interested in reading the rest of my prelminary thoughts on Ortiz / Liddell II, please head over to UFCjunkie.com for the rest. As you'll see announced on UFCjunkie.com, i've joined the UFCjunkie.com team and will be contributing content for them going forward. If you're a regular reader of my blog, or have been following my UFC picks, i'd certainly appreciate if you headed over and had anything positive to comment in this thread I'll certainly still update my blog with just as much regularity, if not more, going forward. But expect to see a lot from me on UFCjunkie.com from here... and a lot of new exciting developments for the site, as well.