UFC 136 Results: The best fight card of the year lived up to all its hype, as the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, witnessed a great night of fights and great UFC 136 Results & finishes! In the end, two UFC champions successfully defended their titles, as Frankie Edgar knocked out Gray Maynard to retain his belt in dramatic fashion, and Jose Aldo proved to be the real deal with a solid unanimous decision over Kenny Florian.
The UFC 136 Results’ $75K bonuses were all well deserved: Leonard Garcia vs Nam Phan earned Fight of the 
Night in what became an instant classic, Edgar got Knockout of the Night for finishing Maynard, and Joe Lauzon took home the cash for Submission of the Night in his win over an overly confident, Melvin Guillard.
There’s so much to talk about in last night’s UFC 136 Results that I don’t even know where to start… I guess Chael Sonnen vs Brian Stann would be a good way to get this ball rolling! Coming in as an overwhelming UFC 136 Betting Odds favorite, Sonnen delivered in the most improbable fashion.
The former NCAA Division I All-American proved to be the No.1 contender in the middleweight division even after a long layoff. Dominating his opponent from the opening bell, Sonnen eventually forced Stann to tap (arm-triangle) at 3 minutes and 51 seconds of round 2. Then, the show got underway! With Anderson Silva sitting cage side, Sonnen sounded off like only he can, in what people are calling the best post-fight interview ever:
“Anderson Silva, you absolutely suck! Super Bowl weekend: the biggest rematch in the history of the business,” Sonnen said hinting at a potential rematch with the Brazilian in early 2012. “I’m calling you out Silva but we’re upping the stakes: I beat you, you leave the division! You beat me, and I will leave the UFC forever!”
Heck, even former NBA star and expert trash-talker, Charles Barkley, who was sitting right next to “The Spider,” got a good laugh out of that! The funniest thing about it all is that people immediately began complaining about the UFC turning into the WWE and how this whole thing was done in a calculated manner.
Nevertheless, the big difference is that there was nothing staged about Sonnen’s latest rant. In fact, cameras clearly showed how Silva sat very uncomfortably in his chair while Chael tried him in front of millions watching. UFC president Dana White addressed the entire situation at night’s end, claiming Sonnen is just crazy:
“You’re never going to see another Chael Sonnen. This guy’s is not trying to be WWE. He’s out there, man, ” said White. “I don’t know if he hates Anderson Silva as much as he says he does, but… Anderson Silva hates him, man! Anderson Silva hates this guy. Hates him with a passion and he just keeps talking more and more. It’s going to be interesting.”
In the main event, Edgar was finally able to avenge the only loss in his MMA career, but it was anything but your typical successful title-defense. In what looked like an exact, and I do mean exact, replay of their second fight, Maynard rocked Edgar time and time again in the opening stanza, smashing him all over the Octagon.
Struggling to stay on his feet after getting hit in the face countless times, a bloodied up Edgar did his best impersonation of “crazy legs” up until he got “saved by the bell”. For the second consecutive fight, Maynard had this kid knocked out on his feet and just could not finish him!
The rest of the fight looked like their second meeting, with Edgar taking control of the second and third rounds. With everyone looking at their scorecards saying, ‘here we go again’ both fighters began the fourth round knotted up. But Edgar had seen this movie before. So, the champ knew better than to leave it in the hands of the judges once again, and at 3 minutes and 54 seconds of the fourth, Edgar TKO’d Maynard, retaining his title.
“I was thinking, ‘Damn! Not again,’” Edgar said in his post-fight press conference. “He came at me. He hits hard. I was definitely out of it, but I knew obviously from the previous fight that I was able to come back, so there was no doubt in my mind that I could come back this time around.”
